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as stated by the People's Republic of China. Gyancain Norbu is now he�d to be the real Panchen Larna, though the Tibetan Government in Exile know him as the Panchen Zama, literaIly fake Panchen Lama. This is anather exampie of the oppression of Tibet by China. Most of t�e people reading �his essay will ask, "What can we do about this?" The easiest way is ia sirnpIy log on to www.freetibet.or� and find out what you can do far Tihet. Other ways you can help are to ge� petitions signed for restrictions upon China, ta help grve the Tibetans more money, starting rnare raliies for Tibet, and wr�ting letters to high gavernment off�cials about Tibet. One of the inost unfortunate things about Tibet is that countries still seem ta be trading with China in the same way they have for years. No country is forcing trade restrictions upon China beca�se of Tibet, even though they have the right ta force restrictions upon countries that break UN laws. This is prabably because China provides rnost of the world with materials and items. It seems as tho�gh co�ntries have just forgatten abaut the Tibetans. But people should never forget about T'ibet. For Tibet e�np3�asizes the struggle of the underdog in a dog-eat-dog wor�d. Tibet stands �or the idea that ali people are created equal, and they al� have the same basic h�tnan rights as everyone else. If we forget abaut Tibet, then we wili have forgotten the Holocaust, the Civil Righis Mavement, the Belgian Congo, and almost every other human rights movement in the histary of the world; for they al� embody the idea that all men* are created egual, from the day they are bo� to the day they die, from now and to farever: *The word men is used here to symbolize a1I manEcind, not just ma[es. It is used for a rnore powerft.tl expression, not as a sym�ol of bias toward males.