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15 days without food, hunger strikers soldier on
Phayul[Tuesday, September 18, 2012 14:40]
DHARAMSHALA, September 18: The three Tibetan indefinite hunger strikers entered their 15th day of fasting yesterday in New Delhi appealing for an end to the ongoing crisis inside Tibet.
With their health showing significant signs of deterioration, the Delhi Police brought Medical Officers to conduct their first official medical check up on the hunger strikers. The officers expressed concern over their health and recommended immediate medical treatment. However, the three refused any medical help and vowed to carry on their hunger strike
Dhondup Lhadar, vice-president of Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile has already lost 9kgs while Organisational Secretary Penpa Tsering has lost 8kgs and Cultural Secretary Jigme Sholpa has lost 9kgs.
The TYC hunger strike tent at the Jantar Mantar has now become a rallying point for Tibetan activities in the capital.
Yesterday, TYC Joint-Secretary Tenzing Norsang and Social Services Secretary Yeshi Therchein visited the Embassy of Switzerland and met Martin Strub, Minister and Deputy Head of Mission.
Strub was presented with photos, videos, and chronological evidence of the critical situation inside Tibet, heralded by the self-immolation of 51 Tibetans in Tibet calling for freedom and the Dalai Lama’s return.
Through the Embassy, TYC requested the government of Switzerland to raise the issue of Tibet at the 21st session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations taking place in Geneva.
Strub appreciated the evidence presented by TYC representatives in the face of China’s misinformation and propaganda, and assured that Switzerland will “definitely do its best” to highlight the issue of Tibet.
TYC said it plans to visit embassies of different countries in the coming days and seek to hold discussions with their representatives, appealing for their support in raising Tibet at the UN meeting.
Representatives of numerous Indian Tibet support groups also visited the hunger strikers and expressed support and solidarity with TYC and their three fasting leaders.
In a joint press release, the Indian groups appealed to the UN and the European Union to “fulfill their promises of raising the issue of the ongoing spate of self immolations inside Tibet with the Chinese government and to send independent fact finding delegations to Tibet.”
They also called upon the government of India to use its influence on the Chinese leaders to “ease the suffocating inhuman conditions inside Tibet which have lead the Tibetan youths to the extreme desperation of self immolation.”
They further expressed serious concerns over the lack of political and moral courage among world bodies like the UN and the EU as well as governments across the world, who they said are “shying away from their responsibilities of asking the Chinese government to stop its inhuman treatment of its Tibetan colonial subjects.”
TYC earlier submitted a memorandum to EU, appealing the body to take “long-due concrete actions” in order to improve the plight of the Tibetans inside Tibet, as per the assurances and promises they had made during the TYC Indefinite Hunger Strike in April, 2011.
Tibetan activists joined TYC President Tsewang Rigzin and Norsang in marching to the Delegation Office of European Union in New Delhi, carrying traditional Tibetan khataks and flowers.
The TYC delegation met Ed Marshall, Political Representative of the EU in India and held “in depth discussions” on the worsening situation inside Tibet. They also urged EU to fulfill their promises on Tibet, made during the earlier TYC indefinite hunger strike.
Marshall assured the TYC representatives of EU’s continued support to the Tibetan cause and said that he will be submitting the memorandum to EU President Martin Suhulz.
Tibet crisis raised at UN rights session in Geneva
Phayul[Wednesday, September 19, 2012 03:51]
DHARAMSHALA, September 19: The critical situation inside Tibet has received attention at the ongoing 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (September 10-28) in Geneva at the behest of numerous countries and the European Union.
Country representatives and NGOs brought to the Council’s notice the issue of Tibet, where 51 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, protesting China’s continued occupation and demanding freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
Speaking on behalf of EU, Cyprus said EU remains “seriously concerned” about ongoing reports of human rights violations in China, particularly with regard to freedom of expression and freedom of religion and belief, and the situation of minorities, including in Tibet and Xinjiang.
“The EU continues to discuss these concerns with the Chinese leadership at multiple levels and through various channels.”
The US accused China of silencing dissent through arrests, convictions, forced disappearances, and extralegal detentions and said government policies “undermine the linguistic, religious, cultural, and livelihood traditions of its minorities.”
In August, two senior US Congress men, James P McGovern and Frank R Wolf, in a letter to Secretary Hillary Clinton had “strongly urged” the US to “work with partner nations and establish a contact group on Tibet to carry out strong, visible public diplomacy on this human rights crisis.”
The two had suggested that the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting in September offered an “opportunity to take steps towards forming such a contact group.”
The Czech Republic expressed its “deep concern” over the deterioration of situation in Tibetan-inhabited areas where “increasing restrictions on religious freedom have led to a series of self-immolation cases.”
“A number of Tibetan intellectuals and cultural figures have been recently imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of expression, such as Mr Yonten Gyatso, who was reportedly sentenced over sending information to the Human Rights Council.”
Similar concerns over China’s failing human rights record were raised by Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany.
Speaking on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples during the debate, Tenzin Samphel Kayta said China “must uphold its international obligation by protecting human rights of all citizens including Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians of their religious freedom or belief, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, right to enjoy their own culture and use of their own language.”
Two written statements on Tibetan children’s right to education and denial of freedom of opinion, expression and information were submitted by two NGOs to this Council.
The three Tibetan hunger strikers in New Delhi have been pushing numerous countries as well international bodies like the UN and EU, over the past 17 days of their indefinite fast, to raise the issue of Tibet at the UN meetings and in their dealings with China.
INCERTO IL FUTURO DI UN TIBETANO GUARITO DALLE USTIONI RIPORTATE LO SCORSO ANNO DOPO ESSERSI DATO ALLE FIAMME
Dharamsala, 17 settembre 2012. Dawa Tsering, il monaco del monastero di Kardze che si era auto immolato il 25 ottobre 2011 è guarito dalle gravi ustioni riportate. Il Centro Tibetano per i Diritti Umani e la Democrazia ha reso noto in un comunicato rilasciato in data odierna che le sue condizioni sono buone e che Dawa “desidera far ritorno al suo monastero”. “Tuttavia il suo futuro è incerto” – prosegue il documento – “in quanto al monaco potrebbe non essere consentito di rientrare al monastero, anzi, potrebbe essere arrestato in qualsiasi momento”.
Dawa Tsering si era auto immolato all’interno del monastero, nel corso di una cerimonia religiosa. Avvolto dalle fiamme, aveva gridato slogan a favore del ritorno del Dalai Lama e della riunificazione del popolo tibetano. Rifiutate le cure mediche ospedaliere, è stato curato a Kardze dai suoi famigliari. La recente fotografia di Dawa, distribuita dal TCHRD, mostra chiaramente le cicatrici provocate dalle ustioni sul volto del monaco.
Shonu, un monaco del monastero di Drakgo (Contea di Dragko – Tibet orientale) arrestato nel febbraio 2012 con altri quattro membri dello stesso monastero, è stato condannato lo scorso mese di giugno a diciotto mesi di detenzione da scontare nella prigione di Mianyang, nella provincia del Sichuan. Ne da notizia il Centro Tibetano per i Diritti Umani e la Democrazia. Non si conoscono le motivazioni della sentenza. Non si conosce invece la sorte di un altro religioso, Tsering Gyaltsen, picchiato e arrestato il 9 febbraio 2012. Da quel giorno non si hanno sue notizie e si teme per la sua vita. Sono, infatti, numerosi i tibetani arrestati o “scomparsi” dopo le manifestazioni avvenute a Dragko e nella Contea di Ngaba il 23 e 24 gennaio 2012. Le proteste furono represse con la forza dalla polizia cinese che sparò sulla folla uccidendo almeno sei tibetani e ferendone trentasei.
Fonti: Phayul – The Tibet Post International
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Police forcibly removes Tibetan hunger strikers
Phayul[Saturday, September 22, 2012 20:17]
DHARAMSHALA, September 22: Indian authorities have forcibly removed the three Tibetan hunger strikers in New Delhi and taken them to a hospital after all three of them showed major signs of deterioration in their health.
The three executive members of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile, were today carried away against their wishes at around 12 noon by a large contingent of Delhi police.
Dhondup Lhadar, vice-president, Penpa Tsering, organisational secretary, and Jigme Sholpa, cultural secretary were in the 20th day of their indefinite fast in “solidarity with the self-immolators inside Tibet and to appeal for immediate international intervention” in the unfolding crisis inside Tibet.
“All three of them held on to whatever they could while resisting their forced removal,” Tenzin Norsang, TYC joint secretary, who was present at the protest site said. “Volunteers and activists around them could do little as there was an overwhelming police presence.”
The three were taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, the same hospital where Jamphel Yeshi, the 27-year-old Tibetan, who self-immolated in protest against China’s occupation of Tibet on March 26, was admitted.
The forced removal came after yet another official medical check-up this morning confirmed imminent danger to the health of the hunger strikers. All three have lost over 10 kgs since they began their campaign.
“Soon after the hunger strikers were forcibly taken away, the police also ordered the removal of the hunger strike tent from Jantar Mantar,” Norsang added.
The indefinite hunger strike had come under unusual pressure the very day it began on September 3 when the hunger strikers were detained later that day citing security reasons due to the presence of a visiting Chinese dignitary in the Indian capital. The three were released on September 6, following which they again resumed their indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar.
On September 18, the Delhi police issued a termination notice to the three TYC executives, after conducting medical check-ups for two consecutive days.
Medical officials had then expressed particular concern over the health of Dhondup Lhadar, who had lost 9kgs and referred him to immediate medical attention. Last year, Lhadar had taken part in a TYC hunger strike, going without food for 25 days and had since not fully recovered.
Norsang told reporters that TYC will continue with its planned activities in the coming days, including meeting with embassy officials.
With the hunger strike, TYC has been appealing the EU, UN, governments and NGOs to immediately fulfil the promises made by them during earlier TYC hunger strikes through a multilateral approach and also demanding China to grant immediate access to governments, international organisations and the media to travel in Tibet in order to understand the aspiration of Tibetans inside Tibet.
TYC Organizational Secretary Dragged Into Medical Custody By Indian Police
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Delhi Police Forcibly Take Away the three Hunger Strikers to RML Hospital and Forcibly Terminates the Indefinite Hunger Strike on its 20th Day
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In Medical Custody & Forcibly Injected
We need your help urgently, if you live in the US Canada Spain, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, Australia Germany, France, Sweden or the UK please email the Indian Commission in your country to demand Delhi Police show full respect to the arrested Tibetan Hunger-Strikers (detained September 22 and forcibly medicated) and to allow them to continue their action.
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CTA releases documentary film 'The Burning Question'
Phayul[Monday, September 24, 2012 23:39]
DHARAMSHALA, September 24: The Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration today released a documentary film aimed at highlighting the critical situation inside Tibet heralded by the series of self-immolations that has engulfed the region.
The 30-minute long film, “The Burning Question: Why are Tibetans Turning to Self-immolation?” depicts the background and the underlying causes of the self-immolations.
51 Tibetans in Tibet have set themselves in fire since 2009 demanding freedom and the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
Speaking to the press at the release, Tashi Phuntsok, additional secretary of DIIR said the film was part of CTA’s constant effort in reporting on the facts and the underlying causes of the self-immolations.
“We request to use the film as much as possible so that it can reach a large audience - nationally and internationally,” Phuntsok said.
“The Tibetans who have set themselves on fire deserve all the attention of the world and world leaders.”
Five Hundred copies of the film in English have been released. DIIR said the documentary will be very soon released in both Tibetan and Chinese languages.
Tibet’s elected leader, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay recently expressed disappointment at the global response to the ongoing crisis inside Tibet and said that the wave of fiery protests inside Tibet were a reflection of Chinese government policies.
Calling the self-immolations “political action” Dr Sangay has blamed China’s failed policies in Tibet - founded on “political oppression, social marginalisation, cultural assimilation and environmental destruction” - as root causes of the protests.
“The fact that these Tibetans are going to such lengths of protest means the [promised Chinese] ‘socialist paradise’ never touched the land of Tibet – the welfare and education policies they always write on paper were never realised,” the de facto Tibetan prime minister had said.
“The responsibility for the tragic self-immolations of Tibetans lies entirely with the Chinese government and so does the solution.”
A special report by the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China released last month on the self-immolations inside Tibet listed multiple political, social, and environmental factors, including the “deteriorating outlook” for Tibetan culture, language, and environment as causes behind the ongoing crisis.
The report noted that the “steepening decline” in the status of religious freedom; the ongoing security crackdowns and enforced “education” campaigns; and the “lack of hope” of China engaging in substantive discussions with the Dalai Lama’s envoys are factors leading to the rise of self-immolations inside Tibet.
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