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March 17, 2008
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017-3515
Your Excellency,
We the undersigned Tibetan organizations in New York and New Jersey wish to bring to your kind attention the current appalling situation in Tibet that warrants urgent actions of the United Nations.
Since March 10 this year, Tibetans all over Tibet have been holding a series of peaceful demonstrations to voice their resentments over the prolonged repressive policies of the Chinese government. We condemn in the strongest term the brutal killings of Tibetan demonstrators by the Chinese security forces in which over 100 Tibetan are feared to have died, with at least 80 confirmed deaths according to an independent human rights organization and International Media outlets such as BBC.
The latest reports suggest that the entire city of Lhasa is under curfew and the Chinese security personnel are conducting manhunt to arrest protesters. The People's High Court, Regional People's Procuratorate and the Regional Public Security Bureau of the "Tibet Autonomous Region" have issued notices warning "*criminals who do not surrender themselves by the midnight of Monday will be sternly punished and those who harbor or hide them will also face harsh treatment."
Reports of peaceful demonstrations in various parts of Tibet, including Mangro County in Tsolho Prefecture, Kyegudo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Labrang Tashikhiel of Sangchu County in Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and Kardze Prefecture have been received in the last one week. The latest protest occurred on Sunday in Ngaba County of Amdo Province where
thousands of Tibetan monks spontaneously rose up against the Chinese rule.
Due to strict restriction on flow of information from Tibet, it is difficult to ascertain the actual severity of the situation. However, we believe that the prevailing situations in many parts of Tibet are far worse than what we get to hear from these limited sources. It is feared that several hundred Tibetans have been arrested and imprisoned in connection to these peaceful demonstrations.
We welcome the statement of Ms Louis Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in which she called upon the Chinese authorities to allow demonstrators to exercise their right to freedom of expression and assembly, and urged the Chinese government to refrain from any excessive use of force while maintaining order and to ensure those arrested are not ill-treated.
Given the Chinese Government's past record of ruthless crackdown on peaceful protesters, we are deeply concerned and worried about the plight of these Tibetans whose only crime was exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of speech and opinion.
We therefore earnestly request you to pay urgent attention to the situation in Tibet and urge you:
1. To stop the Chinese Government from deploying massive armed security forces in Tibet leading to imposition of virtual martial law;
1. To demand immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested by China in connection with these demonstrations;
1. To depute a UN delegation to intervene and investigate the ongoing crackdown in Tibet; and
1. To demand unimpeded access to all areas of Tibet for foreign journalists and independent observers to study the real causes for the ongoing demonstrations and actual situation in Tibet.
Tibetans all over the world have been rising in solidarity with their brethrens in Tibet. They urgently need the support of the international community and their timely intervention without which Chinese authorities will once again succeed in silencing the voices of freedom and justice.
With our highest regards,
Tibetan Community, NY & NJ
Tibetan Women's Association, NY & NJ
Tibetan Youth Congress, NY & NJ
Students for a Free Tibet
US Tibet Committee
Press Releases & Memorandums:
Read Memorandum Letter to: General Secretary, United Nations
Read Memorandum Letter to: President George W. Bush United States
Read Memorandum Letter to: Prime Minister of of India
Read Press Release from: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Read Joint Press Release from: TC, TWA, SFT, & RTYC
Read Press Releases from: Regional Tibetans Youth Congress (RTYC)
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UN Headquarters, NYC Protest March 21 2008
Chinese Consulate NYC Protest March18, 2008
UN Headquarters, NYC Protest March 17 2008
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