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‘Tibet turned into prison camp’

TIBET: The speaker of Tibet’s parliament-in-exile Tuesday accused China of turning the Himalayan region into a giant prison camp as he opened the biggest meeting of the Tibetan leadership in four years.

“A state of undeclared martial law continues to remain in force in Tibet,” Penpa Tsering said in an opening address at the conclave held in northern India. “(China) has converted Tibet into a territory resembling a prison camp.” The meeting comes ahead of an expected change in leadership in Beijing and is the first such gathering since the Dalai Lama passed on his mantle as political leader of the Tibetans to prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay.

Some observers have suggested that China’s president-in-waiting Xi Jinping may be more flexible on Tibet and offer to restart talks with the exiled leadership. A spate of self-immolation suicides by Tibetan monks has alarmed the exiled leadership and Tsering said they reflected a sense of despair.

“The question (is) how and in what ways we, the Tibetan people living in exile, should respond to the tragic situation in Tibet today,” he said. “Over the past 60 years the Chinese government has continued to pursue a policy of assimilation designed to obliterate the ethnic identity of the Tibetan people.

AFP

 

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