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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 106

Urging the President to raise, at the highest levels of the Government of

the People’s Republic of China, the issue of Chinese population transfer

into Tibet in an effort to bring about an immediate end to that government’s policy on this issue.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 27, 1993

Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. PORTER, and Mr. LANTOS)

submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the

Committee on Foreign Affairs

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Urging the President to raise, at the highest levels of the

Government of the People’s Republic of China, the issue

of Chinese population transfer into Tibet in an effort

to bring about an immediate end to that government’s

policy on this issue.

Whereas the most critical issue for the Tibetan people today

is the transfer of Chinese population into Tibet, which is

reducing the Tibetans to a minority in their own country;

Whereas this population transfer is a combination of the

direct transfer of Chinese by the Government of the

People’s Republic of China and government-induced

relocation;
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Whereas the rate of population transfer has now reached the

point where the distinct identity of the Tibetan people

and their civilization are being overwhelmed;

Whereas the transfer of Chinese population into Tibet threatens the cultural, religious, and national identity of the

Tibetan people and violates their human rights;

Whereas the State Department’s Country Reports on Human

Rights Practices for 1992 states that the ‘‘massive influx

into Tibet of Han Chinese. . .already affects ethnic mixture in Lhasa’’, and in 1992 Asia Watch stated that the

movement of Chinese into Tibet ‘‘has increased in recent

years. . .because of incentives directly offered by the

government’’;

Whereas Tibetans have already been reduced to a minority of

the population in all major Tibetan towns and cities;

Whereas new Chinese towns and cities, exclusively inhabited

by Chinese settlers, are being built at an increasing rate;

Whereas Chinese population transfer results in widespread

discrimination against Tibetans and in marginalization of

Tibetans in political and economic spheres;

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China

sends Chinese settlers to Tibet and induces Chinese to

relocate in Tibet by offering incentives such as wage,

pension, and tax benefits, interest-free or low-interest

loans, housing assistance, and assured employment for

family members who move to Tibet;

Whereas on October 28, 1991, the Congress enacted section

355 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal

Years 1992 and 1993, which expresses the sense of the

Congress that Tibet is an illegally occupied country
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whose true representatives are the Tibetan government in

exile and His Holiness the Dalai Lama;

Whereas His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s efforts to achieve a

peaceful negotiated solution to the problem of the transfer of Chinese into Tibet have not been reciprocated by

the Government of the People’s Republic of China: Now,

therefore, be it

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate

2 concurring), That the Congress urges the President to

3 raise, at the highest levels of the Government of the Peo4 ple’s Republic of China, the issue of Chinese population

5 transfer into Tibet in an effort to bring about an imme6 diate end to that government’s policy on this issue.

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