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Why do we campaign for Tibet? Below are twenty reasons why. During the next few weeks we'll be adding links to further information, articles and campaigns related to each of the following facts; just click for more information.
- China routinely imprisons Tibetan monks, nuns and lay-people and tortures them. Chinese courts have a higher than 99% conviction rate. Click here for more.
- As many as 1 in 4 Tibetans have died as direct results of imprisonment, torture and executions.
- It is an offence to possess a picture of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
- The Panchen Lama was abducted by the Chinese in 1995 and is the World's youngest political prisoner. He is now 17 years old, whereabouts unknown. Click here for more.
- The Chinese have summarily executed people just for flying the Tibetan flag.
- Over 120,000 Tibetans have fled Tibet, risking their lives, for uncertain futures as refugees. Click here for more.
- Tibet is a police state with between a quarter and half a million Chinese troops in situ. Click here for more.
- Tibetan women have been subjected to enforced abortion and sterilisation.
- Tibetans are liable to interrogation, imprisonment and torture for having unofficial contact with foreigners.
- China permits no independent news media in Tibet. Amnesty International is refused permission to visit. Click here for Amnesty International reports on Tibet.
- China censors all media, including the Internet. Click here for more on Google's complicity in this.
- Buddhism has been systematically suppressed, and over 6,000 monasteries and public buildings destroyed. Click here for more.
- Up to 80% of Tibet's forests have been destroyed; the Chinese have removed over $54 billion worth of timber since 1959.
- Deforestation and climate change in Tibet contributes to flooding, soil erosion and siltation downstream throughout the continent, because Tibet is the source of the 7 major rivers in Asia. Click here for more.
- China steals Tibet's enormous mineral wealth, natural resources and priceless art treasures to fuel its own economic growth.
- Tibetans (6 million) are now outnumbered by Chinese (7.5 million) within Tibet.
- Tibet's economy is now dominated by Chinese immigrants who hold all the best jobs. Employment prospects for Tibetans are dire.
- Since 1967 Tibet has been used for nuclear testing; apparently including tests to determine the radiation tolerance of the local population.
- And the Chinese hosted the 2008 Olympics. Clearly the International Olympic Committee didn't care about any of the above facts. We do, and hopefully you do too. Tibet represents universal principles of freedom, democracy, human rights, the environment, non-violence and the protection of indigenous cultures. To start taking action click here.
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