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Quote by: Winter wind Fire live ammunition and evicting the press, however, is not perfectly ordinary.

When people a angry mob with knifes and other improvised weapnonary are charging at you and you have a gun. You usually fire.

Also, the point of the military is the suppress the riot. These riots are violent. You don't suppress violent riots with kind words or hugs. Live ammunition is intiminating and thats what needs to be used during riots.

Quote by: Winter wind However, most wiki pages site their sources, so it's not to hard to check out how true the page.

then please cite the source directly.

Quote by: Winter wind Fair argument, yet our atrocities are in our past. The little we can do to fix them have been attempted. Guantanamo is a walk in the park compared to some of the things the Chinese government has tried. And even if it were hypocritical, these are people's lives we're talking about. When it comes down to that, the rest is crap.

attempted. You think that China never attempted the make Tibetan life better? Were do you think 90% of Tibetan economy comes from? Tourism, Tourism from mainland. Without it, Tibetan would be much poorer.

There is no prof that the Chinese government have tried anything worst the Guantanamo (as far as i know), if so. Please cite your source.

Nobodies lives would at stake if these people would just smarten up and not give their country crap on what is probably it's most important year. I don't recall anybody being shot before the riot. Im sure you wouldn't either. I don't recall ANY "human rights abuse" (as you people call it) before the riots. Im sure you can't either. BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ANY

Quote by: Winter wind I do recognize that the Tibetan protests were violent at times, in fact they killed several innocent people, however that does not mean you open fire on them. Also, the Chinese government reacted against the monks as well, who were peaceful. The ones who were violent weren't the monks.

Do you know why they "fired upon monks". The soldier werent ordered to run and gun everybody you see. The monks were fired upon because they ignored warning and even warning shots. How can the Chinese soldier trust that the monks arent dangerous? After all, the US has trained Tibetans in Geurilla warfare before. Dressing up as "monks" and launching a suprise attack would not be suprising. If you ignore warning and get shot, its not the shooters fault. Just like how if somebody stupid enough runs into area 51 and complains about being shot at.