Below is a statement issued by members of Parliamentary Group for Tibet. The Parliamentary Group for Tibet was newly established at the end of January after 2011 elections, it has already 13 members from all mayor political parties present in Polish Parliament, it has statute of multilateral groups dealing with international issues in Polish Parliament.

Warsaw, 29 February 2012

Parliamentary Group for Tibet

Information on the situation in Tibet

We, the Polish people, bear moral responsibility, resulting from our history, to support all who suffer injustice and persecution. Therefore, we ought to call to respect basic human rights in Tibet, where only this year eleven Tibetans have committed self-immolation to protest against Chinese government’s policy. The youngest of them was only eighteen years old.

Tibet is currently suffering the most serious crisis it has seen in last several years: police open fire on defenceless protestants and place many of them in detention; more and more Tibetans, most of whom are monks held in high regard by the whole community, burn themselves to protest against the policy of the government, whose sole response is the escalation of measures that caused the dramatic acts. Enhanced security forces, political re-education campaigns and the state’s interference in religious issues not only fail to solve the problem, but even provoke more discontent and objection of Tibetans, which leads to a vicious circle of demonstrations followed by violent suppressions.

Members of the Parliamentary Tibet Group urge the authorities in Beijing to resume the dialogue with Dalai Lama’s envoys and to respect Tibetans’ basic human rights and their right to autonomy provided in the Constitution and in relevant laws of the People’s Republic of China. It is in all parties’ best interest and constitutes the only constructive method of searching for permanent and peaceful solution of this deeply rooted problem.

Signatories:

Beata Bublewicz
Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Tibet Group

Robert Biedroń
Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary
Tibet Group

Waldemar Andzel
Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary
Tibet Group

Iwona Guzowska
Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary
Tibet Group

Bogusław Wontor
Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary
Tibet Group