Reflection by Erica

China and the Repression of Tibet show us how horrible things like the holocaust are still happening today and are going unnoticed. There are such horrible things happening in Tibet today that we don’t know. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not exist there. Everyday people are dying for what they believe in and are unable to speak out of what they think is right for themselves and there country. This event killed over 1.4 million Tibetans and took away all there rights. People were getting killed everyday for no reason, and being thrown in jail without knowing what they did. It also shows us how we thought that after the holocaust nothing that we would never allow something like it to happen again, and how it is today and how there is so much more we can do to help.

The repression of Tibet related to the Holocaust in many ways. The Holocaust killed over 6 million innocent Jewish people and the repression killed 1.4 innocent Tibetan people and took away all of there rights. How ever even though the repression didn’t kill as much people as the Holocaust it was as bad. During the repression people were thrown in jail for reasons such as peaceful demonstrations, any form of protest, speeches, and writing anything that got into the wrong hands. The same with the Holocaust, if you didn’t agree with them you were thrown into jail. Just like the Nuremburg Laws during the Holocaust there was the Seventeen Point Agreement during the repression. These were both were given to the people that were taken away.

The idea of humanism meaning all individuals matter was really the opposite of what happening. In the repression they felt worthless and were treated like they had no value and didn’t matter. They were killed like they were bugs. They couldn’t speak out or have a different religion or culture, the Chinese wanted Tibetan people to be like them.

I think that what the Chinese did to the Tibetan people was unfair and unjust. They came into there country and took away there rights, and killed 1.4 million people. There was no reason to kill them other than for there own amusement. Originally the Chinese made and agreement stating that they would not take power away from the Dalai Lama, and that the freedom of religion would be compromised, but slowly they backed out of there word. They took over newspapers, radios, and banks. Eventually they had token control of most government jobs such as officials and teachers. I feel bad for every victim in the Repression.

I think the UN is doing a really bad ob at trying to keep peace in these places. They really aren’t doing much to help them out. I think there is a lot more they could do to help. I believe if they tried there hardest Tibet today would be a free country and wouldn’t have to worry about China anymore. I think they could easily help them out by making the laws fairer and getting them back there rights. If the UN wanted to step into the sovereignty of the U.S that would not work out well. You see how they didn’t help Tibet, I think they would do nothing but cause us problems in the future.