lundi 25 août 2008

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”.

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