China carrying out cultural
genocide of Tibet
16 October Ramesh
Sharma Hindu Business Line
China is carrying out
systematic annihilation of the cultural heritage of Tibet with the
destruction of Tibetan Buddhism and religious traditions, education
system, social breakdowns, lawlessness, communal disharmony,
uncontrolled greed and a high growth in sex trade and alcoholism,
according to a report.
In the report – Cultural
Genocide in Tibet – brought out by The Tibet Policy Institute
Lobsang Sangay, President, Central Tibetan Administration stated
that acts of genocide have been and are still being committed. He
said that the Chinese are carrying out destruction of their
religion, language, and also doing forceful removal of Tibetan
nomads while it is continuing population transfer onto the Tibetan
Plateau from mainland China.
He even highlighted that
the as per the 2017 Freedom House report, Tibet is one of the least
free countries in the world.
“Policies relentlessly
carried out in these four areas have robbed the Tibetans of their
culture and language and have damaged their traditional way of
life. The influx of Chinese migrant workers, facilitated by the new
railway line and an administration in favour of the migrants, are
reducing the Tibetans to an increasingly disenfranchised minority
in their own land,” he said.
China strategy:
report
According to the report,
the challenge lies in how China projects itself in front of the
world compared to what its internal policies are. It said while
China behaves as like a multinational State in global arena, it
acts as an empire when it comes to dealing with its own domestic
issues.
“The contradiction between
its self-portrayal and its real imperial impulses is at the heart
of China’s destruction of Tibet’s Buddhist civilisation,” said the
report, which was launched here on Monday.
The report stated that
China is also attempting to flood Tibet with Han Chinese settlers
and making them a dominant ethnic population, similar to what it
did in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
The report also added that
China is “waiting for the passing away of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama” so that it can appoint the next Dalai Lama there.
“In brushing aside the
present Dalai Lama and preparing to appoint the next one all in the
hope that Beijing can handle the Tibetan people, the Chinese
authorities are travelling on the road to the destabilization of
Tibet,” it said.
More than 149 Tibetans have
set themselves on fire because of China’s refusal to allow His
Holiness the Dalai Lama to visit Tibet. But if China imposes its
own Dalai Lama then the movement may not remain non-violent, the
report said.