Srinagar, Sept 5 : Parliamentarians Dawa Tsering, Yeshi Dolma, and Tenpa Yarphel led a group that carried on the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile’s current advocacy trip throughout Jammu and Kashmir while in Srinagar.
The team requested the Indian government to accept Tibet as an occupied country with its own independent and sovereign past, supported by historical evidence, at a press conference held in Srinagar on Tuesday.
The Tibetan legislators submitted the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile’s ten-point appeal letter during the conference and argued for support for Tibet’s just cause.
The group requested, “Recognise Tibet as an occupied nation with its own independent and sovereign past, backed by historical evidence,” in a list of 10 proposed requests to the Government of India.The team also urged people not to support China’s misleading claim that Tibetans are a minority. According to the release from the Tibetan parliament-in exile, the recommendations included “pressuring China to ensure access to independent human rights organisations to monitor and report on the human rights situation, and extending standing invitations to UN Special Rapporteurs, in particular those focusing on freedoms of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association, and human rights defenders, and facilitating their visits to Tibet as soon as possible.” The group also called for the unconditional release of all political detainees from Tibet, including the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, whose whereabouts and state of health have been unknown since May 17, 1995.
It urged the People’s Republic of China to resume meaningful discussions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s representatives without conditions in order to end the Tibet-China conflict by pursuing true and significant autonomy within the confines of the PRC’s constitution.Establish a national legislative framework to address China’s disinformation and networked authoritarianism campaign, which undermines regional and international geopolitical stability and peace and causes public mistrust of democratic institutions, according to the delegation’s statement. The group emphasised the necessity for India and Tibet to strengthen their bilateral ties. They said, “Expand and deepen your official and diplomatic engagements with the Central Tibetan Administration-which is the continuation of the former government of independent Tibet in Lhasa-as the legitimate representative of the Tibetan people.”On 4th September, the Tibetan MPs delegation called on Taj Mohiuddin, four times Minister and former MLA; Showkat Bhath, President of Congress J-K; Jibran Dar, Youth Leader of Aam Aadmi Party J-K; G.M Shaheen, President of JDU J-K; and Tarig Ahmad, Village Sarpanch; and Tapper Abdul Natalie, Social Worker in Pattan, informed press release Tibetan parliament official site. The Tibetan MPs also visited the Tibetan Public School in Srinagar, a Tibetan Muslim school, and spoke with the staff and students there.A Tibetan ceremonial scarf (Khata) and TPiE materials describing the Tibet situation were also given to them. (AGENCIES)
