Yingsel 2008
The Rangzen Antelope Speaks

Tashi Delek everyone! Yingsel here reporting from a secret location in one of the BIG *cough* cities *cough* in China. Its pretty yucky here right now, its hot, smelly and smoggy. Very, very smoggy. Its during times like these when I miss Bhod (Tibet), the most. The lush green pastures , the fresh smell of wind over Yamdrok Tso, and the crystal clear views of the mountains in the summer. I just met with some old friends at a local university, and they carefully brought a recent news clipping from the BBC website. It reads, “China Buried Fog Death Finding”, and the article it has some pretty scary information. For instance:

 

“The Financial Times said the (World) Bank report, entitled ‘Cost of Pollution in China’, found up to 760,000 people die prematurely each year in China because of air and water pollution. High levels of air pollution in China’s cities leads to 350,000-400,000 premature deaths, it said. Another 300,000 die because of poor-quality air indoors.”

 

Its interesting and scary how the Beijing Olympics Committee is trying to pass off the 2008 Olympics as the “Green Olympics”. So many of the reported “changes” going on in Beijing is nothing more than an elaborate, well funded hoax. I don’t understand how countries could send some of their most talented, well trained athletes to Beijing to be exposed to this poisonous air. Its such a shame, that they would let their athletes breathe this death gas. What is even more crazy is how the Chinese government tries to hide this evil truth from its own people.

 

“The World Bank was told that it could not publish this information. It was too sensitive and could cause social unrest,” one adviser to the study told the Financial Times. It said the bank ‘reluctantly’ agreed to take out the sensitive information.”

It was this sort of dishonesty that showed me that the Chinese government couldn’t be trusted with Tibet. If they are capable of doing something like this to their own people, what more of the Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians. I can’t *cough* believe that they actually think they could get away with this.

 

“…the government department is certainly aware of China’s pollution problems. Last month it said about 60% of Chinese cities regularly suffer from air pollution and have no centralised sewage treatment facilities.”

 

 

*Cough* Pretty gross right? Hey all my beautiful friends and Freedom Fighters, I’m sorry to leave in such a hurry, but I don’t think my Tibetan lungs can handle all the poison in the air. Take care and please check back with my blog. I’ll be sending more messages from the underground.

 

For Freedom and Peace,

Yingsel the Rangzen Antelope

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