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                  • 家园 坦桑尼亚没什么工业

                    自然资源比较差,基本上是农业国。金矿九十年代才开始开采。旅游业慢慢的在进步。但是农业仍然占了国民经济的一大半。这样的国家,要发展很难的。

                    大约是因为这个国家太穷了,才稳定。没有外国势力来抢夺资源么。你看非洲热闹的地方,大都是资源丰富的地方,除了索马里。

                • 家园 我在网上见到东非旅游很危险

                  据说去那里的没有不感染霍乱的。不过安全不错,风景也比较好。比较而言,好多人推荐北非,比如突尼斯

                  不过如果有机会去非洲,我只想去埃及看金字塔到尼罗河上泛舟,别的地方都没多大兴趣。

                  • 家园 没这么危险

                    肯尼亚可是旅游的好地方,旅游业在肯尼亚的经济中占有很高的比例,可惜现在全让政治毁了。那里要是人人都得霍乱,谁还敢去呀?

                    坦桑尼亚的乞力巴扎罗,桑吉巴尔,莫桑比克海滩,都是很漂亮的地方。

                    的确有一些疾病还在猖獗,不过去之间咨询一下医生的意见,准备要必要的药品就好了。

                    北非和撒哈拉以南的非洲那是完全不一样的,各有各的好处。

                • 家园 想去

                  原本是计划到塞伦格蒂去safari,然后去桑给巴尔的,后来发现机票实在太贵,LD给改成南非了。以后还是想去坦桑尼亚。

    • 家园 埃及Al-Ahram周刊上关于拉萨骚乱的一篇文章

      该周刊始创于1875年,是一份英文周刊(阿拉伯文报纸俺看不懂),在埃及知识界和驻埃西方人中的读者数量和影响力很大。本意是想搜一下关于火炬传递的报道,有一篇关于希腊点火仪式的报道,非常正统的新闻报道模式,没有谈及别的乱七八糟的东西。大部分文章都是关注中东地区,对奥运会的报道篇幅似乎不是太多。

      另外呢,搜到这篇关于拉萨骚乱的评论文章。

      No Shangri-la

      BY Gamal Nkrumah

      Initially I was most reluctant to write about Tibet. This autonomous region of China is often used as a subterfuge to tarnish the image of the world's largest Communist country. It soon became apparent, however, that it made little sense to tell in detail the dynamics of the current Tibetan uprising without explaining who the Tibetan people are, why they were incorporated into the People's Republic of China and what the precise historical relationship with China was. Then came the realisation that the contemporary history of Tibet was inextricably intertwined with the history of not only Communist China, but Imperial China as well.

      Hollywood has produced a dozen films, at least, in support of Tibet. The Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel laureate, has assumed an iconic status conferred on him by all and sundry. United States President George Bush himself awarded the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal, the top US civilian honour, last October. Incidentally, the accolade was conferred on the Dalai Lama in the midst of the US bombardment of Iraq and Afghanistan.

      Earlier this month, on their own initiative, Tibetan independence activists began a six-month march from their hideouts in India to the Tibetan border to coincide with the commencement of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The Dalai Lama urged them to halt the march, "Will you get independence? What's the use?" Instead he threatened to abandon his leadership of the struggle for Tibetan civil rights. He called on his followers in Llasa to refrain from violence, saying that if matters got out of control his only option would be to resign as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile.

      The Dalai Lama is a firm believer in the non-violent struggle for greater political autonomy and civil rights in Tibet. However, his protests of innocence obviously did not wash in Beijing. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jaibao warned that the "Dalai clique organised, premeditated and masterminded" the Lhasa uprising to undermine the Beijing Olympic Games.

      It is interesting to note that even though a number of high-profile athletes have threatened to boycott the Olympics, along with thousands of pro- Tibetan activists, the International Olympic Committee opposes any boycott of the Games. The Chinese, ironically, are determined to carry the Olympic torch through Tibetan territory in May on its way to Beijing, even to the top of Mount Everest.

      There are a number of pertinent questions, including, why Tibet, thousands of kilometres from the Chinese capital, was incorporated into China, while Mongolia, which is far closer, was not. The other intriguing irony is that Tibet is a virtually impregnable mountain region; Mongolia is desert and steppe, much easier to invade and conquer. True, Inner Mongolia became part of China and today ethnic Han settlers outnumber the locals, and there is no considerable movement for independence or union with Outer Mongolia, an independent state. This contrasts with Xingyang (so-called East Turkestan) which is also far from Beijing, and where there is a strong independence movement by the Muslim Uighurs but who lack something vitally important for their struggle that Tibet has -- the Dalai Lama.

      The turning point in Chinese-Tibetan relations occurred in 1959, when Tibetans demanded independence from the now People's Republic of China, and their insurgency was ruthlessly suppressed. The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, fled to India where he has been based in exile in Dharamasala, on the Indian slopes of the Himalayas ever since.

      What followed was seared into the Tibetans' soul as no other event in their history, with the wholesale destruction of monasteries and libraries and the murder of monks, part of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. Tibetan activists in exile, both in India and in the West, understandably took up the mantra of "liberation struggle". Thousands of Tibetans perished in the ferocious onslaughts that followed. The Dalai Lama became an iconic figure both in the West and among Tibetan nationalists. As far as the Chinese were concerned, he was a traitor. "I am a spokesman for the Tibetan people, not the controller, not the master," the Dalai Lama humbly explains. But, many around the world and especially in China take these unobtrusive statements with a pinch of salt.

      It is true that individual tragedies were submerged in the mass horrors of the suppression of Tibetan independence. The Red Army fell on defenceless clusters of Tibetan monks and innocent civilians. Ethnic Han Chinese settlers came en masse, and clearly as the fortunes of the Han waxed, those of the indigenous Tibetans waned. However the reality to be remembered is that Tibet has not been an independent nation since the Middle Ages.

      Tibet was first united under the leadership of Sogtsan Gampo in the seventh century. The sad truth is that the Hermetic Kingdom, as the country was once known, ceased to be independent of Imperial China after the Qing Dynasty installed the Dalai Lama at the time as political head of the sprawling and inhospitable semi-autonomous region. The Chinese also instituted the Kashag government and continued to exercise some say in the running of the country, and especially the installation of Dalai Lamas sympathetic to the Chinese. The spiritual head of Tibet became not merely a revered figurehead, but a political leader as well. The imperial Chinese rarely interfered directly in the domestic affairs of Tibet and certainly made no effort to settle it with ethnic Han or to repress the cultural identity.

      On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty championed Tibetan Buddhism and came to the rescue as when neighbouring Nepal invaded Tibet in 1788 and again in 1791. Two years later, the Chinese Emperor Qianlong dispatched a large force to oust the Nepalese. The Chinese emperors, thereafter, decided to preside over the selection process of the Dalai Lama and other senior Tibetan officials. It is worthy of note here that the Tibetans happily obliged.

      For many centuries, the Tibetans rarely challenged the might of Imperial China. Tensions arose, however, with the scramble for central Asia between the British Raj in India, Czarist Russia and Imperial China. Matters came to a head when a British soldier, Francis Younghusband, led a force armed with the Maxim gun and overran Tibet. Yet another dose of British imperial poison for innocents abroad. The country was never to be the same again. It was only in 1949 that the Chinese People's Liberation Army "liberated" Tibet.

      .........

      篇幅很长,此处就不逐一翻译,有兴趣的可以自己去读。作者总的说来,是以一个旁观者的角度,相对比较公允地介绍了这个事件,他花了很长的篇幅探讨西藏的历史,相信作者是在写文章之前用了功的,故此能以比较客观的眼光分析自己所得到的信息,虽然其中还有一些偏颇之处,但毕竟作者人在万里之外的埃及,而且他没有人云亦云,好同志!

      再复一张该期刊给配的漫画。

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      外链图片需谨慎,可能会被源头改

      • 家园 比南非的媒体强太多了

        南非的这帮傻瓜媒体只会跟着英国人德国人屁股后面嚷嚷。

        不过基本上南非关心这些事情的很少,邻居那个死活结果出不来的大选才是真正头疼的事情。

        外链出处

        这里面提到了斯坦福医学院的一个藏独Xiao Tan,谁去把他揪出来?

        • 家园 那个家伙早就被揪出来了

          这个照片上被人围攻的就是他。是哈尔滨人。

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          外链图片需谨慎,可能会被源头改

          他和那个台湾女那天早上偷偷混入Stanford的bus,到了起点现场就打出了藏独旗,当即就被广大人民群众轰了出去。那天他俩是仅有的出现在起点的藏独了。

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