Local Tibetans: Condemn Beijing acts

Tsegyam Ngaba, chairman of the Tibet Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Taipei, joined other foundation officials and Tibetans' friends in Taiwan at a function held at the National Taiwan University Alumni Association to observe one minute of silence to pay tribute to Tibetans who died during a suppression in Lhasa by Chinese troops Saturday.

More than 100 Tibetans were believed to have died and over 1,000 others were injured during the suppression between March 10-14, according to the Tibetan government exiled in Dharmsala, India. Protests have since expanded from Tibet to the neighboring provinces of Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai.

Ngaba called for nations around the world to exhort Beijing to exercise restraint when dealing with unarmed, innocent Tibetan people.

He also urged the Chinese leadership to show good will to the Dalai Lama and engage in dialogue with him.

Condemning the Chinese communist army's bloody suppression on innocent Tibetan people, Ngaba appealed to the government of Taiwan and peace-loving, justice-craving Taiwanese people to step forward to condemn Beijing for its inhumane treatment of Tibetan people.

"Religion has been planted in the hearts of the Tibetan people and they follow their religious disciplines so faithfully that they could sacrifice their lives for not breaking the disciplines, " Ngaba said.

"The Dalai Lama is the Tibetans' spiritual leader, but look how much damage the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has done to the Tibetan people's freedom of religion," Ngaba said.

He cited how the Chinese government bans Tibetans from hanging the Dalai Lama's photograph in their homes or carrying pictures of him. Chinese authorities even check Tibetan cadres' homes for the Dalai Lama's photographs.

"The opening of the Qingzang Railway has only brought in a mass number of Han Chinese immigrants and robbery of resources -- development that has done nothing good for the Tibetan people, " Ngaba said.

"The Tibetan people chose to protest because they were enraged by the many years of persecution and ruthless suppression by the CCP, " Ngaba asserted.

"The Tibetan people have no other way to go. They decided to protest on the streets because they cannot take it any more. But the CCP cracked down on the protest with violence," he added.



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