Increasing Global Awareness on the Situation in Tibet
Filed Under Tibet, Human Rights, China | Posted on March 17, 2008
The Wall Street Journal publishes an Opinion piece by Robert Barnett, Director of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University.
The BBC reports “Eighty Killed in Tibetan Unrest.
Phayul reports on this statement from the floor of the EU Parliament: “The European Union must do its utmost to foster a peaceful solution of the current situation in Tibet and get involved as much as possible in the solution of Tibet problem facilitating democratic transition, free and fair election in Tibet and fundamental freedoms of Tibetans.”
The Austrian foreign minister demands “an end to violence in Tibet.”
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says, “There has been a kind of missed opportunity here for the Chinese to engage the moral authority of the Tibetan people.”
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reports, “Around 40 Tibetan middle school students were known to have been severely beaten before being arrested at around 8:30 AM (Beijing Time) today, 17 March 2008, following students’ call for the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet.”
Hillary Clinton is “deeply concerned.”
Oddly, the Washington Post reports that China has been removed from the U.S. State Department’s list of the world’s worst human rights violators.
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