[Source of information:
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=17013]
On the concluding second day early morning, over two hundred Indians and Tibetans listened to Jamyang Norbu, noted Tibetan writer and veteran activists for Tibet’s independence, as he explained
how the next two years are crucial for Tibet, and how the Olympics could provide the one-chance for Tibetans to come out and protests “like one mighty force”. He noted that unless a mass protest occurs, Tibet would continue to slip out of the world map, leaving very little to protest for.
Saying attempts by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to engage with Beijing were "not successful”, Mr Jamyang called for new tactics in the campaign for independence from China.
Indian supporters coming from right wing Hindu nationalist, Leftist, Liberal Leftist and Marxist and also a good dose of Gandhians and JP followers only goes on to prove the variety of Tibet supporters and backgrounds they come from. Other noted speakers on the day, Vijay Kranti, prominent journalist and a long time supporter of an Independent Tibet, Claude Arpi, French researcher and Tibet commentator, Ragav Mittal of Bajaj Foundation also argued for Rangzen. Arpi presented historical and legal documents, which proved Tibet's nationhood and contextualised the seventeen-point agreement and the Strasbourg Proposal.
- He stated that companies operating in China should be targeted to force them to divest.
- "though our political stand is different from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, our commitment to Non-violence is same. But non-violence without mass support will not succeed", Tenzin Tsundue, a Tibetan poet and activist said.
- Responding to questions he said "we appeal to all parties involved to reconsider their investments in China and Tibet. Your business is destroying our country." Citing the South African example of success of mass movement, he said "Only when corporate interests of Coca Cola, IBM and scores of others were hurt then they put pressure on the white government to relent. We will now devise to do this. If our non-violence fails, we will have to find other means. The international community has the responsibility to support and make the Tibetan struggle succeed."
Everyone stood firmly on the stance of Independence of Tibet acknowledging the view Radha Bhatt expressed "Jab tak Tibbat Azaad nahin hai, India kabhi azaad nahin ho sakta. India hamesha Chin ki Dabao main rehne padega"(As long as Tibet is not free, India can never be free. India will have to forever live under Chinese pressure).
Radha Bhatt is a Gandhian, an activist who hugged trees to save them from felling during the 1980s famous Chipko Movement of North India.
The Conference was attended by many prominent journalists, lawyers, and defence strategists, and intellectuals of the country, like Parth Shah of the Centre of Civil Society, Colin Gonzalves, founder of the Human Rights Law Network, Harsh Dhobal, editor Combat Law, Madhur Santanam Sondhi, Major Gen (retd) Vinod Saighal, Dr. Trika of Core group for Tibet, Sonam Wangdue of US Tibet Committee among others.
International participants from USA, France, the UK and Poland and Indian participants from more than 20 states made to the conference. Claudia Roth, Federal Chairwoman of Green Party and Member of Federal Parliament, Germany had sent a letter of support to the conference.
Following is the full text of the Conference Resolution
The New Delhi Declaration
CONFERENCE RESOLUTION
The Conference Resolution asked for recognizing Tibet as a colony and thus, it proved that the United Nations and other bodies of the International community is compelled to remove the last vestiges of colonialism, and demand for Independence for Tibet. It cited the Resolution number "49/89 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples" of 7th February 1995 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which asks for "Recognizing that the eradication of colonialism is one of the priorities of the Organization for the decade that began in 1990, Deeply conscious of the need to take, speedily, measures to eliminate the last vestiges of colonialism by the year 2000, as called for in its resolution 43/47 of 22 November 1988."
The above-cited resolution, ratified even by China, makes it the "moral responsibility of the UN and the member nations of this body to call a special meeting of the General Assembly and impress upon China that in view of this Resolution, China must restore full independence to whole of Tibet i.e. all the three provinces and its people" (quoted from the Conference Resolution).
The delegation adopted a four-pronged strategy, which will guide its call for Independence for Tibet and its plan of action in the coming years:
"Realizing that Complete Independence (Poorna Swaraj) under the leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and with the help of India and other members of the freedom-loving world community is the only hope for Tibet, the Conference resolves:-
1) To call upon the Government of India to recognize the Tibetan Government-in-Exile as the sole legitimate Government of Tibet and the Tibetan people and His Holiness the Dalai Lama as its sole political and spiritual leader.
2) To call upon the United Nations to fulfill its obligation in view of its 1993 UN Declaration that there should remain no colonized country in the world by the year 2000.
3) To call upon every member of the international community to recognize Tibet as one of the last remnant of colonial rule in need of decolonization.
4) To call upon all Tibet Support Groups around the word to put back Complete Independence as their main agenda in their campaigns and observe 22 November every year as "Anti-Colonialism Day" and to run signature campaigns reminding the United Nations to implement its resolutions on Colonialism."
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While that Delhi Conference was ongoing the U.S. ambassador to India was confering with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Prime Minister in exile (Kalon Tripa) , Professor Samdhong Rinpoche in Dharamsala . "The latest visit by the US official quickly follows the U.S. Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky’s similar visit to Dharamsala last November."
Color Revolution - Who's who ?
Who is Paula Dobriansky ?
- Paula Dobriansky
- Under-Secretary of State for Democracy & Global Affairs
- a member of the neocon PNAC
- has been involved in the color revolutions in eastern Europe
- coined the phrase "Cedar Revolution" for the Lebanese quagmire.
In January several organizations announced a series of protests against China:
- Five leading Tibetan organizations calling on exile Tibetans to take a protest march to Tibet ahead of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games today released a two-page registration-cum-declaration form to formally start registering people taking part in it.
Instead of calling for Tibetan autonomy, their declaration directly call for INDEPENDENCE FOR TIBET:
Just like launching the notorious color revolutions, "training sessions" were given in February by several NGOs that called for the protests:
Note these training sessions and how similar they were to those done with student movements during the color revolutions. As wikipedia notices:
Activists from Otpor in Serbia and Pora in Ukraine have said that publications and training they received from the US based Albert Einstein Institution staff have been instrumental to the formation of their strategies.
The Albert Einstein Institute has translated its two main 'color revolution' instruction books into Tibetian. One has a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
Though the CIA-Tibetan program ended in late 60's but under Reagan, a new initiative was launched and since then, the US Governments had been sponsoring the so-called Non-Governmental Organizations branded as "humanitarian" or "democracy promotion" and soaked into targeted countries that the US aimed at launching operations of "Regime Change".
organizations stated that funding for such kind of programs against China had grown from $10 million in Fiscal Year 2002 to 23 million in Fiscal Year 2006
The report listed the State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor(DRL) under "Key Actors". DRL is part of Paula Dobriansky's organization.
Congress has supported increased funding for DRL’s Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF).
Appropriations for HRDF grew from a yearly average of $13 million in FY2001-FY2002 to $33.7 million in FY2003-FY2005.
Congress provided $63 million for HRDF in FY2006. China programs account for about 25% of spending from its Democracy Fund.
Most DRL funding goes to U.S.-based NGOs, including universities, while some subgrants go to PRC “partner NGOs.”
A footnote explains:
Because of political sensitivities, DRL does not disclose the names of its grant recipients.
