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The following is the main part of a German
report:
Conference reports and the research of a Canadian journalist
reveal that a German Foreign Ministry front organization
is playing a decisive role in the preparations of the anti-Chinese
Tibet campaign. According to this information, the campaign
is being orchestrated from a Washington based headquarters.
It had been assigned the task of organizing worldwide "protests" at
a conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
(affiliated with the German Free Democratic Party - FDP)
in May 2007. The plans were developed with the collaboration
of the US State Department and the self-proclaimed Tibetan
Government in Exile and call for high profile actions along
the route of the Olympic Torch Relay and are supposed to
reach a climax in August during the games in Beijing. The
campaign began already last summer and is now profiting from
the current uprising in the west of the People's Republic
of China that is receiving prominent coverage in the German
media. The uprising was initiated with murderous pogrom-like
attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetan members of the population,
including the Muslim Chinese minority. Numerous deaths of
non-Tibetans provoked a reaction of the Chinese security
forces.
According to the research by a Canadian journalist, a conference
organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNSt) gave
the impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that
violently forced the interruption of the Olympian Torch Relay
in Paris last Monday.The conference was the fifth "International
Tibet Support Groups Conference," that was held from
May 11 - 14, 2007 in Brussels. According to FNSt information
this conference was supposed to do nothing other than the
four preceding conferences - "coordinate the work of
the international Tibet groups and consolidate the links
between them with the central Tibetan Government in Exile." The
German foundation, which is largely state financed, began
the conference preparations in March 2005, and coordinated
its plans with the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in the
self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala,
India. More than 300 participants from 56 countries, 36 Tibetan
associations and 145 Tibet support groups were represented
at the conference.
State Department
The decisions taken at the conference in Brussels, prepared
by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, are particularly significant
not only because of the large number of participants but
also because of the influential politicians who helped in
their formulation. For example the self-proclaimed Tibetan
Government in Exile, which enjoys much prestige among separatists,
was represented by its "Prime Minister" Samdong
Rinpoche. Also attending was another eminent politician from
the Indian Himachal Pradesh state, bordering on the People's
Republic of China, where the town Dharamsala is located,
the "seat" of the Tibetan "Government in Exile." A
brisk interchange takes place between Himachan Pradesh and
the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. Paula Dobriansky,
the Undersecretary of State in the US State Department and
special coordinator for Tibet questions also participated.
She was a member of the National Security Council already
in the Reagan Administration, continued her career in the
State Department during the administration of President Bush
Sr. and since 2001 was again in the US foreign ministry.
Ms Drobriansky is considered to be one of the members of
the neo-conservative inner circle in the Bush Administration
and ranks as a hard-liner capable of imposing policy.
Every Day
As a Canadian journalist learned through his research, the
campaign headquarters in Washington, that had been decided
upon at the conference in Brussels, has been able to develop
rather successful activities. Already at the beginning of
August 2007, exactly one year before the opening of the Olympics,
a close associate organized a high profile action at the
tourist filled Great Wall to the north of Beijing. She maintains
close contact to the Tibetan "Government in Exile".[7]
Another close associate recently orchestrated the disturbance
of the Olympic Torch Relay in Greece, seen on television
around the world. The Washington headquarters is orchestrating
other "protests" intended to disturb the Torch
Relay. The campaign will reach its climax during the Olympic
games in August. "We are determined to have non-violent
direct action in the heart of Beijing, inside the Games,
every day," one activist declared.[8]
Merciless
The anti-Chinese Tibet campaign, initiated under the direction
of a German Foreign Ministry front organization (Friedrich
Naumann Foundation) and a high-ranking representative of
the US State Department, is developing its full efficacy
in the aftermath of the uprisings in West People's Republic
of China that began only a few days before the start of the
Torch Relay. Whereas the German media mainly reported on
brutal attacks of the Chinese security forces, eye-witness
accounts provide a different picture of what happened. The
British journalist, James Miles ("The Economist"),
who was in Lhasa from March 12 - 19, reports of pogrom-like
attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetan members of the population
of the city, among them the Muslim minority. According to
Miles, the shops of Tibetan merchants were marked and left
unscathed while all other shops were plundered, destroyed
or set afire.[9] In one building alone five textile saleswomen
were burned to death. Besides Miles, western tourists also
described the attacks on non-Tibetans. One Canadian saw how
a group of Tibetans beat a Chinese motorcyclist and proceeded
to "mercilessly" stone him. "Eventually they
got him on the ground, they were hitting him on the head
with stones until he lost consciousness. I believe that young
man was killed,'' reported the tourist.[10]
Manipulations
Whereas Miles was describing the reluctant reactions of
the Chinese security forces in an interview broadcast over
CNN, the German media is using the uprisings as a backdrop
to represent brutal Chinese repression. Facts obviously play
a subordinate role. In the meantime, television channels
and daily journals have had to admit manipulations of pictures.
Film sequences with Nepalese policemen beating demonstrators
were sold as documentation of alleged Chinese police attacks.[11]
The security forces' saving a boy from an attacking Tibetan
mob was coarsely labeled a violent arrest. Even Miles' report
was editorially presented in a context to focus on Chinese
repression. For the purpose of comparison, german-foreign-policy.com
documents excerpts of a CNN interview with the British journalist
as well as the corresponding passage from a renowned German
daily.[12] (Click here.)
Anticipation
The pogrom-like mob-violence not only created the necessary
media profile for the current Tibet campaign, initiated with
the help of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, it also permits
an insight into the character of Tibetan separatism. The "prime
minister" of the Tibetan "Exile Government," who
had participated in the formulation of the plan of action
at the May 2007 Tibet Conference in Brussels, had already
at the end of the 1990s, expounded in the German media on
his views of the future of non-Tibetans, who had immigrated
to Tibet over the past 50 years. In the case of a successful
secession, they will have to "return to China, or if
they would like to remain, be treated as foreigners." He
explained the planned measures: "they will, in any case,
not be allowed to participate in the political life."[13]
The prospect of discrimination against all non-Tibetan members
of the population was anticipated in mid-March by mobs in
their bloody attacks on Chinese and members of the Muslim
minority.
Please read also Strategies of Attrition (I), Strategies
of Attrition (II), Strategies of Attrition (III), Strategies
of Attrition (IV) and The Olympic Lever.
References:
[1] Doug Saunders: How three Canadians upstaged Beijing;
Globe and Mail 29.03.2008. Die Konferenz wurde von der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
in Zusammenarbeit mit der selbsternannten tibetischen Exilregierung
und einem interfraktionellen Zusammenschluss des belgischen
Parlaments durchgeführt.
[2] Die ersten vier "International Tibet Support Groups
Conferences" fanden 1990 (Dharamsala), 1996 (Bonn),
2000 (Berlin) und 2003 (Prag) statt. Bereits die zweite Konferenz
wurde von der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung organisiert.
[3] Gerhardt kritisiert Belgien nach Absage des Dalai-Lama-Besuchs;
www.fnst-freiheit.org 11.05.2007
[4] Brussels Tibet conference roadmap for peace in Tibet;
www.tibet.com 14.05.2007
[5] Valedictory Speech, International Tibet Support Groups
Conference 5th, Dr. h.c. Rolf Berndt, Executive Director,
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung fuer die Freiheit,Brussels, 14th
May 2007
[6], [7}, [8] Doug Saunders: How three Canadians upstaged
Beijing; Globe and Mail 29.03.2008
[9] Tran***: James Miles interview on Tibet; CNN 20.03.2008
[10] Chinese beaten mercilessly - tourists; Herald Sun 19.03.2008
[11] Fotos aus Tibet; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 24.03.2008
[12] see also Augenzeuge
[13] "99 Prozent der Tibeter vertrauen in Seine Heiligkeit";
Berliner Zeitung 20.10.1997. Ähnlich hat sich erst kürzlich
der Dalai Lama geäußert. "Alle Chinesen, die Tibetisch
sprechen und die tibetische Kultur respektieren, können bleiben",
sagte er einer deutschen Zeitung - mit einer Einschränkung: "sofern
es nicht zu viele sind". "China mischt sich auch
in Deutschlands Angelegenheiten ein"; Süddeutsche Zeitung
21.09.2007
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