Wednesday  25 March 2015   / Hour 1, Block B: Julia Famularo, research affiliate at Project 2049 Institute, in re: In Tibet,  under the unelected tyrants of Beijing - A 10,00 RMB fine for not installing a camera on your own premises in order to let the government monitor activities in your own place.  it didn’t come even to Orwell that you’d have to install a camera, yourself, for the sinister espionage. It will spread throughout Tibet and perhaps throughout China. It’s no longer enough to rat on your neighbors; now you have to spy on yourself.  This is put on the shoulders of "splittists" – the insane word invented by Beijing to refer to people so fed up they want to separate.  Extremely paranoid government. This is only one of its mad actions throughout ethnic Tibet and Xinjiang.  When I first lived in Lhasa about a decade ago there were far fewer cameras or troops on the street. For a lot of people, it’s not worth the risk of being condemned and arrested for not policing oneself.   Some Tibetans are calling on the Olympic Committee not to award the Olympics to Beijing. Beigjing calles this "laughable."  Good Lord. 
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an official notice issued by the police in Gyur-me Township (Ch: Jimai) in Darlag (Ch: Dari) County, Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Tibet (Amdo). The notice was issued on December 24, 2014.  The notice about businesses and households having to install cameras to monitor themselves is being shared by Tibetans on social media and mobile phone apps such as WeChat. It is also being noted by social media users that businesses such as restaurants, shops and hotels have to pay a fine of RMB 10,000 if they refuse to install video cameras.
China state paper attacks Tibet groups' Olympic protest  Tibetan groups calling on the IOC to reject Beijing's bid for the 2022 Winter Games are out of touch with the Himalayan region and their campaign is "doomed to failure," a Chinese state newspaper said Saturday. In an editorial, the Global Times accused the organizations of pandering to foreign audiences and said their accusations of rights abuses would "only cause laughter" among International Olympic Committee officials responsible for evaluating Beijing's bid.
"They feel excited in slapping Tibet and China. The repeated protests also fit certain needs of Western societies, which will win them some resources for survival in the West," the editorial said.  "They are doomed to fail," concluded the paper, a nationalistic tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party publication People's Daily. A coalition of more than 175 Tibet organizations on Thursday said they sent a report to IOC President Thomas Bach underlining that the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing failed to improve human rights in China. The 12-page report said repression in Tibet is "currently at an all-time high" and warned that giving the Olympics to China again would be "making the same mistake twice." Beijing is competing against Almaty, Kazakhstan, for the right to host the . . .