GENEVA: “There is no repression of China’s Tibet,” China claimed at the UN Human Rights Council as a Tibetan speaker reminded the world’s highest human rights body of the 60 years of the Chinese government’s brutal repression of Tibetans.
The debate occurred at the Human Rights Council’s ongoing 41st session where Kunchok Yaklha, on behalf of Society for Threatened Peoples, was delivering her oral statement.
China called the point of order three times notwithstanding that it had no justifiable reasons for such interruptions and accused the speaker of using “abusive language.”
At one point, China called on Yaklha to “say the fact” to which she responded, “The fact is, Freedom House, an independent watchdog, consistently ranks the Tibetan region as the second least free region in the world, only after Syria.”
“The plight of Tibetans is being forgotten and that is exactly according to the Chinese government’s plan,” said Yaklha.
You can watch the video here:
https://www.facebook.com/tibetoffice.ch/videos/1318677081617708/
A copy of the full statement is here.
-Filed by Tibet Bureau Geneva