我寫了篇英文稿，準備貼在英文報紙的讀者反饋欄上。我忘了我的NY Times和LA Times上的Account和Password，哪位有的話可以改成自己的名字把此文貼上去。另外，我的英文功底不是很好，功底高的請隨便修改，然後貼在英文網站上。我發現很多第三世界的英文網站歡迎這類的帖子。下面的中文是我自己從英文翻譯過來的，準備貼在中文網站上的，內容與英文稿一致。 -- 平大峽
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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 (平大峽) -- An Overseas Chinese

故意的無知和陰險的修詞

親愛的編輯,關於發生在西藏犯罪暴亂我感到非常憤怒，但令我更加憤怒是在流行在西方國家的關於暴亂在西藏關於報道。請允許我用一個真實的故事來開始我的觀點。

幾年前, 在一個世界婦女會議上,有許多藏族婦女也參加了。這些藏族婦女是主要來自兩個方面; 一方是中國的西藏自治區的婦女代表，另一方是一個NGO的婦女代表，她們主要是要來為由主要西方大國財政支持的"自由西藏" 喊話的。 像以往一樣,這些NGO的藏族婦女代表聲稱西藏文化被毀滅並且唯一搶救西藏文化的方式是倒轉歷史讓達賴喇嘛回來領導"獨立的大西藏" 或建立"高度自治的大藏區"。因為她們用英語發言,因此她們的喊話很容易被主要西方國家的記者通記錄和引述。 當從中國的西藏自治區的藏族婦女們設法與那些來自"自由的國家"的NGO的藏族婦女建立溝通，議論一下西藏文化破壞問題時，這些來自西藏的藏族婦女發現她們無法與那些來自"自由的國家"的NGO的藏族婦女直接溝通，因為那些來自"自由的國家"的NGO的藏族婦女們只會講英語而不會講藏語，而西藏自治區的藏族婦女們又不會講英語。因而, 我們看到了兩撥藏族人，她們有相似的面孔和相似的服裝樣式, 她們之間的區別就是來自"自由的國家" 藏族婦女只會講英語但不會講藏語，而那些來自西藏的藏族婦女只能講藏語但不會講英語。當這兩撥藏族婦女們爭論關於西藏問題時, "自由的國家的" 新聞工作者們只記錄了會講英語的來自"自由的國家"的藏族人的聲音而對來自西藏的藏族人只能講藏語不會講英語的聲音完全忽視。當然，這些從"自由國家"的記者們不懂藏語，他們也從沒打算麻煩一下通過口譯員傾聽一下來自西藏的藏族人的聲音。隨後，非常諷刺的是那些已經忘記如何說藏語的藏族人在抱怨別人破壞了藏族文化的話被這些"自由國家" 的主要媒體和報紙上廣泛引用，而那些來自會說藏語的藏族人的聲音則被他們忽略了，表面上是他們不懂藏語實際上是故意的忽略。

最近, 一些暴徒在西藏製造了恐怖事件，這些人實際上就是一些西藏恐怖組織的恐怖分子。他們在拉薩和其它藏族聚居區域不加區別地殺害平民。受害者中包括許多種族也包括藏族人。一群暴徒包圍了一個商店，把包括一個藏族女孩和其它民族的五個女孩活活燒死。這些暴民好燒毀了一所許多藏族孩子們讀書的中學。面對恐怖分子活動血淋淋的事實, 那些曾熱衷推銷"反恐戰爭"的"自由國家"的記者卻表現出反覆無常的反應。 當拉薩當地的警察採取行動壓制罪犯時, 西方媒體卻在他們的報道中描述警察行動是"鎮壓示威", 他們把犯罪活動描繪成示威遊行，把恐怖分子活動描繪成示威者; 把明明是犯罪分子殺害的平民描繪成為警察鎮壓的受害者。 "自由國家"的媒體故意用"藏人"和"中國人"這兩個詞彙來混淆概念。 儘管許多當地的警察和當地的政府官員就是藏族人，但他們在提到暴民時故意地用"藏人"，在提到警察和受害者時故意地用"中國人"來混淆罪犯和受害的平民。
其實受害者不僅包括西藏人、穆斯林、漢人及許多不同宗教和民族的中國人。但是通過這些"自由國家"的媒體的使用陰險的措辭描述後, 恐怖分子不加區別地殺害平民的事件被故意誤導故意"藏人"和其他"中國人"的衝突。雖然許多地方警察也是藏人, 帶領警察鎮壓暴亂的地方官員的也是藏人; 但西方媒體故意地忽略這個事實，故意用"中國官員"和"中國警察"來描述他們。眾所周知，藏人也是華人, 說西藏人是中國人或紐約人是美國人在邏輯上是正確的，但是他們的目的，就是通過故意地混淆概念來誤導他們的讀者，把在西藏發生的恐怖分子對對平民的犯罪說成是中國的族群衝突, 並且暗示這些族群衝突起因由中國警察鎮壓造成的。
實際上, 參加此次犯罪暴亂的不僅有西藏人, 一些外國組織資助資助的漢人也參與了。而平民受害者中也包括許多其他民族的平民。 那些一貫高喊人權的"自由國家" 的媒體此次卻對在大量包括藏人的無辜平民的人權被粗暴侵害的情況視而不見。這正是因為這些暴亂的恐怖分子都是打着達賴喇嘛和自由西藏的旗幟進行的，而這些正是這些"自由國家"資助和慫恿的。

"自由國家"媒體利用對多數觀眾的西藏的情況知之不多弱點，便肆意用歪曲的宣傳傾來為藏恐怖分子打掩護。所以我們看到看一些西方報紙"錯誤地"用西藏示威者和尼泊爾警察之間的對抗的圖片來繪聲繪色的宣傳"中國警察棒打西藏示威者"。我們也能看到許多西方報紙"粗心大意地" 忽略了那所藏族中學被放火燒毀，那個藏族女孩被罪犯殺害的事實，把暴徒描繪成示威者。

現在我們終於明白了，所謂"自由國家"的媒體，就是可以自由地定義詞彙和揭示事件，通過故意忽略一些事實並陰險地使用不同的詞彙來誤引讀者。真相對於這些"自由國家"的媒體來說是毫不相關的。

---平大峽