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U.N. shuns Dalai Lama by denying invite
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(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- He is known by many names. Some call him
Kundun or "the presence." Officially he is Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang
Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, which means Holy Lord, Gentle Glory,
Compassionate Defender of the Faith and Ocean of Wisdom. He calls
himself a simple Buddhist monk. However, he was born Lhamo Dhondrub, and
is known to most of the world as the 14th
Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama is the Tibetan Buddhist leader. In 1989 he won the Nobel
Peace Prize for his non-violent opposition to China's occupation of his
country. Today, he has not even been invited to the Millennium World
Peace Summit at the United Nations, despite the fact that more than a
thousand other religious leaders around the world were invited. The
reason: Fear of offending Chinese leaders.
China began gaining control of Tibet in the 1950s. During the occupation
more than 1.2 million Tibetans were killed, 120,000 were thrown into
exile, many women were forcibly sterilized and 6,000 monasteries were
destroyed. Even today, the Chinese will not reveal the whereabouts of
the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important figure. In 1959 the
Dalai Lama sought asylum in India for more than 80,000 Tibetans.
The Dalai Lama is an extremely valuable figure in the effort toward
world peace. He is the spiritual leader of millions of Buddhists in the
world, including many in the United States.
Because of his Nobel Peace Prize and his non-violent opposition to
China, the Dalai Lama is a positive inspiration and symbol of hope for
many suffering at the hand of oppressive governments in the world. He is
very well educated, being aware of and influenced by other cultures and
religions.
The philosophy of the Dalai Lama is the opposite of religious or
political righteousness. He favors "secular ethics" for the world as a
whole and stresses the responsibility of all people to take care of each
other rather than only depending on institutions.
China, on the other hand, is a prime target for human rights activists.
It easily leads the world in executions (don't worry Dubya, Texas is
gaining fast). Many refugees fleeing the forced abortion and
sterilization policies are seeking asylum in other countries, including
the United States. Most recently China has been using the Internet to
further violate human rights, such as in the case of Huang Qi. Qi faces
possible life imprisonment for electronically publishing information
about the 1989 military crackdown at Tianamen Square where thousands of
civilians were shot.
It is understandable that the U.N. is trying to be careful. China is a
powerful country and it will be necessary to sometimes compromise in
order to achieve peace. However, people should be leery of what kind of
message leaving the Dalai Lama out of the Summit will send to the rest
of the world, as well as what message it sends to China. It could be
taken as support of China's occupation of Tibet, or a sign of weakness
on the part of United Nations leaders.
When the U.N. sacrifices some of its stated principles, even in efforts
toward a higher good, all it really does is put itself at the mercy of
bullies. The U.N. has already been harshly criticized by several world
human rights organizations for failing to formally criticize China's
human rights record.
If the U.N. is truly destined to lead the world toward peace, it is
going to have to be a stronger leader.
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3. Tibetans blast UN, China for religious summit snub to Dalai Lama
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NEW DELHI, Aug 18 (AFP) - The Tibetan government-in-exile Friday blasted
China and a "weak" United Nations for excluding the Dalai Lama, from a
UN-backed millennium religious summit to be held in New York this month.
Tashi Wangdi, a minister in the government, told AFP by telephone from
the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, that the Dalai Lama had not been
invited to the main summit, which begins on August 28, but only to a
minor function afterwards.
"The summit is called the summit of religious leaders and the whole
theme of the summit is to address world peace and conflict resolution
and inter-religious dialogue," Wangdi said.
"His Holiness is recognised by the world as one of the leading religious
leaders and ... when he is excluded it undermines the credibility of the
conference and the image of the United Nations."
Wangdi said the decision to snub the Dalai Lama, a Nobel peace laureate,
was clearly made at the behest of the Chinese authorities.
"It is wrong for such a conference to be politicised and the UN to be
weak and give in to pressure," he said, adding the Dalai Lama would not
be attending the supplementary function.
Relations between Beijing and the Dalai Lama's exiled Tibetan government
are currently frozen, as the Tibetan spiritual leader continues to
campaign relentlessly for an end to Chinese oppression in his homeland.
China regards Tibet as part of its territory and views the Dalai Lama,
who fled to India after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule, as
a separatist leader seeking to "split" the country.
The Dalai Lama heads a government in exile in India, where there are
some 100,000 Tibetans living as refugees.
Wangdi said the United Nations was "run by a few powerful Security
Council members" who "undermined democratic traditions and went against
the larger mass of humanity."
China is a permament Security Council member along with Britain, France,
Russia and the United States.
Wangdi said the Tibetan government in exile had not been alone in
protesting against the Dalai Lama's exclusion from the millennium
summit.
"There have been strong protests by various religious leaders and
organisations and human rights groups from all over," he said.
"(Nobel laureate) Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote a very strong letter to the
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and said he was not attending in
protest. The US State Department has also expressed its regret.
"This incident brings up the need to reorganise the Security Council to
make it more representative and democratic," he said.
The UN office in New Delhi, meanwhile, stressed that the world body had
only a peripheral role in the summit.
"The summit has a secretariat of its own and the secretary general is a
New York-based man called Bawa Jain," a spokesman said.
"The summit has limited permisison to use the UN logo and the venue
headquarters for one function. The rest of the summit will be held at
the  Waldorf Astoria," he said, referring to the famed New York hotel.
By Martha Knox
The Lantern, August 17, 2000
Ohio State U.
www.tibet.3000.it