Free Tibet?!?

China's rule is far better then what the average Tibetan had before March 10, 1959. See, before China, Tibet had a wealthy class, a very TINY middle class and a slave/surf class (over 95% of the population). Surf family life was akin to that of black Americans in the south prior to the American civil war. People were beaten and killed by their masters. Babies and children were taken and sold or raped or killed. Lamas considered the surfs property to be traded and discarded like common inanimate objects. These are the monks people so vigorously defend. In actuality the Tibetan aristocratic class, including the 14th Dalai Lama himself (who owned 27 manors worked by over 6000 slaves), were brutal masters no better then the plantation owners of the American south.

That doesn't mean China is any better at recognizing human rights, but you can't go around idolizing the demon to spite the devil.

Further more, the Dalai Lama does not want freedom from the Chinese, he wants something more like Hong Kong, a special administrative region. Something similar to an American Territory like Peurto Rico.