Tibetans refuse to sow spring crops in protest against Beijing

[bijou]

Tibetan discontent at Chinese rule has taken a new twist, with farmers refusing to till their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing.

So anxious are officials at the latest action that they have sent in troops from the People's Liberation Army to work with farmers - or in their place if need be - to carry out spring planting in mountainous regions able to support only one crop a year.

Local sources said that many farmers in areas of Sichuan province with large ethnic Tibetan populations have decided to down tools and leave their barley fields fallow this year.

“The farmers know that they will be the ones to suffer if they do this,” one source told The Times. “But this is a way for them to show their unhappiness.”

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Tibetan farmers 'shrug', they'll suffer but it's all they have to protest with. 

[Gratiot]

 

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

Those farmers suffer one way or another, either from being subjucated by the chinese or going without food.

Prior to the next growing season they ought to clear small hidden plots of land, grow enough just for their own consumption, and then 50 percent less in the main fields and when the harvest comes up short they can say it was a bad growing season and let the chinese starve.

[bijou]

Those farmers suffer one way or another, either from being subjucated by the chinese or going without food.

Prior to the next growing season they ought to clear small hidden plots of land, grow enough just for their own consumption, and then 50 percent less in the main fields and when the harvest comes up short they can say it was a bad growing season and let the chinese starve.

Hopefully they can do something like that, but China will be sending the army in so I'd expect some retribution if they were caught.  The Chinese haven't quite worked out this capitalism thing down to its finest detail.