Tibet’s Rivers Strangled by Dams

“If you want to kill a river, building dams is the best way to do it,” said Buckley.

BANGKOK: Canadian documentary maker Michael Buckley’s undercover bid to investigate the Tibet-China railway line was sidetracked when he discovered Tibet’s river systems were being strangled by large scale dam construction.

“I have been back and forth to Tibet a number of times and I never noticed the dams were there—but they are hidden, they are down gorges that you cannot see from the road,” Buckley told press after the screening his documentary film “Meltdown in Tibet,” in Bangkok.

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1959 Tibetan Uprising

Tibetans slaughtered during Uprising

By the late 1950s it was clear to Tibetans that China had no intention of honouring a pledge made in 1951 to respect Tibetan autonomy. Tibetan resentment of China’s occupation simmered and it was clear that a revolt against Chinese rule was brewing.

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Jonathan Green - Murder in the Himalayas: A Story that Had to be Told

"There will always be people willing to risk everything for freedom."

It's been four years since video footage of the fatal shooting of a teenage Tibetan girl by a Chinese border patrol made international news, before slipping into its final resting place on YouTube. But human rights journalist Jonathan Green, who first broke the story, is determined that it not be forgotten, and has offered an engaging and well-researched account in Murder in the High Himalayas published by Public Affairs Books.

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Living Fear Behind

10.08.2008

In a remarkable coincidence, filming concluded in early March 2008 on the eve of the eruption of unprecedented mass Tibetan protests across the Tibetan plateau.

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