Wikileaks releases Chinese-censored videos and photos of the Tibet uprising

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The bloggers call the Chinese internet censorship regime “the Great Firewall of China” because of China’s blocking of YouTube, BBC, CNN, the Guardian, Google News or any site carrying information about Tibet's uprising. Wikileaks.org instead wants to break through this firewall and release the pictures and videos of the uprising.

Wikileaks has provided all the photos and videos that are available to them and has posted them in two easily available archives. Users can copy, place them on website, email them as attachments or upload them to peer-to-peer networks for sharing. You can access the photos here and the videos here that provides the true picture of the uprising in Tibet.

Wikileaks gave the following reasons for releasing the pictures and the videos:

Censorship, like communism, seems like a reasonable enough idea to begin with. While 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his need' sounds unarguable, the world has learned that these words call forth a power elite to administer them with coercive force…history shows that censorship also requires an anointed class to define this "need" and to make violence against those who continue talking. Such power is quickly corrupted.

The first ingredient of civil society is the people's right to know, because without such understanding no human being can meaningfully choose to support anything, let alone a political party.

If China is doing the right thing in Tibet, then it shouldn’t hide under a mass cover-up.

Wikileaks cite the U.S. Bill of Rights creators who have said it clearly in the First Amendment that the United States Congress cannot create laws that infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to assemble peaceably, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Wikileaks wants China to follow the same and requests others to join forces to protect the freedoms of every nation.

China will ban Wikileaks also, but it can’t ban the truth forever. The Dalai Lama explained how China blamed him for the violence in Tibet when he told the International Herald Tribune:

Deer really can fight the tiger? Can express. But actual fight? Our only weapon, only strength is justice, truth. But effect of truth, justice sometimes takes longer time. Weapons power is immediately there.

The photos and videos available at Wikileaks are not graphic in nature but show the reality in Tibet. If you are in China, you can use this site to watch any banned site in China.