Transcript Document 7144576

Tibet: Cultural Genocide
By:
David Chacon
Karina Garcia
Andy Xie
Julie Vasquez
Summary of Tibet
Tibet was independent country with its own flag, government, currency, and costumes.
They spoke their own language and were mainly Buddhist and the 14th Dalai Lama was their
spiritual leader. Since 1949 China’s Peoples Liberation Army invaded and overpowered the
Tibetan military. China then took over the country, under the Chinese ruler Mao Zedong. Since
then they have tried to make Tibetans believe they should be a part of China. In 1950 Chinese
represented gave the Tibetan government a Seventeen Point Agreement, which Tibetans
forcefully had to sign in 1951 in order to stop the Chinese from conducting further damage to their
country. This agreement basically told the Tibetans that everything from now on will be checked
and under control by the Chinese Army and any rights mentioned for the Tibetans was violated.
From then on they took the power away from the Dalai Lama.
China renamed three Tibet provinces as their own and renamed the fourth province as
Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The Tibetans were killed and punished for not fallowing the
Army’s wishes. Then in 1959, the Dalai Lama escaped and around 100,000 Tibetans fallowed
him to India. In later years 6,000 monasteries were destroyed. Numerous of Tibetan people have
been sent to prison for advocating rights. In 1964 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a
second resolution calling on China to respect the rights of the Tibetan people. A year later the
Tibetan Autonomous Region was formally established. During the late 1960’s many Tibetan
temples, monasteries, libraries, and sacred monuments were destroyed or made into state
museums. In 1976 the Cultural Revolution ends with the death of Mao Zedong. By 1987 the
Tibetan government in exile declared that 1.2 million Tibetans died and that more than 6,500
monasteries were destroyed.
Dalai Lama
• 1950 The Dalai Lama
assumes temporal
responsibility for Tibet.
• 1979 Send first –finding
delegation to Tibet and
China.
• 1980 Sends second and
third fact-finding
delegations to Tibet.
• 1987 The Dalai Lama
proposes “Five Point
Peace Plan” during a visit
to the U.S Congress.
Mao Zedong
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Ruler of Chinese Communist
Party, and established the
People’s Republic of China in
October 1, 1949.
His communist party controlled the
media, using it to for his
widespread propaganda.
Mau used the army and the
student population against his
opponents making millions suffer
or perish.
Mao died in 1976 and those words
of ruthlessness have slowly faded
away.
Headlines
• GENOCIDE IS LAID TO REDS IN TIBET
– June 6, 1959
• Death of a Nation
June 23, 1959
• UN ignores Tibet genocide
– June 9, 2004
Speech and Quotes
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“Compassion is not religious
business, it is human business, it
is not luxury, it is essential for our
own peace and mental stability, it
is essential for human survival.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is
optional.”
“We can never obtain peace in the
world if we neglect the inner world
and don't make peace with
ourselves. World peace must
develop out of inner peace.”
The Dali lama’s five point peace plan:
• This peace plan contains five basic
components:
• 1. Transformation of the whole of Tibet
into a zone of peace;
• 2. Abandonment of China's population
transfer policy which threatens the
very existence of the Tibetans as a
people;
• 3. Respect for the Tibetan people's
fundamental human rights and
democratic freedoms;
• 4. Restoration and protection of Tibet's
natural environment and the
abandonment of China's use of Tibet
for the production of nuclear weapons
and dumping of nuclear waste;
• 5. Commencement of earnest
negotiations on the future status of
Tibet and of relations between the
Tibetan and Chinese peoples
Map: Inside Tibet
Map: China taking over Tibet
Foods
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Tsampa (roasted barley flour)
Dough made with roasted
barley flout and yak butter with
water and beef.
Tugpa – barley porridge with
beef or mutton (lamb) and
vegetables.
Juema is a tibetian snack.
Momos – dumpling with different
fillings vegetarian, potatoes,
cheese, and beef fillings.
Sweet Tea – black tea with milk
and sugar.
Quiangmudo Tea – cheese
powder and yak butter in tea.
Yak butter from the milk of cattles
and goats.
Barley
Beef
mutton
Languages
• Language spoken is Tibetan
• Spoken since 9th century
• Current form known as Colloquial Tibetan by Western
scholars.
• The "standard" dialect is that of the region around the
capital, Lhasa. Another form of the language, found in
current writing, is called Modern Literary Tibetan.
Photojournalist/ Reporters
• Reporters
• Photojournalists:
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Steve McCurry
Jodi Cobb
Diane Barker
Joe Mickey
– Lewis M. Simons
– Gloria Goodale
– Patrick
– Dhundup Gyalpo
– Robert Maquand
International Campaign
For Tibet
– and many more…..
Role of the UN
• Little has been done by the UN since 1950 and now.
Three resolutions have been made in the years 1959,1961,1964.
• All three recognizes that Tibetans are being violated their human rights
1959: “Calls for respect for the fundamental human rights of the
Tibetan people and for their distinctive cultural and religious life
1961: “these events violate fundamental human rights and freedoms
set out in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, including the principle of selfdetermination of peoples and nations”
1964: “Gravely concerned at the continued violation of the
fundamental rights and freedoms of the people of Tibet and the
continued suppression of their distinctive cultural and religious life, as
evidenced by the exodus of refugees to the neighboring countries”
• “To this day, the United Nations' unfinished consideration of the question
of Tibet remains one of the global body's most notable and longstanding
acts of omission” (International Campaign for Tibet)
UN Members Involved
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Not many UN members were directly involved.
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Manfred Nowak currently writes reports for the United Nations. His latest work was
the “UN Special Rapporteur on Torture’s 2005 China Mission Report: Excerpts on
Tibet”
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Here is a list of countries involved in United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Asia (12 States): China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, South Korea, Thailand, Viet Nam.
Africa (15): Algeria, Bahrain, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal,
Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.
Latin American and Caribbean States (11): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Eastern Europe (5): Armenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania.
Western and Other States (10): Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
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International Community Response
• European Parliament is highly involved and
updated with the Tibetan situation. They have
even created resolutions on possible ways
improve the relation between Tibet and China.
– EP Resolution on Tibet
• United States has also acknowledged this
situation.
- Tibetan Policy Act signed in September 30, 2002
- 107th Congress, 2nd Session: H. Res. 1646, 2002
Symbolic Emblem
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