{"id":12825,"date":"2022-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/chinese-womans-racist-wechat-post-calls-for-tibetans-in-lhasa-to-be-wiped-out\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:00:00","slug":"chinese-womans-racist-wechat-post-calls-for-tibetans-in-lhasa-to-be-wiped-out","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/chinese-womans-racist-wechat-post-calls-for-tibetans-in-lhasa-to-be-wiped-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese woman\u2019s racist WeChat post calls for Tibetans in Lhasa to be \u201cwiped out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Chinese woman\u2019s racist social media post on Saturday calling for the extermination of Tibetans in Tibet\u2019s capital city led to her apprehension after the post went viral. In a carefully orchestrated apologetic statement police after took her into custody, she apologized to \u201cthe government and the general public\u201d but not directly to the Tibetans against whom she made her racist remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 8 October, the woman\u2014named Liu according to the Lhasa City Public Security Bureau\u2014made a racist post on WeChat that called for wiping out Tibetans in Lhasa and for Chinese to take over the city. Dismissing a complaint shared by a person about the Lhasa government\u2019s COVID-19 strategy, the woman commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe government doesn\u2019t care? Hey! All the Tibetans in Lhasa should be wiped out! All Tibetans should be wiped out \u2014 leaving us Han Chinese to occupy this place!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comment went viral in Lhasa, with Tibetans expressing their outrage at the woman\u2019s racism against Tibetans. Tibetans posted their objections and comments expressing their anger at her remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Tibetan netizen said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Hope all of you are well. Today I have no choice but to say something as it feels like [someone] stabbed a knife on my heart. It is my fervent hope that you all will show interest and provide encouragement so that the superior authority will take stern action on this. The Chinese woman with dirt in mouth had said like this. Listen to this. All of you listen to what is being said till the end [plays the WeChat voice recording of the Chinese woman]. This is what was said. This is really crossing the limits of human behavior. When Wuhan was struck with the [COVID] epidemic, we Tibetans were praying then that there be no war and famine, and there be relief from the epidemic. But look what this Chinese woman says [repeats her utterance in Chinese]: That Tibetans should be wiped out from Lhasa and for Chinese to occupy the place. I really hope that you all will urge as much as possible, and the superior authority will take stern action on this. Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Chinese woman\u2019s racist WeChat post calls for Tibetans in Lhasa to be \u201cwiped out\u201d\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xJlE8j7AU94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day after the Tibetans\u2019 public outrage, the Lhasa City Public Security Bureau identified the woman\u2019s name as Liu in a public notice, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cOn October 8, 2022, some netizens in our city posted inappropriate remarks that undermined national unity on social networking platforms and were reposted. After our bureau filed a case for investigation, the publisher of the remarks was Liu XX. At present, our bureau has carried out investigation and evidence collection and will pursue its legal responsibilities in accordance with the law.<\/p><p>Hereby notified.<\/p><p>Lhasa Public Security Bureau<br>October 9, 2022.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Campaign for Tibet notes that the Lhasa PSB in its public notice reduced the racist remarks simply to \u201cinappropriate remarks\u201d harming the Chinese Party-State\u2019s \u201cnational unity \u201d policy but not addressing the issue of Chinese racism against Tibetans (another Chinese netizen did post a statement condemning the woman\u2019s remarks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a subsequent carefully orchestrated apologetic statement issued by the Chinese woman, she apologizes broadly to the \u201cgovernment and the general public\u201d. No direct apology has been offered to the Tibetans, the subjects of her racism. Neither was the apologetic statement translated into Tibetan. In a video message with her face blurred, the woman, wearing her black hair down on a checkered flannel shirt and black jacket, states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>At 3:00 pm on October 8, 2022, (I) posted something unfavorable to the nation (unity) in the (WeChat) group, which had a huge impact on the society. Here, I would like to express my deepest apologies to the government and the general public. I won\u2019t do anything like this again in the future. I am sorry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Institutional Racism in Tibet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tibet is one of the clearest cases of institutional racism in the world today. Chinese authorities have spread racist narratives about Tibetans. A Chinese state media report on Tibet in 2008 asserted that prior to its \u201cliberation\u201d (meaning Tibet\u2019s conquest by Chinese armies), \u201cTibet remained a society of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, one even darker and more backward than medieval Europe.\u201d A Chinese state media report also claimed in 2021 that Chinese rule has taken Tibet \u201cfrom a society under feudal serfdom to socialism, from poverty and backwardness to civility and progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s illegal occupation has forced Tibetans to live as second-class citizens in their own land. And China shows an oppressive and paternalistic attitude toward Tibetans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, discriminatory policies are enforced in Tibet, like the relocation and forced resettlement of Tibetan nomads and herders; the widespread repression of Tibetan Buddhism; and crackdowns on Tibetan communities after self-immolation protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tibetans face discrimination in employment, housing and travel. Unlike ethnic Chinese, Tibetans are regularly denied passports and the right to travel abroad. There have been instances of hotels denying rooms to Tibetans because of their ethnicity and jobs offering lower salaries to Tibetans than to Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s racism has real consequences. Tibetans have been jailed for simply promoting the Tibetan language. And Tibetan nomads have been forced by the Chinese government to abandon their traditional way of life. Life as a second-class citizen can lead to desperation and protest, as shown by the heartbreaking stories of Tibetan self-immolations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of China\u2019s discrimination, what Tibetans need is the right to manage their own society from the ground up. 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