CTA Website Was Down

[dsnowlion]

This piece made my day ---- it is called KARMA comes back CTA!
I only wished it stayed that way permanently because they are a bunch of crocks. They deserve it for all the anti-shugden campaign they launched and paid corrupt westerners and Tibetans to ensure Shugden people are ostracised and discriminated continuosly.

So imagine the feeling when I saw this? Justice was served for a few minutes… it was one of the happiest moments of my life because it means seizing these bunch of crooks from doing more harm to innocent people. To their own Tibetan people might I add. Here's to 2018 and may CTA go down more and new leaders that care for the people step up and be voted in to unite everyone in harmony again instead of a leadership that guilt trips their own people, ostracized them, and used and abuse funds for their own personal gains!SHAME on CTA.

The troubles just seem to be mounting for the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). For several hours on 8th December 2017 (Friday), the official website of the CTA (Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala, North India) went down and all of its pages were rendered totally inaccessible.

Observers noted that in the time since the website first went down, its status was inconsistent. The outage was first noticed at around 2:10pm (GMT) when it was noted that the layout of the website had been altered, in particular the disappearance of the right column. This is the section of the website that advertises standard information that the CTA finds most significant, including information against the practice of Dorje Shugden. During this time, it was also noted that although the front page looked almost standard (with the exception of the missing right column), none of the links on the website worked. Clicking on any of them would lead to a standard announcement about an error.

Less than an hour later after this initial outage, a maintenance notice appeared on the website, trying to dismiss the technical issues as regularly scheduled maintenance. It should be noted that this announcement has rarely, if ever, been reported before.



Approximately three hours later, it was noted that the entire website’s customizations had disappeared and their layout had reverted to the original WordPress template. There was even a link inviting people to log in to the administrative area of the site, as well as dummy text on their homepage (see video below).

Without any website defacement or any hacking group leaving their tag to claim responsibility for this state of affairs, it seems logical to conclude that the CTA’s website going down is the result of incompetence, “performance deficit” and “dereliction of duty” (as per what they accused Penpa Tsering of). This conclusion is also supported by the fact the website’s status keeps changing. It indicates the technical team is aware there is an error but no one can figure out where the error lies, or how to fix it. Each solution they have attempted to implement has not been successful in resolving the problem.

The irony of this situation, and its karmic links has not gone unnoticed.The CTA has an extensive history of using online platforms to cause division and schism in Tibetan society, and to spread misinformation and lies about people who refuse to toe the party line. For example, they are well known to use social media channels likeWeChat, Facebook and YouTube as platforms for their propaganda against the Kagyus, the Jonangpas as well as their political opponents such as Lukar Jam and rangzen supporters. They have also previously funded anti-Dorje Shugden websites to direct hatred, harm and discrimination towards Shugden practitioners. They have used social media to publicize lists of Dorje Shugden practitioners to falsely label them as ‘anti-Dalai Lama’ and thus identify them as deserving targets of violence.

For the many communities who have been victimized by the Tibetan leadership for the last six decades, the outage of their website offered slight, if any, respite from the abuse they have suffered for decades. For a few hours, the CTA’s instrument of vitriol and hatred, sadly disguised as ‘democracy‘ and ‘freedom of speech‘, was not functioning to spread lies around the world.

Will the CTA learn any lessons from this, or will they continue to abuse the tenets of free speech to oppress those who do not share their same views? Given their track record, it seems highly unlikely this will be a lesson that sticks. But one can always hope as we see more and more instances of a government that is finally having to face the consequences of exploiting the goodwill of the world. It is all the Tibetan people can do, as they start to uncover all of the lies that have been sold to them by their very own leadership for the last 60 years.

Full article here: http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/news/cta-website-was-down/

[Celia]

Considering CTA's history of incompetence, it is hardly surprising for such website screw-up to happen. From the recent mess relating to Samdong Rinpoche on an issue so dear and significant to Tibetans (which is not even a complex issue) to decades of failures and nothing to show for, it really can be said to be an accomplishment for CTA that it didn’t occur much earlier.

Anyway, totally second the notion that “may CTA go down more and new leaders that care for the people step up and be voted in to unite everyone in harmony again instead of a leadership that guilt trips their own people, ostracized them, and used and abuse funds for their own personal gains!”

With more and more vocally speaking out against CTA’s atrocities, even within Tibetans themselves, such as Mr Dhamchoe Nyima ( http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/news/brave-mr-dhamchoe-nyima-is-tired-of-tibetan-government-in-dharamsala/ ) 2018 could be very promising to Tibetans.

[michaela]

Dhardon Sharling should be responsible for the CTA website mess. If Lobsang Sangay or anyone within the Tibetan leadership think that their website is important enough and it represents their names and reputation, why nothing was being done to implement the sanction upon the very person who are responsible for the website?

[dsnowlion]

Dhardon Sharling should be responsible for the CTA website mess. If Lobsang Sangay or anyone within the Tibetan leadership think that their website is important enough and it represents their names and reputation, why nothing was being done to implement the sanction upon the very person who are responsible for the website?

Oh yeah... she is responsible, she should be... she was brought in to handle that part wasn't she? Here in Tibet Sun it says... "Sikyong Lobsang Sangay has appointed Dhardon Sharling as the new Information Secretary of the Central Tibetan Administration." Well Ms Dhardon what happened??? Why didn't Sangay fire you due to your incompetency like how he did with Penpa?

[Celia]

Dhardon Sharling should be responsible for the CTA website mess. If Lobsang Sangay or anyone within the Tibetan leadership think that their website is important enough and it represents their names and reputation, why nothing was being done to implement the sanction upon the very person who are responsible for the website?

Oh yeah... she is responsible, she should be... she was brought in to handle that part wasn't she? Here in Tibet Sun it says... "Sikyong Lobsang Sangay has appointed Dhardon Sharling as the new Information Secretary of the Central Tibetan Administration." Well Ms Dhardon what happened??? Why didn't Sangay fire you due to your incompetency like how he did with Penpa?

Well, it wouldn't be the first time that CTA is selective as to who to punish or otherwise. It all boils down to who is in power and whether one is in their good books at that point in time.

[Pema8]

Anyway what is there to see on this page? Lies and failure!!

Who wants to read about your failures and lies!! This website has no purpose as the Tibetans are still refugees, the Tibetans self-immolate, the Tibetans have lost it because of this CTA!!

Why having this website anyway as there is no achievements for the Tibetans??

Have you seen the latest?? Everybody is loosing trust in the CTA! Read here: http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/news/brave-mr-dhamchoe-nyima-is-tired-of-tibetan-government-in-dharamsala/

[Belinda Mae]

Why is CTA taking down their website? Feeling bad for saying the bad things about Dorje Shugden? I guess karma is catching up on them. Whatever sufferings that they impose to others is coming back to them now.

[Richardlaktam]

LOL, too many misleading information in the web site. It should be taken down forever indeed! What is it to show in the web site where it's all lies for 60 years? Still dare to put "Restoring freedom for Tibetan" in the header. This obviously shows that they, who lead by Lobsang Sangay, is going against Dalai Lama's middle way! This web site deserve to be hacked. It should be shut down permanently.