India, Aug. 30 -- Records of similar flash floods along the India-Tibet border during the past quarter century exposes the tendency of China to keep neighbours in the dark.

The devastation caused by flash floods in a Tibetan river system in Nepal and India during the last week of August has many dimensions that go far beyond a "natural" tragedy and the helplessness of human society before nature's fury. The way the Chinese government, the colonial ruler of Tibet, handled this tragedy deserves to be viewed against the background of a long chain of similar flash floods along the borders of India and Nepal during the past quarter century. These trends indicate a calculated, criminal and inhuman mindset on China's part, aimed at exploiting t...