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Quote by: InTheFlesh?  No one on this thread has suggested the Tibetan people were cuddly bunnies at the uprising, this is not what the debate was about.
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What I am trying to say is that there is no violation of human rights or not nearly as large as everybody makes it out to be.
How does a country deal with violent riots and uprising. Of course by using violence. You have to use fire to fight fire. Do you really think those Tibetans would calm down if the Chinese government told them to stop? Pro-Tibet people say that the Chinese government is "abusing human rights by arresting important figures (monks) of the Tibetan "government"". Of course they would be, you cut of the head and the body dies. Or would you rather have the Chinese government just kill all the rioters instead? I think if we weight the two different options, arresting a few monks does not seem so significant.
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Even so, as has been said, the movement to Free Tibet has been around since the Cultural Revolution in 1951 with non violence at its heart. The desire to free Tibet did not start in March with this 'rebellion'. But with the Olympics coming up and it having been such a long time, I can imagine the non-violence will go down the pan.
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There will always be people who want to be independant. We had the FLQ in Quebec and the Bloq Quebecois now. We have radicalists in Taiwan and many other countries with the same problem.
However, these outspoken people usually drown out those who do not wish to seperate. Do you honestly think 100% of Tibetans want to be independant? Of course not! You can control their body but you can't control their heart. If 100% of Tibetans really wanted to be seperated, Tibetan would have been a long time ago.