The Secret Tibet (The Forbidden world)

{The Tibet Post International -16 July 2008}-Chinatibetnews.com today published a commentary on probationary implementation of a set of regulations concerning awarding of punishment to those govt. officials and party cadres who sent their children to schools and institutions run by the so-called "Dalai Clique".

The report suggested that the new regulations was adopted in the face of growing numbers of Tibetan youths and children having been beguiled and manipulated by the Dalai clique on the pretext of myriads of facilities including free education, free fooding and lodging etc. This regulation, the report said, was imperatively necessary to defend China's next generation potentials from such deceptions.

Expounding on the components of the regulations, the commentary said that whoever among the govt. employees and party cadres, after the adoption of this law, if found to be sending their children to the schools and institutions (including monasteries) run by the Dalai clique would be right away expelled from their jobs. And prior to the adoption and dissemination of the regulations, whoever returns back from India must voluntarily appear before the relevant authorities and provide explanations. Those children who have been condensed by foreign reactionary education and who have practically participated in separatist and destructive activities must voluntarily review their perception and accept their faults to the government and the administration.

The report further warned the parents to bring back within two months all their children currently studying in the schools and institutions run by the Dalai clique and this order must be complied within prescribed time frame. Those who do not report, without holding back anything, to the higher authorities, and whose children do not return back within the given time frame would be immediately expelled from their work. Whereas those who return back complying to the orders and acknowledge their "mistakes" shall be dealt with leniently or shall be totally forgiven, the report said of regulation.

There are, however, certain things that needs to be clarified on the above matter:

1. The Chinese govt. often claims that it has brought an unparalleled development in Tibet; that the education in Tibet has achieved an unprecedented level; and that no education fees or any other expenses are borne by the public. If there is really such an excellent educational facilities available in Tibet, then how the limited facilities in the exile Tibetan community would attract and entice the larger Tibetan people, particularly those govt. officials and party cadres in Tibet.

2. Currently, at the international level, most of the prominent Tibetan intellectuals, professors and lecturers in different universities around the world with modern education background are all but those brought up and educated in exile or those who got the opportunity only after having escaped into exile. Why is it not the case with those in China? The Chinese govt. every year sends thousands of students to study abroad but there barely are any Tibetan students. Why is it so? Let us talk of the Tibetan cadres and those Tibetan officials who serve as State leaders. Even their children had to spend some time in the exile Tibetan society before they get an opportunity to join the international society.

3. The Chinese government regards Tibetan Buddhism as "blind faith" and condemn the old Tibetan society as an "oppressive, dark, backward and barbarous". By distorting the history China refuses to allow the instruction and use of Tibetan language and its culture by not providing any facilities of its dissemination and development. What's more, even in terms of modern education, the Chinese government had now and then created hindrances to the instruction of modern science and other subjects in Tibetan language. On the initiatives of Late Panchen Lama, in fact the course materials for the higher middle level school in Tibetan language had been prepared to be implemented all over Tibet, but to no avail. Thanks to the govt's obstinacy and it's handling of the Tibetan education that one could not stop suspecting that China is hell-bent on assimilating the Tibetan people into the Han majority or less perilously, turn them into an insignificant bunch of illiterates.

4. If we take into account the recent statistics, every year at least three to five thousand Tibetans flee their homeland in spite of the great risk of life and myriads of suffering they endure during their treacherous journey over the high mountainous terrains, fear of getting killed or at least arrested or raped by the border patrols, facing snow storms and crevices, starvation, inadaptable climatic conditions and above all, the pain of parting their parents and relatives in Tibet. The primary and the most important reason for them to escape to India is to see His Holiness the Dalai Lama, their supreme leader and to cherish the taste of freedom and liberty, as well as to pursue both modern and traditional education which only in exile can they find. Grabbing this precious opportunity even the govt. officials and the party cadres send their children to India.

So therefore, the question arises, who either of us have lost or stolen the next generation potential?

In view of the ongoing critical situation inside Tibet, we urge the United Nations and the International community and organizations to the following urgent needs:

   1. To immediately send an independent international fact-finding mission into Tibet
   2. To exert pressure on the PRC government to allow unfettered access to free press in whole of Tibet
   3. To pressure the PRC to end the brutal killings in the whole of Tibet
   4. To immediately release all the arrested and imprisoned Tibetans
   5. To extend immediate medical assistance to those injured Tibetans
   6. To allow free movement of people and provide access to daily needs

 Report- Tibetan Solidarity Committee on 15 July 2008