You also wrote that you guys in China saw the truth on television, while we only saw the anti-chinese propaganda or, anyway, not the whole story. Of course we did see the Tibetans who were destroying chinese shops and burning chinese flags, but we also saw chinese police hitting and arresting people who protested peacefully.

Also, it is not exactly China's internal matter. HH the Dalai Lama had agreed not to internationalise the issue in the past, but China kept on cancelling their meetings and postponing the dialogue. So HH did not have any other choice but to ask for international support. It is also not a matter of only China and Tibet because China is infringing basic human rights and when a nation has their human rights not recognised the international community has the right to interfere and help them, especiall when it has to do with states like the Chinese, where people are sentenced to years of imprisonment without trial, or remain in prison with no official decision of how long this will last.

What does Tibet have in common with Texas and Alaska? Texas has allways been a region of the U.S. so it is out of the question. In Alaska there is no official language. But in Tibet, chinese mandarin is the official language and tibetan is taught at schools as a secondary language. Also, Alaska is one of the wealthiest states of the U.S., while Tibet is the poorest region of China and the few people of the area who are not starving are some lucky Chinese. In the U.S. there is no religious pressure, while in China there is no religious tolerance. Except for this, the region of Alasca had been given to the U.S. by Russia, while Tibet was occupied violently. So it definetely not the same thing.

What does Tibet have in common with Texas and Alaska? Texas has allways been a region of the U.S. so it is out of the question. In Alaska there is no official language. But in Tibet, chinese mandarin is the official language and tibetan is taught at schools as a secondary language. Also, Alaska is one of the wealthiest states of the U.S., while Tibet is the poorest region of China and the few people of the area who are not starving are some lucky Chinese. In the U.S. there is no religious pressure, while in China there is no religious tolerance. Except for this, the region of Alasca had been given to the U.S. by Russia, while Tibet was occupied violently. So it definetely not the same thing.

Even if after Dalai Lama's death most hopes of Tibet for freedom die too, we still have to do our best to gain the most possible benefits for Tibet! After all, there's still time: Dalai Lama has predicted that he will live until the 86 at least and all the previous Dalai Lamas who had predicted their age of death actually died at that age! We still have at least 14 years of which we should take advantage!
Please sign this petition to release the 11th Panchen Lama and give him a chance to have an adult life much nicer than his childhood:

http://petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3839

Now that China's at the spotlight, by the end of the Olympics Tibet can gain a lot, by holding protests to show the world what they 're going through. But using violence and boycotting the olympics would not only benefit the Chinese, since noone would be able to call them "dictators, reacting violently to peaceful protests etc". It would also not be moral. Buddhism condemns hurting others, even if what they 've done is worse and at these times of cultural genocide, Tibetans should not only try for freedom but also for protection of their culture, which is directly connected to Buddhism.
It's time for Tibetans to claim benefits peacefully. 1989's uprising was not noticed because at the same time Berlin's wall was falling. But now, everyone looks upon China! It's the chance that Tibetans have been waiting for!

At an ancient philosophical text, the "I TSING", it is written that a supreme power puts some family to rule China and if they fail, that supreme power puts some other family to rule China. That other family has to acquire power and to justify this with their victory. Allthough this refers to China and not to the whole world, it is easy to guess that this is the way that the chinese think about every simillar occasion: if you are the winner, you are right.
The "I TSING" may be ancient, but it still forms chinese state of mind, so we could expect a lot of modern Chinese to think this way.