Anti-China hype leaves unaswered questions

WHILE the crackdown in Tibet is to be condemned in the strongest possible terms, the campaign against the Beijing Olympics, predictably, has become a political football used for generally reactionary purposes.

The long-standing links between Tibetan nationalist forces and the CIA are common knowledge. Has Tibet become the frontline of a new national liberation struggle? Or is something else happening there?

Why weren’t the Dalai Lama’s slaves freed until 1959? Why was one of Hitler’s top Nazis part of the Dalai Lama’s inner circle? Why did the CIA create a Tibetan ‘Contra’ force beginning in the 1950s? What are the Dalai Lama’s connections to the CIA?