Stop rights violations in Tibet: South African MPs
November 11th, 2011 - 8:12 pm ICT by IANSDharamsala, Nov 11 (IANS) Expressing solidarity with the people of Tibet, two South African MPs have called for stopping human rights violations in Tibet by the Chinese government, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said Friday.
“We must join hands to urge the Chinese government to stop its repressive policies and human rights violations, allow basic freedom of religion and speech and allow independent media and international delegation of parliamentarians to travel to Tibetans areas to examine the actual situation,” Mario G.K. Oriani-Ambrosini said in the South African parliament.
A post on the CTA website, quoting another MP Steven Mokgalapa, said: “The latest spate of self-immolations by Tibetans monks in protest against the Chinese government’s continued human rights abuses are a sure sign of worsening conditions under which Tibetans have to live under Chinese rule.”
He said his Democratic Alliance party had called on the South African government “to take note of the human rights abuses in China and speak out boldly against them”.
“As a nation that has benefited from international pressure to end apartheid, we too need to support the right to self-determination of other states,” he said in the parliament.
The latest case relates to the self-immolation by Palden Choetso, a 35-year-old nun from Tawu Gaden Choeling nunnery, near Nyitso monastery in east Tibet this month.
The CTA based here said the Tibetans immolated themselves to protest China’s policies for their demand of freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama to his homeland.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was denied a visa by the South Africa government last month for the second time in two years as Pretoria has close ties with China. The Nobel laureate was to attend a peace conference there on the invitation of another fellow Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu.
India is home to around 100,000 Tibetans.
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