Crying for Tibet

1 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN TIBET UN, EU & Human Rights Desk Department of Information and International Relations Central Tibetan Administration Dharamshala-176215 INDIA Email: euhrdesk@tibet.net Website: www.tibet.net2 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN TIBET Introduction Tibetan Buddhism, practiced by the majority of Tibetans, has for centuries, been a core element of Tibetan culture and identity. However, since the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950's, the Chinese government has consistently instituted repressive policies on the Tibetan Buddhism. Monasteries, including monks, nuns and religious teachings are integral part of a Tibetan Buddhism. Sadly, today, monasteries are forbidden to deliver traditional monastic education. Monks and nuns are barred from access to a religious teaching base on the compassion, and instead, they are subjected to a regular 'patriotic education' and other political campaigns that are fundamentally opposed to basic tenets of Tibetan Buddhism, including rhetorical attacks on Tibetan religious leaders. Furthermore, the monks' populace has been drastically fallen down due to the restrictions in a construction of new monks' quarters in a monastery1 and monks who are under 18 are not allow to join the monastic institution.

UNO DEMONSTRATION PLAN 2015

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尊敬的联合国高级人权事务专员扎伊德•拉阿德•侯赛因阁下

尊敬的联合国高级人权事务专员扎伊德•拉阿德•侯赛因阁下：
众 所周知，1950年中共武装部队开始入侵西藏，导致十二万余藏人非正常死亡，并不断强化殖民主义政策，亵渎西藏民族的语言文字，文化、宗教，剥夺农牧资产与土地自主权，甚至严格管控藏民族的思维方式。中共还在藏区各地开采矿产资源，造成西藏生态环境严重污染和破坏，同时以民族歧视、剥削经济，文化灭绝等政策将藏民族推向危险的边缘，因此，藏人于1987年在拉萨抗暴以及2008年在全西藏三区范围内掀起了 大规模和平抗争运动。

2009年安多格迪寺爱国志士僧人扎白实施自焚抗议至2014年元月14日间，西藏境内共有一百三十二位同胞先后自焚，其中一百一十三位失去了他们宝贵的生 命，对此，中共政府将自焚者的亲戚朋友与向外传播自焚讯息者拘禁治罪，并对死难者家属表 达同情的僧俗群众百般刁难，控制他们的言论自由，使人们无法诉说自己的心愿，相反迫使说违背自身意愿的话。强制抓捕或关押西藏的喇嘛和堪布、格西等佛法上师，以及学者和作家、歌手和艺人、环保人员和商人、地方头人等关怀藏民族事业的人士，对他们冠以各种莫须有的罪名，更为甚 者，中共还在光天化日之下开枪射杀无辜者，万分惨痛的局面正不断地在西藏继续着。