Wait for facts on Tibet - Peters

Wait for facts on Tibet - Peters
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has come out on the side of China over Tibet and says not enough facts are known to make a judgment over who is to blame for turmoil there. Speaking at a news conference in Auckland with Australian counterpart Stephen Smith, he discouraged any form of boycott, either of the whole Olympic Games or its opening ceremony.
Mr Peters took a different view from Prime Minister Helen Clark. Last week she told Parliament the Government was concerned over events in Tibet and called for restraint. Mr Peters said people should not "rush to judgment". "What's not fully known is how much of the events originated in the form of a riot and whether there was personal and physical destruction as the motivation. I prefer to wait and find out the facts."

Oh you are waiting for the facts are you Mr Peters? Funny cause you didn’t care much for the facts when you were railing against Chinese immigrants in Howick or refugees with AIDs, you were pretty keen to whip xenophobic foam up over that, yet when there are legitimate reasons to be angry with China – their enforced immigration clause forced into our Free Trade Deal and their repressive clamp down on Tibet – oh you want to wait for the facts. Okay, here are the facts, Tibetans perceive they are being colonized and breed out by a massive influx of Han Chinese helped in part by that bright flashy new direct train line set up recently and they rebelled from their cultural genocide leading to 130 of them being killed and hundreds more arrested, oh and can the Chinese please also release all the child Dalai Lama’s they kidnapped in an attempt to kill off the Tibetan religion, while we’re asking. Isn’t it funny how much discretion Mr Peters is prepared to give now he has all those baubles to play with.