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Reports confirm Tibet self-immolation of Monk and his niece
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:13 Yeshe Choesang, The Tibet Post International
Dharamshala: - A high-ranking Tibetan religious figure and his niece, a nun, have died in self-immolation protests against Chinese rule. The Tibet Post International reported about the incident that happened almost a year ago.
The Central Tibetan Administration Wednesday said that reports coming out of Tibet confirmed Tulku Athup alias Thupten Nyendak Rinpoche, 45, and his niece Atse, 23, self-immolated at the former's residence in Dzogchen monastery on 6 April 2012 for the cause of Tibet.
According to the reports, few days before the immolation,Tulku Athup said he would light many butter lamps for all those who have self-immolated for the cause of Tibet. He also asked his students to engage in meritorious activities like saving of animal lives.
On the day of his self-immolation, he told his family on phone: "Today I am ending my life with ease by offering butter lamps for all those Tibetans who have set themselves on fire for the cause of Tibet". Immediately after making the call, he and his niece set themselves on fire.
Chinese police from Dartsedo immediately arrived at Dzogchen monastery. Fearing closure of the monastery, the monastery officials told the police that Tulku Athup and his niece died due to accidental fire in the house rather than self-immolation.
Chinese police then withdrew from the monastery. Since then the authorities have imposed severe restrictions across the region and cracked down on local Tibetans leaving many of them severely injured.
Tulku Athup joined Lhakang Dragkhar monastery in Minyak, Kham at a young age and later studied at Drepung monastery in Lhasa and Kirti monastery in Ngaba.
This incidents has pushed the total number of self-immolations in Tibet to 113 since 2009, 95 of them reportedly passed-away due to burn injuries.
The most common call for the return of the spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet, the preservation of the Tibetan language, and an end to restrictions on freedom of religion. However, many also called for Tibetan independence.
Media ban furthered in Tibet as state satellites imposed
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:51 Alice, Tibet Post International
Dharamshala: Chinese officials continued their crackdown on access to foreign media in Tibet on March 10 through the dismantling of satellite dishes at the Labrang Tashi Kyil monastery in Labrang erea (Gansu province), Amdho region, eastern Tibet.
Observed as the official ‘Uprising Day’, March 10 is the 54th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising in Lhasa, rallies are held worldwide on this day n support of the Tibetan cause.
Monastery administration was ordered to remove and then burn their satellite dishes. They were then told these should be replaced, alongside new receivers, with smaller state sanctioned ones. These new devices only receive state controlled programmes; thereby blocking Tibetans from obtaining international media.
These new receivers are fitted with an automatic recorder and camera which are used as surveillance devices by the Chinese government television control office. If phrases such as “Free Tibet” of “His Holiness the Dalai Lama” are detected on this device then the officials are alerted and sanctions are carried out.
Earlier in January, Chinese authorities confiscated televisions and dismantled satellite equipment from 300 monasteries in the western part of the region. Cash rewards were announced for anyone informing the authorities about Tibetans holding back ‘illegal’ devices. Arrests and fines are imposed on those who are found to have such devices in their possession.
Local Tibetans explained that now that it is illegal for them to watch television or hear radio from the outside world, the only channels available to them are Chinese propaganda ones.
According to the Communist party, who gave a speech in January regarding the matter, this move is part of a government effort to stop Tibetans from viewing and listening to foreign broadcasts. This move was justified by them in saying that the foreign media are responsible for encouraging the security lapses in the recent past.
“Under the guise of combating ‘separatism’ the Chinese government is blatantly violating Tibetans’ rights to the freedom of expression, religion, culture, and movement,” said Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch. “The authorities have a responsibility to uphold public order, but that cannot be used as a blanket justification for the kinds of measures to limit communications that the Chinese authorities are imposing in Tibet.”
Major crackdowns have been implemented on the availability of western media in Tibet since 2008 by the Chinese authorities, for alleged distortion of the Chinese Communist party’s repressive Tibet.
............... qualche giorno fa "Human Right Watch" ha evidenziato come il "piano di sorveglianza" cinese sul Tibet stia procedendo a passo spedito, sia con mezzi tecnologici che con strategie amministrative e sociali. Dopo aver "commissariato" i monasteri, dopo aver militarizzato la Tar (Tibet Autonomous Region) con più di 600 nuove stazioni di polizia, dopo aver disseminato Lhasa di telecamere e varchi presidiati, ora Pechino estende anche al Tibet un livello di controllo sociale capillare attraverso l'introduzione dei "comitati di quartiere"..........................
www.hrw.org/news/2013/03/20/china-a...-security-tibet
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Xi says world needs common development of China, India(Xinhua)14:37, March 28, 20
DURBAN, South Africa, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Wednesday that the world needs the common development of China and India and can provide sufficient room for the two neighbors' development.
Xi made the remarks during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a summit of BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- in the South African port city of Durban.
China and India, as the world's two largest developing nations, have a similar historic mission to boost their social and economic development, Xi said.
Both countries are in an important period of strategic opportunities, he said, adding that China-India relations have broad prospects for development.
China, which regards its ties with India as one of the most important bilateral relationship, commits itself to pushing forward the two countries' strategic cooperative partnership, Xi said.
He called on the two sides to maintain high-level reciprocal visits and contacts, make full use of political dialogues and consultations at various levels to strengthen strategic and political communication.
China and India should broaden exchanges and cooperation between their armed forces and deepen mutual military and security trust, Xi said.
The Chinese president said the two countries, with the help of such cooperative mechanisms as strategic and economic dialogue, should also discuss their cooperation on large-scale infrastructure projects.
Xi also called for enhancing people-to-people exchanges and cooperation, and broadening youth exchanges.
He said the two sides should strengthen coordination and cooperation within the United Nations, BRICS, the G20 and other multilateral groupings, support each other's participation in regional cooperation, and promote peace, stability and development in Asia.
On the border issue, Xi said China and India should improve and make good use of the mechanism of special representatives to strive for a fair, rational solution framework acceptable to both sides as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, he said, the two sides should continue to safeguard peace in their border areas and prevent the issue from affecting bilateral relations.
Singh expressed admiration for China's achievements in development, saying that developing good-neighborly and friendly relations with China and realizing common development along with China is a priority of the country's foreign policy.
India hopes to continue to maintain high-level exchanges, dialogue and communication with China, he added.
He also voiced the hope that the two countries would respect each other's core interests and major concerns, deepen mutual strategic trust, strengthen coordination and cooperation on international affairs, and safeguard peace and stability in the region and the world at large.
Singh said his country, which adheres to an independent foreign policy, will not be used as a tool to contain China, adding that India is willing to make concerted efforts with China to show the world that they are cooperative partners instead of rivals.
India will abide by political guidelines set by both sides and seek a solution to the bilateral border issue from a strategic height with a commitment to safeguard peace in their border areas, he said.
The Indian prime minister said his country recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region is a part of the Chinese territory and that India will not allow Tibetans to conduct political activities against China in India.
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Edited by YESHE - 28/3/2013, 10:13.
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