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Titolo: Summit interreligioso all'ONU

Carissimi Amici,
un Summit dei Leaders religiosi inizierà il 28 Agosto a New York sotto
l'egida dell'ONU.
"Chiediamo alla gente del mondo, in qualsiasi momento della giornata, di
ritrovarsi nei loro luoghi di culto,  di lavoro, strade o case per unirsi a
questi capi religiosi quando entreranno alle Nazioni Unite e si riuniranno
in preghiera per la pace", ha detto il Segretario Generale del Summit Bawa
Jain. "Uno dei temi del Summit è il perdono e la riconciliazione. Chiediamo
alle persone del mondo di impegnarsi nel perdono e riconciliazione nelle
loro proprie vite. Questa comprensione della pace a livello personale
aiuterà a sua volta lo sforzo più grande per l'ottenimento della pace
mondiale," ha aggiunto Jain.
Al Summit Religioso, tutte le regioni del mondo saranno rappresentate, tanto
quanto le maggiori tradizioni della fede Bahá'í, Buddista, Cristiana,
Confuciana, Induista, Indigena, Islamica, Giainista, Ebraica, Scintoista,
Sikh, Taoista e Zoroastriana.
Il Summit Religioso convocato per il 28 agosto, alle Nazioni Unite, riunirà
assieme riconosciuti rappresentanti religiosi e spirituali per discutere il
ruolo che possono giocare nel ridurre le tensioni religiose.
Dopo l'incontro al quartier generale delle Nazioni Unite il 28 e 29 agosto,
questi capi continueranno ad impegnarsi in una sessione di gruppo di lavoro
di due giorni al Waldorf Astoria Hotel per individuare iniziative speciali
indirizzate ai conflitti regionali, alla questione della povertà e ai
problemi ambientali.
Esiti previsti del Summit sono una Dichiarazione per la Pace Mondiale e
piani per la formazione di un Consiglio Internazionale di Consulenza dei
Capi Religiosi e Spirituali in evoluzione che potrà servire da risorsa per
il Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite e per il sistema delle Nazioni
Unite nei suoi sforzi di prevenzione e risoluzione dei conflitti. Il Summit
è stato organizzato da un gruppo indipendente di capi di diverse fedi,
studiosi religiosi e teologi.
per maggiori informazioni
www.millenniumpeacesummit.com
www.millenniumpeacesummit.com/news.html

 l'egida dell'ONU. [...]
un Summit indelebilmente macchiato da una oscena e vergognosa esclusione: quella
del DALAI LAMA del Tibet
vedi post di ieri:
From: "Tibetano"
Newsgroups: free.tibet,it.cultura.orientale,it.cultura.religioni
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 7:12 PM
Subject: Incresciosa esclusione del Dalai Lama dal Summit Religioso del Millennio
alle Nazioni Unite
vorrei peraltro cogliere questa occasione per invitarvi ancora ad offrire il
vostro piccolo contributo, compilando ed inviando il form presente alla pagina del
mio spazio Web 
http://utenti.tripod.it/tibetano/news/petizione.html
nonché a leggere l'interessantissimo post a cui ho fatto più sopra riferimento
(purtroppo in lingua inglese)
bye
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 alle Nazioni Unite
al quale mi permetto di aggiungere questo (perdonatemi):
Thursday, August 24, 2000
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1. China Opposes Dalai Lama's Presence at U.N. Millennium Summit
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LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S., Aug 24, 2000 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report
by Wu Yuehui entitled: "Chinese delegation says Dalai's presence at
'Millennium World Peace Summit' inconsistent with its aims", carried
official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
At the press conference held here in Los Angeles August 23, the visiting
delegation of Chinese religious leaders pointed out that the "Millennium
World Peace Summit," to be attended by religious leaders from various
countries, should be a meeting of peace-makers instead of
turmoil-makers, and that if the Dalai Lama attends the summit, it will
be inconsistent with the peaceful aims of the summit.
Delegation head Fu Tieshan said: "The Dalai all along has engaged in
activities to split the motherland and to sabotage the stability of the
regions of minority nationalities. By repeatedly plotting and creating
turmoil in Tibet and other areas, he is a thoroughgoing turmoil-maker."
At the press conference, Jamyang Losang Jigme Tubdain [Thubden] Qoigyi
[Choki] Nyima, Living Buddha of Laboleng [Labrang] Buddhist Monastery in
Gansu Province and vice-president of the Buddhist Association of China,
pointed out that by inviting the Dalai to the "Millennium World Peace
Summit," some people "want to use the Dalai to engage in activities to
split China and to interfere in its internal affairs." He said: "The
Chinese people all along have stressed principle and feelings and have,
as always, been resolute on issues related to national sovereignty and
hurting the feelings of the Chinese people."
To be attended by religious leaders of various countries, the
"Millennium World Peace Summit" will be held at the United Nations
headquarters on August 28.
Source: Xinhua news agency for Hong Kong, Beijing, in Chinese 0615 GMT
24 Aug 00
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2. Annan Fends Off Criticism Over Dalai Lama
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UNITED NATIONS, Thursday August 24 (Reuters) - Fending off criticism
over the exclusion of the Dalai Lama from a conference of religious
leaders due to Chinese pressure, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on
Thursday U.N. headquarters was ``a house for the member states and their
sensitivities matter.''
Annan was replying to a question about the exclusion of Tibet's exiled
Buddhist leader from the World Peace Summit of Religious Leaders to be
held from Aug. 28-31, including some meetings at the United Nations.
About 1,000 religious figures representing most faiths will take part.
But the organizers did not invite the Dalai Lama after being told by
U.N. officials that his presence at the United Nations would raise
problems with China, which took over Tibet in 1950.
Annan said he understood that ``many people are understandably and
deeply disappointed that the Dalai Lama will not be here.''
``But let me also say that this house is really a house for the member
states and their sensitivities matter,'' he said. ''This is an issue
that the organizers of the meeting have known all along.''
Annan said that since he became secretary-general in 1997 he had ``tried
to open up this house as much as I can to all segments of civil
society.''
``In any effort of this kind you try to make progress, take progress as
you get it, and not hold out for the absolute best,'' he said.
``And I personally believe that having 1,000 religious leaders here next
week talking about peace, talking about our world and praying for all of
us and praying for peace is progress.''
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher expressed deep disappointment
last Friday that the Dalai Lama had not been invited.
``The Dalai Lama is one of the world's most revered religious and
spiritual leaders,'' Boucher said. ``As a voice of moderation and
conciliation, he deserves to be heard. The conference would benefit from
his participation.'' The conference was organized by a consortium of
non-governmental groups. They belatedly invited the Dalai Lama to the
closing ceremony at a New York hotel, but he declined to attend.
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3. Annan answers critics over exclusion of Dalai Lama from
   religious summit
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said
Thursday that the Dalai Lama had been excluded from a meeting of
spiritual leaders here next week because of the sensitivities of member
states.
"Many people are understandly and deeply disappointed that the Dalai
Lama will not be here for the Religious Summit," Annan told reporters.
"But let me also say that this house is really a house for the member
states and their sensitivities matter," he said.
"This is an issue that the organisers of the meeting have known all
along," he said.
UN officials said the summit was organised, not by the United Nations
itself, but by a group of religious leaders who had asked permission to
meet in the UN General Assembly Hall.
More than 1,000 leaders representing 75 different faiths are expected to
attend the meeting, which opens on Monday and is scheduled to move to
the Waldorf Hotel in New York later in the week.
The meeting is one of several such "summits" in the week before the UN's
own Millennium gathering of heads of state and government.
One of the fiercest critics of the United Nations, US Senator Jesse
Helms, said last week that the world body had "chosen to appease the
communist dictators" in China by not inviting the Dalai Lama.
In a letter to the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard
Holbrooke, Helms said it was "ironic that one of the world's most brutal
atheistic dictatorships can dictate to the UN who can and who cannot
participate in a so-called world peace summit."
The letter was released by Helms' office in Washington.
Annan said "ever since I took over, I have tried to open up this house
as much as I can to all segments of civil society."
He added: "In any effort of this kind, you try to make progress, take
progress as you get it, and not hold out for the absolute best."
The fact that 1,000 religious leaders were meeting at the UN and praying
for peace was progress, he said.
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4. German Envoy Thwarted in Bid to End Tibet NGO Row
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BEIJING, Aug 24, 2000 -- (Reuters) German ambassador Hans Christian
Ueberschaer has failed to resolve a dispute over China's expulsion from
Tibet of a German group's officials involved in restoring historic
buildings there, the embassy said on Wednesday. Ueberschaer flew to
Lhasa on Sunday in a bid to persuade the regional government to allow
the Tibet Heritage Fund (THF) to return to work after two of its
officials were expelled and its
bank account was frozen.
The German embassy said in a statement that Ueberschaer was received by
high-level Tibetan government officials, but made no progress in ending
the dispute. The THF, active in the Chinese-controlled Buddhist region
since 1997, had been at the center of intensive diplomatic lobbying
efforts since the expulsion of its two co-directors on August 13.
Germany and other
European donor countries would continue diplomatic efforts to persuade
Tibetan authorities to allow the THF and its 250 local employees to
return to work, the statement said.
Communist authorities in Tibet expelled German Andre Alexander and
Portuguese national Pimpim De Azevedo, charging the THF with a series of
violations. Its bank account of USD 50,000 was frozen, diplomats said.
The Tibetan government accused the THF of illegally circulating
publicity brochures, using unauthorized construction firms, restoring
unapproved sites and damaging social order, they said.
The German ambassador disputed the Tibetan government's accusations in
the stalemate, which has held up hundreds of thousands of dollars of
donor funds from Europe and the United
States, the statement said.
The fund has restored 76 buildings in Lhasa, including homes and temples
more than 1,200 years old.  Tibet's annexation by the Communist regime
in 1951 remains a sensitive human rights issue with most Western
countries. China, citing its ancient tributary relationship as the basis
for
sovereignty over the Himalayan region, says it has brought economic
development to its impoverished people after rescuing them from a feudal
theocracy.
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5. Pacifica Hosts Tibetan Freedom Concert
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Special to the Tribune by Jean Bartlett
Pacifica Tribune, Aug. 23, 2000
With pride, laughter and a certain amount of shushing, students of the
week long Tibetan Music Day Camp, hosted by Chaksampa, The Tibetan Dance
and Opera Company and the Pacifica Arts and Heritage Council, performed
for free what they had learned.
The camp, the first of its kind in the United States, taught Tibetan
children living here in the Bay Area (two of the children were from LA)
to learn more about their threatened culture through an introduction to
music, dance, story telling, games, costume-wearing as well as outdoor
activities.  Today's musical presentation created an understanding and
appreciation of the Tibetan culture and heritage for both the performers
and the audience members.
Starting with two very brief prayers, one to sharpen their mind for
music, twenty-seven children, aged 7 to 15, entertained both themselves
and the audience, equally.  After all, one week's education on a new
instrument can only be a performance of pride mixed with good humor.
Performing on the dranyen, a six-stringed lute, and the gyumang, a
hammer dulcimer, each child proved that there is no greater musical
performance than that which is done from the heart.
For me, the sound of these children voices joined in joyous songs of
their country, a country who lies hidden, yet not lost, since the 1949
invasion of the People's Liberation Army of China, was incredibly moving
and thought provoking.  And the sincere pride and raw talent these
children exhibited while performing the Gor shae (circle dance)
registered many emotions on their appreciative audience.
Following the performance all audience members were invited to try their
talent on a vast array of dranyens available to all.  Though the dranyen
looks simple to play it does require the patience of a proper teacher so
that one can learn proper techniques.  However, we dranyen novices
played to our heart's content with nary a cross look from the music
teacher who undoubtedly was well versed in the art of the forgiving ear.
Pacifican Rebecca Northrop thought, "The whole thing was interesting.
The dranyen was unusual, kind of like a guitar.  The dancing was very
nice."
Comments from Elena. "It was great.  It is very educational for the
kids.  Because the show taught so much about their culture."
Brenna Epperson, "I thought it was great because it shows that you can
really concentrate and learn in a short period of time.  I liked the
circle dancing.  I really liked the way the dranyen sounded."
Maggie Bigler, Treasurer, Pacifica Arts and Heritage Council, "I
absolutely cried.  We've been aware of Tibet and all their struggles for
years.  So it is so wonderful that we, here in Pacifica, could
contribute to the joy of these Tibetans."
Pacifica Arts and Heritage Council donated the Sanchez Art Center to
facilitate this extremely important, weeklong camp.  Those wishing to
learn more about this very worthwhile cause should visit the Chaksampa
Website: 
www.tibet.org/chaksampa/
.
Finally I share with you the last 4 lines of the Tibetan National
Anthem, which was eloquently performed today.
Thupten Chogchur Gyepai Zamling Yangpai Kyegu Shidhai Pal- la Jor
        May the Buddha's Teaching spread in all the ten directions and lead all
beings in the universe to glorious peace,
Boejong Tendroe Gyalsten Nyi-Woe Kyi
        May the spiritual sun of Tibetan faith and people,
Tashi Woenang Boom Du Trowai Zi
        Emitting countless rays of auspicious light,
Nagchog Moonpai Youl-Le Gya Gyur Chig
        Victoriously dispel the strife of darkness.
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6. "Daughter of Tibet" gone at age 92
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By Graham Peat,
Public Education, TRAS, Vancouver
We have lost one of the greatest Tibetans of our time. Rinchen Dolma
Taring was from a noble family in Lhasa and was educated in English in
India, where she first met her future husband, Jigme Taring, from Sikkim
royal lineage.
Jigme became an official of the young 14th Dalai Lama. The Tarings fled
Tibet in 1959 separately and met up again in India many months later.
Now destitute themselves, they committed to feed, clothe and educate the
thousands of displaced Tibetans arriving daily from their occupied
country. Under the direction of His Holiness, they set up schools for
the refugee children and Mrs Taring originated the Tibetan Homes
Foundation which housed many displaced Tibetans over the years. She
tirelessly worked to improve life in exile, forging many allies
overseas, such as the Trans-Himalayan Aid Society in Canada.
Her book, "Daughter of Tibet" is the first biography written by a
Tibetan in English. Her story inspired many in the rest of the world to
help the Tibetan cause. As a guest of the U.S. Congress for a conference
on world religions in 1998, Mrs Taring made her final trip to North
America. We
were fortunate to have her visit Tibetans and supporters here in
Vancouver, among them Inge Woodcock, who with her late husband writer
George Woodcock, founded the Trans-Himalayan Aid Society in 1963.
Jigme Taring died about 8 years ago, also in Dehrdun, India. Rinchen
Dolma Taring worked actively to the end raising funds for projects and
caring for Tibetan seniors. Her many friends around the world will
remember her for her enduring faith and passion for the Tibetan cause.
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7. Ama Rinchen Dolma Taring la has expired
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Dear friends & supporters,
With great sadness we inform you that Mrs. Rinchen Dolma Taring la
(first General Secretary of Tibetan homes foundation, 92 yrs ) is no
more with us.
On the 29th of night she passed away with peace at her residence in
Rajpur. Her funeral was held on the 3rd of August at Haridwar.
Kalsang Namgyal
Tibetan Homes Foundation
Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:47 PM
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8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT from TYC
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by Tseten Norbu, President TYC
August 24, 2000
Dharamsala.
The condolence messages and words of solidarity are pouring in from near
and far, from organizations as well as individuals. It has given
strength to bear the sorrow to the bereaved family and encouraged the
Tibetan Youth Congress to act more vigorously in the coming days for a
Free and Independent Tibet. These condolences are a mark of respect to
the departed soul and respect commanded by the Tibetan Youth Congress.
The Honorable Chief Kalon (Chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet in Exile),
Vice Chairman of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Ministers, members of
parliament, secretaries and Ex-Centrex members were among the prominent
people condoling the departed soul. Condolence messages were received
from representatives, friends, well wishers, RTYC chapters, foreign
friends and support groups. In addition to the closing of the market and
restaurants, a large number of Tibetans gathered at the Tsuklak Khang
and offered prayers. Similarly at the Delek hospital, TYC members and
government employees offered prayers for two evenings after the office
hour. We thank them all in standing with us in this time of sorrow.
The funeral procession was graced and joined by hundreds of Tibetans
from Dharamsala including few Indians and foreigners.
Tibetan Youth Congress Centrex has offered Kyabshu to His Holiness the
Dalai Lama, other Lamas in Dharamsala and monasteries here. Necessary
religious prayers were performed and the wife and relatives of the late
Gen. Secretary was with us for one whole week for this purpose. In
consultation with the family, we had completed all the necessary
religious rites. And the relatives had audience with His Holiness the
Dalai Lama and Karmapa Lama.
We will perform the fourth week and seventh week prayers as per
tradition. RTYC chapters in different places have carried out their own
prayer sessions and other necessary religious duties when they heard the
news through radio.
Our last act is to look after the education of the three daughters of
late General Secretary. I have received some responses from different
places on this regard. TYC Centrex will form a Scholarship Cell this
purpose only. I request all the concerned to contribute to this noble
cause. If there is any organization or individual wishing to look for a
specific daughter for her higher education, that should be great.
All the Centrex members will be at Mundgod Tibetan Settlement for our
31st Annual General Meeting till the first week of September. I look
forward to respond only after my return on this matter.
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9. Restive, Oil-Rich Region Is China's Second Tibet
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By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, August 22, 2000; Page A12
URUMQI, China -- The Rebiya Building still bustles. The six-story,
white-tiled marketplace hums with the sound of merchants blowing
yesterday's dust off their wares: fine silk from Hangzhou, cozy shawls
from Pakistan, lace curtains from Shanghai.
But all is not right in this Central Asian bazaar. Rebiya Kadeer,
chairwoman of the Xinjiang Akida Industry & Trade Co. and owner of the
building, was sentenced to eight years in prison last March for
"illegally passing intelligence outside of China." All but three of her
11 children from two marriages have left for the United States or
Australia. Her husband was granted political asylum in the United States
in 1996. Her eldest son, her secretary and a business associate are also
in Chinese prisons for state security crimes.
The management of Rebiya's multimillion dollar empire has fallen onto
the shoulders of her 24-year-old son, Aleem, a waif-like Uighur who
trained in forensic medicine and had planned a police career. "It is a
bad situation," a friend of the family said. "The Chinese have crushed
these people."
The rise and fall of Rebiya Kadeer, once hailed by the Chinese
government as Xinjiang province's richest businesswoman and a model
citizen, provides important insights into some of the complexities of
China's attempts to control Xinjiang. The province, half the size of
India in the far northwestern corner of China, is home to 8 million
Uighurs, Muslims of Turkish descent who speak a Turkic language, are
ethnically different from the country's dominant Han Chinese and have
spawned a sometimes violent autonomy movement.
Unlike Tibet, its southern neighbor, Xinjiang has not achieved
international prominence over its unrest and longing for self-rule. This
is partly because there is no united Uighur diaspora and because it
lacks a leader equal to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual guide of the
Tibetan people who fled China for India during an uprising in 1959. The
last prominent Uighur chief, Isa Yusuf Alptekin, died in Istanbul in
1995, all but forgotten by the outside world.
But Xinjiang's unrest poses as serious a problem to Beijing as Tibet's.
Most of China's continental oil deposits and its main nuclear weapons
test sites are in Xinjiang. And unlike the one in Tibet, the Xinjiang
separatist movement embraces violence. Since the early 1990s, there have
been scores of uprisings, bombings and killings of Han Chinese officials
in this region.
Xinjiang separatists have been blamed for one bombing in Beijing. Some
have been schooled in radical Islam in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the
Middle East. Some have received military training from terrorist groups.
Last year, an Asian diplomat said, Indian forces captured two Uighurs
fighting alongside Pakistan-backed militias in Kashmir.
To deal with this threat, China has pursued a three-track policy:
* It has poured money into Xinjiang. Funds from Beijing accounted for 40
percent of the local economy last year.
* It has encouraged Han Chinese to settle in the region, mostly through
the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a paramilitary
organization that since 1954 has moved 2.4 million Han into the region.
In 1949, for example, the provincial capital of Urumqi had few Han.
Today most of the city is Chinese. Of Xinjiang's 18 million people, 38
percent are Han Chinese. About 44 percent are Uighur. The rest are
Kazakh, Tajik, Hui and other minorities.
* Finally, it has worked hard to create a ruling class in Xinjiang made
up of Uighurs loyal to Beijing. In exchange for their allegiance, these
Uighurs are given opportunities, power and money and are allowed to live
a life unimaginable to most Uighurs, many of whom live just above the
poverty line.
The tall, dashing 39-year-old mayor of Urumqi, Nur Bakri, is an example.
So was Wuer Kaixi, one of the leaders of the 1989 student protests
before he fled China after the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
But Xinjiang's Han Chinese leadership is wary of this group and keeps it
on a tight leash. One of Xinjiang's former provincial chiefs, a Uighur,
was removed from his post partly because he was lobbying Beijing to pay
Xinjiang more money for the extraction of oil.
Rebiya Kadeer also belonged to this ruling class.
A barber's daughter, she started doing business when she was a young
woman because she wanted to feed her children. At the time, China did
not allow free enterprise. Her first husband opposed it and eventually
divorced her. But Rebiya kept trying.
Along the way, she washed clothes and dealt in smuggled electronic
goods, rabbit fur hats, sunflower seeds, pearl necklaces and noodles.
Then she made it to the big time, importing tons of steel from
Kazakhstan and bartering goods as far away as Turkey and Iran. Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates asked to meet her when he traveled along China's
Silk Road in 1995.
Beijing recognized Rebiya's success, appointing her as a representative
of Uighur minorities to the nationwide Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference, a government advisory body, between 1993 and
1997. But Rebiya, according to friends of the family interviewed here,
chafed at government restrictions and corruption. She spoke out against
what she considered policies that favored the Han in Xinjiang, including
central government investment designed to make Xinjiang a more
attractive place for Han to settle. She battled Chinese officials who
demanded bribes.
She also opened a school on the fifth floor of the Rebiya Building. It
was dedicated to teaching poor Uighur children. Chinese officials have
said it also was secretly proselytizing the Islamic faith. It is a crime
in China to teach religion to people under the age of 18. The principal
has been thrown in jail.
"Her main crime really was that she was too charismatic," a close family
friend said. "The common Uighurs adored her. The Han wanted her to serve
only the Han and not her own people. The Han cannot tolerate that. They
decided she needed to be removed."
Rebiya's problems worsened after her husband, Sadik Rouzi, went to the
United States in early 1996. Sadik, a former professor at Xinjiang
University and a longtime critic of Beijing's rule, was granted
political asylum in November of that year. The next month, Sadik said,
Rebiya was called in by the State Security Ministry and offered a deal:
divorce Sadik and she would be given a senior position in the Xinjiang
government. She refused.
On March 27 last year, Chinese police confiscated her passport as she
was attempting to travel to Uzbekistan on business. Rumors began
circulating in Urumqi that Rebiya had made her money dealing drugs, not
sunflower seeds. Sadik denied his wife was ever involved in drug
trafficking.
"Those rumors were designed to smear her name," he said in a telephone
interview from Oklahoma City.
In early August 1999, Xinjiang's police contacted Rebiya and told her
that her life was in danger. They posted guards near her and told her to
wear a bulletproof vest for four days.
Then the family found out the real reason for the police surveillance.
The authorities were trying to prevent Rebiya from meeting with staff
members from the U.S. Congress who were visiting Xinjiang. She was
arrested on Aug. 11, just before the meeting was to take place. Her
youngest son, Aleem, was held for four days and told to write a
statement implicating his mother in security-related crimes. He refused,
friends of the family said.
After a two-hour trial in March, Rebiya, 54, was sentenced to eight
years in prison. A report in the state-run Xinjiang Evening News said
Rebiya's crime consisted of "folding, clipping out and underlining"
reports in China's state-run press and sending them abroad. That,
however, is not a crime in China.
In an interview with reporters, Urumqi's mayor, Nur Bakri, declared that
her other crimes, involving state security, were not detailed in the
state-run press. "As a citizen of a sovereign state, no matter how
famous you are, if you violate the national interest, you will be
punished," he said.
Friends of the family said that Rebiya's business, which was once valued
at more than $10 million, has lost half of its value since Chinese
security forces began to pressure the family. Still, they said, there is
some hope. Aleem is planning to resume construction on a second office
building, right next door to the Rebiya Building.
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 del DALAI LAMA del Tibet
Carissimo Tibetano,
è un fatto che definirei anche io vergognoso e osceno....
tuttavia molte cose nate imperfette, col tempo Dio le può perfezionare....
Un carissimo saluto.
Michele Amato del '56 [per distinzione da un omonimo]
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Scusami se mi intrometto,
Mi interesserebbe conoscere il tuo punto di vista.
Ciao
Anna
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del DALAI LAMA del Tibet
Non vorrei essere cattivo, ma la Città del Vaticano è menbra dell'ONU, il
Dalai Lama no. E guarda un po'
Silvestro.
Tib, lo saperchè due dalai lama hanno sempre la rasatura perfetta? Perchè
sono bilama. :o))))))

 tuttavia molte cose nate imperfette, col tempo Dio le può perfezionare....
Noi (e non Dio), abbiamo il dovere di "perfezionare" e lottare per queste cose....
è bene affidare a "Dio" la propria intimità,  NON le deliberazioni, le scelte, le
disposizioni di una società troppo spesso falsa, perversa, ipocrita e
profondamente corrotta.
Confidare in Dio per queste faccende è un po' un segnale, che rivela l'abbandono,
la perdita di fiducia, la capitolazione, la consegna delle armi.
L'esclusione del Dalai Lama -Premio Nobel per la Pace- dal Summit è una vergogna
umana (non divina, "Dio" non c'entra nulla), è il segno evidente che la politica è
penetrata troppo profondamente nella pseudo-spiritualità delle Istituzioni
Religiose rese ancor più strumento di asservimento al potere, e non di dialogo
come molti utopicamente auspicano.
Un Summit Religioso nel quale viene estromesso il Leader Religioso (che più
rappresenta la volontà di pace armoniosa e non violenta), solo perché si
preferisce leccare il culo ai potenti rappresentanti della Repubblica Popolare
Cinese, falsifica completamente i proponimenti che il Summit si prefigge (dialogo,
pace, affiatamento, coerenza, cooperazione). Il Dalai Lama rappresenta un popolo
che incarna uno dei rarissimi casi di reale contestazione non-violenta. Tu sai
bene quali torture debbano sopportare i tibetani, e sai anche che se riescono ad
esprimere una contestazione non-violenta è perché sono forti delle loro onorevoli
convinzioni religiose.
Pertanto:
ESCLUDERE  IL  RAPPRESENTANTE  DI  UN  POPOLO  CHE  DIMOSTRA  DI  ESSERE  DAVVERO
L'UNICO  CHE  INCARNA  COMPIUTAMENTE  I  PACIFICI  INSEGNAMENTI  RELIGIOSI
INQUINA  E  FALSIFICA  COMPLETAMENTE  IL  SUMMIT  CHE  STA  PER  AVERE  INIZIO.
Ogni altra scusa è banale.
     t...@shi.delek
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"Non fatevi guidare da dicerie, da tradizioni o dal sentito dire; non fatevi
guidare dall'autorità dei testi religiosi, oggetti spesso di manipolazioni; non
fatevi guidare solo dalla logica o dalla dialettica, né dalla considerazione delle
apparenze, né dal piacere del filosofare, né dalle verosimiglianze, né
dall'autorità dei maestri e dei superiori. Imparate da voi stessi a riconoscere
quello che è nocivo, falso o cattivo e, dopo averlo osservato e investigato avendo
compreso che porta danno e sofferenza, abbandonatelo. Imparate da voi stessi a
riconoscere quello che è utile, meritevole e buono e, dopo averlo osservato ed
investigato, avendo compreso che porta beneficio e felicità, accettatelo e
seguitelo".
    Dal canone buddhista
bye
Tib
http://users.iol.it/aetos

 "Non fatevi guidare da dicerie, da tradizioni o dal sentito dire;
(taglio)
Queste parole sono una manifestazione della meraviglisa saggezza insita nel
buddismo.
Grazie per avercele postate.
bacioni
Michele

Carissimo Tibetano,
non credo che l'esclusione del Dalai Lama conduca a una diminuizione della
sua benedetta influenza... semmai l'ingiustizia subita ne rafforza il
prestigio nel cuore di tutta l'umanità... gli altri capi religiosi dovranno
fare anche la sua parte e si troveranno investiti da Dio di una pesante
responsabilità di fare ciò che al Dalai Lama fu proditoriamente vietato di
poter fare.
Un mondo sta finendo, ma i colpi di coda dell'incultura e dell'inevoluzione,
però, saranno numerosissimi... ma perchè spaventarsene?
L'uomo non è disperatamente solo a lottare contro l'inevoluzione...
l'inevoluzione è caduca e sta cadendo mentre la consapevolezza è in perenne
crescita... gurdati intorno! non ne vedi i benedetti segni?
Ma qualcosa manca per dare l'ultima spallata a tutti questi contingenti
problemi... non saremo noi, però, con i nostri giusti rimbrotti a cambiare
il mondo ma sarà la stessa sofferenza che la mentalità inevoluta provocherà
a dare all'inevoluzione la spallata decisiva.
Sono certo che in questo sei d'accordo con me... allora che serve agitarsi
per distruggere il male quando esso stesso boccheggia nei suoi ultimo colpi
di coda.... occupiamoci invece di costruire i principi su cui si baserà la
lenta rievoluzione dell'umanità e anche in ciò tu sei un maestro.... quindi
concentrati nell'inculcare la consapevolezza e non sminuire le tue forze
spirituali nell'inseguimento e nella denuncia dell'inevoluzione che è
comunque a breve caduca.
Shoghi Effendi:
"In verità, il mondo sta camminando verso il proprio destino. Un'avversità
prolungata, mondiale, affliggente, unita al caos e alla distruzione
generale, sconvolgerà le nazioni, rimesterà la coscienza del mondo,
disingannerà le masse, porterà un cambiamento radicale nel concetto di
società e fonderà alla fine le membra disgiunte e sanguinanti del genere
umano in un corpo unico, organicamente unito e indivisibile."
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 Michele Amato
bye from "Tibet"
Venerdì, 25 Agosto 2000 - Redatto da Nima Dorjee
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1. UN chief defends Dalai Lama snub (BBC)
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Source: BBC News
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has defended a decision not to
invite the Dalai Lama to UN headquarters during next week's Millennium World
Peace Summit in New York.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has not been invited to the UN-sponsored
religious conference because of fears that China would protest.
Instead he was invited to address a meeting at a neighbouring location, which he
refused to do.
The decision has drawn criticism from a number of countries, including the
United States, which has expressed its "deep disappointment".
Mr Annan said he understood the concerns at the Dalai Lama's exclusion, but said
it was necessary to maintain consensus at the UN.
"This house is really a house for the member states and their sensitivities
matter," he said.
Official delegation Tashi Wangdi, a minister in the Tibetan Government in exile,
said the decision was clearly made at the behest of the Chinese authorities.
"His Holiness is recognised by the world as one of the leading religious
leaders," Mr Wangdi said.
"When he is excluded it undermines the credibility of the conference and the
image of the United Nations," he added.
China has sent its own, government-approved delegation of church leaders to the
summit.
The delegation leaders accused the Dalai Lama of trying to split China and
described him as not a peace-maker but a trouble maker.
China regards Tibet as part of its territory and views the Dalai Lama as a
separatist leader.
He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
He continues to campaign for Tibetan rights from India where the government in
exile is based.
'Appeasement' UN officials said although the summit was meeting in the UN General
Assembly Hall, it was not being organised by the UN itself, but by a group of
religious leaders.
More than 1,000 leaders representing 75 different faiths are expected to attend
the meeting, which opens on Monday.
US Senator Jesse Helms - always a virulent critic of the UN - said the body had
"chosen to appease the communist dictators" in China.
He said it was "ironic that one of the world's most brutal atheistic
dictatorships can dictate to the UN who can and who cannot participate in a
so-called world peace summit."
But Mr Annan said: "In any effort of this kind, you try to make progress, take
progress as you get it, and not hold out for the absolute best."
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2. Analysis: Dilemma over Dalai Lama (BBC)
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Friday, 25 August, 2000,
By Religious Affairs correspondent Jane Little
Geopolitics has thrown chaos and confusion over an event that was meant to
encourage world peace and harmony.
The Millennium World Peace Summit, backed by UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan,
was to bring 1,000 leaders from every religion around the globe to work with the
UN on issues from conflict resolution to protection of the earth.
But the decision not to invite the Dalai Lama, under pressure from the Chinese
who have power of veto at the UN, has infuriated many.
Fellow Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has withdrawn in protest
saying: "This totally undermines the integrity of the UN and the credibility of
the summit."
A spokesman for the Tibetan Government in exile condemned the UN as weak in
giving into China's pressure.
Beijing regards the Dalai Lama as a political leader whose campaign for an end
to Chinese repression in Tibet is an unwarranted attempt to split the country.
Last-minute gesture
The organisers of the summit have belatedly extended a partial invitation that
would exclude the Dalai Lama from appearing in the UN General Assembly, but for
many it is too little, too late.
An international petition has been gathering signatures in support of the Dalai
Lama.
Several organisations have pulled out, charging that the event is worthy but
unfocused.
Still, despite the fact that the original wish list of participants, headed by
the Pope, has not come to fruition, the organisers insist this will be an
unprecedented affair.
A unique chance to bring together a diverse collection of priests and
patriarchs, muftis and swamis, who together, they say, could make a real
difference on the world stage.
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3. Dalai Lama Barred at Summit (WP)
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By Colum Lynch
Special to The Washington Post
Friday , August 25, 2000 ; A26
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 24 -- Secretary General Kofi Annan today defended a
decision by organizers of a religious summit to bow to Chinese pressure and
exclude the Dalai Lama from the gathering of more than 1,000 religious leaders
at the United Nations next week.
The exiled spiritual leader of 15 million Tibetan Buddhists was sidelined from
the event--touted by organizers as the largest meeting of religious leaders in
history--after Chinese officials objected to his possible presence at U.N.
headquarters, where the four-day summit opens Monday.
As a consolation, the Dalai Lama was invited to give a speech, but only at the
event's concluding session at another site, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He
declined.
"Many people are understandably and deeply disappointed that the Dalai Lama will
not be here for the religious summit," Annan told reporters. "But let me also
say that this . . . is really a house for the member states, and their
sensitivities matter."
The summit has been planned by Bawa Jain, vice president of the Interfaith
Center for New York, with financial backing from CNN founder Ted Turner, the
Ford Foundation and other private donors. Annan encouraged the organizers to
hold the meeting at the U.N. General Assembly Hall just before the Millennium
Summit, a gathering of more than 100 world leaders Sept. 6-8.
Jain said he regrets the exclusion of the Dalai Lama but was "forced" into the
decision by China. He added that he has invited a senior member of the Dalai
Lama's delegation to address the gathering in the General Assembly Hall. The
Chinese "only said we couldn't bring the Dalai Lama. They didn't say anything
about other Tibetan Buddhists," Jain said.
China also pressured the organizers to bar leaders of the Falun Gong spiritual
exercise movement, the subject of a major crackdown by Chinese authorities. The
group has not been invited.
Annan appealed to the U.N.'s member nations to be more open-minded.
"I have tried to open this house as much as I can," he said. "You try to make
progress, as you get it, and not hold out for the absolute best. . . . I
personally believe that having 1,000 religious leaders here next week talking
about peace . . . and praying for peace is progress."
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4. China's 'sensitivities' ban Dalai Lama from UN summit (SA News24)
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News24 - South Africa
25/08/2000 07:33 - (SA)
New York - The United Nations responded to the "sensitivities" of China in
excluding the Dalai Lama from a conference of religious leaders from around the
world, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
"Let me say that I understand that many people are understandably and deeply
disappointed that the Dalai Lama will not be here for the religious summit next
week," he said. "But let me also say that this house is really a house for the
member states and their sensitivities matter."
More than 1 000 religious leaders have been invited to the Millennium World
Peace Summit from 28-31August, which will be held in the UN General Assembly
chamber for the first two days although the United Nations is not an official
sponsor.
But UN spokesperson Fred Eckhard confirmed last month that the Dalai Lama, the
1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was left off the invitation list for fear that
his presence would draw a strong protest from China.
Organisers later invited the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader to give the
closing address at a New York hotel, but he declined because he was left out of
the main conference in deference to China.
"This is an issue that the organisers of the meeting have known all along,"
Annan told reporters.
Since he became secretary-general in 1997, Annan said he has tried to open the
United Nations as much as he could to all segments of civil society.
"In any effort of this kind you try to make progress, take progress as you get
it, and not hold out for the absolute best," he said. "And I personally believe
that having a thousand religious leaders here next week talking about peace,
talking about our world and praying for all of us and praying for peace is
progress."
The conference was organised by a coalition of interfaith leaders and has
received funding from Ted Turner's UN Foundation, the Better World Fund and
others. It is being held on the sidelines of the UN Millennium Summit, which is
expected to bring over 150 world leaders to UN headquarters from 6-8 September.
The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 with thousands of supporters after a failed
revolt against Chinese rule of the mountain region.
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5. Novel's China-India nuclear war could happen, says defense minister (AP)
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August 24, 2000 Web posted on CNN
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A novel that describes a Chinese nuclear attack on
India and a fifth war between India and Pakistan should not be dismissed as
fiction, India's defense minister has said.
Former British Broadcasting Corp. journalist Humphrey Hawksley's thriller,
"Dragon Fire," describes a six-day horror set from May 3-8, 2007. The book
begins with an assault on Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, by a renegade Tibetan
militia group maintained by the Indian government.
The futuristic story ends with China launching nuclear strikes on India's
capital, New Delhi, and the financial hub, Bombay. India refuses to retaliate.
"I hope nobody dismisses ... 'Dragon Fire' as one more work of fiction," Defense
Minister George Fernandes said in a letter to the publisher, Macmillan. "I
commend this book to every Indian."
Parts of the letter were published Thursday in The Indian Express, an
English-language newspaper. Ministry of Defense spokesman Pramod Sharan
Bhatnagar said that Fernandes had been correctly quoted.
Fernandes caused a diplomatic squabble with China in 1998 when he described
Beijing as "potential enemy number one." He had then said that Chinese military
and naval installations had surrounded India and also that Beijing had
stockpiled nuclear weapons in Tibet along the Indian border.
"What lessons others draw from the scenario etched by Hawksley is their
business," Fernandes said in the letter. He said Indians should "have a
full-eyed look at both friends and foes."
India and China fought a 21-day war in 1962. Relations have improved since then,
but a border dispute and Beijing's military cooperation with Pakistan remain the
main areas of contention in India-China relations.
India says China illegally occupies 14,500 square miles (37,700 square
kilometers) that it seized in the war in the northwest, a barren Himalayan
region adjoining India's Kashmir state.
Beijing says India is holding 36,000 square miles (93,000 square kilometers) of
Chinese territory in what is now India's eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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6. Here we go again (Re: George Fernandez) : Editorial Indian Express
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Editorial: Indian Express  August 25, 2000
http://www.indian-express.com/ie/daily/20000825/ied25054.html
Has George Fernandes done it again? In appreciating BBC journalist Humphrey
Hawksley's book "Dragon Fire," a realistic work of fiction depicting nuclear war
in 2007 between India and China on the one hand and India and Pakistan on the
other, Fernandes has appealed for reason to assert itself on China "before time
runs out". According to a statement by Hawksley's UK publishers, Macmillan,
Fernandes has expressed the hope that nobody dismisses the book "as one more
work of fiction," adding that "the political and historical backdrop against
which he writes is real". Now, there may be a good deal of logical merit in a
line of reasoning which maintains that India and China can never be friends. It
can even be likened to the arguments of US Republicans that China can never be
America's strategic partner, only a strategic competitor. But in either case,
the need to engage China is acknowledged. The emphasis varies in stressing that
Washington has to be ever watchful with China. The same goes for India.
The bottom line is that even more than Washington and Beijing, New Delhi and
Beijing have to coexist as best they can as neighbours. Fernandes has done quite
enough in the past to ensure that they do not do so peacefully. There really is
no reason at all why he should be airing his views on the relationship with
China -- valid or not -- even in a private letter to a publisher. What will it
take to convince Fernandes that he is *not* a private citizen and cannot go
about pretending that he is one? His statements have a fallout for a much
troubled bilateral relationship, as was only too evident in the wake of his
immoderate remarks two years ago. In this particular instance, the publisher
might well be the culprit in putting out what for the minister was a private
communication. But Fernandes can hardly be naive enough to believe that a
publisher would not make capital for a newly released book by this ringing
endorsement from the defence minister of the country in the centre of the
conflict that the book depicts.
Given the havoc Fernandes' statement of two years ago about China being the real
reason India had to go nuclear caused, is it too much to ask him to exercise
some restraint in airing his views publicly? Taciturnity never did anyone harm.
Fernandes undid over a decade's patient diplomacy with Beijing that had started
under Rajiv Gandhi. It has taken two years of work to mollify China. And let
this be stressed, none of this has to mean that New Delhi lives in the illusion
that it can be friends with Beijing. China indeed may be the reason why the
country had to go nuclear, and this is acknowledged by the establishment, but
does the inherently problematic relationship have to be tom-tommed from the
rooftops? Fernandes could have used the Hawksley book within government circles
to stress his viewpoint, in case anybody still wants convincing. Hawksley does
have excellent credentials after all and has produced a meticulously researched
book. But Fernandes's letter could again contribute to jeopardising a
relationship which had just begun to recover. Beijing could loftily decide not
to take umbrage. But if it does decide to, India could again find itself
grovelling to compensate for a thoughtless act so soon after the relationship
got back on track.
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7. TIBET VIGIL (Press Release)
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 PRESS RELEASE                                       24 August 2000
 In Memory of Tashi Tsering the Tibetan flag over Lhasa
A year ago Tashi Tsering courageously took down the red flag outside the Potala
Palace in Lhasa and attempted to hoist the Tibetan flag in its place, where it
rightfully belongs.  For this audacious crime he was severely beaten and after
suffering horrific injuries, he took his own life in prison 6 months later.
Last night a Special Vigil was held in his honour and for the fourth time this
year demonstrators attempted to lay flowers outside the Chinese Embassy. And
again, for the fourth time this year they were removed after a stand-off, during
which time a record number of 21 police arrived to confront the 40 peaceful
protesters. Demonstrators see this interception by the police as a political
act, a continuation of the civil rights abuses so rightly condemned by the media
during Jiang Zemin's visit last year.
However, a spokesperson for Tibet vigil said, "Civil rights abuses in the UK are
only the tip of the iceberg of UK collaboration with China. It's great that the
media have been concerned about this issue but people also need to know for
example, that the UK is issuing many more export licences for arms sales to
China now under Blair than ever occurred under Major, despite the so-called
ethical foreign policy. We also import goods made in China in concentration
camps: a fact which Robin Cook does not deny. At the same time the UK still does
not recognise Tibet as the nation it unquestionably knows that it is, having
invaded Tibet in the early years of the twentieth century."
"What is the UK doing helping to fund birth control policies in Tibet, an
occupied country? With Tibetans a rapidly shrinking minority in their own land,
rigid birth control - especially in conjunction with China's inhumane policies
of enforced sterilisation and abortion - amounts to genocide. How is it possible
that the UK can support a system where Han Chinese in Tibet are allowed more
children than Tibetans? It's time the UK government behaved ethically. It is
also time that UK Tibet Support groups developed a sound policy of what is
expected from the UK government."
Tashi Tsering gave his life, as did thousands of Tibetans before him, to free
his country, and surely here in the UK we have the right to lay flowers in his
memory. Tibet Vigil regards this as legitimate action. The police think
otherwise, saying "We must agree to differ". But still the question remains, who
is dictating this difference of opinion?
 Contact:        Paula Hollings   Day: 020 7831 7311    Eve: 020 8451 8997
e-mail: 
pa...@contempart.org.uk
___________________________
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 it was necessary to maintain consensus at the UN.
Parliamoci chiaro: in futuro, nella futura confederazione laica mondiale,
questo non potrebbe accadere perchи nessuno stato parteciperа, in quanto
tale, al suo governo nи tanto meno avrа qualsiasi diritto di veto sulle
decisioni dello stato mondiale. Saranno i popoli a partecipare e non i
singoli governi in quanto tali... il cui compito si esaurirа solo a livello
local/nazionale.
L'ONU non ha nulla a che vedere con l'idea bahа'м di confederazione mondiale
che tra poco sarа iniziata faticosamente a costruire. Attualmente l'ONU и
una libera associazione, l'aderenza alla quale puт essere sciolta a volontа
dai singoli stati e che vede i soci *boss* fondatori riservarsi un diritto
di veto che и un concetto obrobrioso in se stesso.
Perт se Mr Annan, secondo correttezza e giustizia, si fosse opposto alla
prepotenza avrebbe semplicemente ucciso un embrione e se l'embrione и morto
nessun corpo si puт sviluppare.
Ha fatto benissimo il Dalai Lama a rifiutare il compromesso proposto ma
nessun reale male puт venirgli dal fatto che si tramuta solo in un bene a
suo favore e a sfavore di chi si comporta con ingiustizia.
Ma Mr. Annan ha la responsabilitа di un embrione che, come и un embrione
umano di poche settimane, и davvero mostruoso a vedersi ma, tuttavia, и un
embrione di qualcosa di grande e importantissimo come  l'uomo adulto che da
quell'embrione si svilupperа... quando poi alla fine si svilupperа l'uomo
nessuno si ricorderа piщ di quanto mostruoso fosse i suo embrine.
Il millennium forum, di cui il summit interreligioso и solo una parte
collaterale, и un importante sviluppo di quell'embrione... direi quasi che
sono come gli occhi dell'embrione che hanno appena cominciato a formarsi, и
sono ancora uniti da una orrida fossa al naso, ma tuttavia gli occhi sono
tutto per una persona e si stanno formando.
Il problema per l'ONU и passare dal vincolo associativo libero e semplice,
al vincolo confederale con tutte le conseguenze epocali del caso, se ciт
avvenisse, anche in modo iniziale, si potrebbe dire che и iniziata quella
che i bahа'м chiamano *la pace minore* quella di cui si parla nel post
inviato da me *Pace tra le nazioni* del 30/8/00.
Un carissimo saluto.
Michele Amato del '56 [per distinzione da un omonimo]
******* 
amichel...@lycosmail.com
 **********
per risposte personali togli il maiuscolo dall'e-mail
*** il mio N.G. preferito и it.cultura.religioni.bahai ***
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The Dalai Lama's message to the Millennium World Peace Summit
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I join in spirit the more than 1,000 religious and spiritual leaders
around the world who will gather at the United Nations to attend the
Millennium World Peace Summit to discuss ways to engage the power of
religion to create a more peaceful world. While wishing the historic
summit and the eminent participants every success in their
deliberations, I take this opportunity to share with you a few thoughts
of mine.
I think it is a wonderful idea to employ the wisdom of ages to make our
common future more peaceful and to discuss ways to ensure that rather
than dividing us the power of religion will make us into a family of
peacemakers.
I see all the different religious traditions as paths for the
development of inner peace, which is the true foundation of world peace.
These ancient traditions come to us as a gift from our common past. Will
we continue to cherish it as a gift and hand it over to the future
generations as a legacy of our shared desire for peace or will we turn
it into another weapon that will snatch away the future of the coming
generations? The choice we will make is obvious. What needs detailed
discussion is how we can ensure that different religions of the world
can become powerful allies of peace.
In order to do this, the different faiths need to develop mutual respect
for and understanding of each other's beliefs and values. The world's
religions can contribute to world peace if there is peace and growing
harmony between the different faiths. It would be sad and tragic if
inter-religious rivalry and conflict undermines world peace in the 21st
century. In this regard, I have always encouraged and supported efforts
towards better understanding among our different faiths. It is my firm
belief that this better understanding will enhance the ability of
different faiths to make positive contributions to world peace. In this
respect, the religious and spiritual leaders of different faiths can
play a pivotal role by making a sustained effort to explain to their
respective followers the importance of respecting the beliefs and
traditions of other faiths.  We need to embrace the spirit of pluralism
in the field of religions as well.
It is also my belief that whereas the 20th century has been a century of
war and untold suffering, the 21st century should be one of peace and
dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our
world a truly global village, I believe there will be a time when war
and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of
settling differences among nations and communities. The nations and
peoples of the world will soon realise that dialogue and compromise are
the best methods of settling differences for mutual benefit and for the
sake of our future and the future of our much ravished and fragile
planet.
However, there can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty,
social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and
as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and
powerful.
The world's spiritual and religious leaders need to address these real
and pressing issues and find ways to contribute towards their
elimination. These are the enemies of peace and true tyrannies of our
times.
In conclusion I would like to share with you a prayer composed by Shanti
Deva, an 11th century Indian Buddhist master, in the hope that it will
provide you the same inspiration and determination as it continues to
give to me.
For as long as space endures, And for as long as sentient beings remain,
until then may I, too, abide to dispel the misery of the world.
With my prayers and good wishes,
August 23, 2000
The Dalai Lama
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     tashi delek
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 ha scritto nel messaggio
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 planet.
Anche se un bahà'ì, a loro completamento, aggiungerebbe che un simile metodo
può diventare sicuramente e pressantemente fruttuoso solo all'interno di un
costituendo stato confederale laico mondiale, ben lontano per qualità dalla
situazione puramente embrinale dell'ONU in questo momento; stato
confederale, questo, che sia capace di dare forza di legge internazionale al
risultato del dibattito e della mediazione all'interno di un suo parlamento
e di un suo governo le cui statuizioni siano vincolanti per tutti.
Un affronto alla giustizia, simile a quello che attualmente ha subito lo
stesso Dalai Lama, non sarebbe stato perpetrato se l'ONU fosse vera
confederazione e non semplice libera associazione di stati come ora
purtroppo ancora accade.
Il più grande problema in cui versa il diritto internazionale è la sua
natura di diritto consuetudinario e pattizio, e si sa che le consuetudini e
i patti possono essere rotti e nulla accadere se non ci sia uno stato che
sia capace di curare il rispetto dei patti stipulati.
L'anarchia internazionale è tale che vale tra le nazioni ciò che non vale
tra cittadini di uno stato, non c'è nessuno a cui appellarsi per far valere
il patto o la legge e la ragione è sempre del più forte e del meglio organiz
zato.
Una situazione, questa, che a breve arriverà all'inizio della sua fine con
grande beneficio alla pace e alla vita ordinata del mondo.
Un carissimo saluto.
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 e non abbiate  troppa fretta per la risposta  :)
Allora cominciamo e senza impegno.....
Scientology č una religione indipendente?
una denominazione cristiana?
Ron Hubbard č un profeta o ha lo stesso status di Gesů?
I suoi consigli servono al progresso solo nella vita materiale?
o sono indicati anche per un progresso ultramateriale?
cosa ci aspetta nel futuro del mondo?
Poche domande solo per iniziare perchč di Scientology sono assolutamente
*bianco*.
Un carissimo saluto.
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 conosciute

 vaga di cosa potrebbero (o non potrebbero) aspettarsi nel domani. :)
comprendo... neanche noi abbiamo una visione catastrofica del futuro: per
prima cosa mai verrā la fine del mondo in nessuna forma... certo ci
aspettano gravissimi problemi ma l'umanitā li saprā superare migliorando
grandemente il suo livello spirituale e civile.
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> "Luciano" ha scritto
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Carissimo Luciano,
le parole che citi non sono mie ma di Ivo (Ragiv) quindi sarebbe bene che
non le avessi lasciate sotto la mia intestazione anche perchè non tutti
leggono correttamente i *rientri>>*.
Solo una cosa ti vorrei dire con l'occasione: ma perchè non si riesce a
parlare con te se non per battute? tipo: "Tibetano dammi i soldi per
comprare i libri che consigli" o "Michele Amato ripete sempre le stesse cose
scontate e non lo convincerai mai" che è il senso, credo di capire, di
questa tua ennesima battuta.
O parli con la gente o, se non ne vale la pena, non farlo... metti
l'inopportuno nei kill file e così non ti disturberà più e risparmierai
perfino il tempo di scarico dei suoi post.
Mettimi nei tuoi kill file e tutto è risolto.
Un carissimo saluto.
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 ha scritto nel
messaggio news:WbRu5.20735$2I.3...@news.infostrada.it...
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 so solo che molte cose brutte sono evitabili e fate/fanno finta di niente.
Allora... vediamo se ho capito:
tu dici che ci sarebbero delle cose interessanti da dire ma non possono che
essere dette a pochi che sono capaci di sperimentarle?
E' così?
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 Per cui dici e non dici.
Cosa devo dire ?
Ci ho provato, e non soli io.
Percepisco certe disgrazie.
 e lo dico nel modo che conosco
è l'unica cosa che so fare bene, credimi.
Ho fatto tante cose, un po di tutto ma l'unica cosa
che so fare perfettamente è ascoltare e riconoscere gli eventi.
Non è colpa mia se esprimo ciò che sento come lo sento,
vorresti forse che mi inventassi le cose e dicessi:
"tranquilli, va tutto bene" ?
Magari lo potessi dire!!!
Ti rispondo tutto in questo blocco.
No, dico solo che tutti siamo così.
Siamo tutti potenziali Cristi e mi arrabbio quando vedo o sento
le persone che vendono queste cose che
possono essere aiuto per altre persone.
Quando leggo certi messaggi, non ci vedo più ed è
più forte di me.
Cosa studiate? Cosa cercate?
Sembra che non siate contenti che qualcuno vi dia
la risposta su un vassoio d'Argento.
Volete pagare o fare pagare la verità?
E' lo stesso sbaglio iniziale che ha fatto la chiesa rendendosi ridicola
agli occhi di Dio!!!
Gesù disse: "Io vado perchè ora viene il principe del mondo ma non
ha presa su di me"
ecco, il principe del Mondo, il Male, è (o meglio sono) gli sbagli
che ha fatto la chiesa e continua a fare non ascoltando la Parola
della Verità e distribuendo  e all'inizio vendendo menzogne.
Cosa cercate di tanto costoso?
Come se una persona avesse abbastanza soldi per comprare la
Verità, non basterebbero i soldi di Berlusconi, Bill Gates, Agnelli,
chiesa(S.P.A.)
messi insieme.
Se vuoi aiutare qualcuno fallo ma aiutalo davvero, se poi non ti crede
sono solo cavoli suoi, Tu ci hai provato.
Non dire ti aiuto a essere te stesso però mi paghi, quella non è Verità ma
lucro.
Se non sento gli eventi non soffro sentendo il
Dolore di chi è stato abbandonato per amore del denaro.
Hai capito cosa intendo? Spero di essermi spiegato.
Ciao Luciano.
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 Ciao Luciano.
Si... ho capito e sono d'accordo ma se ti riferisci a Tibetano non è proprio
questo il caso... lui non è proprio interessato in qualsiasi forma di metodo
evolutivo *a pagamento*.
Noi men che meno.
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 Forse cosi' si fa molto prima .  :)
Carissimo Ragiv,
ti ringrazio per l'aiuto e per la disponibilità... effettivamente sarà bene
che, con calma, esaminiamo meglio questi link... poi ti saprò dire...
ti ho messo in rubrica e, magari, farò un post CC con la tua posta privata
per richiamarti anche perchè non ti vorrei troppo impegnare a seguire per
forza il news group.
Un carissimo saluto.
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