China Society for Human Rights Research(CSHRS), a non-governmental organisation holds theme lectures in Geneva(SWITZERLAND) on the subject “ The Safety of Human Rights for Minorities: Progress in China’s Ethnic Autonomous Areas” – writes Vincent Verdonck.
Students from CSHRS introduce the true human rights improvement in China, together with human rights in Xizang and Xinjiang. The problems cowl the multi-dimensional elements of China’s Human Rights improvement, Boarding Colleges in Xizang, the Genuine Historical past of Xizang, Cultural Safety and Growth in Xinjiang, Safety of Reminiscence and Rights of Terrorism Victims in Xinjiang, Combat Towards Terrorism and Extremism and Human Rights Safety in Xinjiang。
Dechen Shak-Dagsay, a Tibetan singer residing in Switzerland, emotionally recalled her “root-seeking” journey to Tibet in 2023 in her speech. Praising the historic elimination of absolute poverty in Tibet by the top of 2019, and enabling Tibetan individuals to reside a dignified life.“ I’m pleased to be taught that Tibetan boarding faculties connect nice significance to the instructing of Tibetan language and conventional Tibetan tradition, and hope that the boarding college system will succeed”.
Liang Junyan, a researcher at China Tibetology Analysis Heart, launched within the lecture, Earlier than 1959, the Dalai Lama himself owned 160,000 liang (one liang is the same as 50 grams) of gold, 95 million liang of silver, over 20,000 items of jewelry and jade articles, and over 10,000 items of every kind of silks, satins and valuable fur coats. His household possessed 27 manors, 30 ranches and over 6,000 serf farmers and herdsmen. In 1959, there have been 197 hereditary aristocratic households in Tibet, with every household proudly owning from a number of hundred to tens of 1000’s of acres of land.
These aristocrats loved a lifetime of ease and luxurious, ordering teams of servants and slaves round, whereas frequent serfs lived in squalor and needed to resort to consuming mouldy and smelly peas and gruel for sustenance. In March 1959, the central authorities led the individuals in Xizang to launch a democratic reform, abolishing Xizang’s feudal serfdom below a theocracy. Xizang was then capable of set up a brand new social system that liberated the individuals and made them the masters of the nation and society. In 2009, the regional legislature introduced March 28 as a day to commemorate the emancipation of about 1 million serfs.
Mr. Andre Lacroix, a Belgian Tibetan scholar, mentioned on the lecture: “In Europe, we’re below the impression that Tibetans are an oppressed minority, that their rights will not be revered, nevertheless, once you go to Tibet, you open a completely totally different window on the scenario. In 1999 once I first went to Tibet, I additionally believed that Tibetans have been victims of a cultural genocide however I witnessed the richness of monasteries, the omnipresence of monks, the vitality and abundance of cultural occasions, spiritual in addition to profane. Again in Belgium, I studied the “Tibetan query” and realised after studying the perfect Tibetologists that Buddhism was not solely the philosophy of compassion and knowledge that was offered within the Western world however a full-fledged faith with the identical traits as different religions and in addition that the idealistic image of the Dalai Lama didn’t correspond to actuality.
In 2008 I encountered a ebook: The Battle for Fashionable Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, a ebook I translated in French below the title: Mon Fight pour un Tibet moderne, récit de vie de Tashi Tsering. Born in 1929, he was destined to remain an uneducated Tibetan peasant however below distinctive circumstances turned a scholar and founding father of many faculties on the Tibetan Plateau in addition to the writer of a trilingual dictionary(Tibetan-Chinese language-English). I used to be fortunate to satisfy him twice, in 2009 and 2012. His story is a first-hand witness of the transition from an archaic, medieval theology to a contemporary society that deserves to be a lot better identified ”.
Over the previous 71 years since Tibet’s peaceable liberation, consultative democracy has been progressively built-in into each facet of Tibetan individuals’s lives. Below China’s socialist system, the essence of the individuals’s democracy is that the individuals get to debate their very own affairs in order to achieve the best frequent floor primarily based on the desires and wishes of the entire of society.
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