Source: CCTV.com

04-17-2008 20:04

Moderator: Yang Rui

Guests:

Dawa Ciren, Tibet Academy of Social Sciences

Ban Jue, Tibet Academy of Social Sciences

Dunzhu Lajie, Tibet Academy of Social Sciences

Backgrounder: Serfdom and old Tibet

Intro:

While public opinions are getting polarized between China and the West over Tibet. We're joined today by three Tibetan scholars from Lhasa to brief us on their knowledge of Old Tibet before 1951.

Unlike before today, our interview will be segmented with five different video footages to illustrate the miseries of the serfs and how they were ruthlessly governed very much like the black slaves in the Southern US before the 1861 Civil War. This edition of Dialogue is intended to ask those who are ignorant about the improvement of human rights in Tibet today to assume a more responsible attitude before they lash out against China.