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Io traduco - Dalai Lama accuses China : “140 people slaughtered on Monday”

Paris – Dalai Lama accuses Chinese army of opening fire at Tibetan crowd on August 18th in the country of Kham, Eastern Tibet. According to Buddhist spiritual leader, nearly 140 Tibetan has been killed, an evaluation that “has to be confirmed”. He was quoted as saying so in an interview to Le Monde appeared in today’s issue. The Tibetan leader is in Paris for a visit and tomorrow he will meet some members of French government.

Lhasa’s deads – Then, Dalai Lama has denounced that since the riots on March 10th “reliable witnesses could testify that nearly 400 hundred people have been killed in the region of Lhasa alone. They have been killed by gunshots while they were manifestating unarmed.” “If we consider the whole Tibet, the number of victims is obviously higher. Ten thousand people have been arrested but we don’t know if they have been jailed”, he added.

Military colonization – According to Peace Nobel Prize winner, Chinese army is told to be building some “real military camps”. “Military presence in Tibet is old but this colonization performed by army is destined to go on, as we can see by constructions’ building speed (???). According to Dalai Lama “it has not been shown any chance of cooperation” during the discussions with Pechin. “After the riots on March and after Olympian Games we believed in positives signs. Our enthusiasm went down quickly. Our emissaries crashed against a wall”, he concluded.

In spite of a purely religious visit in France, started on August 11st in a low-profile mode - no State representatives greeted him at the airport - tommorow the Tibetan leader is going to meet some french delegates: Foreign Minister Kouchner, Secretary of State with delegacy to human rights, Rama Yada and the first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The meeting is set during a Buddhist temple inauguration near Lodeve, Herault department. Yesterday, Pechin asked French to handle “with care” Tibet’s “important and delicate” affair during face-to-face with Dalai Lama.

Dalai Lama’s accusation arrives in a moment where China seems to show some kind of signs of agreement towards the Vatican. Pechin’s bishop, Giuseppe Li Shan, yesterday firmly hoped that Pope Benedetto XVI would visit China and he also assured that “relationships with Vatican are getting better and better”, during an interiew with Tg1. Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican press room’s chief, replied that “some importants problem have not been solved but the Vatican strongly wants to keep on with faithful and constructive dialogue “. According to Father Lombardi, “Bishop Li Shan’s interview can be considered as one of the signals given by China, as he affirmatively replies to Pope’s availability and wish to normalize relationships between China and the Vatican, as in a letter dated one year ago.” Nevertheless, Lombardi added the Pope is unlikely to visit China, because a trip is considered as “absolutely premature”.

Io traduco - Giochi e diritti umani

PEKIN - Nous sommes fermement contraires à n’importe quelle déclaration ou acte qui puisse interférer avec les affaires interieurs des autres pays, en trainant les droits de l’homme, la religion ou des autres sujets.
Après la declaration de Bush en ce qui concerne la situation des libertés en Chine,la réponse de Pekin arrive d’un ton vexé. Le president americain a parlé de « intense inquiètude pour les dissidents, les activistes politiques et les défenseurs des droits humains » et le géant asiatique réfute que « le government chinois met sa popolation à la première place et il s’engage à maintenir et promuvoir la liberté et les droits fondamentaux de ses citoyens. »
Malgrè un échange d’opinions il reste l’engagement à maintenir de bons relations parmi les deux Pays. En attendant, le president français Sarkozy qui est de retour des jours polemiques sur son voyage dans la ille des Jeux, a annoncè qui va rencontrer le Dalai Lama.

En Thailande, pendant la deuxième étape de son voyage en Extreme-Orient, le president americain a manifesté intense inquietude sur l’état des libertés en Chine : « L’Amerique maintient une opposition rigoureuse en ce qui concerne le sujet de la détentions de dissidents, de dèfenseurs des drotis humains et activistes religieuses. »
“J’ai parlé en toute clartè, franchise et constance aux leaders de Pekin en ce qui concerne la notre intense inquietude – a-t-il ajouté – parce que les Etats-Unis estiment que la popolation chinoise ait le droit aux libertés fondamentaux qu’ils sont le droit naturel pour tous les etres humains. »
Le porte-parole du Ministère des affaires E’trangèrs Qin Qang a répondu aux critiques, en expliquant que « les citoyens chinois ont la liberté de culte selon la loi ». « Nous avons – il a ajoutè – toujours insisté à maintenir un dialogue sur la base de l’estime mutuelle et de l’égalité. »
Le gouvernement a laissé entendre que les critiques de Bush n’ont pas gardé une certaine tenue : s’il peut y etre un échange d’opinions, il faut qu’il arrive « sur le niveau d’égalité et d’estime mutuelle ».