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Poland shows solidarity with Tibet

10.03.2010 13:03

A series of rallies in support of the Free Tibet campaign are taking place in Poland marking Tibetan Day of Solidarity.

Signatures are being collected in front of Warsaw University petitioning Chinese authorities to release all political prisoners in Tibet. Another demonstration is to be staged outside the embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the evening.

In other initiatives, exhibitions raising awarenessof Tibetan political prisoners have been set up in 70 cities across Poland, such as Tenzin Delek Riponche, a monk, whose death sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment.

The Day of Solidarity commemorates the anniversary of the national uprising against Chinese occupation which erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on 10th March 1959. The revolt was suppressed and ended in bloodshed claiming 67 thousand lives. The 14^th Dalai Lama was forced to seek shelter in India.

Presently, the list of Tibetan political prisoners held in Chinese prisons is estimated at 7 hundred. (ss/pg)

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Trevor

10/03/2010 13:40:45

But still Polish government prefers Chineese companies to build roads in Poland.
As comrade Lenin said: "they (capitalists) are so greedy that will sell a rope to us (communists) on which we will hang them one day."

Pioro

10/03/2010 15:56:27

Trevor you are right but replace they with the US, rope with sovereign debt, and us with China.

10/03/2010 19:35:35

unless you're actually tibetan or chinese, four words for all of you: none of your business.

John Roberts

10/03/2010 23:21:59

Bravo for Poland, where people still remember how precious freedom is, for being brave enough to stand by the Tibetans. Sadly, other European countries, especially Britain, seem to be taking the opposite approach of coddling dictators -- yet again. How history repeats itself. What the Dalai Lama wants for Tibet is autonomy, like the Basques and Catalans have in Spain, within the framework of the state. If you've been to Bilbao or Barcelona, you've seen the model the Dalai Lama wants for Tibet. The question is how to put pressure on Beijing to negotiate a resolution, and the answer is through the same kinds of boycotts, divestment, and sanctions that caused South Africa's apartheid regime to loosen its iron-grip. You can read about tactics to put pressure on China in "Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope," available in many libraries, or on my blog at www.FreeingTibet.com

11/03/2010 05:23:52

10.03.2010 19:35
"unless you're actually tibetan or chinese, four words for all of you: none of your business.
b"

Nice one "b". If you see your neighbour abusing his wife and children day after day, for how long do you turn the other way?

Jozek

11/03/2010 07:06:19

Mr. John Roberts,

Yes autonomy (or the threat of secession, divorce,) is crucial in keeping a central government in check. Poland has gone the complete opposite in regards to their own sovereignty. I know many statists will reply that unified Europe makes us stronger. If answering to someone else makes you stronger then I guess utopia is a one world government.

Laurie

13/03/2010 17:58:02

Tibet is a rare and precious culture. The Chinese are intent upon anhilating this culture, which is the single most immportant repository for eastern wisdom on the planet in that major Buddhist teachings were preserved there for a thousand years when they were destroyed in the rest of the world. That notwithstanding, Chinese tactics for controlling Tibet are abusive and insane, and must be stopped. If the Chinese are not stopped in Tibet, forces like these will not be stopped in your culture either. It's not them and us, it's us. All of us. China knows it is wrong. China must do the right thing in the face of the world. If it does not, the world must respond in opposition to this cruelty and tyrany.

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