The Strike Hard Campaign: Anti-Splittism

In September 1997, China announced that work-teams conducting a "patriotic reeducation campaign" had covered 1,780 of Tibet's 1,787 monasteries and temples and 30,000 of the 46,000 monks had received reeducation. In December, reeducation expanded beyond the monasteries to the general population. This campaign, launched in May 1996, is the latest installment of numerous programs to reeducate Tibetans into accepting their designation as a minority group within the big family of the Chinese motherland. One month earlier, on April 6th, the national ``…

…human rights, and of its policies on Tibet. While Jiang Zemin says he expects to see positive changes in the Dalai Lama and looks forward to a dialogue, Jiang's police are imprisoning and brutalizing Tibetans who dare simply to keep a photograph of His Holiness. So long as the Strike Hard and the reeducation campaign continue, China's professed reforms will remain simply a public relations campaign by the most murderous dictatorship in the world's history.