
US Assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights, and labour, and Special Coordinator for Tibet Robert Destro in Washington, DC, on 22 October 2019. File photo/AFP/Getty Images/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
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NEW DELHI, India, 2 November 2020
The US is committed to advocating autonomy for Tibet within China and to foster the middle way approach for a dialogue with Beijing proposed by the Dalai Lama, American Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Robert Destro, has said.
The US has followed up the appointment of the Special Coordinator on Tibet with the first-ever invitation to “Tibetan President (in-exile)” Lobsang Sangay to the US State Department.
“While they (China) have the right to criticise the meeting, we have the right to have whatever meetings we want,” Destro said in response to China’s criticism of his meeting with Sangay in Washington.
In a transcript provided by the Dalai Lama’s office, Destro said he was amazed by the overwhelming response from the Tibetan community.
“One of the things that has been the most impressive for me is the outpouring of support from the Tibetan community and the desire to engage. We have been reaching out and will continue to reach out to the Tibetan diaspora around the world,” he said.
continued…If the Dalai Lama is detained in China, no force on earth can bring him back to India. Panchen Gedun Choekyi Nyima is an example. Nobody even knows whether he is alive or dead!
Tibetans being a happy go lucky bunch doesn’t seem to realise the danger posed by the enemy to disrupt and sabotage the Tibetan Movement by any means.
Successive Chinese spies have all confessed to their agenda of getting into the Dalai Lama’s circle. This shows the CCP’s interest in the Dalai Lama including getting a strand of his hair which could be a sign that they are attempting to con the Dalai Lama by collecting his DNA!
By the logic that what happened to Tibet also happened in China and therefore absolve the Chinese of their crime is the Chinese mentality of callous disregard for others.
By your logic it will also absolve Hitler of his crime of Holocaust because he murdered not only 6 million Jews but German homosexuals, anti-Nazis, mentally retarded and Non Aryan looking people during the Holocaust because “it was political in nature”.
The Chinese communists deliberately targeted and vilified Tibet and its people as “extremely savage”, extremely backward, extremely dark” and dehumanised Tibetans. This gave them the pretext to commit any crime against us.
Their Han chauvinism and the righteousness of their communist ideology made them perceive Tibetans exactly like how the Japanese perceived the Chinese in the 1930s. Tibetans were murdered en mass and their homes torched under Mao’s SCORCHED EARTH POLICY.
Children were forced to kill their parents and made to dance on their bodies. Monasteries were ransacked or bombed while people took refuge in them. The CCP didn’t commit such heinous crimes in China. The attack on Tibet was RACIALY MOTIVATED!
Nothing the CCP did to the Tibetans the CCP did not do to the Han. But Indian occupation of South Tibet is colonial in nature and Indian treatment of the Tibetans in India is racially motivated. It is not uncommon for Tibetan to suffer racial slurs if they go to Delhi just because of their looks. Some were even beaten to death. The situation was so bad that there were demonstrations of the northeasterners including Tibetans in Delhi years ago of this discrimination. This would never happen in China. A Tibetan walking a street in China would be just another ordinarily man/woman walking on a street. Today Tibetan monks are everywhere in Beijing because Yonghe Gong, the three hundred years old Tibetan temple is smack right in the heart of Beijing.
India should get out of the northeast, not just South Tibet. If it is not because of their former master the British the northeast would never have fallen into the hands of the desi. The Desi and the Mongoloid people are two very different stocks. Just look at the countries in East Asia and the countries in South Asia. Northeasterners resent Indian cultures. Bollywood is outright banned in some parts of the northeast but K pop is very popular there because the northeasterners have natural affinities to the East Asians. Indian culture is alien to them and many found repulsive.
Seems like to the Indian colonialism is bad only if they are at the receiving end of it. But if they can colonize other people they are all for it. After the annexation of South Tibet in 1951 there is the annexation of Sikkim in 1975. Today India has a strangle hold on Bhutan. During the early 1990s India has a failed attempt to annex Bhutan but who knows what will happen in the future.
Free the northeast including South Tibet from India.
“Had the Dalai Lama not fled to India the Dalai Lama probably would have end up in jail also”. There is no doubt about it and he would have faced the same or even worse fate than the Panchen Lama.
A serious concern is rising among concerned Tibetans ever since the Dalai Lama has again, as late as yesterday (during online teaching) proclaimed that he intends to visit a holy place in China. This probably would be the Wutaishan mountains.
Nobody knows whether the CCP will allow him or not but if he is allowed, this would be only because they want to detain him in China until he passes away to give legitimacy to their claim of the future reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.
Once he passes away, they would achieve a scoop where they can broadcast all the rites and rituals and the “Central Government’s endorsement for his reincarnation to be born in Tibet”. Thus justifying and legitimising the 15th Dalai Lama as the one under their jurisdiction.
If we look back to history, the 1954 visit of the Dalai Lama’s to China gave a huge propaganda scoop for the CCP with the Dalai Lama giving scarf to Mao but no scarf from Mao in return to the Dalai Lama to depict Tibet’s “subservience” to China. Most damaging is the one with the Dalai Lama slotting his ballot into a box with the communist flag in the back ground.
It gave the unmistakable impression that Tibet is “part of” China because the Dalai Lama is a Chinese “citizen”. The Tibetan leadership has not grasped the duplicity and deviousness of the CCP even after seven decades. If the scenario which I have just painted materialises, we can say goodbye to the ownership of the 15th Dalai Lama.
China would have gained what they lost in 1959 and that will be the second greatest loss for Tibet after losing our country.
Get out of South Tibet ok? The people there are tired of the Indians. If India is so sure that they are welcome there why don’t India abolish the hated AFSPA as a start. Of course they won’t because they are uneasy of their occupation. India can talk are good talk but action speaks louder than words.
Get out of South Tibet!
There is NOT A SINGLE TIBETAN FAMILY who is not affected by communist China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet. The murder of 1.2 million Tibetans was announced by the Tibetan Government in 1985.
During Deng’s time, Tibetans on both side of Indo-Tibet border were able to meet. Tibetan Government collected information from Tibet during this period and arrived at that conclusion. They were not able collect from every nook and corner of Tibet (three provinces) because of inaccessibility. Therefore it’s only a modest estimate.
It would be much more. The Chinese press also reported the population decline in the 1960s without mentioning the reason. During the Tibetan delegation’s visit to Tibet in the 1980s, they came across places where the whole male population had disappeared!
According to Jung Chang, Mao told his generals, “he wanted a violent, crushing solution in Tibet”. “There has to be decisive war before we can solve the problem throughly”. “Mao found himself with major wars on his hands covering huge areas of the interior; he resorted to using heavy artillery and aerial bombardment.”
Panchen Lama states in his 70,000 character petition: “people were beaten until they bled from their eyes, ears, mouths, noses, they passed out, their arms and legs broken, others died on the spot”.
J Chung: The crushing of the rebellions produced atrocious behaviour on the part of Chinese troops. “In one place, corpses were dragged down from the mountains and buried in a big pit and the relatives were then summoned and told, “we have wiped out the rebel bandits, and today is a day of festivity. YOU WILL DANCE ON THE PIT OF CORPSES”.
The atrocities the CCP has committed in Tibet is far worse than the atrocities the Chinese alleged the Japanese have…
“During Deng’s time, Tibetans on both side of Indo-Tibet border were able to meet.” That’s true. It was a confidence building measure at that time. Basically each year on the national day of the two countries the border were open to the locals for a day and Tibetans on both sides can go to the other side to visit. However as time passes India discover that the standard of living of the Tibetans on the China side is higher and higher and the infrastructure is getting better and better India began to feel uneasy and eventually shut off the border because it became an embarrassment for India because what the locals saw is very different than what the Tibetans has been told by the Indian government. Indian nervousness grew to a point that it imposes the AFSPA on South Tibet to suppress any dissent. “Panchen Lama states in his 70,000 character petition: “people were beaten until they bled from their eyes, ears, mouths, noses, they passed out, their arms and legs broken, others died on the spot”.” That’s true. Panchen Lama was actually sent to jail by Mao. Had the Dalai Lama not fled to India the Dalai Lama probably would have end up in jail also. When the CCP came to power the Han fled to Taiwan and HK and the Tibetan fled to India. Once the CCP came to power it ruthlessly suppress dissent and purge or kill anyone that has connection to the old government. Then cultural revolution happened that saw large scale vandalism of Chinese cultural relic and the mayhem spread to Tibet with wide scale vandalism of the Tibetan monasteries. But nothing the CCP did to the Tibetan the CCP did not do to the Han. It is political in nature. India’s problem with South Tibet is colonial. Tibetans are polite people and have been reminding India that South Tibet has never been part of…
India has been the greatest supporter of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people since commie China illegally occupied our nation. Communist China protested to India for giving asylum despite the fact that their aggression on our country caused the dislocation of more than 80,000 Tibetans. Six million Tibetans were dispossessed of their nation. This shows the utter cruelty of the communist regimes attitude to human misery.
Thanks to the generosity and kindness of India and its leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Tibetans were welcomed to India not only in 1959 but all through the six decades of Chinese occupation. After the initial avalanche, Tibetan refugees trickled all through out the 60s, 70s and a floodgate in the 1980s. India welcomed every Tibetan who were able to brave the treacherous mountain track to freedom. HH was allowed to set up the Tibetan Government in India which is alive and kicking with a vibrant democracy to boot.
The Tibetan people see India as the SAVIOUR of Tibet and its people from the wanton destruction of Tibet by communist China for the last six decades. The CCP is plundering Tibet’s natural resources while erasing its ancient culture, it’s Buddhism, customs and language. It has murdered in cold blood more than 1.2 million Tibetans, driven thousands to commit suicide owing to famine and oppression.
Communist China doesn’t care two hoots about what happens to the Tibetan people. It’s ONLY interested in our land to extract our rich resources and cart them away to China to benefit themselves. .
The train from China to Tibet was purposely built to take Tibet’s priceless resources away to China while bringing millions of Chinese colonisers to change the population demographic of Tibet. China is committing genocide in Tibet.
“It has murdered in cold blood more than 1.2 million Tibetans, driven thousands to commit suicide owing to famine and oppression.”
This is just nonsense. If this is true that means every three to four Tibetans in China one is murdered. It also means that on average every Tibetan in China today will have some family members or someone they know murdered or just disappeared. This allegation has been thoroughly investigated and I am sure if there is even any hint of its veracity the Western media would have make a big deal out of it, and rightly so.
In fact Patrick French, a personal friend of the Dalai Lama and a past president of a Free Tibet group based in London has personally investigated the allegation and visited China many times to look into the matter and has found no evidence of it and he reported it as such in the New York Times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22french.html
An excerpt: “For example, the Free Tibet Campaign in London (of which I am a former director) and other groups have long claimed that 1.2 million Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese since they invaded in 1950. However, after scouring the archives in Dharamsala while researching my book on Tibet, I found that there was no evidence to support that figure. ”
On the other hand the rampant rape of girls in South Tibet is a very real issue. A couple of years ago yet another rape in Bomdila, South Tibet triggered the vandalism of a police station by Indian paramilitary which in turn precipitated massive protests by the locals which eventually blew up causing the Indian defense minister to personally flew in to South Tibet to deliver a warning to the Tibetans to behave or else suffer consequence.
India has no business in…
We wholeheartedly welcome any effort by the US to unite the three provinces of Tibet which was one single nation under the great Tibetan emperors, Songtsen Gampo, Trisong Deutsen and Tri Ralpachen. No Tibetan Government of Lhasa has ever relinquished an inch of our territory.
The restoration of Tibet as the historical buffer State is the ONLY solution for a secure India and peaceful Asia. Without reinstating Tibet as the buffer between India and China, there will be unending military confrontation and an unmitigated arms race in Asia.
Being the ONLY super power, America has the necessary diplomatic reach to make it a reality. Tibet is illegally occupied by commie China and has never been part of China. HH The Dalai Lama said in the Strasburg Declaration of 1988: “At no time, since the founding of our nation in 127 BC have we conceded our sovereignty to a foreign power”.
Tibet has always been an independent nation throughout our history. Therefore, we must do everything to regain our territory with the help of the international community. India by now has woken up from its nativity and its hoped, it will have the moral aptitude to rectify the immoral stance it took which has jeopardised its own national security by pandering to China. .
The CCP’s grip on China is not carved in rock. It’s bound to collapse some day like all dictatorships. History may repeat itself yet again with America helping Tibetans as it did in the 1950s.
In the end, it’s likely that without a military campaign, the Chinese of whatever hue and colour will not relinquish Tibet. Tibetan policy makers must not be blind sighted by Gandhi’s non-violent struggle. The British have a conscience and a sense of morality because of their faith but not the Chinese communists.
“India by now has woken up from its nativity and its hoped, it will have the moral aptitude to rectify the immoral stance it took which has jeopardised its own national security by pandering to China.”
Don’t be silly. India is a British Raj wannabe from the get go ever since it was created out of the polity left behind by the Raj in 1947. In other words India is a bullying land grabbing expansionist because the Raj was a bullying land grabbing expansionist. India has been land grabbing the Nationalist China even before the Communist exist and came to power. The Nationalist government of China has been issuing diplomatic protest over diplomatic protest first to the Raj and then later on India.
Let’s be honest. India doesn’t care about the Tibetans. India doesn’t even care about its own people. What India care about is coveting Tibetan land. And what about these Momos, Chinkis nonsense?
Get out of South Tibet (so called AP), and Sikkim, Manipur and Kashmir.
Throughout our history Tibetans always loved tea whether it came from China or India. However, New Delhi prefers to give Tibetans a tea that is acutely decaffeinated.
India has a lot of skeletons in the closet when it came to the Tibetan issue. India is not a sympathetic host to the Tibetans as it portray itself. India is a land grabber of historical Tibetan home land. India invaded and annexed Tawang in 1951, three and a half years after the British has already left the subcontinent. Tawang is the birthplace of the Sixth Dalai Lama and home to a four hundred years old Tibetan monastery. India invaded and annexed Sikkim in 1975. The capital of Sikkim, Gangtok is the home to a Tibetan monastery which is the traditional seat of the Karmapa. This is the reason India heavily meddles in the Karmapa affair.
The problem is India block any attempt of meeting between the Dalai Lama and the PRC. Last time when Xi visited India there were talks of a meeting between the Dalai Lama and Xi. When the Modi government learned about this it threatened the Dalai Lama to not meet with Xi.