Narrator:
The country on the roof of the world is as big as western Europe, or a quarter of the U.S., but with only six million inhabitants. Since 1960, Beijing has been oppressing Tibet with half a million soldiers, and colonizing it with what are by now eight million chinese settlers.
Narrator:
More than a million Tibetans have been killed. The country has been looted. Tibet's natural resources are plundered and nearly all the big wild animals have been wiped out. Before the Chinese started to build roads one could see great herds of antelopes, wild donkeys, and yaks. Today only a few birds are left.
Narrator 2:
Tibetans do not kill animals just for fun or profit. It would be against their faith. The majority are nomads who live *with* - and not against - Nature.
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