チベットの暴動

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チベットについて、多くの知識があるわけでないんだけど、いろいろ複雑な事情が絡んでるのだなあと思って。

With violent protests sweeping like a prairie fire across the Tibetan regions of his country, Chinese President Hu Jintao is facing one of the toughest dilemmas of his career.

Once before he met a similar challenge – and he responded with brutal force. It was the spring of 1989, and he was the Communist Party boss in Tibet. When an uprising by Buddhist monks threatened his control, he called in the army. Thousands of Tibetans were arrested, scores of protesters were shot dead, and martial law was imposed for the first time in the history of the People's Republic.

Mr. Hu's iron-fisted response, which paved the way for the Tiananmen Square crackdown of a few months later, helped to propel him into a successful political career at the highest levels of the Communist Party.

胡主席はかつてチベットの共産党幹部で、1989年に僧侶が蜂起したとき軍を使って鎮圧させた、と。その後の天安門事件での成果が評価され、今に至ると。ふむ。

The economic subsidies, including the massive Tibet-Beijing railway, have done little to benefit the ethnic Tibetans. Instead they have brought an influx of Han Chinese migrants who have transformed Lhasa into a quaint version of any other booming provincial Chinese city.

The railway, which has doubled the number of Chinese tourists in Tibet, has sparked resentment and anger in the Tibetan community. Lhasa is increasingly controlled by Han Chinese entrepreneurs and businesses, and the Tibetans have become a minority of the population in their own capital.

Even the fabled Jokhang temple – the spiritual heart of Tibetan culture, situated at the historic centre of Lhasa – is now surrounded by Han Chinese vendors and shopkeepers. Those shops, the symbol of alien domination, were among the first to be ransacked and burned by the Tibetan rioters on Friday.

チベットと北京を結ぶ鉄道の建設などをはじめとした国からの補助金が、もともとのチベット人にもたらした恩恵は少ない。漢民族が流入しほかの中国の地方都市同様にラサをすっかり変えてしまった。鉄道のおかげで中国からの観光客が激増、中国人実業家に経済が牛耳られてしまった。有名な寺院の周りの土産物屋も漢族がやっていて、それらが暴動で焼き討ちにあった。

どこかの国が、ん十年前に外国で似たようなことをやってたような気がしますなあ。これで中国が、「チベットは中国のおかげで経済的に発展したのだ」とか、「チベット問題は海外メディアのねつ造」とか言い出したら、すげーいやみ。