A McLeod Ganjbe látogató amerikai delegáció követeli hogy Kína kezdje újra a párbeszédet

2017. május 10./Tibet Sun/TibetPress

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By Lobsang Wangyal



A US congressional delegation infused much hope and renewed enthusiasm into the exile Tibetans in McLeod Ganj with their whole-hearted support and solidarity with Tibetans in their quest for a free Tibet.

Eight members of the United States House of Representatives arrived in the heart of the exile Tibetan community in McLeod Ganj, India, on a two-day visit to show their support to the Tibetan people.

Thousands of exile Tibetans and supporters gathered at Tsuglakhang Temple courtyard in a felicitation ceremony for the delegation.

All the members of the US Congress expressed in strong terms their stand against the Chinese government’s repressive policies in Tibet. They called upon the Chinese government to restart talks with the Tibetans to resolve the decades-old issue.

Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) said, “Our message to the Chinese government is simple: Get out of Tibet.”

Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and leader of the bipartisan delegation, said, “China uses its economic leverage to silence the voices of friends of Tibet. But if we do not speak out against repression in Tibet and in the rest of China because of China’s economic power, we lose all moral authority to talk about human rights anywhere else in the world.

“We will not be silenced. You will not be silenced. The brutal tactics of the Chinese government to erase the religion, culture, and language of the Tibetan people challenges the conscience of the world.

“We will meet that challenge.”

Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said, “There is no disagreement between the political parties in the United States Congress on our love and respect for the Dalai Lama as well as our solidarity with the cause of the Tibetan people to be free from the repression that has been put upon them for a very long time from Beijing.

“We in the US Congress are firmly committed to step up and help in keeping Tibetan language and culture and religion alive. That is a strong commitment and that is something the United States will stand behind until Tibet is free.”

Jim McGovern (D-MA), who was one of the representatives to introduce the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Bill, said, “We stand with all the Tibetan people, we pledge to work for the day that His Holiness and all Tibetans can go back to Tibet and freely practice their religion, celebrate their culture, traditions, and language, and have genuine autonomy according to the Middle-Way approach.

“We call upon the Chinese government to respect the human rights of the Tibetans, and to release all Tibetan prisoners of conscience, including the 11th Panchen Lama, who is one of the world’s longest-serving political prisoners.”

McGovern warned the Chinese government that it does not have the right to name the reincarnated religious leaders of Tibet.

Calling on his own government, McGovern asked the United States to make Tibet a high priority, and to insist to the Chinese government that it restart the Chinese-Tibetan dialogue to move forward for Tibetans to be able to go back and live in freedom.

The delegation’s visit comes at a time when US President Donald Trump is warming up a relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump’s company has won provisional approval from the Chinese government for three new trademarks, giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka’s merchandise. Sales have surged, and the US imports, almost all from China, have shot up since Trump’s election as US president.

Trump met President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April, and afterwards had said “We had a great chemistry, I think,” and “He is a good man. He is a very good man, and I got to know him very well.” These remarks leave it unlikely that the Dalai Lama would get a White House invite, something that every President in the last few years has accorded to the Dalai Lama.

President of the Central Tibetan Administration, Lobsang Sangay, explained the current grim situation in Tibet, saying Tibetans are opting to set themselves on fire rather than to live under the brutal Chinese policies.

He said that 147 Tibetans have committed self-immolation in protest against the Chinese government.

The most recent case of self-immolation was a 16-year-old student who set himself on fire on 2 May, according to media reports.

The student chanted “Tibetans want freedom” and “Let His Holiness the Dalai Lama return to Tibet” as he burned himself to death.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said that violence in the past centuries has not created peace in the world, and that the Tibetan issue should be resolved through peaceful means.

“The Tibetan problem benefits neither the Tibetans nor the Chinese. The repressive polices for the last 60 years have not benefited anybody. Repression will cultivate doubt and fear, which cannot create harmony, and without harmony the problem cannot be solved.”

The Dalai Lama said that the gathering following the US delegation was not aimed against the Chinese people, and that the people supporting the Tibetan cause are not anti-China, but are pro-justice.