Press Release

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of the so-called People’s Republic of China. For nearly 60 years of that duration, Tibet – a freedom and a peace-loving nation that has been under the brutal totalitarian occupation of Communist China has faced an overall destruction to its land and people; its religion and culture; its language and script to such a massive extent that it has now reached a critical point of total annihilation. Inspite of that, the Government of China, taking advantage of this occasion, has not only set up an exhibition show-casing the ‘great progress’ that it has brought in Tibet but it is also in the process of organizing the commemoration of this event in the whole of the three provinces of Tibet in order to misuse it for political propagandas. In reality, the Tibetan people and peoples of the other national minorities have been put under stricter control of their movements and activities in order to hide all the destructions caused by the deceptive policies so far. Such actions that contradict the facts can never satisfy the Tibetan people both in and outside Tibet and bring about a solution to the vexed Tibetan issue. Ever since the forcible occupation of Tibet, China has perpetrated a series of wrongful and ultra-leftist policies, which have resulted in a colossal loss, that has never happened in the whole history of Tibet. Even now, under the guise of economic development and progress, the Government of China is seeking to fully sinicize the Tibetan population.To sum up, under the pretext of observing the 60th Anniversary of PRC, the Government of China is taking up a number of policies and programmes that contradict with reality. Such deceptive actions cannot be recognized as fulfilling the real aspirations of the minority nationalities in China. Therefore, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile strongly opposes these actions.Tibetan Parliament-in-ExileGangchen KyishongDharamsala(H.P.) India