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Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Subject: Press Release: TIBETANS, SUPPORTERS PROTEST IN 60 CITIES AS CHINA'S PRESIDENT HU JINTAO ARRIVES AT G20 SUMMIT
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Students for a Free Tibet- Delhi
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TIBETANS, SUPPORTERS PROTEST IN 60 CITIES AS CHINA'S PRESIDENT HU JINTAO ARRIVES AT G20 SUMMIT
Call on World Leaders to Help End China's Repression in Tibet, which has led to 11 Tibetans self-immolating
DELHI: Celebrities, politicians and other prominent individuals, including Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and musicians Radiohead have joined over 20,000 people in supporting a new campaign calling for coordinated global action to resolve the escalating crisis in Tibet, where ten young Tibetans have self-immolated since March 2011. On the eve of the G20 Summit, Tibetans and their supporters are joining a Global Day of Action to highlight a Campaign for Global Intervention, an urgent call to world leaders to exert multilateral pressure on Chinese President Hu Jintao to ease tensions in Tibet.
Statements of concern following the self-immolations in Tibet have been issued by a number of governments, such as the United States, Germany and also the European Parliament. Campaigners are calling for a more coordinated, multilateral approach, including a joint demarche and the urgent creation of an appropriate and effective multi-lateral mechanism through which future diplomatic measures concerning Tibet can be agreed. Lobbying efforts have won the support of parliamentarians around the world, see www.StandupforTibet.org.
"Ten young Tibetans have lit themselves on fire since March in an unprecedented wave of protests against China's military rule over Tibet. As world leaders gather in France, we say Enough! Enough to China's occupation of Tibet, and enough to the failure of world leaders to hold China accountable for its atrocities," said Tenzin Dorjee, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet. "We have received overwhelming support for the Enough! campaign from Nobel Laureates, celebrities, politicians in dozens of countries. Today we're taking this groundswell of support to the halls of power to demand coordinated, global action for Tibet, because international diplomatic pressure can save Tibetan lives from China's growing crackdown."
Today in Delhi, The Delhi Chapter of Students for a Free Tibet organized various action plans across Delhi to call down the Chinese repression in Tibet and also visited all the G20 embassies in Delhi with respective memorandum. Today, in over 60 cities around the world, Tibetans and supporters are saying Enough! Enough to China's violent military rule over Tibet and Enough to the world leaders in failing to hold Beijing accountable for its atrocities in Tibet. The actions are executed with student supporters form different nooks of India and from about every universities of Delhi including, DU, JNU, Ambedkar university, Jamia Hamdard, and IP University etc.
Yangchen P. Sither, Spokes Person of Students for a Free Tibet –Delhi, said "The recent self immolation series in Tibet is a clear sign of the brutal Chinese oppression and the violation of human rights in Tibet by the Chinese Communist Party. Since 2009, 11 young Tibetans have lit themselves on fire in an unprecedented series of actions protesting Chinese rule and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet"
"Today on the eve of the G20 submit to be happening in France from tomorrow, we are here to protest and urge our Indian Prime Minister as well as the global leaders to talk Tibet and raise the critical Tibetan issue infront of Hu Jin Tao and other global leaders take immediate action to stop the repression" said Priyadarshini Singh Mahara, an Indian and the Coordinator of Students for a free Tibet – Delhi. "As a Tibetan supporter and a fellow Indian Citizen, I really feel Dr.Manmohan Singh should step forward to take initial steps in resolving the Tibetan issue during the summit. It's really not time to talk Economy now. It's time to discuss human values and rights." She added.
The harsh reaction of the Chinese government authorities to the 2008 protests across Tibet and the follow-on compulsory "patriotic reeducation" or "legal education" at Tibetan monasteries. Although protests in Tibet have been initiated and joined by all sectors of the society, including students, monks and nuns are frequent targets of repression given that religious practice connected to the Dalai Lama is viewed as subversive by the Chinese government. Elements of the security crackdown in Tibet that began as a reaction to the 2008 protests are ongoing with tightened control all around the country.
Our Demands:
The People's Republic of China must:
1. Immediately remove security personnel from the Ngaba (Ch: Aba) and Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) regions and from individual monasteries. All monks must be allowed to return unconditionally to their respective monasteries in the Ngaba and Kardze regions.
2. Release all those detained in connection to the 10 self-immolations since 16 March 2011 and account for the whereabouts and well-being of all those who have self-immolated since February 2009.
3. Allow foreign diplomats and independent foreign media unfettered access to all Tibetan areas, especially the regions of Ngaba and Kardze.
4. Immediately suspend the implementation of religious and security policies in Ngaba.
We call on G20 Leaders and other Governments to:
1. In partnership with other concerned governments, insist that the People's Republic of China accede to the above demands, including allowing diplomats and media access to Tibetan areas.
2. Express their concern about the situation in Ngaba directly to Hu Jintao in the fringes of the G20 summit in Cannes, France.
3. Jointly démarche (officially reprimand) China concerning the situation in Ngaba, seeking a full accounting for the removal of monks from Kirti Monastery, including an explanation of the pretext or conditions under which monks were removed and their current whereabouts.
4. Urgently establish, with other concerned governments, an appropriate and effective multi-lateral mechanism through which future diplomatic measures concerning Tibet can be agreed.
NOTES TO EDITOR:
List of Self-Immolations in Tibet (11 to date; 10 in 2011 and one in 2009)
· .27 February 2009, Ngaba: Tapey, mid-20s, of Kirti Monastery. Whereabouts unknown.
· 16 March 2011, Ngaba: Lobsang Phuntsok, 20, of Kirti Monastery. Died 17 March 2011.
· 15 August 2011, Kardze: Tsewang Norbu, 29, monk of Nyitso Monastery. Died at the scene, 15 August 2011.
· 26 September 2011, Ngaba: Lobsang Kelsang, 18, monk of Kirti Monastery. In hospital.
· Lobsang Kunchok, 19 , a monk of Kirti Monastery. In a different hospital to Lobsang Kelsang.
· 3 October 2011, Ngaba: Kelsang Wangchuk, 17, monk of Kirti Monastery. In hospital.
· 7 October 2011, Ngaba: Choephel, 19 former monk of Kirti Monastery. Died 11 October 2011.
· Khaying, 18, former monk of Kirti Monastery. Died 8 October 2011.
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· 5 October 2011, Ngaba: Norbu Dramdul, 19, former monk of Kirti Monastery. Taken away, whereabouts unknown.
· 17 October 2011, Ngaba: Tenzin Wangmo, 20, nun of Ngaba Mamae Choekorling Nunnery. Died at the scene, 17 October 2011.
· 25 October 2011, Kardze: Dawa Tsering, 38, monk of Kardze Monastery. Status unknown, possibly being cared for in Kardze Monastery after refusing hospital treatment.
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Students For a Free Tibet , Delhi
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