Just to be clear: this website is Chinese Communist Party propaganda trying to justify the CCP's takeover of Tibet in 1950 by claiming they "liberated" Tibetans from the oppression of Buddhist Lamas.
Reminds me of the joke with the soviet car at the World Car Expo back in the day. No one was able to make it move so the experts looked under the hood. They found out all the power from the engine was going to the horn rather than the wheels.
I love their withdrawn, forlorn expressions.
The "internment" of Japanese Americans in World War II is also an example (while their sons often served in the Armed Forces, for example, in the "Nisei" batallion in Italy). The purpose of the reservations was supposedly to abolish the free-roaming "savage" life of the Indians and teach them farming and herding (the Comanches and others knew all about herding already). It was actually to free up land for settlement. The government did supply both rations and some instruction--as usual in the United States, there were many people who were deeply committed to Indian welfare and "betterment" (as they saw it) and there were bureaucrats and there were political interests--the last influencing the second, and the latter two having the major say. The reservations now are among some of the poorest places in the United States, but some have mineral resources and water rights. In addition, they are not subject to many federal and state laws because of the treaties specifying that they are "nations" (and the courts have largely backed them up), so they can do things like open casinos and clean up. What they do with the money (socialism) is their business.
To # 1: I think the uniforms look like they belong in Austria-Hungary. Hussars existed only in Hungary. Or maybe I was wrong.
Of course, the Chinese should write about their own traditions of corporal punishment, and not criticize the Tibetans.
You’re not really planning to use that “thing” on me, are you?
You`d better believe it !
Better on you than in you Barb.... depending on which "thing" you're talking about.
Thanks, both of you. I thought this looked familiar, but couldn't quite locate it -- too many repeat pictures in this thread!
I love their solem expresion and body language.
I really like #5 because of the combination of the look of being crucified and the soon to be whipping.
Also the dark complexions and feelings they project contribute well to their soon to be punishment.
Hussars originate in Hungary, but by the late 1700s the flamboyant style had become popular with light cavalry throughout Europe. But the uniforms do like like XIX century Austrians.
