我写了篇英文稿，准备贴在英文报纸的读者反馈栏上。我忘了我的NY Times和LA Times上的Account和Password，哪位有的话可以改成自己的名字把此文贴上去。另外，我的英文功底不是很好，功底高的请随便修改，然后贴在英文网站上。我发现很多第三世界的英文网站欢迎这类的帖子。下面的中文是我自己从英文翻译过来的，准备贴在中文网站上的，内容与英文稿一致。 -- 平大峡
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Intentional Ignorance and Deliberate Wording

Dear editor, I feel furious about the criminal riots happened in Tibet and I am even more furious about the reports in the western countries regarding the riots in Tibet. Let me start my points from a true story.

Let me start my points from a true story. A couple of years ago, on a World Conference on Women, many Tibetan women also attended the meeting. These Tibetan women are mainly from the two groups; the woman delegates from the Tibetan autonomous region of China and the woman delegates from an NGO on behalf of the “Free-Tibet” which is financially supported by the major western powers.

As usual, the woman delegates from the NGO claimed that the Tibetan culture is being destructed and the only way to rescue the Tibetan culture is to reverse the history to let the Dalai Lama come back to lead an “Independent Great Tibet” or “Highly Autonomous Great Tibetan Area.” The voiced out their claims in English, so that their claims were easily passed and quoted by the reporters of major western countries.

When the Tibetan women from the Tibet Autonomous Region of China tried to discuss the Tibetan Cultural Destruction issue with the Tibetan women from the “Free Countries,” and they found there was no way to communicate directly between them because the Tibetan women from the “free countries” do not speak Tibetan while the Tibetan women from Tibet do not speak English.

Thus, we saw two groups of Tibetans; though they are common on similar faces and having the similar costume styles, the difference between them is the group of Tibetans from “Free Countries” can speak English only but not Tibetan while the group of Tibetans from Tibet can speak Tibetan but not English. When the two Tibetan groups are arguing on the Tibetan issues, the English spoken Tibetans took advantage of the Tibetan spoken Tibetans since their can voice out directly to the journalists of “free countries” while none of the reporters from the “free countries” speaks Tibetan. Nevertheless, the reporters from the “free countries” never bothered to listen to what the Tibetan-spoken Tibetans’ voices through the interpreters. Then, ironically, on the major media and newspapers of the “free countries” the claim of the “Tibetan culture is being destructed” by the Tibetans who have already forgotten how to speak Tibetan are widely quoted while the voices of Tibetan spoken Tibetans were ignored by the journalists of “free countries.” The ignorance is actually an intentional ignorance.

Recently, some Tibetan mobs, actually a number of organized Tibetan terrorist groups indiscriminately killing the civilians in Lhasa as well as in some other Tibetan areas. The victims also include many ethnic Tibetans. A Tibetan young girl was burned dead together with other four girls of other ethnic Chinese when the mobs surrounded their shop and burn them alive. A middle school that many Tibetan children are attended was set on fire by the mobs too. Facing the bloody facts of terrorist activities, the journalists of the “free countries” that had been keen on “Anti Terrorist War” are showing their capricious reacts.

When the local police of Lhasa took actions to suppress the criminals, the western media described police action as “suppressing the demonstration” so that in their reports, the criminal mobs become demonstrators and the terrorist activities become peaceful demonstrations; and the civilians killed by the criminals all become the victims of the police suppression.

The media of the “free countries deliberately” deliberately refer the mobs as the Tibetans and refer the policemen and civilian victims as Chinese, though many policemen and the local government officials are ethnic Tibetans, and the civilian victims of the riots include Tibetans, Muslims, Hans and many other religious and ethnic Chinese. By their de????ion, the event of the terrorists indiscriminately killing the civilians is deliberately worded as the conflict between ethnic Tibetan and other ethnics of Chinese.

Though many local policemen in Tibet are ethnic Tibetan, the majority of the local officials in Tibet who are leading the police suppressions are also ethnic Tibetans; the western media intentionally ignored this fact and deliberately describe them as Chinese officials and Chinese police. Since the Tibetan is an ethnic group of Chinese, describing a Tibetan as a Chinese is the same as describing a New Yorker as an American may be logically correct. However, their purpose to deliberately use the wording is to confuse and mislead their readers as if the event in Tibet were not a terrorist attack by criminals to the civilians but a conflict between the ethnic groups in China, and hint that the ethnic problem is cause by Chinese police suppression.

Actually, the criminals involved in this riot are not only ethnic Tibetans, there are also other ethnics of Chinese including Hans funded by the foreign organizations. The civilian victims also include many ethnics, many of them are Tibetans, all of them are so innocent and the badly violation of their human rights by the criminals are ignored by the media of “free countries” who have been chanting human right all the time. Just because this riot is a terrorist attack by the criminals in the name of Dalai Lama and Free Tibet funded and supported by the “free countries.”

The media of free countries are taking advantage of ignorance of the most audiences about Tibet so as to spread the biased publicity in favor of the Tibetan terrorists. That is why we can see some western newspapers “mistakenly” use the pictures of clashes between Tibetan demonstrators and Nepal police to describe that the Tibetan demonstrators are beaten by Chinese police, and we can also see many western newspapers “carelessly” ignored the fact that the Tibetan middle school was set on fire and the Tibetan girls were killed, and described the criminals as “demonstrators.”

Now we finally understand that the media of the “free countries” are so free that they can freely define any phrase and any event by intentionally ignoring some facts and deliberate use different wordings so as to mislead readers. The truth is always irrelevant for the media of the “free countries.”

By Greatgorge Ping (平大峡) -- An Overseas Chinese

故意的无知和阴险的修词

亲爱的编辑,关于发生在西藏犯罪暴乱我感到非常愤怒，但令我更加愤怒是在流行在西方国家的关于暴乱在西藏关于报道。请允许我用一个真实的故事来开始我的观点。

几年前, 在一个世界妇女会议上,有许多藏族妇女也参加了。这些藏族妇女是主要来自两个方面; 一方是中国的西藏自治区的妇女代表，另一方是一个NGO的妇女代表，她们主要是要来为由主要西方大国财政支持的"自由西藏" 喊话的。 像以往一样,这些NGO的藏族妇女代表声称西藏文化被毁灭并且唯一抢救西藏文化的方式是倒转历史让达赖喇嘛回来领导"独立的大西藏" 或建立"高度自治的大藏区"。因为她们用英语发言,因此她们的喊话很容易被主要西方国家的记者通记录和引述。 当从中国的西藏自治区的藏族妇女们设法与那些来自"自由的国家"的NGO的藏族妇女建立沟通，议论一下西藏文化破坏问题时，这些来自西藏的藏族妇女发现她们无法与那些来自"自由的国家"的NGO的藏族妇女直接沟通，因为那些来自"自由的国家"的NGO的藏族妇女们只会讲英语而不会讲藏语，而西藏自治区的藏族妇女们又不会讲英语。因而, 我们看到了两拨藏族人，她们有相似的面孔和相似的服装样式, 她们之间的区别就是来自"自由的国家" 藏族妇女只会讲英语但不会讲藏语，而那些来自西藏的藏族妇女只能讲藏语但不会讲英语。当这两拨藏族妇女们争论关于西藏问题时, "自由的国家的" 新闻工作者们只记录了会讲英语的来自"自由的国家"的藏族人的声音而对来自西藏的藏族人只能讲藏语不会讲英语的声音完全忽视。当然，这些从"自由国家"的记者们不懂藏语，他们也从没打算麻烦一下通过口译员倾听一下来自西藏的藏族人的声音。随后，非常讽刺的是那些已经忘记如何说藏语的藏族人在抱怨别人破坏了藏族文化的话被这些"自由国家" 的主要媒体和报纸上广泛引用，而那些来自会说藏语的藏族人的声音则被他们忽略了，表面上是他们不懂藏语实际上是故意的忽略。

最近, 一些暴徒在西藏制造了恐怖事件，这些人实际上就是一些西藏恐怖组织的恐怖分子。他们在拉萨和其它藏族聚居区域不加区别地杀害平民。受害者中包括许多种族也包括藏族人。一群暴徒包围了一个商店，把包括一个藏族女孩和其它民族的五个女孩活活烧死。这些暴民好烧毁了一所许多藏族孩子们读书的中学。面对恐怖分子活动血淋淋的事实, 那些曾热衷推销"反恐战争"的"自由国家"的记者却表现出反复无常的反应。 当拉萨当地的警察采取行动压制罪犯时, 西方媒体却在他们的报道中描述警察行动是"镇压示威", 他们把犯罪活动描绘成示威游行，把恐怖分子活动描绘成示威者; 把明明是犯罪分子杀害的平民描绘成为警察镇压的受害者。 "自由国家"的媒体故意用"藏人"和"中国人"这两个词汇来混淆概念。 尽管许多当地的警察和当地的政府官员就是藏族人，但他们在提到暴民时故意地用"藏人"，在提到警察和受害者时故意地用"中国人"来混淆罪犯和受害的平民。
其实受害者不仅包括西藏人、穆斯林、汉人及许多不同宗教和民族的中国人。但是通过这些"自由国家"的媒体的使用阴险的措辞描述后, 恐怖分子不加区别地杀害平民的事件被故意误导故意"藏人"和其他"中国人"的冲突。虽然许多地方警察也是藏人, 带领警察镇压暴乱的地方官员的也是藏人; 但西方媒体故意地忽略这个事实，故意用"中国官员"和"中国警察"来描述他们。众所周知，藏人也是华人, 说西藏人是中国人或纽约人是美国人在逻辑上是正确的，但是他们的目的，就是通过故意地混淆概念来误导他们的读者，把在西藏发生的恐怖分子对对平民的犯罪说成是中国的族群冲突, 并且暗示这些族群冲突起因由中国警察镇压造成的。
实际上, 参加此次犯罪暴乱的不仅有西藏人, 一些外国组织资助资助的汉人也参与了。而平民受害者中也包括许多其他民族的平民。 那些一贯高喊人权的"自由国家" 的媒体此次却对在大量包括藏人的无辜平民的人权被粗暴侵害的情况视而不见。这正是因为这些暴乱的恐怖分子都是打着达赖喇嘛和自由西藏的旗帜进行的，而这些正是这些"自由国家"资助和怂恿的。

"自由国家"媒体利用对多数观众的西藏的情况知之不多弱点，便肆意用歪曲的宣传倾来为藏恐怖分子打掩护。所以我们看到看一些西方报纸"错误地"用西藏示威者和尼泊尔警察之间的对抗的图片来绘声绘色的宣传"中国警察棒打西藏示威者"。我们也能看到许多西方报纸"粗心大意地" 忽略了那所藏族中学被放火烧毁，那个藏族女孩被罪犯杀害的事实，把暴徒描绘成示威者。

现在我们终于明白了，所谓"自由国家"的媒体，就是可以自由地定义词汇和揭示事件，通过故意忽略一些事实并阴险地使用不同的词汇来误引读者。真相对于这些"自由国家"的媒体来说是毫不相关的。

---平大峡