When I was in Amman, Jordan, a Japanese student once asked me, “What do you think about the situation in Tibet?”
I was totally dumbfounded.
In the past week, there were two public memorial services for Tibet in Hong Kong. So I grabbed the opportunity to educate myself…
Apparently, it’s a place where blatant oppression has become a norm—forced replacement of Tibetan textbooks with Chinese ones; prohibition of the display of Dalai Lama’s portrait inside one’s home; political beatings and/or imprisonments; violent suppression of popular uprisings…
Which reminds me of this graffiti in Gaza…
Insha’Allah, I’ll have the chance to learn more about it.