A large group of monks and nuns of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition from Chenrezig Institute, north of Brisbane, joined about a hundred people last night in Brisbane's King George Square to hold a prayerful vigil in solidarity with the people of Tibet. The atmosphere at the gathering was very calm as the monks and nuns chanted prayers, followed by loud calls from all present for the Chinese to honour the human rights of the Tibetan people.
The numbers of people participating might be small, but China is being shown to the world very clearly to be an oppressor of human rights, and particularly the rights of the Tibetan people.
China of course promised that in the lead up to the Olympic Games it would improve its human rights record, but as expected, the opposite has happened. For too long the rest of the world has acquiesced, has been fearful to challenge China because of its economic and growing military strength. But world leaders obviously cannot ignore China's most recent killings in Tibet - deaths that are probably just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what China has done in the past, but the difference now is that the eyes of the world are on China as the Olympics come closer.
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