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CTA Speaker Pema Jungney in his address gave an overview of the Tibetan struggle with a detailed account of the Dalai Lama’s political and spiritual background… He noted recent developments in the international geopolitics concerning Tibet including the Free Tibet Act 2020 introduced in the US House by Representative Scott Perry, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) formed by the US, EU and Australia, and spoke of LAC incidents.
Congress vies with BJP to please US bosses
Congress party on July 6 Monday, while greeting Dalai Lama, used the occasion for its one-upmanship, PTI reported, took a swipe at PM Modi, saying he may have had “compulsions for not doing so”. It is more to impress US bosses about their greater commitment to them, as displayed by UPA-1 and 2. Congress has been playing a more rabid hawk currently.
“We waited for Hon’ble @PMOIndia to lead the nation in wishing HE the Dalai Lama a very Happy Birthday. Modi ji may have had his compulsions for not doing so. On behalf of the entire Nation, we wish HE @DalaiLama a long and healthy life. We are privileged for your blessings,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted.
It is not that official greetings at the level of PM etc are not conveyed. It is said they are being concealed. Instead Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, hailing from Arunachal, disputed by China, conveyed the greetings, thus rubbing the point.
US Thanks India For Hosting Dalai Lama Since 1959
US may greet or thank Dalai Lama for its own hegemonic politics. Dalai Lama may thank India for the asylum it provided. But curiously it is US that thanks India!
It is as if to confirm the roles of US, India and the Lama, discussed in these articles, came this news of thanks-giving:
“Happy 85th birthday to His Holiness @DalaiLama, who has inspired the world through his peace & kindness, and as a symbol of the struggle for Tibetans and their heritage. We thank India for hosting His Holiness and Tibetans in freedom since 1959 & wish His Holiness happiness,” the US State Department’s South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) bureau tweeted on July 6.
The U.S. Ambassador to India said: it has been my privilege to work with you and your colleagues to advance the values that Americans and Tibetans share, and the ties between us…
One wonders what values US an imperialist super power and a merchant of death can share with a Buddhist monk, unless both sides are co-conspirators, which they have been for over 60 years.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi also conveyed her greetings…Sadly, the aspirations of His Holiness and the Tibetan people remain unfulfilled …Ms Pelosi said. She noted that the US Congress on a bipartisan basis has long spoken with one voice…
She mentioned Tibet Policy and Support Act…”The Senate must pass this bipartisan legislation and support the bond of friendship that has existed between the US States, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people for decades,” Ms Pelosi said. She also mentioned Hong Kong, Uyghurs etc …
“May this next year bring His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the people of Tibet and all those working to advance freedom in China and around the world a future of peace, security and prosperity for all,” Ms Pelosi said. ( Washington PTI, ndtv.com, July 07, 2020)
Sadly, the Tibetan aspirations remain unfulfilled for 50 years. But whose aspirations are represented by USA and CTA? America has been using Human Rights as a stick to beat its adversaries with.
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Hypocrisy on Human Rights and Religious Rights : Unholy Alliance of US and India
US and India have been using Dalai Lama for decades to condemn and penalize China blaming it of suppression of Human and Religious Rights in Tibet. They used the Dalai Lama 85 celebrations also.
It is like the Devil quoting scriptures. The bloodiest super power in mankind’s history that killed millions of civilians, bombed hospitals, and carried on a crusade against Muslims and Islamic countries, speaks of Human and Religious Rights and peace.
The double standards of US and India on human rights was exposed very recently, late in April 2020, just a few months before these celebrations. A US official body then censured India on Rights. India rejected it all. And now in July, both join hands to condemn China, and use Dalai Lama-85. see details :
US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan US govt Commission, in its 2020 Report ( reported in April 2020) categorized India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). It was clubbed with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,Myanmar,North Korea and China among others.
“India took a sharp downward turn in 2019,” it said. It blamed the Centre for “ policies violating religious freedom across India,especially Muslims,” specified CAA-NRC, the Babri Masjid verdict (“culture of impunity”),the Sabarimala Review, falling Freedom of Press Index, lynching by cow-protectors etc.
The Vice Chancellor Faizan Mustafa of NALSAR University of Law, in an OpEd , Indian Express June 1,2020 commented on this issue. He explained what is meant by “the sharp downward turn”. India is now called CPC… “they are countries where the government engages in or tolerates particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” That is the dubious distinction India led by Modi got from US, his natural ally. Earlier India was called a Country of Special Concern (CSC).
The CAA “potentially exposes millions of Muslims to detention,deportation, and statelessness… when the Govt completes its NRC,” it said.
It mentioned Home Minister Amit Shah who said, in relation to CAA-NRC, “migrants are termites to be eradicated”
It named the CM of UP for his vengeful comments ( “bullets, not biryani”).
It mentioned many things and Government’s complicity.
UN Human Rights Council and various agencies of the USA and the West, including official bodies, many times criticized India for its violations of human rights,minority rights etc,in relation to Kashmir,communal violence, dalit and gender rights,custodial violence,hate crimes, AFSPA , JNU, and latest the Citizenship Act.
The Annual Report thus downgraded India to the lowest ranking as a “Country of Particular Concern”; it even recommended “ targeted sanctions on Indian Govt agencies and officials responsible for violations.”
India flatly refused to take cognizance of the Report, said it is “biased”; it is not new, said MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava, it only “reached new levels…We will treat it accordingly.”
It was a 9-Member body, two of them, Trump nominees, they agreed with many points, but dissented on recommendations. (BBC April 29,2020)
This is not the first time India led by Modi was censured by the USCIRF. The Report in 2015 spoke of “violent attacks” against minorities after 2014 Modi-led win by BJP etc. ‘Hindutva groups announced plans to forcibly “re-convert” at least 4000 Christian families and 1000 Muslim families to Hinduism as part of UP’s Ghar Wapsi (home coming) Program, it said. (BBC May 1, 2015)
India rejected them saying they are internal issues of India, and others have no business to poke their nose. India had joined China in opposing such moves in various fora.
Not only US blamed India. The UNHRC had submitted a Report to UN General Assembly in 2017 February.
The EU spoke of HR violations in India, latest:
PM Modi on July 15 raised the issue of the border standoff with China at the 15th India-European Union (EU) (virtual ) Summit, even as both sides lauded each other for sharing common universal values of “democracy, pluralism, inclusivity, respect for international institutions, multilateralism, freedom, transparency”.
PM Modi said India and the 27-nation bloc are “natural partners” even as both should “adopt a long-term strategic perspective”. But he met with no positive response…
But EU is not US. It was not impressed by Modi’s speeches: Neither on China nor on human rights.
Charles Michel, President, EU Council, said, “we support all the efforts in order to maintain a channel of dialogue, in order to find a peaceful solution.”
Ursula Von der Leyen, President, EU Commission said : while the EU shares “important” relationships with both India as well as with China…, “strong” trading relationships with both.. .and both are “very important” for Brussels in the fight against climate change…but with Delhi, Brussels shares “democracies and values”, while relationship with China is “complex”.
Apart from formal statements on sharing common values, they have not spared India: Vikas Swarup of MEA mentioned EU “reservations on human rights” in India, they citedï¾ Kashmir and CAA.
The Joint Statement (See www.mea.gov.in) of the 15th India-EU Summit (July 15, 2020) mentioned COVID-19 pandemic, and said “global cooperation and solidarity are essential”. Reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement from which Trump-led US began the process of withdrawal. It spoke of need to “seek synergies… cooperation on connectivity with third countries including in the Indo-Pacific region.
It nowhere mentioned, directly or indirectly, the Border face-off, or the very word China, implying EU, at least as a Group is not for an anti-China position. On the other hand, Trump-led US, is NOT leaving out even one occasion, and is blaming China for everything.
( For more on this see theprint.in, 15 July, 2020. And PTI indianexpress.com July 14, 2020)
The Big Media in India, more so TV channels, is mainly hegemonist US voice, a jingoist voice, that has no regard for facts. They are votaries of Post-truth. Even when the PM and his Cabinet colleague VK Singh, a former Military Chief, officially said , there was no intrusion, they harped on aggression. The hawks are pressing the government into a war-like situation. Even after official statements spoke of successful talks, disengagement etc., they fan jingoism..against Pakistan and China.
indianexpress.com July 7, 2020 published an analysis by Shubhajit Roy. It helps to see how media distorts reality to promote jingoism :
A COMPARISON of two phone conversations between India and China 18 days apart, June 17 and July 5, shows a sharp dialling down of rhetoric on the border dispute…
The first call, two days after the Galwan Valley clash on June 15, between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was frosty. However, on July 5, the conversation between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and State Councillor Wang (his counterpart as Special Representative for the boundary talks) was conciliatory, both in tone and tenor…
July 5, 2020: The two Special Representatives (SRs) agreed that both sides should take guidance from the consensus of the leaders that maintenance of peace and tranquillity in the India-China border areas was essential for the further development of our bilateral relations and that two sides should not allow differences to become disputes.
China’s Minister said: We hope India can work with China to guide public opinion in the right direction, keep and advance bilateral exchanges and cooperation, and avoid amplifying the differences and complicating matters so as to jointly uphold the big picture of China-India relations.
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US playing havoc with India-China Relations, Dalai Lama has been a tool
The Big Media has been a source of misinformation and disinformation regarding Dalai Lama and Tibet, in the past and now too. Violation of Human Rights and Religious Rights in Tibet… they harp on falsehood. It is more as a handle to help US strategy than as genuine concern.
Reports of Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations “across the world” were pushed in the media, which as usual is blind to facts. And they cover up the sinister politics, harmful to the interests of India and its people, behind the political monk , with religious garb, exposed again through these reports, which we shall see now. Much is talked of his Buddhist and peaceful intentions, utterly false. How manufacturing consent, for hegemonic interests, goes on can be seen here.
Dalai Lama turns 85 today (July 6) and 60 years of that he served US imperialism, operating from Indian soil, playing havoc with India-China Relations.
This was the title of an article published July 6 in Countercurrents.org. US and the Lama played and continues to play havoc with India-China Relations as can be anticipated, it said. Much is said of about his peace & kindness, and the Nobel Prize. But note this:
Here is a Buddhist monk rewarded with the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize but who never condemned USA, and its Allies, who have been, over the decades, killing millions of civilians of several countries. Never condemned when tens of thousands of civilians were killed, admitted even by Home Minister Amit Shah in parliament in August 2010, in Kashmir by Indian armed forces. The same applies to thousands of poor peasants and adivasis killed or fighting for land, he never condemned; and when thousands of Rohingyas were killed by Myanmar and its Buddhists.(Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’d “Democracy” leader, is another Nobel Peace Awardee who was one with him in this.) The Buddhist monk was associated with armed guerrilla battles against China, both overtly and covertly. And perhaps he was rewarded with the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for these contributions.
Tibet, Dalai Lama and USA, a detailed article by this author and published last year, by countercurrents.org, April 30, 2019, brought out much about him and his US-CIA links.
India hosted such a Dalai Lama, a fake monk, for 60 years at US behests. Hence the thanks by US to India.
Violation of human rights in Tibet ? It needs to be seen in a proper perspective. It is for Tibetans to strive for betterment, if any, without any interference by hegemonists, which only complicates the situation.
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