China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by nu2ycombinator » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 6:50 AM UTC

China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
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Post by tomglynch » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 8:40 AM UTC

"In 2001, Chinese authorities implemented similar crackdown on Larung Gar by destroying thousands of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monastic and lay practitioners, some of whom died of shock or resorted to suicide, while some were rendered mentally unsound."

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Post by sbose78 » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 8:40 AM UTC

Any way of getting the UN involved?

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Post by mhuffman » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 8:43 AM UTC

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by globuous » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 8:45 AM UTC

sbose78 wrote: post #3

Any way of getting the UN involved?

Not sure, China being a permanent member of UN's security council, they would just veto [1] anything going against their interest...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

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Post by lotu » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 8:49 AM UTC

mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

What are you proposing we do? Cut off trade with China? Intervene militarily? Write a strongly worded letter?

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Post by reustle » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 8:55 AM UTC

Not saying this is right, but it sounds like the city exceeded their legal cap of 5k people? So it doesn't sound like it's a total surprise to them. Am I reading it wrong?

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Post by mattmanser » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 9:00 AM UTC

lotu wrote: post #6

mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

What are you proposing we do? Cut off trade with China? Intervene militarily? Write a strongly worded letter?

That's what you did with Cuba and Iran and Iraq and Russia and etc., etc.

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Post by xiaoma » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 9:06 AM UTC

sbose78 wrote: post #3

Any way of getting the UN involved?

The UN is useless anytime the interests of the US, China, Russia or other veto wielding countries are involved.

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 9:08 AM UTC

Here are a bunch of photos from the place: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2349761/Little-boxes...