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China fuelling "increasingly desperate acts" by Tibetans says US

By Tendar Tsering

DHARAMSHALA, May 25: The US State Department in its ‘Annual Country Reports on Human Rights 2011’ released on Thursday said that Chinese authorities' actions have fuelled "increasingly desperate acts" by Tibetans, including a wave of self-immolation protests.

“The government’s attempts to assert control over all aspects of Tibetan Buddhist monastic and religious practice through such means as compulsory patriotic education and legal education campaigns at monasteries, compulsory denunciation of the Dalai Lama, establishing permanent CCP and security personnel presence at monasteries, and taking over the identification and training of reincarnated lamas provoked acts of resistance among the Tibetan population, who saw it as a threat to the foundations of Tibet’s distinct religious, linguistic, and cultural identity,” the US report said.

“These acts of resistance, in turn, led to enhanced attempts by PRC authorities to maintain control, thus creating cycles of repression that resulted in increasingly desperate acts by Tibetans, such as a series of self-immolations by Tibetan Buddhist clergy and laypersons in China’s Tibetan areas.”

In Tibet, since 2009, the fiery wave of self-immolation protests has witnessed 35 Tibetans torch their bodies demanding freedom in Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile. Mass protests in recent months have been violently suppressed following a call for “war” on peaceful protests by senior Chinese leaders.

The report said that human rights record in China, including Chinese occupied Tibet, worsened as the Chinese government continued to adhere to its faulty security measures instead of addressing the real grievances of the Tibetan and Chinese protesters in the last twelve months of study.

"In China, the human rights situation deteriorated, particularly the freedoms of expression, assembly and association," the State Department said. "The government stepped up efforts to silence political activists and resorted to extralegal measures."

The report noted that Beijing maintained an “increasingly intense and formalised system of control” over Tibet, documenting a detailed account of human rights violations, including China’s repression of freedom of speech, religion, and association and extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention of Tibetans.

The report also gave in-depth information on the violation of Tibetan people’s academic and cultural freedom, particularly the right to use and preserve Tibetan language.

Speaking at the release of the report, senior State Department official Mike Posner said that his government was "very concerned" about the treatment of Tibetans as well as of Uighurs.

However, China slammed the report saying that it was “prejudiced.”

"The United States State Department's annual report on human rights maligns other countries, and the content concerning China ignores the facts and is filled will prejudice, confusing black and white," Hong Lei, the spokesman of the Chinese foreign ministry told a daily news briefing.