ENOUGH!TIBET IS BURNING: Stand Up for Tibet

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Urge world policy-makers to pressure China into allowing an independent investigation into the recent suicides by young Tibetans in a desperate bid to highlight the increasing crackdown on Tibetan religious and political rights.
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Fear has come to Kirti, alongside a heavy police presence. A large bus for riot police is parked just outside the monastery and security personnel mill around. Inside the monastery, monks mingle with pilgrims, but are careful about talking to visitors, even though, one monk confides: "We have a lot to say."
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Australian Lawmakers:"The crackdown on the monks at Kirti Monastery exemplifies the wider crackdown across Tibet against any expression of Tibetan identity through their religious practice. This process of eliminating Tibetan cultural heritage and the removal of monks from their monasteries is in direct violation of the freedom of religion and belief."
Australian Lawmakers today called on the Chinese government to cease its heightened repressive measures against the monks at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba in eastern Tibet

Mr Michael Danby MP, Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, spoke in Parliament last week in the wake of the recent incidents of self-immolations by young Tibetans in a desperate bid to highlight the increasing crackdown on Tibetan religious and political rights.

"The crackdown on Tibetan monks since the 2008 uprising has been brutal and repressive," Mr Danby said. The Chinese authorities are using extreme force in a crackdown at Kirti Monastery, enforcing "patriotic education" campaigns and placing an indefinite ban on religious activities at the monastery. Earlier this year, 300 monks from the monastery were taken away for "legal education" for taking part in a demonstration.

On 19 October, the Australian government raised its concerns with the Chinese government in both Beijing and Canberra over the immolations and called on China to address the underlying causes of tension in Tibet.

"This situation requires urgent attention in order to prevent these fatal protests from spreading further. At the same time, China must address the underlying resentment towards the Chinese government's policies, which the Tibetans believe, to threaten the survival of their distinct culture

A resolution of the situation will not only benefit the Tibetans, but also the long-term stability of China."This growing tragedy is an expression of the utter desperation Monks and Nuns experience in the face of China's brutal crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist practice and free religious expression.
Eleven young Tibetan monks and nuns, living in Eastern Tibet, near the town of Ngaba, set fire to themselves to protest China's brutal and repressive religious policies. Bay Area Tibetans & supporters joined a Global-action "ENOUGH!" This growing tragedy is an expression of the utter desperation Monks and Nuns experience in the face of China's brutal crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist practice and free religious expression showing that the pain and suffering of Tibetans has not gone unnoticed by the world.
The 11th Kyabje Kirti Rinpoche, exiled spiritual guide of Kirti monastery, told the US commission that Tibetans suffer a severe lack of freedom-- "Most of the Tibetan majority lives in a situation which is like house arrest in any other country.. (They )don't have any avenues to voice their feelings...in desperation they have resorted to the ultimate way of drawing attention."

Labsang Sangay, Tibet's prime minister-in-exile, has appealed to the United States to press for a fact-finding mission into the tightly controlled Kirti monastery, the center of the self-immolations. Last month AFP reporters were not allowed to the Kirti monastery but said the complex was guarded by a large number of police in full riot gear carrying automatic rifles and iron bars.

Eleven young Tibetans have set fire to themselves in eastern Tibet since March 2011; nine since September 26th. Six have died, including two nuns. and one former monk and Nepal making it now 12 that are known.

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- The Stand Up for Tibet Pledge is so nearly on 30,000 signatures! Help us reach the increased target of 50,000 signatures by Human Rights Day, 10 December.

- The Avaaz petition is nudging its way to 500,000 signatures! Please continue to promote this petition too as we hope they will be using one of their dramatic delivery mechanisms to further highlight the situation in Tibet. 

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Earlier, speaking at the East-West Center think-tank in Honolulu, Clinton had appealed to Beijing to respect human rights of its citizens. "We are alarmed by recent incidents in Tibet of young people lighting themselves on fire in desperate acts of protest, as well as the continued house arrest of the Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng," she said. "We continue to call on China to embrace a different path," Clinton said.

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Freedom and oppression have a zero-sum relationship: if one rises, the other falls. Only by exercising our freedom can we truly stop oppression. In solidarity, Tendor Executive DirectorSFT

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ICT website: "...ICT "...We believe that Tibetans will stop sacrificing their lives if the Chinese government can be made to change its course. Please tell your friends what is happening in Tibet"

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China is the worst country ever existed. Even if we gather the cleverest people from all over the world, we can never create such a country. Creating such a country is over human ability.

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Tibet saw three new self-immolation protests this weekend. On Friday, a monk and a layperson set themselves afire near Kirti Monastery in eastern Tibet. Both men are feared dead. Enough! Please Stand Up and Speak out for Tibetan's inside Tibet... Ask world governments to tell China to end their brutal crackdown in Eastern Tibet.

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Excerpts frm: the Karmapa (HHK) urges end to immolations ...The Karmapa said the 11 Tibetans who set themselves alight were "brave," acting in desperation "against the injustice and repression under which they live." "The situation is unbearably difficult, but in difficult situations we need greater courage and determination," "Each report of self-immolation from Tibet has filled my heart with pain," the Karmapa said.

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