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Whereas the 2007 Annual Report of the Congressional-Exec-
utive Commission on China found that the Chinese Gov-
ernment has enforced on Tibetan Buddhists an ‘‘in-
creased level of repression of the freedom of religion’’ and 
that ‘‘the government is establishing greater control over 
the Tibetan rural population by implementing programs 
that will bring to an end the traditional lifestyle of the 
Tibetan nomadic herder’’; 
Whereas the Chinese Government humiliates the religious 
feeling of Tibetan Buddhists by requiring Buddhist 
monks and Tibetan officials to write denunciations of the 
Dalai Lama; 
Whereas, in 2005, Zhang Qingli, Secretary of the Communist 
Party of the Tibet Autonomous Region, revealed the Chi-
nese Government’s attitude toward Tibet when he stated, 
‘‘The Communist Party is like the parent to the Tibetan 
people, and it is always considerate about what the chil-
dren need,’’ and, ‘‘The Central Party Committee is the 
real Buddha for Tibetans’’; 
Whereas the Chinese Government is altering the ethnic and 
cultural character of Tibet by using direct and indirect 
incentives to encourage overwhelming numbers of non-Ti-
betans to move to Tibet and a settlement program that 
disrupts the lives of nomadic Tibetans by requiring them 
to settle in fixed communities; 
Whereas, as a result of these actions of the Chinese Govern-
ment, since March 10, 2008, many Tibetans have been 
peacefully and publicly protesting, so that between March 
10 and April 1, 2008, there have been reports of over 
forty Tibetan protests across a wide geographic region, 
including the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Tibetan 
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areas of the neighboring provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, 
and Sichuan; 
Whereas the peaceful protests have often been marches led by 
Tibetan Buddhist monks or candlelight vigils, and pro-
testers have called for independence and expressed their 
support for the Dalai Lama, including his return to 
Tibet; 
Whereas some Tibetans have also rioted and behaved aggres-
sively and violently, destroying property and assaulting, 
beating, and sometimes killing non-Tibetans; 
Whereas Chinese authorities have responded to these protests 
and riots with unwarranted aggression and violence, so 
that by April 1, 2008, authorities have shot and killed 
over 140 Tibetans, detained several thousand, and put 
thousands of Buddhist monks under effective house ar-
rest; 
Whereas the Chinese Government has censored news of these 
protests in China, blocked Web sites to prevent uncen-
sored news from reaching the Chinese people, including 
the Web sites of CNN, BBC, Google News, Yahoo!, and 
YouTube, and some foreign journalists in China have re-
ported that their e-mail service has been interrupted; 
Whereas the Chinese Government has used its state-con-
trolled media to present a distorted version of these pro-
tests in order to raise Chinese national feeling against 
the Tibetans, tightly focusing its coverage on acts of vio-
lence committed by some Tibetans, but not mentioning 
Tibetan grievances or that authorities have shot and 
killed many Tibetans; and 
Whereas China’s Internet Surveillance Bureau has warned 
Tibetans about sharing factual news about the protests, 
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‘‘We inform Internet users that it is forbidden to post 
news about Tibetan events . . . From today, the Internet 
Surveillance Bureau will carry out filtering and censor-
ship . . . anyone infringing this ban will have their I.P. 
address sent to the police who will take the necessary 
steps’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives— 
(A) condemns the Chinese Government’s 
dispersion and detention of peaceful Tibetan 
protesters; 
(B) condemns the Chinese Government’s 
policy of using the Internet and news media as 
a tool of censorship, surveillance, and state con-
trol of society; 
(C) rejects as unfounded the Chinese Gov-
ernment’s charge that the Dalai Lama has or-
ganized the protests; 
(D) expresses its admiration for the spir-
itual leadership provided by the Dalai Lama; 
(E) expresses its admiration for the brav-
ery of peaceful Tibetan protesters who have 
risked harassment, punishment, physical harm, 
and imprisonment to draw attention to the 
egregious injustices the Chinese Government 
has visited upon the Tibetan people; and 
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(F) expresses its solidarity with the Ti-
betan people; and 
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that the United States should— 
(A) call upon the Chinese Government to 
permit peaceful protest; 
(B) call upon the Chinese Government to 
carefully distinguish between peaceful pro-
testers, who should not be punished, and riot-
ers, who should be properly restrained and 
whose cases should be adjudicated in accord 
with legal processes that respect international 
human rights agreements and international 
norms of legal process; 
(C) continue to call upon the Chinese Gov-
ernment to cease blocking Internet Web sites, 
cease interfering with journalists’ e-mail serv-
ices, permit fair coverage by the news media of 
events in Tibet, and dismantle the Internet Sur-
veillance Bureau; 
(D) call upon the Chinese Government to 
comply with Chinese criminal law and the laws 
of legal procedure, and to provide details about 
each Tibetan detained or charged with a crime, 
including each person’s name, the charges (if 
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any) against each person, and to allow access 
by diplomats and international observers to the 
trials of Tibetans charged with protest-related 
crimes; 
(E) call upon the Chinese Government to 
engage in serious and substantive dialogue with 
the Dalai Lama and his representatives over 
the future of Tibet; and 
(F) call upon the Chinese Government to 
abide by the international human rights agree-
ments which it has signed. 
Æ 
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