On the eve of his visit to Lerab Ling Buddhist temple near Lodève, where it should meet, Friday,
mp3 players August 22, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Bernard Kouchner and Rama Yade, the Dalai Lama spoke at Nantes, Le Monde The political future of Tibet after the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The repression has continued in Tibet, despite the Olympic Truce?
The Chinese army has yet fired on the crowd, Monday, August 18, in the region of Kham in eastern Tibet: one hundred forty Tibetans have been killed, but this figure needs to be
mp3 players confirmed. Since the beginning of the riots, March 10, witnesses were able to establish reliable than 400 people were killed in the Lhasa area alone. Tuées by bullets, while unarmed demonstrators. Their bodies have never been returned to families.
China wholesale If one considers the entire Tibet, the number of victims is obviously greater. Ten thousand people were arrested. It is not known where they are incarcerated.
The novelty is the true construction of military camps. The military presence in Tibet is old, but the frenzy of new construction in parts of Amdo and Kham, told me that this settlement by the army is meant to last. In the past, military trucks came and stayed a few months. Today, a project of brutal repression is a long-term.
What can therefore the discussion that you always hope with Beijing?
Between the March riots and the Olympics, we had believed in positive signals. The President Hu Jintao himself had engaged in serious discussions. But we soon déchanté.
mp3 players Our emissaries met with a wall. No opening has been registered. The Tibetan Parliament in exile, therefore, will meet in September, but our approach will not move: that of non-violence and the middle way. The autonomy remains our goal.
China wholesale A genuine autonomy since autonomy to the Chinese, we know what it is: a decoy.
You just declare the Financial Times that he must "respect" the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.
wholesale And the New York Times that you're willing to endorse the "socialism" Chinese. Is this a change of course?
I have always said that we should establish the autonomy of Tibet under the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. I have not changed their minds. Likewise, I say long it takes respect the Chinese regime, including its socialist nature. Since 1992, j'affirmais that if a solution was found in Tibet and we seemed acceptable, then we rentrerions the country and recognizes the powers that be. I even
mp3 players added that the Tibetan government in exile would be automatically dissolved. It is always true.
Hypothesis unimaginable ...
Yes, because the authorities continue to believe that there is no problem in Tibet, the only problem is that posed by the Dalai Lama! They have often tried to convince me that if I m'alignais, I retrouverai all my powers. But the fate of the Dalai Lama worries me less than the fate of six million Tibetans.
Of course, there is a problem in Tibet! The President Hu Jintao says it is working on a "harmonious society". But everything he does is against such a harmony. Den Xiao Ping had a true economic development project and we had approved, because we know the delays materials of Tibet. But what followed was contradicted education projects, development, political stability, national unity. No harmony can be achieved in China with power politics,
mp3 players which is anything but a realistic policy.
The China wants to become a superpower? It must first find a moral authority. Repression Against Tibet and other parts of China bears a harm to its respectability. More and more intellectuals and critics say the regime. But our position is not that there are winners and losers. It is that both sides are winners. In the meantime, we always consider that Tibetans of the Interior are our masters. I am only the spokesperson freedom of the Tibetan people,
mp3 players which is punishable at home and in Tibet.
The "middle way" and "non-violence" are not declining among young people, as demonstrated by the March riots?
Contrary to what is said in the media, this is not non-violence is involved. There is a very small minority - including youth - which refers to the use of violence. The real difference is that between those who demand independence for Tibet and those who, like us, want to propose a middle way and genuine autonomy. But we are in a difficult situation because the middle path, we must admit, has not brought much fruit.
Let me add, about violence, that it is never a solution. The Europe knows, who suffered the carnage of two world wars. The France knows, who will bury ten of its soldiers killed in Afghanistan. I have compassion for their families. As I have compassion for the families of Sichuan affected by the earthquake: the Chinese policy of one child is bitter. Losing a child in a school destroyed,
mp3 players many parents lost their only child!
How successful do you do after the controversy, the host of France?
If I had come with a clear political agenda, appointments with politicians and government, then there would have been otherwise be largely disappointed! I must meet with Bernard Kouchner.
mp3 players I know for a long time and knows not its solidarity for Tibet, nor that of President Sarkozy.
So I hope that after the Olympics, the current President of the European Union will make constructive proposals to the Chinese government. Anyway, my agenda was not political. I came to France to work to promote human values and dialogue between religions. If I judge by the audiences,
mp3 players I have something to be very satisfied.
