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The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign
2008/04/08
LHASA/BERLIN
(Own report) - Conference reports and the research ofa Canadian journalist reveal that a German Foreign Ministry frontorganization is playing a decisive role in the preparations of theanti-Chinese Tibet campaign. According to this information, thecampaign is being orchestrated from a Washington based headquarters. Ithad been assigned the task of organizing worldwide "protests" at aconference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (affiliatedwith the German Free Democratic Party - FDP) in May 2007. The planswere developed with the collaboration of the US State Department andthe self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile and call for highprofile actions along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay and aresupposed to reach a climax in August during the games in Beijing. Thecampaign began already last summer and is now profiting from thecurrent uprising in the west of the People's Republic of China that isreceiving prominent coverage in the German media. The uprising wasinitiated with murderous pogrom-like attacks by Tibetan gangs onnon-Tibetan members of the population, including the Muslim Chineseminority. Numerous deaths of non-Tibetans provoked a reaction of theChinese security forces.
According to the research by a Canadian journalist, aconference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNSt) gavethe impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that violentlyforced the interruption of the Olympian Torch Relay in Paris lastMonday.[1] The conference was the fifth "International Tibet SupportGroups Conference," that was held from May 11 - 14, 2007 in Brussels.According to FNSt information this conference was supposed to donothing other than the four preceding conferences [2] - "coordinate thework of the international Tibet groups and consolidate the linksbetween them with the central Tibetan Government in Exile."[3] TheGerman foundation, which is largely state financed, began theconference preparations in March 2005, and coordinated its plans withthe Dalai Lama at his headquarters in the self-proclaimed TibetanGovernment in Exile in Dharamsala, India. More than 300 participantsfrom 56 countries, 36 Tibetan associations and 145 Tibet support groupswere represented at the conference.
Roadmap
After several days of consultations the conferenceended with a concerted "plan of action". The paper is entitled "Roadmapfor the Tibet Movement for the Coming Years" covering four areas ofinterest: "political support for negotiations", "human rights","environment and development" and "the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing."The results of the conference are directed to the Tibetan people aswell as "their supporters around the world."[4] Rolf Berndt, a memberof the FNSt's executive council in Brussels, declared that the OlympicGames "are an excellent opportunity" to publicly promote the cause ofthe "Tibet Movement".[5] The conference participants agreed to make theOlympics the single focus of attack for their activities for the next15 months.[6] They hired a full-time organizer for their campaign, whohas since been directing the worldwide Tibet actions from theirWashington headquarters.
State Department
The decisions taken at the conference in Brussels,prepared by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, are particularlysignificant not only because of the large number of participants butalso because of the influential politicians who helped in theirformulation. For example the self-proclaimed Tibetan Government inExile, which enjoys much prestige among separatists, was represented byits "Prime Minister" Samdong Rinpoche. Also attending was anothereminent politician from the Indian Himachal Pradesh state, bordering onthe People's Republic of China, where the town Dharamsala is located,the "seat" of the Tibetan "Government in Exile." A brisk interchangetakes place between Himachan Pradesh and the Chinese autonomous regionof Tibet. Paula Dobriansky, the Undersecretary of State in the US StateDepartment and special coordinator for Tibet questions alsoparticipated. She was a member of the National Security Council alreadyin the Reagan Administration, continued her career in the StateDepartment during the administration of President Bush Sr. and since2001 was again in the US foreign ministry. Ms Drobriansky is consideredto be one of the members of the neo-conservative inner circle in theBush Administration and ranks as a hard-liner capable of imposingpolicy.
Every Day
As a Canadian journalist learned through hisresearch, the campaign headquarters in Washington, that had beendecided upon at the conference in Brussels, has been able to developrather successful activities. Already at the beginning of August 2007,exactly one year before the opening of the Olympics, a close associateorganized a high profile action at the tourist filled Great Wall to thenorth of Beijing. She maintains close contact to the Tibetan"Government in Exile".[7] Another close associate recently orchestratedthe disturbance of the Olympic Torch Relay in Greece, seen ontelevision around the world. The Washington headquarters isorchestrating other "protests" intended to disturb the Torch Relay. Thecampaign will reach its climax during the Olympic games in August. "Weare determined to have non-violent direct action in the heart ofBeijing, inside the Games, every day," one activist declared.[8]
Merciless
The anti-Chinese Tibet campaign, initiated under thedirection of a German Foreign Ministry front organization (FriedrichNaumann Foundation) and a high-ranking representative of the US StateDepartment, is developing its full efficacy in the aftermath of theuprisings in West People's Republic of China that began only a few daysbefore the start of the Torch Relay. Whereas the German media mainlyreported on brutal attacks of the Chinese security forces, eye-witnessaccounts provide a different picture of what happened. The Britishjournalist, James Miles ("The Economist"), who was in Lhasa from March12 - 19, reports of pogrom-like attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetanmembers of the population of the city, among them the Muslim minority.According to Miles, the shops of Tibetan merchants were marked and leftunscathed while all other shops were plundered, destroyed or setafire.[9] In one building alone five textile saleswomen were burned todeath. Besides Miles, western tourists also described the attacks onnon-Tibetans. One Canadian saw how a group of Tibetans beat a Chinesemotorcyclist and proceeded to "mercilessly" stone him. "Eventually theygot him on the ground, they were hitting him on the head with stonesuntil he lost consciousness. I believe that young man was killed,''reported the tourist.[10]
Manipulations
Whereas Miles was describing the reluctant reactionsof the Chinese security forces in an interview broadcast over CNN, theGerman media is using the uprisings as a backdrop to represent brutalChinese repression. Facts obviously play a subordinate role. In themeantime, television channels and daily journals have had to admitmanipulations of pictures. Film sequences with Nepalese policemenbeating demonstrators were sold as documentation of alleged Chinesepolice attacks.[11] The security forces' saving a boy from an attackingTibetan mob was coarsely labeled a violent arrest. Even Miles' reportwas editorially presented in a context to focus on Chinese repression.For the purpose of comparison, german-foreign-policy.com documentsexcerpts of a CNN interview with the British journalist as well as thecorresponding passage from a renowned German daily.[12] (Click here.)
Anticipation
The pogrom-like mob-violence not only created thenecessary media profile for the current Tibet campaign, initiated withthe help of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, it also permits aninsight into the character of Tibetan separatism. The "prime minister"of the Tibetan "Exile Government," who had participated in theformulation of the plan of action at the May 2007 Tibet Conference inBrussels, had already at the end of the 1990s, expounded in the Germanmedia on his views of the future of non-Tibetans, who had immigrated toTibet 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, betreated 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 thepopulation was anticipated in mid-March by mobs in their bloody attackson 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.
[1] Doug Saunders: How three Canadians upstagedBeijing; Globe and Mail 29.03.2008. Die Konferenz wurde von derFriedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Zusammenarbeit mit der selbsternanntentibetischen Exilregierung und einem interfraktionellen Zusammenschlussdes 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 derFriedrich-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 Conference5th, 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] Transcript: 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 (eyewitness)
[13] "99 Prozent der Tibeter vertrauen in Seine Heiligkeit"; BerlinerZeitung 20.10.1997. Ähnlich hat sich erst kürzlich der Dalai Lamageäußert. "Alle Chinesen, die Tibetisch sprechen und die tibetischeKultur respektieren, können bleiben", sagte er einer deutschen Zeitung- mit einer Einschränkung: "sofern es nicht zu viele sind". "Chinamischt sich auch in Deutschlands Angelegenheiten ein"; SüddeutscheZeitung 21.09.2007
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