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Titolo: Incresciosa esclusione del Dalai Lama dal Summit Religioso del Millennio alle Nazioni Unite

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Global Groveling - Editorial
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Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2000
Diplomacy as done by the United Nations has often been that
international body's own worst enemy.  The latest example is the U.N's
shameless kowtow to China in excluding the Dalai Lama, the exiled
spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists and winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize, from the so-called Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and
Spiritual Leaders in New York next week.
More than 1,000 religious leaders from around the world are expected at
the three-day gathering.  Although technically sponsored by private
organizations, the forum will be held under grandiose September 6-8
Millennium Summit.  There, more than 125 heads of state will adopt a
Millennium Declaration, projecting their global vision for the 21st
century.
For the Dalai Lama, it's more of the usual U.N. myopia.  Under similar
circumstances, he was sidelined from the 1993 U.N. World Conference on
Human Rights in Vienna, despite an official invitation from the host
Austrian government. The invitation provoked a threat from Chinese
delegates that they would walk out of the conference.  That led to a
last-minute sanction against the Dalai Lama's attendance by then U.N.
Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Such is the pedantic framework
of the U.N., which, in deference to authoritarian regimes, often
constrains the very principles and freedoms it claims to espouse as
universal.
This round, the U.N. at first claimed its hands were tied because as a
Security Council member China wields veto power over invitations to U.N.
conferences.  It then sought to shift the blame to the summit's
organizers.  Besieged by protests, the U.N. then made an arrogant and
ill-fated attempt to look as if it had brokered a compromise.  The U.N.
invited the Dalai Lama to speak on the last day of the conference - but
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel instead of the U.N General Assembly
chamber.
The Dalai Lama declined this feeble proposal, but did so with the grace
for which he is so widely admired, saying he couldn't accept an
invitation made out of compulsion and that he wanted to avoid at all
costs embarrassing individuals or governments.
The exclusion of the Dalai Lama removes from the summit the most visible
sign of China's lingering problems in Tibet at a time when Beijing has
become increasingly defensive about its policies there.  Two recent
setbacks have exposed its difficulties: the exodus in December to India
of the Karmapa Lama, a model monk Beijing was grooming to help
legitimize its rule in Tibet; and the World Bank's recent decision to
withdraw from a controversial project that would have moved 68,000
Chinese into lands that have been historically Tibetan.
The U.N's pandering to China's cadres makes a mockery of next week's
millennial conclave in many ways.  Religion in China is controlled by
the state, which is ruled by an atheistic Communist Party. Beijing will
be sending a delegation of party-vetted "religious leaders" to the
summit, while back in China the latest crackdown on religion rolls into
its second year.  In Tibet, the recent campaign has focused anew on
confiscating religious icons, including the Dalai Lama's photograph, in
house-to-house searches by police.
So far, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms and Reverend Desmond Tutu, the Nobel
laureate and former archbishop of Capetown, have spoken out loudest
about the U.N's spinelessness and China's censorships.  From President
Clinton's Administration has come nothing more forceful than the squeak
of State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, who finally noted that
the shunning of the Dalai Lama at China's behest is "not the right
decision, frankly."
With apologies and a proper invitation, even at this late date, U.N.
General Secretary Kofi Annan and his crew could conceivably salvage the dignity of
their conclave.  But it would take backbone, and that, apparently, does not figure
in the U.N.'s vision of its own role for the new millennium.
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It's No Peace Summit Without Dalai Lama
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By Nawang Rabgyal.
Newsday, New York Tuesday, August 22, 2000
NEXT MONDAY in New York City, a thousand people representing an
international spectrum of faiths and doctrines will convene at the
United Nations to "demonstrate their united commitment and determination
to work together to eliminate the causes that perpetrate violence and
lead to war." But one revered man will be conspicuously absent at the
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. And
the reasons for his exclusion have little to do with spirituality and
much to do with politics.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, a champion of world peace and
nonviolence, winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace prize and a renowned
religious and spiritual leader, was omitted from the invitation list for
the millennium world peace summit. Fred Eckhardt, a UN spokesman, said,
"The Dalai Lama was not asked for fear of offending China." The
gathering of religious and spiritual leaders for world peace has been
politicized. The omission of the Dalai Lama's name from the list of
invitees to the summit was an insult not only to Buddhists but to every
spiritual person.
People from many parts of the world have expressed outrage and
disappointment over his exclusion.
So much so that late last month, the organizer of the summit belatedly
invited the Dalai Lama to deliver the keynote address at the closing
session, to be held not at the United Nations but at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel. The partial invitation was declined but the Dalai Lama promised
to send a high-level Tibetan delegation to represent him.
The United Nations' organizers and sponsors of the summit have failed to
live up to their objectives while preparing for this momentous summit.
Their attitude towards the Dalai Lama, one of the most prominent world
peace leaders, goes against their stated objectives of conflict
prevention and peaceful resolution.
Instead of offering a forum where diverse beliefs can live together in
peace, they have taken the politically easier way out, succumbing to
their fears of angering China, and in doing so they are preventing the
voice of sanity that the Dalai Lama represents from being heard.
Tibet is one of the most neglected parts of the world today. It has been
annexed by China since 1959, when the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and
temporal ruler, fled to India for asylum. His Holiness is the solution,
not the problem, to world peace and peace in Tibet. If Tibet is a part
of the world and Tibetans are a part of humanity, then the United
Nations has a moral responsibility to hear the voices of the suffering
Tibetans.
What better place to set an example than at the millennium peace summit,
a place supposedly created as an alternative space outside the political
morass of the UN.
Instead, the summit has allowed the Tibetans' hopes to be smothered by
the politics of the UN. If the millennium world peace summit truly
believes that it could be a forum for resolving  international
conflicts, then its organizers should show their support for a spiritual
leader who
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to promote a
nonviolent solution to the Tibetan problem. The very goals of this
conference must be called into question when one of the world's leading
peace activists is barred from attending the conference in order to
placate his country's oppressors. By ignoring the Dalai Lama, the
conference organizers have shown a lack of commitment to the laudable
goals of the summit.
'They have taken the politically easier way out
Nawang Rabgyal is the representative of the Dalai Lama to the Americas
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US opposed to snub of Dalai Lama at millenium religious summit
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (AFP) - The United States said Monday it opposed a
decision by organizers of next week's millenium religious summit to snub
the Dalai Lama, saying China's "perceived" objections to his inclusion
was not a valid reason not to invite the Tibetan spiritual leader.
"We do think the Dalai Lama is an important religious leader who has
something to contribute to this conference and we would have liked to
see him there," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
"We don't think the organizers should have excluded him because of
perceived objections by a particular country," he told reporters.
Boucher noted that the privately organized conference, to be held
beginning August 28 ahead of the the UN millenium summit in New York,
would only be using the world body's venue and name at one gathering and
that most events would take place a hotel.
"It is being held, in part, in UN facilities and for that reason, there
was this perception or assumption that a particular country would not
want the Dalai Lama to be there," he said.
"He was invited only to activities that were outside of the United
Nations' facility. We don't think that's the right conclusion. We think
he deserved to be there as a full participant."
On Friday, the Tibetan government-in-exile blasted China and a "weak"
United Nations for excluding the Dalai Lama from the summit.
"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," said Tashi Wangdi, a
minister in the government.
Wangdi said the decision to snub the Dalai Lama was clearly made at the
behest of Beijing which regards Tibet as part of its territory and views
the Nobel peace laureate, who fled to India after a failed 1959 uprising
against Chinese rule, as a separatist leader seeking to "split" the
country.
Relations between Beijing and the Dalai Lama's government are currently
rozen.
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His Excellency Kofi Annan  -  United Nations Secretary General
United Nations Organisation  -  New York, N.Y. 10017
By facsimile: 00.1.212 963-48.79
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Saigon, 15th August 2000
Your Excellency,
As a Vietnamese monk living under house arrest in Saigon, I have little
opportunity to follow news and events in the outside world. Only recently did I
learn of the Millennium Peace Summit to be organised at the United Nations in New
York from August 28-31st. I am writing to express my views on this auspicious
event.
In a world torn by conflict, intolerance, increasing wealth polarity and
discrimination, the spiritual dimension is the key to peace on our earth. By
gathering together 1,000 religious and spiritual leaders from all over the world,
this Summit will provide a unique opportunity to delve deep into the wisdom and
conscience of humanity, and seek ways to heal the ills and solder the rifts that
are devastating our modern world. Such ills prevail across the globe, but they are
especially salient in Asia, where the clash between the ancient and modern,
poverty and affluence, fast-growing economies and age-old traditions is provoking
the gravest moral crisis of our history. The presence of great religious and
spiritual figures from Asia at the Peace Summit is therefore of paramount
importance.
One of the most respected and enlightened Asian spiritual leaders is His Holiness
the Dalai Lama. He has not only won the respect of people in Asia and around the
globe, but he is also a recipient of one of the world's greatest honours - the
Nobel Peace Prize. I am therefore deeply disturbed to learn that His Holiness has
not been invited to the Millennium Peace Summit. The absence of the Dalai Lama at
this worldwide gathering will create a void that can never be filled. Worse, it
will cause pain and bewilderment to millions of Buddhists all over the world who
pin their hopes upon the achievements of this Summit. Even at this late hour, I
earnestly urge you, Mr Secretary-General, to reconsider this decision and use your
good offices to ensure that an invitation is extended to His Holiness without
delay.
As you prepare for this Summit, I cannot stress enough the significance of
international opinion in promoting peace and preserving spirituality, especially
in repressed nations of the world. In my own country, Vietnam,
the great religions are persecuted today and their followers harassed and
detained. The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), which is adhered to by
80% of the population and has a two-thousand-year tradition in Vietnam, is banned
by the Government. Like many other UBCV monks, I have spent almost two decades in
prison, exile and under house arrest. But unlike my less fortunate brothers, I had
the good luck to be released in September 1998 thanks to pressure from world
governments, international organisations and eminent international figures. One of
these figures was His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who joined a Committee of Nobel
Prize Winners to appeal for my release.
Unfortunately, I was freed from my small prison only to enter a larger one, for I
remain under house arrest today, under permanent Police surveillance. I regret
that the voice of repressed UBCV Buddhists will not be heard at the Millennium
Peace Summit.
This letter was sent to you through our own UBCV channels, since all my
correspondence is censored by the Security Police. I would sincerely appreciate
your reply. My address is Thanh Minh Zen Monastery, 90 Tran Huy Lieu Street, 15th
Ward, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). However, any letters sent
here will surely be intercepted. I therefore suggest that correspondence be sent
to me through the UBCV's Overseas Office, the International Buddhist Information
Bureau at 25, rue Jaffeux, 92230 Gennevilliers (France), Fax (33 + 1) 47 91 41 38.
I wish you peace, Mr Secretary-General, and success in all your endeavours to
guide the community of nations in promoting peace, tolerance and human rights in
our world.
Yours sincerely,
(Signature)
Sramana Thich Quang Do
Head of Vien Hoa Dao
Institute for the Propagation of the Dharma
Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam
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 loro onorevoli convinzioni religiose.
Visto che questo Dalai è tanto buono, mi sai dire quali sono state le
ultime elezioni libere indette nel Tibet prima dell'"invasione"
cinese?
E visto che ci sei, mi sapresti dire anche quale tipo di "democrazia"
era vigente in Tibet prima dell'arrivo dei cinesi?
E in ultimo, te sai chi sono stati gli effettivi autori della
distruzione dei tanto decantati monasteri buddisti?
Da quel che so io, prima dell'arrivo dei cinesi, non esisteva alcun
tipo di struttura democratica ma solo una rigida teocrazia, che non
prevedeva altre scuole che non fossero quelle religiose all'interno
dei monasteri, per l'appunto, il sistema fiscale era del tipo prebenda
al più vicino monastero.
Infine la tanta cantata distruzione dei monasteri è stata in gran
parte compiuta dalla popolazione locale.
Si, sono un agente cinese.
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Ciao
leandro
Email: lnoferin(at)
cybervalley.MANISUDICIE.org
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 Visto che questo Dalai è tanto buono, mi sai dire [...]
Caro Leandro,
puoi formulare tutte le accuse che vuoi, resta il fatto che tutto il popolo
tibetano adorava ed adora tuttora (dimostrando la profonda e sincera fedeltà
giungendo a pagare spesso con la stessa vita) il suo Leader e la Comunità
Monastica.
per maggiori informazioni visita lo spazio Web da me curato
http://utenti.tripod.it/tibetano
ciao e grazie per la tua osservazione
PS:  cosa mi sai dire invece delle torture e delle sevizie perpetrate
       dai tuoi apologizzati militari cinesi?
     tashi delek
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 dei cinesi?
Leandro, per caso conosci qalche caso di religione democratica ?
La Chiesa Cattolica per esempio non prevede la democrazia quale dogma di
fede.
Molte altre sette ed organizzazioni religiose inneggianno alla "teocrazia" e
non certo alla "democrazia".
Non confondere la "democrazia" con la libera determinazione di un popolo
(quello tibetano inquesto caso).
Per esempio gli arabi sauditi non vivono in un paese democratico, ma a loro
sta bene cosi' e si incazzerebbero di brutto se un paese straniero li
invadesse.
ciao,
Mauro