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We are not against the western media, but against the lies and fabricated stories in the media.
We are not against the western people, but against the prejudice from the western society.
我们并不反对媒体本身，我们只反对媒体的不客观报道。我们并不反对西方人民，但是我们反对偏见。
一人一信 抗议CNN Jack Cafferty的辱华言论
To CNN and Jack Cafferty,

In Situation Room aired on April 9th, CNN commentator Mr. Jack Cafferty insulted Chinese people with his racist comments by saying, "I think they (Chinese) are basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years." As an ordinary Chinese, I was stunned and shocked!

Chinese people well understand the US's upheld freedom of speech and fully respect Mr. Jack cafferty's personal political opinion. However, What he said has completely crossed the bottom line considering Mr. Cafferty's identity as a public figure and professional journalist. No Chinese people with dignity can ever stand such vituperation targeting the Chinese race.

Later in a brief statement on April, 15, CNN claimed that by "goons and thugs" Mr. Cafferty meant for the Chinese government. This "apology" avoids the important points and dwells on the trivialis which is even more unacceptable. First of all, in his speech, Mr. Cafferty repeatedly mentioned the word "China" and "Chinese" with no reference to the Chinese government. Secondly, he used the plural form as "goons and thugs", which clearly demonstrated that, by "they", he meant for the whole Chinese race. Last but not the least, this statement zeroed in on the Chinese government and this farfetched sophism is actually another attack to the Chinese race. How is it possible not to hurt the people's feeling while attacting their government?

For the above mentioned, I write to condemn and exclaim my protest against CNN and Mr. Jack Cafferty here in this letter!

It has been only 20 some years since China's reform and opening up, and Chinese understand that people from other countries still hold questions and misunderstandings toward this faraway oriental country. However, this by no means indicates that some people can make their tougue run riot and attack China and its people irresponsibly. No man with rational consciousness should be selectively blind facing obvious facts even though he may not know much about China.

Take the United States for example, for years, the Chinese immigrants have always been the most law-respecting and friendly group in the society. Mr. Cafferty should probably know that, President Bush rewarded the the Chinese flight attendant Deng Yuewei's family after "9.11" for her brave performance during the hijack, calling her "the American Hero". And that the Chinese student Zeng Zhe lost his life after saving several people at the World Trade Center during that day. He was remembered on the National EMS Memorial Service, the second person in American history. Mr. Cafferty should probably also know that during the Virginia Tech massacre last year, a female Chinese teacher stopped the criminal from rushing in by keeping the door closed and saved all her students. Since when the kindhearted, devoted and peace-loving Chinese became "goons and thugs" as Jack Cafferty described?!

I believe that, as a professional political commentator, Mr. Jack Cafferty is not ignorant. And he does not suffer from amnesia. The only reason that he opnely insulted Chinese people is his racial discrimination against the Chinese race! What he said is shameless harm toward the Chinese people, especially American Chinese. It has already caused very bad influences. And this has already seriously harmed the friendship between Chinese people and American people.

It has took years of efforts for CNN to establish its great public reliance and a sound reputation. However, Mr. Jack Cafferty absolutely humiliated CNN, and the whole US media by his irrational attack toward the Chinese people! How should a racist be qualified to criticise others as "goons and thugs"?

We demand that CNN and Mr. Jack Cafferty put their arrogance and prejudice away, and make an open formal apology to all Chinese people worldwide.

Chinese communities from the globe would bring collective accusation against CNN and Mr. Jack Cafferty for slander, and press our claim for compensation, if cordial and prompt apology fails to show up on this issue.

Thank you for your time and your reply to this letter is expected.

An ordinary Chinese:


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附 Jack Cafferty 辱华言论全文内容：
"Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hawk to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal- Mart. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."...
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[+/-] : China indignant, opposed to U.S. House resolution on Tibet

China expressed early Friday morning strong indignation and opposition over a resolution on Tibet adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives.

The resolution proposed by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "flagrantly distorted the history and reality of Tibet", said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu in a statement.

Jiang said the resolution, which condemned for no reason at all the legal measures taken by the government of Tibet Autonomous Region to deal with the violent crimes in Lhasa last month, was "a rude interference into China's internal affairs and seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people."

"China is strongly indignant and opposed to this resolution," she said.

There was sufficient evidence to prove that the Lhasa riots were masterminded by the Dalai Lama clique, and staged by "Tibet independence" forces in and out of China, she said.

What happened in Lhasa on March 14 was not at all "peaceful demonstration" or "non-violence" activities as labeled by the Dalai clique, but naked serious crimes of violence, Jiang said.

Some U.S. Congress members utterly confounded right and wrong by turning a blind eye to the mobs who conducted assaulting, looting and arson in Lhasa and leaving the Dalai clique, who masterminded the violent crimes, free from condemnations, but instead blaming the Chinese government and the Chinese people, Jiang said. She said those U.S. lawmakers also harbored hidden motives. "Here we sternly warn those U.S. Congress members: The more youdo to shield the Dalai clique and disrupt the Beijing Olympics, the more thoroughly the true colors of them will be exposed, and the more Chinese people are determined to safeguard stability and ethnic unity in Tibet and host a successful Olympic Games," Jiang said.

"We demand the U.S. Congress see clearly the Dalai Lama's true color of engaging in activities of splitting China in the cloak of religion, realize the Dalai clique's nature of real antagonism and violence under the disguise of seeking dialogue and peace...and immediately stop wrongful remarks and deeds that interfere into China's internal affairs, hurt the Chinese people's feeling and harm the China-U.S. relations," said Jiang.

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[+/-] : chinese side with government over riots for "Tibet independence"

Common citizens in China's capital have sided with the central government's handling of the riots seeking "Tibet independence". Riots in Tibet and neighboring Sichuan and Gansu provinces with big Tibetan populations have been heated topics for Chinese, in conversation and online. "Most Tibetan people wish to live a peaceful life and I believe only a very small portion of the Tibetan people participated in the riots," said Ngapoi Rinqen Puncog, a Beijing-born Tibetan who worked in Tibet for more than five years. "I do not understand why they seek the secession of Tibet, which could only disturb peace on the holy plateau and bring no benefit to the people there," he said, adding that lawbreakers should face punishment.
Riots broke out in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, on March 14, resulting in beating, smashing, looting and arson that killed 18 civilians and injured 382. The government has been restrained in its actions, resulting in injuries among many policemen. Even fire engines were burnt down by the rioters. "I think the government's involvement is essential to ease the unrest," said Fan Jingjing, an employee of a state-owned bank in Beijing. "The government is doing its job." According to the government, 120 homes were burned and 908 shops, seven schools and five hospitals were destroyed, causing losses of nearly 250 million yuan (about 34.7 million U.S. dollars). Nearly 200 of those involved in the riots have surrendered to police. News about the riots distracted Chen Junqing from her bustling business over the past week. She managed to squeeze in time for reading newspapers and watching TV, although her sliding door business in one of Beijing's busiest construction material markets is in its busy season. "I learned from the TV news that several assistants at a clothing store in Lhasa, so young and pretty, were burned to death during the incident. This broke my heart," said Chen, a 40-something mother. "
The mobs are so brutal; I have never imagined it. They must be punished by law." Lhasa has been frequently discussed among local businessmen, Chen said. "We are relieved to see that the city is calm again and people returned to their normal lives. The government has done a good job in helping local people, especially those suffering the attacks." Xiao Hong, working for the multinational consulting firm Mckinsey & Company's office in Beijing, has been planning a trip to Tibet for years, although she's been too busy to go because of work. "Tibet attracts me, I think, and many others as well, because of its breathtaking landscape and well-preserved Buddhist culture," she said. "I always find it a serene place, physically and spiritually.
So I was very much shocked to learn about the violence there." Xiao said she did not have much of an idea about "Tibet independence" activities before. "But, this time, what they did was organized violence. Leaving them be would mean the whole country including Tibet itself will be harmed." "I hope such things will never happen again. All Chinese, in every corner of this country, should live in peace and safety," said Shi Jianhua, a retiree in Beijing who was also struck by the innocent lives lost in the riots....
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[+/-] : Facts exposing Dalai clique's masterminding of Lhasa violence

Xinhua was authorized to release a signed article on Sunday to reveal how the Dalai clique plotted and incited the Lhasa violence on March 14, which killed at least 18 civilians and one police officer.
The story, by Yi Duo, says that it was untrue of the Dalai Lama and his backers to claim that the riot was a "spontaneous peaceful protest" that the Dalai Lama had nothing to do with.
AN INSIDER'S CONFESSION
An unidentified suspect who was connected with the Lhasa violence has confessed to the police that the "security department" of the "Tibetan government-in-exile" asked him to distribute leaflets promoting the so-called "Tibetan people's uprising" to civilians and monks in Tibet, according to the article.
"The violence on March 14 was related to the instigation of the 'security department' of the 'Tibetan government-in-exile'," the suspect said.
"To protect myself, (the Dalai clique) asked me not to participate in the demonstrations in person, just to take charge of stirring people up," the suspect said.
"The beating, smashing, looting and burning were by no means peaceful demonstrations and the deeds were inhuman," the suspect admitted. "If they (the Dalai clique) wanted to follow the non-violent 'middle way', such violence should have never happened."
On the same day that mobs attacked innocent Lhasa civilians, a closed-door meeting was held by the Dalai Lama clique on how to build on the "achievements," the article said.
FOLLOW-UP PLOTS
The meeting finally decided to mobilize all of the monasteries in Tibet, each with more than 100 lamas, especially those of the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and ask the monks to take to the street and involve common Tibetans in the demonstrations. The meeting also plotted to launch ongoing protests, in stages, in Tibetan-inhabited areas.

Samdhong, the "prime minister" of the "Tibetan government-in-exile," said at the meeting that they should seize the very rare opportunity provided by the Beijing Olympics to make breakthroughs in the "Tibet cause", to pave the way for the Dalai Lama to "return" to Tibet and to achieve a high level of autonomy in "Greater Tibet", as well as the goal of "abolishing" the existing management method on the reincarnation of Tibetan living Buddhas.

The Dalai clique also entrusted the "ministry of finance" under the "government-in-exile" to "financially support the decisive battle against the Chinese government," the article said.
A day after the violence began on March 14, the "Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC)", a hardline organization under the Dalai Lama's supporters that openly preaches violence, decided to "set up guerillas to infiltrate Tibet and start armed struggles" at a meeting in Dharamsala, where the "Tibetan government-in-exile" was located, the article said.
They also drafted recruitment plans and plans to purchase weapons and planned to steal into Tibet through the China-Nepal border.
The "TYC" leaders said that they were ready to "sacrifice another 100 Tibetans at least" to achieve their goal.
Besides the "TYC", other organizations that were among the Dalai Lama's supporters also sent people to Tibetan communities in India and Nepal, urging residents there to contact people in Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited areas in China by telephone or e-mail and incite them, "in the name of the Dalai Lama", to hold demonstrations following the Lhasa violence.
Cewang Rigzin, the "TYC" president, said at a meeting on March 20 that violence has "achieved its goal" to "awaken resistance among people in Tibet and attract high-profile international attention to the Tibet issue" but the struggle "will not stop and this incident is just the prelude of this year's fight."
INSTIGATION OF LHASA RIOT
The article detailed how the Dalai Lama's backers masterminded a so-called "Tibetan people's uprising" that led to the violence in Lhasa.
Five organizations under the "Tibetan government-in-exile", the "TYC", the "Tibetan Women's Association (TWA)," "Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)," the "National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT)"and the "Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet (GCSMT)" announced the formal start of the "Tibetan people's uprising" on Jan. 4 this year and founded a temporary preparation office in charge of coordination and financing, headed by Cewang Rigzin, according to the report.
They claimed that the movement would be a "turning point in the history of Tibetans' struggle for freedom," the article said.
"They divided the movement into four stages," it said. The first was to recruit participants and promote the ideas of the movement. The second stage, or the action step, started on March 10, followed by the third, which was to organize demonstrations across the world. The last one was to launch actions in the regions inhabited by Tibetan people inside China.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
From Feb. 15 to 17, the five organizations launched training programs for people in charge of the movement activities in Dharamsala in northwest India, where the "Tibetan government-in-exile" was located.
Four days later, in the same place, they started a six-day campaign to recruit participants.
The "GCSMT" obtained financial assistance from the U.S.-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) on Feb. 27 from a fund "for activists to deal with danger."
According to an NED report, the foundation granted 1.36 million U.S. dollars to the Dalai Lama's backers between 2002 and 2006. In 2006 alone, it gave 85,000 U.S. dollars to organizations such as the "TWA" and "GCSMT."
The Dalai clique questioned about 300 Tibetans who were smuggled across the border from China during February in a bid to collect information for planned attacks on border points or infiltration into China, the article said.
On March 10, after careful selection, 101 hard-core members setoff from Dharamsala to unleash the movement.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
March 10 is the anniversary of the so-called "Tibet uprising" in 1959. On that date, 49 years ago, Lhasa saw a bloody riot initiated by the Dalai Lama's backers. Rioters killed Pagbalha Soinam Gyamco, a senior lama and a member of the preparation committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, tied his body to a horse and dragged it for two kilometers.
The day, annually commemorated by the Dalai Lama's backers, has been a reminder of violence. And history seems to have repeated itself.
On the same date this year, a ceremony was held in Dharamsala to mark the event. The 14th Dalai Lama said in a critical statement that the Chinese government had imposed "more severe repression upon Tibetans in Tibet" and "trampled on human rights and limited religious freedom".
He also expressed appreciation for the "Tibetan people's sincerity, courage and resolution."
Immediately after the ceremony, about 300 monks from the Zhaibung Monastery tried to march into central Lhasa. In the following days, monks from other temples in Lhasa also tried to demonstrate but were restrained by police.
When the monks' efforts to spread unrest failed, rioters came. They torched shops and vehicles, attacked innocent passers-by on the streets and even attacked ambulances on March 14.
TRYING TO ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY
After the Lhasa riot on March 14, which is so far known to have claimed at least 18 civilian lives and caused 382 injuries, unrest erupted in other Tibetan-inhabited regions in the southern part of Gansu Province and the northern part of Sichuan Province.
Mobs, some shouting slogans for "Tibet independence" and bearing flags of the so-called "Tibetan government-in-exile", stormed into and attacked government offices, police stations, hospitals, schools and banks.
Moreover, the backers of the Dalai Lama spread violence even further by organizing rioters to attack Chinese embassies and consulates in the United States, Canada, India, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Australia, the article said.
The Dalai Lama released a statement via his personal secretariat on March 14, in which violent actions were described as "peaceful protests". On the same day, the "Tibetan government-in-exile" defined the riots in another statement as peaceful demonstrations by Tibetans to protest Chinese policies.
In commenting to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on March 16, the Dalai Lama said, when prompted, that he would not ask the rioters to stop.
The Chinese government later released film and photographs showing the violent attacks that took place during the riot in Lhasa, which have been regarded as a contradiction to the vaunted "peaceful image" of the Dalai Lama.
On the advice of his supporters, the Dalai Lama changed his tune at a press conference on March 18, when he said that he should not have created an anti-Chinese mood in the international arena. The only option would be his retirement if the situation got out of control, the Dalai Lama said.
His comments were soon seen by the international community as an admission that he had a responsibility for the riots in Lhasa.
BEIJING OLYMPICS
After Beijing won a bid for hosting the 29th Summer Olympic Games in 2008, Dalai clique claimed that it would be a "decisive battle" to seek for "Tibet Independence" by interfering the Olympics.
Chairman of the working department of "2008 Free Tibet Movement" Lordain said in December 2004, "People around the world will pay close attention to China (for Olympics) and that gives us a unique opportunity to bring political pressure to Chinese government."
On February 7 of this year, Gama Qoinpe, "Speaker of the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies" said that they should make use of the opportunity to compel Chinese government to resolve the Tibet issue in 2008 or within future two years.
In recent two years, the Dalai Lama and his followers have launched a series of Olympics-related actions for the above-mentioned purpose:
-- Members of "Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)" raised banners of "Tibet Independence" to boycott Beijing Olympics at the base camp of the Mount Qomolangma in April 2007.
-- In May, Dalai clique declared that it will hold "Tibetan Olympics" in Dharamsala and established a "organizing committee" for it.
-- Dalai clique's "Network of International Support to Tibet" also built an athlete "delegation" consisting of Tibetans living outside China and requested International Olympic Committee to allow them to "participate in the Beijing Olympics on behalf of Tibet".
-- The "TYC" decided to launch a "Death Torch" relay in April from Dharamsala to New Delhi, India's Capital.
-- Head of Dalai clique's "Tibet Independence Movement" has said that The Beijing Olympics is an important timing for international communities to press Chinese government to improve human rights, continue dialogs with the Dalai Lama and peacefully resolve the Tibet issue. Tibetans living everywhere should participate in the fighting, he said.

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[+/-] : Families of two dead civilians in Lhasa riot get compensation

The families of two women killed in the March 14 Lhasa riot have received compensation of 200,000 yuan (28,170 U.S. dollars) each, the Tibet regional government has announced.
The regional government has promised to provide 200,000 yuan in compensation to each family of the 18 civilians killed in the riot.
The families of He Xinxin and Cering Zhoigar, who were among five sales girls burnt to death in a clothing shop in the riot, were the first to receive the money.
"The compensation is a huge sum of money for a rural family like mine. I am grateful to the government's care and consolation, though nothing could get my daughter back," said He Hongli, father of He Xinxin, on Sunday.
The 19-year-old dropped out of school in the second school year, because of her family's financial difficulties. She found a job as the sales assistant in the Yishion clothing store in downtown Lhasa only a week before it was burnt down during the riot.
She was among five young women hiding in a small storage compartment, when the shop was set on fire, who were suffocated or burnt to death. The oldest was only 24.
"May the rioters get the most severe penalty to allow my sister to rest in peace," said Damzhin, elder brother of Cering Zhoigar, a Tibetan woman from Xigaze Prefecture.
She had only returned home once in the past six years, since she found the job in Lhasa. As a sales assistant, she earned a meagre monthly salary of 1,000 yuan. She sent almost all of the money back home to support her family.
Damzhin said that both his parents had fallen ill since hearing of her death.
Flowers, wreaths, candles and fruit have been presented by people who came to pay respects to the victims at the shop.
An official with the regional government said the other victims were yet to be officially identified before their families could receive compensation.
At least 18 civilians and one police officer were killed in the riot and more than 600 people, 382 civilians and 241 police officers, were injured....
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