Monges em Lhasa

Subsistem preocupações relativamente ao bem-estar e segurança do grupo de monges que ontem se manifestou, frente aos jornalistas, no templo Jokhang da capital Tibetana.

Oficiais Chineses asseguraram que os monges não seriam punidos pelo acto, no entanto os três maiores mosterios da capital - Ganden, Sera e Drepung - estão neste momento inacessíveis aos jornalistas, apesar de estes terem realizado pedido de visita aos mesmos.

O templo Ramoche também foi encererado ao grupo da imprensa e fontes relatam que a água foi cortada nos três maiores mosteiros e a comida escasseia. Chamamos a atenção para o facto de um monge do templo de Ramoche ter já falecido devido a tais condições.

Os cidadãos locais não estão autorizados a fornecerem comida aos monges nos mosteiros.

As detenções de Tibetanos em Lhasa continuam e tememos pela situação os detidos.

"..monks who tried to leave Sera were forced to go back after they had guns pointed to their heads. Further reports reached ICT over the past few days of mass arrests of Tibetans in Lhasa, including in particular Tibetans from the Kham and Amdo areas of Tibet; Tibetans known to have studied in exile in India, base of the Dalai Lama, and former political prisoners. Some sources said that during house to house searches, Tibetans had been taken away at gunpoint. In scenes reminiscent to some observers of the Cultural Revolution, officials are searching for images of the Dalai Lama as well as taking Tibetans away. One source close to the monastic community in Lhasa expressed their fears for Tibetans in custody, saying that they had been told by two Tibetans released from temporary detention that Tibetans in custody were “beaten terribly”, and that none had enough water or food.As the crackdown continues, other sources have reported seeing large numbers of Tibetans being herded into trucks, and in one instance, forced to board a train from Lhasa station and removed from the city. A Tibetan source, who is in exile but in close contact with Tibetans inside, reported hearing from an eyewitness that a group of several hundred Tibetans, escorted by armed security personnel, had boarded a train at Lhasa’s new railway station. The source told ICT, “The eyewitness reported seeing large numbers of monks in the group, and said that many were not wearing shoes. The reports of the removal of prisoners from Lhasa are chilling for many older Tibetans, who remember the purges after 1959 and beyond when so many Tibetans were taken to labor camps and prisons in Gansu and Qinghai. Some of them were never heard of again. There are many families now in the situation of not knowing where their relatives are, or how long they will be in prison.”

“Often Tibetans are taken away in the middle of the night,” the source told ICT after leaving Lhasa. “They are definitely taking people who they know have studied in India, including those who learnt English at exile schools. I saw truckloads of Tibetans being taken away. Friends watched guns being held to the head of Tibetans who were taken into custody.”

There is evidence that the authorities are also attempting to prevent Tibetans expressing their views in the West through intimidation of their families in Tibet. According to a reliable report from a Tibetan exile, families in some areas of the Tibetan region of Amdo who have relatives and children living in exile have been warned in recent days that they will face repercussions if these Tibetans participate in peaceful demonstrations outside China.

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INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF CONCERNED TIBETAN STUDIES SCHOLARS SUBMITS AN OPEN LETTER TO CHINESE PRESIDENT HU JINTAO

A STATEMENT BY CONCERNED TIBETAN STUDIES SCHOLARS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS IN TIBET ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT HU JINTAO AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

President Hu Jintao
People's Republic of China
Zhongnanhai, Xichengqu,
Beijing City
People's Republic of ChinaDear Mr. President,

Over the course of the last two weeks the world has witnessed an outbreak of protests across the Tibetan plateau, followed in most instances by a harsh, violent repression. In the majority of cases these protests have been peaceful. The result has been an unknown number of arrests and the loss of numerous lives, which have been overwhelmingly Tibetan. This has understandably triggered widespread concern and anguish across the globe.

As scholars engaged in Tibetan Studies, we are especially disturbed by what has been happening. The civilization we study is not simply a subject of academic enquiry: it is the heritage and fabric of a living people and one of the world's great cultural legacies. We express our deep sorrow at the horrible deaths of the innocent, including Chinese as well as Tibetans. Life has been altered for the worse in places with which we are well acquainted; tragedy has entered the lives of a people we know well.

At the time this statement is being written, continued arrests and shootings are being reported even of those involved in peaceful protest, the accused are being subjected to summary justice without due process and basic rights, and countless others are being forced to repeat political slogans and denunciations of their religious leader.Silence in the face of what is happening in Tibet is no longer an option.

At this moment the suppression of political dissent appears to be the primary goal of authorities across all the Tibetan areas within China, which have been isolated from the rest of China and the outside world. But such actions will not eliminate the underlying sense of grievance to which Tibetans are giving voice. As scholars we have a vested interest in freedom of expression. The violation of that basic freedom and the criminalization of those sentiments that the Chinese government finds difficult to hear are counterproductive. They will contribute to instability and tension, not lessen them. It cannot be that the problem lies in the refusal of Tibetans to live within restrictions on speech and expression that none of us would accept in our own lives. It is not a question of what Tibetans are saying: it is a question of how they are being heard and answered.

The attribution of the current unrest to the Dalai Lama represents a reluctance on the part of the Chinese government to acknowledge and engage with policy failures that are surely the true cause of popular discontent. The government's continuing demonization of the Dalai Lama, which falls far below any standard of discourse accepted by the international community, serves only to fuel Tibetan anger and alienation. A situation has been created which can only meet with the strongest protest from those of us who have dedicated our professional lives to understanding Tibet's past and its present; its culture and its society. Indeed, the situation has generated widespread shock among peoples inside and outside China as well, and we write in full sympathy with the twelve-point petition submitted by a group of Chinese writers and intellectuals on 22 March.

Therefore, we call for an immediate end to the use of force against Tibetans within China. We call for an end to the suppression of Tibetan opinion, whatever form that suppression takes. And we call for the clear recognition that Tibetans, together with all citizens of China, are entitled to the full rights to free speech and expression guaranteed by international agreements and accepted human rights norms.

Jean-Luc Achard (Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Agata Bareja-Starzyńska (Warsaw University)
Robert Barnett (Columbia University)
Christopher Beckwith (Indiana University)
Yael Bentor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Henk Blezer (Leiden University)
Anne-Marie Blondeau (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
Benjamin Bogin (Georgetown University)
Jens Braarvig (University of Oslo)
Katia Buffetrille (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
José Ignacio Cabezón (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Cathy Cantwell (University of Oxford)
Bryan J. Cuevas (Florida State University)
Jacob Dalton (Yale University)
Ronald Davidson (Fairfield University)
Karl Debreczeny (Independent Scholar)
Andreas Doctor (Kathmandu University)
Thierry Dodin (Bonn University)
Brandon Dotson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Georges Dreyfus (Williams College)
Douglas S. Duckworth (University of North Carolina)
John Dunne (Emory University)
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Elena De Rossi Filibeck (University of Rome)
Carla Gianotti (Independent Scholar)
Maria Gruber (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
Janet Gyatso (Harvard University)
Paul Harrison (Stanford University)
Lauran Hartley (Columbia University)
Mireille Helffer (Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy (Université Laval, Québec)
Toni Huber (Humboldt University , Berlin)
Ishihama Yumiko (Waseda University)
David Jackson (Rubin Museum of Art, New York)
Sarah Jacoby (Columbia University)
Marc des Jardins (Concordia University)
Matthew T. Kapstein (University of Chicago; École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
György Kara (Indiana University)
Samten Karmay (Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
P. Christiaan Klieger (Oakland Museum, California)
Deborah Klimburg-Salter (University of Vienna)
Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University)
Per Kvaerne (University of Oslo)
Erberto Lo Bue (University of Bologna)
Donald Lopez (University of Michigan)
Christian Luczanits (University of Vienna)
Sara McClintock (Emory University)
Carole McGranahan (University of Colorado)
Ariane Macdonald-Spanien (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
William Magee (Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan)
Lara Maconi (Institut Nationale des Langues et Civilizations Orientales, Paris)
Dan Martin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Rob Mayer (University of Oxford)
Fernand Meyer (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
Eric D. Mortensen (Guilford College)
Paul Nietupski (John Carroll University)
Giacomella Orofino (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale)
Ulrich Pagel (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Andrew Quintman (Princeton University)
Françoise Robin (Institut Nationale des Langues et Civilizations Orientales, Paris)
Ulrike Roesler (University of Freiburg)
Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University)
Kurtis Schaeffer (University of Virginia)
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (University of Lausanne)
Peter Schwieger (Bonn University)
Tsering Shakya (University of British Columbia)
Nicolas Sihle (University of Virginia)
Elliot Sperling (Indiana University)
Heather Stoddard (Institut Nationale des Langues et Civilizations Orientales, Paris)
Robert Thurman (Columbia University)
Takeuchi Tsuguhito (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Gray Tuttle (Columbia University)
Emily Yeh (University of Colorado)
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (University College, London)
Michael Zimmermann (University of Hamburg)

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Protesto durante tour de jornalistas

A tour Chinesa aos jornalistas internacionais foi surpreendida, esta quinta-feira em Lhasa, por um protesto de monges Budistas no principal templo da capital.

Pequim convidou cerca de 24 jornalistas estrangeiros a visitarem Lhasa, a capital Tibetana, de modo a mostrar que a cidade se encontra em paz, após as manifestações ocorridas.

A tour marcou o início da entrada de jornalistas no Tibete após as manifestações ocorridas há cerca de 2 semanas.

No entanto o protesto que eclodiu por parte de cerca de 30 monges Tibetanos mostrou-nos que nem tudo está calmo em Lhasa...

"Tibet is not free! Tibet is not free!" gritou um jovem monge Budista, de acordo com jornalista da The Associated Press, presente no tour.

“In Tibet, where the free expression of political views is met with incarceration and torture, these monks risked everything to show the world that Tibet is not free."

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DIA DE ACÇÃO GLOBAL PELO TIBETE !

PROTESTOS MUNDIAIS ORGANIZADOS POR

OCASIÃO DA CHEGADA DA

TOCHA OLÍMPICA A PEQUIM

31 DE MARÇO DE 2008

TIBETANOS E APOIANTES "NÃO QUEREM A TOCHA NO TIBETE"

Lisboa - Protestos, vigílias e cerimónias de oração pelo Tibete terão lugar em todo o mundo, no dia 31 de Março, quando a Tocha Olímpica chegar a Pequim, de modo a focar a atenção no sofrimento do povo Tibetano, na sequência da recente repressão Chinesa. Tibetanos no exílio e apoiantes do Tibete apelam à retirada das áreas Tibetanas do percurso da Tocha Olímpica, afirmando que celebrar a Tocha Olímpica Chinesa e a sua respectiva "Viagem de Harmonia" no Tibete, enquanto o povo Tibetano é esmagado pelas forças militares Chinesas, é uma abominação que deve cessar.

Apoiantes do Tibete em Lisboa participarão no

Dia Global de Acção pelo Tibete !

Data: 31 Março 2008

Hora: 19 horas

Local: Comité Olímpico de Portugal

Travessa da Memoria, 36 - Ajuda

1300-403 Lisboa

Mais de 150 organizações de apoio ao Tibete apelaram ao Presidente do Comité Olímpico Internacional, mediante carta enviada há duas semanas, solicitando o cancelamento da passagem da Tocha Olímpica por áreas Tibetanas. As organizações enviaram também cartas aos patrocinadores do percurso da Tocha - Coca Cola, Lenovo e Samsung - apelando à retirada do patrocínio, até o Tibete deixar de constar no percurso da Tocha, e apelará agora aos Comités Olímpicos Nacionais de modo a que apoiem este apelo.

Por favor e caso possam: tragam muitas velas, flores, t-shirts alusivas, cartazes, bandeiras Tibetanas. Uma amiga lançou a sugestão de cada pessoa trazer uma braçadeira branca, à semelhança do "lenço branco por Timor" ! Ou mesmo de andarmos com a bandeira Tibetana, em crachá ou autocolante, visível no nosso dia-a-dia. Porque não à janela!

Caso necessitem de algum auxílio na obtenção de imagens, ou desejem adquirir bandeiras p.f. não hesitem em contactar-nos.

Obrigada e até 2ªfeira !!!

Saudações

Grupo de Apoio ao Tibete

EU parliament offers platform to Dalai Lama

The head of the European Parliament invited the Dalai Lama on Wednesday to address the EU legislature on events in Tibet and questioned whether European leaders should attend the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Opening an emergency debate on events in Tibet, Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering said to applause: "I put it to this house to join with me in saying that the Dalai Lama is welcome in this house whenever he wants to come."He urged the Chinese authorities to seek a solution to the unrest through dialogue with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, respecting China's territorial integrity.

"I genuinely say that all politicians must ask themselves whether they can attend the opening ceremony if China fails to take part in dialogue," Poettering said, adding he expected the Dalai Lama to attend the EU assembly in December. He read out a message from the Dalai Lama, accused by China of inciting pro-independence protests and violence, thanking the European Parliament "for this gesture of sympathy and support at a time of great difficulty for the people of Tibet"

The EU's Slovenian presidency and the European Commission rejected calls to shun the Beijing Games. Slovenian Secretary of State for European Affairs Janez Lenarcic told the house: "The Presidency believes that a boycott of the Olympics in the year of intercultural dialogue would not be the right response to open political issues. It might also mean a loss of an opportunity to promote human rights."He and EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner urged China to exercise restraint in Tibet, release prisoners arrested during the protests, respect human rights and allow journalists to report in the province freely.

BOYCOTT CALLS

China says the Tibetan protests have led to 19 deaths. The Tibetan government in exile says more than 140 people have died.

On Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy refused to rule out boycotting the opening ceremony of the games.

Several EU lawmakers called for a boycott of the Olympics or at least of the opening ceremony. Several Greens, liberals and leftists brandished Tibetan flags in the chamber and some wore black T-shirts emblazoned with the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs.

Greens floor leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leader of leftist student protests in France in May 1968, compared the Beijing Games with the 1936 Berlin Olympics staged by Nazi Germany."The EU must altogether refuse to attend the opening ceremony, because it is a political act," he told the house.

British Conservative Edward McMillan-Scott accused China of committing genocide in Tibet and said that for politicians of principle, it was no long a question of "whether a boycott of the Olympics but what sort of boycott"."The Olympic flame may have been lit last weekend, but the Olympic spirit was killed in the streets of Tibet. It was killed by the most repressive regime on earth," he declared.

The speaker of the Himalayan region's parliament in exile said earlier in Brussels that the Olympics should go ahead despite China's clampdown on protestors in Tibet."But we must use the Olympics to force China to conform with international rules," Karma Chophel told a news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels. Tibet's parliament in exile is based in Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama heads a government in exile established after a failed uprising against communist rule in 1959. Chophel -- the elected leader of the Tibetan parliament -- is a close ally of the Dalai Lama, who has also previously backed China's hosting of the games."We believe the killings could be 10 times more than confirmed killings. About 400 people have been arrested and over 1000 injured, but this is only rough information.," Chophel said.

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Um boicote à cerimónia de abertura dos Jogos Olímpicos em Pequim, é uma questão ainda em aberto na Austria, Bélgica, Grã-Bretanha e França, encontrando-se dependente da forma como a China responderá à situação no Tibete.

O Presidente Françês Nicolas Sarkozy deixou "em aberto a opção" de boicote à cerimónia, a Alemanha congelou as conversações sobre desenvolvimento económico com a China e o secretário dos Negócios Estrangeiros britânico, David Miliband, afirmou que as demonstrações Tibetanas serão autorizadas quando a tocha Olímpica atravessar Londres, a 6 de Abril.

Amanhã, sexta-feira, os ministros dos Negócios Estrangeiros Europeus adoptarão, na Eslovénia, uma posição comum relativamente às suas relações com Pequim e "ao sofrimento no Tibete", conforme referiu o Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros Françês Bernard Kouchner.

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Manifestação Tibetana frente ao consulado Chinês em Kathmandu

Mais de cem Tibetanos protestaram frente ao consulado Chinês em Hattisar, contra a contínua repressão Chinesa no Tibete.

Os Tibetanos têm vindo a realizar manifestações desde 10 de Março no Nepal, no entanto foi a primeira vez que se concentraram frente ao consulado Chinês. O protesto não teve longa duração na medida em que a polícia rapidamente dispersou os manifestantes à força, o que levou a que a maioria sofresse ferimentos, tendo três manifestantes ficado severamente feridos. Cerca de 71 manifestantes, incluíndo monges e monjas foram detidos.

Um Tibetano residente em Swayambhu informou que a polícia Nepalesa avisou os residentes da área, de que não deveriam realizar mais demonstrações, e caso o fizessem seriam severamente punidos.

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Former Advisor to Party General Secretary Claims Regime Staged Lhasa Incident

The violent riots that the Chinese state-run media have reported as having taken place in Lhasa are not what they seem to be, according to a former highly placed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official. Mr. Ruan Ming claims the CCP carefully staged the incidents in Tibet in order to force the Dalai Lama to resign and to justify future repression of the Tibetans.

Since 1997 Ruan has lived in Taiwan, where he has served as a diplomatic advisor to President Chen Shui-bian. He is also the author, among other books, of Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire. Earlier in his life, he worked as the main speechwriter for Mr. Hu Yaobang, who served as General Secretary of the CCP from 1981-1987 and was admired by democracy activists as a reformer. Hu's death in 1989 is said to have sparked the student demonstrations in Beijing of that year.

In an interview with Sound of Hope, Ruan warned international society that in considering the unrest in Lhasa, it must keep its eyes open and be aware of the CCP's violent and deceptive nature. At the heart of the deception in Lhasa was the murder of peaceful monks."The CCP carefully staged the unrest in Tibet to deceive the world. Before the incident, the authorities drove away all foreign reporters and even forbade them from going out," according to Ruan."The demonstration on March 10 was meant to be peaceful. You can see from the pictures that the demonstration was all monks," Ruan explained."The CCP arrested some of these monks and killed them. The killing angered some young Tibetans.

By March 14, the Tibetans could no longer stand the killing of innocent monks and protested."According to Ruan, when the young Tibetans reacted, they fell into the CCP's trap."The CCP seized this opportunity and took pictures of these Tibetans in violent actions and sent out officers to do a door-to-door search, calling on the 'guilty' to surrender themselves.

"While Ruan said the CCP meticulously staged the whole thing in Lhasa, there were things it missed."All pictures from inside Lhasa came from the CCP, but the CCP forgot about the small Tibetan autonomous counties in Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan Provinces. The CCP couldn't have imagined pictures of its killing would leak out from these small villages."Ruan believes the events in Tibet are aimed at influencing world opinion."This time the CCP has a more thorough plot with carefully designed propaganda," said Ruan."The Dalai Lama has always proposed a peaceful solution to Tibet issues and has won the world's recognition. With all that in mind, the CCP has framed the Dalai Lama for having 'carefully planned and stirred up the event.'"This is exactly like how the CCP framed Zhao Ziyang for the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989 and accused Zhao of 'splitting the Party and supporting unrest.'

"The Dalai Lama had already said he would resign if the unrest continued. The Dalai Lama is influential globally and if he really retired, the CCP could gradually push and label the Tibetans as terrorists like the Xinjiang independence movement."This will give the CCP an excuse to ignore Tibetans appeals and to further repress them."The CCP has kept out foreign media, because their reports might expose what is really happening there, according to Ruan."If the CCP opens up Tibet for foreign media, someone brave has got to talk. I don't believe there wasn't a single picture taken during the suppression."Why did the CCP need to do a door-to-door search right after the suppression? They fear there were pictures taken during the suppression and don't want them to leak out and circulate around."What could the CCP be searching for door-to-door if it wasn't for the pictures? I doubt it was for guns and weapons. It there were only few violent protestors as they claimed, how come 170 people are said to have confessed?"How many monks have the CCP arrested and killed? The international media should be allowed to go into Tibet to investigate."

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Stop maligning the Dalai Lama, Tutu tells China

Johannesburg - South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu on Tuesday urged China to stop blaming the Dalai Lama over the recent outbreak of violence in Tibet and instead hold talks with the Tibetan spiritual leader.

'China must stop naming, blaming and verbally abusing one whose life has been devoted to non-violence, His Holiness the Dalai Lama,' Tutu said. 'Listen to His Holiness pleas for restraint, calm and no further violence against this civilian population of monastics and lay people,' he said.

Protests by Tibetans in China and other countries began on March 10, the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule. China has been blasted for its heavy-handed response. The Dalai Lama has been living in exile in India since 1959. Tutu, who shot to fame as the archbishop who led South Africans in protest against apartheid, also said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, should be allowed visit Tibet.

'This will help not only Tibet, but China,' Tutu said. '

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Junte-se aos protestos em Paris !

JOIN THE 7th APRIL OLYMPICS PROTEST & TIBETAN FREEDOM TORCH ACTIVITIES IN PARIS!

The Chinese government is running the Beijing Olympic torch around the world, hoping to win the approval of the global public and cover up its brutal occupation of Tibet and abysmal human rights record. When the torch relay reaches London & Paris on April 6th and 7th, China will be in the global spotlight like never before. We will have an unprecdented opportunity to shine this spotlight on Tibet.

Please play your part for Tibet and make history in April 2008!

Join the mass mobilisation in Paris and be a voice for 6 million Tibetans who continue to suffer under Chinese rule.

WHO: Tibetans and supporters from France, the Netherlands, and Belgium

WHAT: Protest China's Olympic Torch Relay & celebrate the Tibetan Freedom Torch

WHERE: Paris

WHEN: 6 & 7 April, 2008

Programme:

6th April
7:00pm, Gare du Nord:Join the Tibetan Community of France in welcoming former political prisoners of Drapchi prison and Team Tibet athletes when they arrive from London with the Tibetan Freedom Torch.

7th April
11:00am: Mass protest begins at Trocadero square
The Beijing Torch Relay will begin from under the Eiffel tower around 1:30pm, on the opposite bank of Seine river. We invite you to walk, bicycle, use tourist buses and tourist boats, along the relay route. Please bring Tibetan flags, banners, tee-shirts, and flyers!

Contacts:

Tibetan Community: comtibfr(at)hotmail.com
Accommodation in Paris: marcellerouxtibet(at)yahoo.fr
Transportation: rang.ben(at)wanadoo.fr