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------------------------ World Tibet Network News ----------------------
Published by: The Canada-Tibet Committee
Editorial Board: Brian Given <bgiven@ccs.carleton.ca>
Nima Dorjee <amnesty@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Conrad Richter <conradr@utcc.utoronto.ca>
Tseten Samdup <tibetlondon@gn.apc.org>
Submissions and subscriptions to:
wtn-editors@utcc.utoronto.ca
or fax to: +44-71-722-0362 (U.K.)
Send us your comments, announcements, news or items for discussion.
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Issue ID: 94/05/07 11:30 GMT Compiled by Conrad Richter
Contents
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1. His Holiness Thanks India for Educating Tibetans
2. China Sets Dissident, Minority Laws
3. China Summons U.S. Ambassador to Protest Legislation
4. Letter: Calling All Tibet Supporters in Scotland
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1. His Holiness Thanks India for Educating Tibetans
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From: Bhuchung K Tsering, Associate Secretary, Department of Information and
International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala
DHARAMSALA, May 5, DIIR -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama said Tibetan children
in exile are better than their counterparts in Tibet. Addressing the seventh
annual conference of the heads of institutions of schools under the Central
Tibetan Schools Administration on May 5, 1994 in the conference room of the
Department of Information & International Relations, His Holiness said this
has been made possible on account of the support of the people and government
of India. His Holiness recalled the concern and interest Education Minister
Shrimali on the education of Tibetan children. His Holiness said India came
to the support of Tibetans at a time when the very survival of our community
was at stake. Thanking the very many Indian teachers for their dedication,
His Holiness said Tibetan, not just of this generation. but also of future
generation, would remain grateful to them.
His Holiness asked the school heads to see that Tibetan Children are not only
given modern education, but also imparted with knowledge about Tibetan culture
and brought up as good, decent human beings. He said this was important to
prepare for the day when we will be able to return to Tibet. His Holiness
termed education as the future of Tibet. The conference, held from May 3 to 5
1994, was attended by the Secretary of the Central Tibetan Schools
Administration, Mr. S.P. Datta, Secretary of Tibetan Department of Education,
Mr. Tsering Wangyal, 47 principals, rectors, headmasters and settlement
officers from 30 schools and settlements. It was inaugurated by the Tibetan
Minister for Education, Mrs. Rinchen Khando Choegyal.
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2. China Sets Dissident, Minority Laws
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BEIJING, May 6, UPI -- China announced Friday the creation of a sweeping
set of regulations designed to silence its vocal dissident community and
thwart destabilizing activities by ethnic and religious groups.
The National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament, is
deliberating 18 new control rules written by the police ministry before their
certain passage next week, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The regulations underscore Beijing's alarm over mounting unrest and pockets
of armed resistance to Communist rule in the countryside, home to 900 million
Chinese, as well as the twin threats of urban political dissidents and ethnic
separatists.
Warning of fresh unrest if the new regulations are not passed, Minister of
Public Security Tao Siju "explained to the session that along with the present
changing social order, some new offenses have occurred which have disturbed
the social order and public security and hurt public interests," Xinhua said.
"The original regulations had no provisions about these activities and it
has become difficult to handle these cases according to law," he said.
The beefed-up rules now being deliberated include a new muzzle for
outspoken dissidents like Wei Jingsheng, now wallowing in a Beijing detention
center for unspecified new crimes.
Wei, China's most famous dissident, was arrested last month for violating
terms of a six-month parole he was serving after release from almost 15 years
in prison. Analysts believe he will be tried after U.S. President Bill
Clinton's crucial decision next month on China's most- favored-nation trade
status.
"Newly proscribed offenses include ... disobeying supervisory provisions
while undergoing a period of being put under surveillance, or deprivation of
political rights, probation with suspended sentence or being paroled," Xinhua
said.
The regulations will also make it harder for dissident organizations such
as the Shanghai-based China Human Rights Study Group and the Beijing-based
Federation for Workers' Rights and Guarantees to operate.
They bar such non-governmental groups from continuing "to work under the
name of a social organization after its registration was revoked, it has been
ordered to disband or simply banned," Xinhua quoted a draft of the new law.
Another regulation provides legal ammunition against secret societies and
"superstitious sects," longtime Communist Party nemeses that the government
worries could become more powerful than local Party and government offices in
the increasingly chaotic countryside.
Ethnic separatists in the far west Chinese-controlled regions of Tibet and
Turkestan will also find it harder to escape legalized detentions, the police
minister said.
"Punishments will now be handed out for...stirring up conflicts between
nationalities, hurting the unity of nationalities and inciting separation of
nationalities," it said.
Offenders will face administrative detention of up to 15 days and a fine of
up to $30, while others will be forced to write self-criticisms, the dispatch
said.
Dissidents acknowledged these laws will give police newly enhanced powers
to crack down on dissident activities.
"These new laws will be of great use for police," one dissident said in a
telephone interview Friday. "They will be able to cite real laws when they
detain us instead of mere police or administrative regulations."
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3. China Summons U.S. Ambassador to Protest Legislation
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By JOHN LEICESTER
BEIJING, May 5, AP -- China summoned U.S. Ambassador Stapleton Roy on
Thursday to protest recent legislation that removed caps on arms sales to
Taiwan, created Radio Free Asia and called for closer ties with the people of
Tibet.
Tian Zengpei, China's vice minister of foreign affairs, told Roy the
legislation, passed by Congress last week, "seriously undermines the basis of
Sino-U.S. relations," the official Xinhua news agency said.
"We demand that the U.S. government reverse its wrong position and
erroneous decision," Tian said.
In the Foreign Relations Appropriations Act, passed April 28, Congress
ended a 12-year commitment to reduce arms sales to Taiwan, which China regards
as a renegade province.
The act also provided for a U.S. Information Agency office in Tibet and
closer cultural contacts with Tibetans, and called on the State Department to
list the remote Himalayan region as a separate state.
China says it has had sovereignty over Tibet since the 13th century, but
Tibetans say they enjoyed de facto independence for much of that time.
"It is indeed shocking to see such contempt for the basic norms governing
the international relations, such open infringement of China's sovereignty and
attempt to split China," Tian said.
The Chinese outburst comes ahead of a U.S. decision next month over whether
to strip China of low-tariff privileges because of its poor human rights
record. President Clinton must decide by early June.
Tian said the legislation came at "a crucial time."
The legislation also created Radio Free Asia, modeled after Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty, to beam U.S. programs to China, Tibet, North Korea
and Indochina.
Tian said many Asian nations had protested the radio station as an
interference in their internal affairs.
Earlier, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin said China would not permit
the United States to establish an information office in Tibet. He accused the
United States of attempting to "brazenly undermine" China's sovereignty.
Chinese Communist troops entered Tibet in 1950, and the Dalai Lama, Tibet's
spiritual and political leader, fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising.
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4. Letter: Calling All Tibet Supporters in Scotland
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From: Gareth Dant, Tibet Support Group - Glasgow <913668GD@dish.gla.ac.uk>
Is there anyone out there in Scotland?
I would be interested to hear from any subscribers to WTN in
Scotland, to swap news, details of events etc.
Please mail me at 913668GD@DISH.GLASGOW.AC.UK, or write to
G.Dant, 3:1, 136 Woodlands Rd., Glasgow, G3 6LH
Thanks and Best Wishes!
All of Tibet Support Group, Glasgow.
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