On August 22, '94, Newsweek printed an article on Deng Xiaoping, entitled, "The Ghosts of 1989" The article opens by stating, "As Deng Xiaoping turns 90, some officials are beginning to think the unthinkable: that the Tiananmen repression was his greatest blunder." Dengs' bloody crackdown in '89 was minor compared to Dengs' responsibility (personally) for the invasion and "Liberation" of Tibet from '49 to '66, under Marshall Liu Po Cheng. The worst atrocities took place in Eastern Tibet from '56 on, and in Central Tibet from '59 after the Dalai Lama escaped to India. Thousands of ancient monasteries had been looted and were occupied by the PLA including the Potala and Norbulinka Palaces from which the personal treasures of the Dalai Lama were stolen; Tibetans were forbidden to enter. On the basis of secret chinese internal report, by '66 upto half a million Tibetans had been murdered by Deng's troops in the SouthWest and by the end of the '66 Cultural Revolution, 1.2 million tibetans had been murdered, or di

ed of starvation or suicide, apart from complete physical destruction of the monasteries in '62 &'63. An internal Chinese report reveals that the orders cautioned that destructions should start slowly beginning in Central Tibet avoiding the border areas which would attract attention from the outside world. These facts have been hidden from the Chinese people and its clear why Deng resisted all reasonale attempts by the Dalai Lama to resolve the issue of Tibet. Deng knows that open dialogue would release a million ghosts from Tibet to haunt him. While Chinese officials are beginning to think the unthinkable about Tiananmen, let those Chinese with a conscience who know the truth of Deng's career in the SouthWest Military Bureau also think the unthinkable and speak out the truth. (EuroTibet News N·2)