Tibet situation update, from The Office of Tibet, London

Tibet situation update and please check www.tibet.net

This is to inform you that because of the overwhelming workload we are unable to update our website on a regular basis. We would therefore like to request you that for updates on the current situation in Tibet please check our CTA website www.tibet.net

We would like to take this opportunity to Thank everyone in the UK and other parts of the world for all their show of concern and support for the just cause of Tibet and the Tibetan people, who despite all the risks to their lives under the Chinese rule have shown to the world in the past few weeks how much they regard His Holiness the Dalai Lama and cherish freedoms that people in the free world take for granted. We appreciate the support we have received also from many Chinese people and have seen that through better awareness and information more and more Chinese are showing great respect to His Holiness and also admire his non-violent Middle Way Approach to resolve the Tibet issue that takes into consideration the long-term stability and interest of both the Tibetan and Chinese peoples. We hope that just like these enlightened Chinese, the current Chinese leadership will also have the courage and wisdom to respond positively to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's peaceful initiatives, which will only help to improve China's own international image and standing in the world.

The Tibetan people, like the rest of the world and the Chinese people also want happiness and do not want suffering.

We hope the international community, lead by the UN, and all the major countries will give due importance to human lives instead of to temporary economic gains when dealing with China. If the current trend of many countries bowing down to China's pressure continues then we fear for the future of humanity as a whole. What is happening in Tibet is not "an internal affair of China"; it is a part of the global problem.

Even the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her autobiography has said, "China claim to Tibet is dubious on historical grounds", and she has expressed fear for the survival of the Tibetan people and their culture as a result of the massive influx of Chinese settlers in Tibet.

Time is running out for Tibet and the Tibetan people. In view of the present crisis in Tibet, we urgently appeal to the UN and the International community to:

1. Immediately dispatch independent fact finding delegations to Tibet to let the world know the truth;


2. Immediately persuade China to allow free press to visit and cover the whole of Tibet;


3. Immediately urge China to end the brutal killings in the whole of Tibet;


4. Immediately urge China to release all the Tibetans arrested and imprisoned;


5. Immediately urge China to allow international medical teams, such as Red Cross and Medicines Sans Frontiers to take care of injured Tibetans, who are too scared to visit hospitals for fear of being arrested;


6. Immediately urge China to allow free movement of people and provide access to daily needs, such as food and water.

For more information please visit the Tibetan Solidarity Committee website www.stoptibetcrisis.net

We pray for peace in Tibet and the world.

In haste,

The Office of Tibet, London

http://www.tibet.com/NewsRoom/tibetnet1.htm

Iniziano questa settimana gli Incontri del Mercoledì del Centro Mimir in SL: Corsi e Labirintici Percorsi.

Iniziano da questa settimana gli Incontri del Mercoledì al Teatro Greco di Elegua, ad accesso libero, dalle ore 22 italiane in poi, per circa 2 ore.

Corsi e Labirintici Percorsi

Al Teatro Greco di Elegua (235,50,22) spazio didattico e di reciproco insegnamento in tema di psicologia cognitiva affettivita' comunicazione immaginazione memoria linguaggi intelligenza umana e artificiale mondi virtuali

Incontri ogni Mercoledì dalle ore 22 italiane



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L'abominevole atteggiamento dell'Europa nei confronti degli Ebrei prosegue nel Terzo Millennio. Tappa a Torino

La Fiera del Libro, che si tiene in questi giorni a Torino, è la cartina di tornasole del pessimo e abominevole rapporto che continua nel Terzo Millennio tra Europa ed Ebrei.

L'Europa è riuscita nel corso del '900, dalla Russia sovietica alla Gran Bretagna, dalla Svezia all'Italia (Spagna e Portogallo avevano già dato 500 anni prima) punto di snodo ma anche di convergenza da destra e da sinistra la Germania nazista, a liberarsi con un'unica soluzione finale ancorchè dilazionata nel tempo fuori dalla follia omicida del III Reich, degli Ebrei presenti sul proprio territorio, ridotti ora ad un'estremamente esigua minoranza.

Non paga, prima durante e dopo la fondazione dello Stato di Israele, il 14 Maggio 1948, non ha perso occasione per cercare di impedire, prima, e di ostacolare in tutti i modi poi, lo sviluppo, il radicamento, la crescita umana e materiale di quel popolo e di quello stato.

Il principale non detto e che pervicacemente continua a non dirsi da parte di antichi e nuovi antisemiti, è che lo Stato di Israele è stato fin dall'inizio incoraggiato e sostenuto unicamente dagli Stati Uniti d'America.

Non il popolo arabo che, ingannato dalla propaganda nazista, perdurante tuttora (vedasi ad esempio l'attuale Iran) avrebbe pur tratto un enorme vantaggio dalla presenza riconosciuta di un grande stato ebraico in quell'area.

Non Stalin, che pur avendo combattuto il nazismo e sacrificato milioni di vite umane a questo scopo, con Hitler aveva pur inizialmente concordato una convivenza pacifica in funzione del condiviso dominio sul mondo intero, a spese dei popoli minori, o delle inferiori razze.

E non l'Europa, appunto, che se non altro per riscattarsi dalla cattiva coscienza delle pur diffuse, anche in Gran Bretagna e in Francia, connivenze con il fascismo ed il nazismo, avrebbe potuto fare da levatrice del neonato stato ebraico.

E invece quella coscienza ha preferito lavarsela atteggiandosi ad amica dell'a suo dire espropriato popolo arabo di Palestina, in funzione anti ebraica, in stridente contraddizione con la pratica quotidiana attuale di rifiuto del diverso, non importa se islamico o buddista, quando presente sul proprio territorio, e ancora più nell'accusa rivolta agli Ebrei di Israele di comportamenti razzisti e nazisti, quando è proprio la stessa Europa che ha cacciato altrove gli Ebrei nel corso di tutta la sua più che bimillenaria storia, tranne poi non riconoscere loro neppure il diritto ad un qualsivoglia altrove.

Se dunque fin dal 1948 la rappresentazione che l'Europa ha dato dello Stato di Israele è quella di rappresentante degli interessi occidentali (opportunamente sorvolando sul dettaglio che occidentale è innanzitutto l'Europa) e americani, questa rappresentazione non è casuale, e continua ad essere messa in scena dalla massa crescente degli antisemiti di destra, di centro (perchè anche nella Chiesa Cattolica riemergono periodicamente rigurgiti di caccia ai deicidi) e di sinistra (non solo radicale o estrema) proprio per occultare l'assenza, la complice assenza dell'Europa nella storia recente del popolo ebraico in Israele, mimando al contempo una difesa dei diritti del popolo palestinese che è puramente di facciata, e in funzione principalmente antisemita, antiebraica, più che a favore di un reale progresso delle sorti anche, e contemporaneamente di quel popolo, e del popolo arabo nel suo insieme.

THE WALL proudly presented by The Cybernetic Art Research Project

The Cybernetic Art Research Project proudly presents...

** THE WALL **
** ALL PROCEEDS TO RELAY FOR LIFE **

On July 21 1990, nine months after the dismantlement of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters and an all-star cast performed "The Wall" at the Potzdamer Platz in Berlin. The performance was watched by a live audience of 250,000 and an estimated half-billion people on television…

And now, an international team of artists working with the Cybernetic Art Research Project (CARP) bring a unique vision and live performance of "The Wall" to Second Life ™...

All five performances at the previous venue filled the sim and it became necessary to move the show to a bigger venue. Today we are pleased to announce that "The Wall" will be performed...

EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY at 2pm in MAY 2008
at the 4-sim Tracer Amphitheatre @ Havens Paradise
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Havens%20Paradise/19/233/22
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Havens%20Paradise/13/243/22
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Havens%20Cove/13/12/22

“Mother, should I trust the government?”

The CARP Wall Team:

Creative Director: Debbie Trilling (UK)
Producer: Velazquez ‘The Global Wizard’ Bonetto (Germany)
Wall Design: Elfod Nemeth (UK)
Giant Animated Puppets: Duggy Bing (US)
Costumes & Animations: Caravaggio Bonetto (Austria)
Music: Junivers Stockholm (Sweden) & Josina Burgess (Holland)
Machinema: Eifachfilm Vacirca (Switzerland)

with valuable contributions from:

Scio Kamanchi (US)
Gypsy Paz (US)
Lyddyn Tzara (US)
Celeste Moonlight (US)
DJ Jenns (UK)
Adec Alexandria (UK)
George W Bush (US)

and, of course, Pink Floyd's incredible album 'The Wall'

For press release photographs or any further information, please IM Debbie Trilling

Reviews:
‘A massive, magical hit. An unforgettable, enchanting triumph, "THE WALL" dazzles the senses and touches the heart.’

‘Packed with shocks, sorcery, special effects and incredible costumes, "THE WALL" is an SL sensation.’

'A great big luscious SL musical extravaganza. "THE WALL" has taken SL by surprise and will be a hit musical. Powerful and subversive. It's a fabulous production.'

"An incredible technical feat to have achieved all this within SL"

"The best live performance ever to be staged in SL"

"Sets a new benchmark for live performances in SL"

"Amazing. Not so much viewed as it is experienced"

"All I can say is WOW. GREAT show"

Useful links:

Selection of performance photos: www.flickr.com
Cybernetic Art Research Project: diabolus.ning.com/
Recent CARP ventures: gallery-diabolus.com/CARP/carp-04.pdf
Debbie Trilling wiki: wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Debbie_Trilling
Debbie Trilling SL profile: world.secondlife.com/
Velazquez Bonetto SL profile: http://world.secondlife.com

Special Notes:

All facelights and other vanity lighting systems are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please see article "How to Ruin an Artists Work Using Facelights & Prim Lighting" for more information: http://diabolus.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2012390%3ATopic%3A2501





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Hu Jintao hopes positive outcome between representatives of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials, but Tibetan Youth Congress is ' terrorist spearhead'

Report: Chinese president hopeful on Tibet talks

By WILLIAM FOREMAN – 42 minutes ago

http://ap.google.com

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — President Hu Jintao said he has hopes for a "positive outcome" between representatives of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials at talks that began Sunday — the first since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet in March.

"I hope that the contacts with the Dalai Lama's side from today will yield a positive outcome," Hu told Japanese reporters in Beijing, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.

Hu said he hoped the Dalai Lama would take concrete actions to stop violence, attempts to disrupt the Beijing Olympics and split China. That would create conditions for further consultation, Xinhua said.

Tibetologists consider "Tibetan Youth Congress" a terrorist pro-independence spearhead

www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-04 19:43:25

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/04

BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) is a stubborn advocacy group for "Tibet independence" supported by the Tibetan "government-in-exile", which upholds complete violence and has become an armed spearhead of the 14th Dalai Lama group, says a senior Chinese Tibetologist.

The TYC was set up in 1970 under the "direct incitement of the Dalai", said Bi Hua, a senior researcher with the Beijing-based China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC), a research institution established in 1986.

Bi said that in the early 1970s, some Tibetan youths "in exile" became decadent and tired of life, as either independence or returning to China was hopeless years after they fled the country. The group was established against such a backdrop.

The Dalai Lama and major officials of the "government-in-exile" had attended the TYC's inauguration ceremony in 1970 and encouraged Tibetan youths to pursue Tibet independence "with resolution and courage".

Bi said the Dalai Lama intended to break geographical shackles and resolve conflicts among sects via the TYC so as to move Tibetan youths and train his successors.

The TYC constitution's chapter four clearly stated that extensive movement should be organized "even at the cost of blood and life" to achieve the independent goal, said Bi.

The organization affiliated to Dalai Lama supporters, rapidly spread to major Tibetan outposts in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Britain, Canada and the United States in the 1980s and sprouted 81 branches worldwide covering more than 30,000 members, he said.

Eighty percent of the staff of the "government-in-exile" were TYC members. More than 60 key members joined the "government" and assumed major posts since 1980s, he said.

In 1993, six of the seven Kalons (Ministers) in their executive body came from the TYC. Samdom, the current principal Kalon, and Gyarig Lozhoi Gyaincain, were members of the organization when it was newly founded, he alleged.

Bi said the TYC organized many activities to achieve their independence goal. The annual March 10 protest against the Chinese government was typical. It included violent assaults on overseas Chinese embassies and consulates, or means of protest such as sit-ins and hunger strikes.

Bi said the organization also commemorated the Dalai Lama birthday (July 6), the anniversary of the Dalai Lama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize (Dec. 10) and "Democratic Day" (Sept. 2),Bi said.

Bi alleged that the TYC former president Cedain Norbu told "pro-democracy movement representatives" during an interview in 2002 that they would use various measures, including terrorism, to achieve independence.

Previously, many TYC presidents and secretary-generals had claimed, "armed struggles and violence was the only way to independence" and "terrorism could achieve maximum effect with minimum cost", said Bi.

Bi said the organization exposed its violent nature in many events such as the 1974 incident in Bhutan. In that year, in order to turn Bhutan into a forefront against Tibet, the Dalai Lama group plotted to upset the Bhutan government, but the plan was thwarted and 28 suspects were seized by the Bhutan police when Dalai's people prepared to set a palace on fire and assassinate the King.

Bi said Tibet Autonomous Region had long been considered by the TYC as a major battlefield. The group planned and directly participated in the Lhasa riots in 1987, 1988 and 1989 as well as the March 14 riot.

The day after the March 14 Lhasa riot, the TYC approved a decision to "found a guerrilla movement as soon as possible to secretly enter China and carry out armed struggles" at a meeting of its "central executive committee" in Dharmsala, the location of the Dalai Lama's "government-in-exile" in India, said Bi.

They made detailed plans about personnel, fund and armament purchase, and planned to smuggle into China via the border with Nepal, which they had carefully surveyed, said Bi.

TERRORISM

CTRC senior Tibetologist Liu Hongji told Xinhua that the pro-independence group had actively engaged in training its armed forces and reserve troop. They also sought mutual support from international terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida and East Turkistan groups.

Liu said that this year the TYC had organized training sessions, such as one on "dynamite techniques" and another on how to carry out violent and terrorist activities.

"The TYC has become a terrorist organization as concepts of violence have taken root in the organization," said Liu.

He said that from the late-1980s Lhasa riots to March 14 incident, the TYC was behind the scenes organizing and masterminding these events.

"The group's shadow was evident when the police confiscated a large number of guns and ammunition in some monasteries in China's Tibetan-inhabited regions after the March 14 riot," Liu said.

Lian Xiangmin, a researcher with the CTRC, said the expansion of power of the TYC was closely linked with the Dalai Lama as the group's tenet was to "comply with the guide of the Dalai Lama even at the cost of life".

Lian said the Dalai lama and the TYC shared the same goal and the so-called differences lay only with means or strategies. Picking up the Dalai Lama's hints, the TYC would fight for independence at any cost.

On the one hand, the Dalai Lama and "government-in-exile" advocated "more autonomy" and "peaceful and non-violent" steps, which had won support from members of the Western public and become a card to play with the Chinese central government; on the other, radical youth organizations such as the TYC declared independence and acted violently even at the cost of blood and life, Lian said.

"How come the Dalai Lama says he has 'lost control' (over his radical subordinate)? Actually they support and complement each other well. It's just presented as two approaches between the Dalai Lama and the TYC. They seem to be on two routes, but ultimately reach one goal," he said.

Lian said the TYC would become a "public enemy" if it did not stop violence and terrorism against the Chinese government and the people.

Disruption activities staged by the Dalai clique would become an unstable and unharmonious factor in Asia as well as the world, he added.

Lian said it was important to differentiate between a tiny minority of the TYC backbone members from a majority of the 30,000members who did not uphold violence.

"We hope the 14th Dalai Lama could truly give up 'Tibet independence', stop secessionist activities, stop instigating violence, stop disrupting the Beijing Olympics, effectively prevent TYC's violence and denounce its terrorist acts," he said.

TIBET: COLLOQUI IN CORSO TRA INVIATI DALAI LAMA E FUNZIONARI PECHINO

TENZIN TAKLHA, DURERANNO ALMENO DUE GIORNI A SHENZHEN

New Delhi, 4 mag. (Adnkronos/Dpa) - I colloqui informali tra i due inviati del Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari e Kelsang Gyaltsen, e funzionari cinesi sulla crisi in Tibet sono in corso nella citta' cinese di Shenzhen, nella provincia del Guangdong, e andranno avanti almeno per i prossimi due giorni, secondo quanto affermato dal portavoce della guida spirituale Tenzin Taklha

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Cina, dalla stampa di regime attacchi agli inviati del Dalai Lama
dal nostro corrispondente FEDERICO RAMPINI

La Repubbica, 4 Maggio 2008

http://www.repubblica.it

Hanno varcato la frontiera cinese ieri sera arrivando all'aeroporto intercontinentale di Hong Kong: uno in provenienza dalla Svizzera, l'altro dagli Stati Uniti. Poi sono sbarcati sulla terraferma a Shenzhen, la città-boom cresciuta dal niente a dodici milioni di abitanti in meno di vent'anni, un simbolo della potenza economica cinese. E oggi a Shenzhen i due esuli tibetani, rappresentanti ufficiali del Dalai Lama, avranno un incontro con le autorità cinesi. Si apre così quello che è stato battezzato il "dialogo" tra il regime di Pechino e il Dalai Lama, un termine che rischia di rivelarsi ottimista e prematuro...

... Il sospetto che i due portavoce del Dalai Lama possano essere strumentalizzati è avvalorato dall'atmosfera che si respira a Pechino. Mentre l'incontro è stato pubblicizzato all'estero, a uso e consumo dei governi occidentali, in Cina nessun mezzo d'informazione ne ha dato notizia. Al contrario i mass media governativi continuano a lanciare contro il Dalai Lama bordate di accuse a cadenza quotidiana. Ieri il Quotidiano del Tibet ha pubblicato un editoriale di fuoco: "Il popolo patriottico del Tibet condanna duramente e denuncia con vigore la catena di crimini commessi dal Dalai Lama e dai suoi seguaci". Nella migliore delle ipotesi, la tattica cinese punta a intimidire gli interlocutori per avviare il negoziato da posizioni di forza, e concedere il minimo possibile. Ma è azzardato pensare che il regime cinese sia intenzionato a negoziare e a fare concessioni.

Chinese are burning all the dead bodies of people who have been killed since the March 14 protest in Tibet

1 May 2008
Toelung Dechen (Ch: Duilongdeqing) County, Lhasa Municipality-Evidences being destroyed by the Chinese army

The Chinese armed forces in their attempt to wipe out any kind of evidence related to the recent protests in Tibet are burning all the dead bodies of people who have been killed since the March 14 protest in Tibet.

On 28th March, around 83 corpses were burnt altogether in an electrical crematorium, which was built by the Chinese government a few years back in the Dhongkar Yabdha shang town in Toelung Dechen county under Lhasa Municipality.

Moreover, some eyewitness accounts confirmed that at around10.30 pm (Lhasa local time) on March 17, dead bodies of several were seen in two army trucks near a petrol pump located towards the west of Lhasa [this petrol pump has been one of the most restricted sites since the protests began in Tibet]

Due to a heavy traffic jam around this petrol pump, a few Tibetans reported having seen blood discharges from the two trucks that were carrying dead bodies. In addition to this, there are more reports of dead bodies being transported to Toelung Dechen County in army trucks.

On the evening of March 15, an eyewitness source confirmed seeing dead bodies being carried in a truck towards Toelung County.

http://www.tibetnews.com/node/127

Tra i manifestanti a Hong Kong anche l’attrice Mia Farrow che ha denunciato la Cina non soltanto per la repressione in Tibet ma per la copertura data, in cambio di forniture di petrolio, al regime sudanese nelle atrocità perpetrate nella regione del Darfur. Il governo di Khartum, ha detto l’attrice, “incassa dalle esportazioni di petrolio 4 miliardi di dollari l’anno, di cui il 70 per cento viene utilizzato per attaccare la popolazione in Darfur”.

Intanto il governo tibetano in esilio fa nuovamente sentire la propria voce. In un comunicato apparso sul loro sito web ufficiale accusa la polizia cinese di bruciare i corpi dei tibetani morti durante i moti di Lhasa cominciati lo scorso 14 marzo. Secondo il comunicato, il 28 marzo circa 83 corpi sono stati inceneriti nel crematorio elettrico nella città di Dhongkar Yabdha, nel distretto di Toelung Dechen, che rientra sotto la Municipalità di Lhasa. Il motivo - viene denunciato nel documento - sarebbe stato quello di “pulire interamente dall’interno ogni prova relativa alle recenti proteste in Tibet”. Il comunicato, inoltre, denuncia che molti tibetani rimasti feriti durante gli scontri, trasportati al Peoplès Hospital, sono morti e stanno ancora morendo senza cure.

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La Repubblica, (2 maggio 2008)

Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV aired a documentary claiming that Jews planned and perpetrated the Holocaust

Hamas TV claims 'Satanic Jews' planned, perpetrated Holocaust
By Anat Rosenberg
Tags: Holocaust, Hamas, Jews

Ha' aretz, 05-01-2008

http://www.haaretz.com/

Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV aired a documentary on April 18 claiming that Jews planned and perpetrated the Holocaust in order to rid the nation of the "burden" of the weak and disabled.

Palestinian Media Watch, a group that monitors Palestinian Arabic language media and schoolbooks, uploaded part of the program onto YouTube in a segment called "Hamas Holocaust Perversion: Jews Planned Holocaust to Kill Handicapped Jews."

The Al-Aqsa TV clip edits together footage from the World War II Nazi Genocide, showing Jews being rounded up and taken to a train as well as emaciated corpses lying in a pile, alongside images of Israeli leaders David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir.



The accompanying commentary claims that Ben Gurion said "the disabled and handicapped are a heavy burden on the state." To rid them of that scourge, the video claims, Ben Gurion and "the Satanic Jews thought up an evil plot to be rid of the burden of disable and handicapped in twisted criminal ways."

The video also claims that Jews made up the Holocaust and blamed the Nazis for it in order to "benefit from international sympathy."

The Holocaust "was a joke, and part of the perfect show that Ben Gurion put on," said Amin Dabur, head of the Palestinian Center for Strategic Research organization, in the video.

Dabur added that the "Jewish plan" focused on developing "strong and energetic youth [for Israel]," and that the figure of six million Jewish victims is mere propaganda