Nothing courageous about their protest, since they weren't going to be imprisoned. All they've got for their troubles is a permanent ban from China. They arent going to be much use now because they wont be able to personally monitor the situation nor help the Tibeteans.

SAm, Auckland, New Zealand

I think one thing has been forgetten here, Lucy actually went to Tibet and what she saw drove her to get involved in the campaign for free Tibet.

We are not Chinese, we are Tibetan.

We have nothing against Chinese people, pls leave us alone.

Dechen, London,

Tibet had to enter into unequal treaties with China. The Chinese knows the feeling well: China was occupied by the “Great powers” and forced to hand over Taiwan to Japan and Hong Kong to Britain. The Chinese still remember with great resentment, the brutal occupation by the Japanese in WWII.

kayler, Birmingham,

I admire their courage in speaking out against Peking's treatment of its subject peoples.

robert leQuesne, Melton Mowbray, Leics, England

These people are not brave. What a meaningless demonstration - it achieved absolutely nothing but insult the entire Chinese population at the height of their nationalism, detract from what was supposed to be a non-political event, and embarass the organization they claim to represent.

Jasmine, London,

The important point should be what the Tibet people want- SELF DETERMINATION and not how long China has or has not ruled it.
If Dalai Lama’s following is just a “Clique”, then the Chinese government will have nothing to fear. Let him go back to his Potala palace to be ignored by the Tibetans.

kayler, Birmingham,

More Tibetans live in other Chinese provinces than in Tibet. There are 2m in Tibet. In 59 there were 1m. So according to the Dalai Lamas claims, 1 out of every 3 Tibetans must have been killed since 1959.

This is quite clearly not true.

James NYC is right. The feudal system was brutal.

Mike Gow, Beijing, China

The Chinese feel so strongly that Tibet is part of China. this includes many Tibetans.

China has 56 ethnic groups. All have freedom of religion.

While I admire the passion, these children are brainwashed with liberal ideals. They just do not understand the whole situation in China.

Mike Gow, Beijing, China

as your rules northen ireland should be independent
us should be separate after civil war

wa, wenxi, china

China might be still ruled by the Communist Party, but the government policies are hardly communist these days. For once, you are free to earn as much money as you like. How's that communism? More like capitalism to me.

Alasdair, Shanghai,

Well done by four BRAVE people!

Nate, Yarmouth, USa

Tibet has been part of china since 1271. Tibet was invaded by the british in india in 1908. then tibet became a theocracy and had a feudal system where many tibetans were owned by their lords. Tibet shouldn't be ruled by communism, but
selfdom,feudalism and theocracy are no better.

james, NYC, USA,