view this for the 2nd opinion on Tibet :

http://www.ourvoice.de

To Constitutional_Patriot

"I think you summed it up best uhohzombies... it's no excuse to imprison, torture and kill the people of Tibet as they've been doing for a long time now. "
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Let me answer your question: some riots were imprisoned and killed simple because of their violent behaviours. They burn people ( Han & Muslim Chinese) to death and destroy shops and buildings. The violence is firece and the police couldn't handle. That's why Chinese army was sent. Not a single civilised country would tolorent this level of violence/killing of inocent citizen in a major city. Sending troop to regain peace is almost mandatory. Not doing so would be huge violation of human rights --- more lives will surely be killed by tibetan riots.

Constitutional_Patriot, I guess the fact I put may be surprising to you. Yes if we don't have common basis of fact, any augument is meaningless. I hope you open you eyes and read more about the event. Maybe it's difficult for you to believe in the possibility that CNN and BBC lie to western public. Personally I think these media are not hurting China or even Chinese government. They are hurting pulic knowledge and judgement of their own citizens.

btw: So far no evidence of torture is available or reported. I guess it was originated from your imagination of miserable Tibet.

To Omelet :
by "The difference is that the majority of people in Tibet would like to be independent from China", you are surely wrong. Most western people don't belive it but the truth is majority of people in tibet would like to have Dalai Lama return to Tibet but they don't care about gaining independence at all. Come to Tibet please, and you know the truth. There are 3 million tibetan in Tibet and less than 0.2 million tibetan are overseas. It is the oversea tibetan( they were slave owners before 1959 and lost their power that year) and some ruling class (monks) in Tibet who want to gain independence. The ordinary tibetan people are mainly concerned with the economic change that Han and Muslim Chinese have brought to Lhasa. Of course I am not saying the human rights in Tibet is good. Not at all. Chinese government have a lot of room to improve in human right, though the current cituation is much much much better than it was when Dalai Lama was in power before 1959 (remember he was the biggest slave owners and more than 90% of Tibetan population was slaves at that time). Tibetan people have every right to fight for more freedom against the goverment (so do the Han Chinese people) but it doesn not mandate the independence. Their ordinary people simply don't want it at all, though you western guys are crying for it. Come and talk to ORDINARY tibetan people in TIBET( not only oversea, not only monks... these guys are previous slave owners!), you will find the truth!!