10 December 2008 - Human Rights Day - Share your thoughts

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Comment by maryse on December 10, 2008 at 10:04am

10 December 2008

In 2008, Tibetans inside Tibet faced a dramatic increase of human rights violations as demonstrations across Tibet were met with brutality and continued repression. Unarmed peaceful protesters have been shot dead with 120 known Tibetans killed. Over 6,500 Tibetans have been arbitrarily detained for their suspected involvement in protests while more than 1,000 Tibetans remain missing; their whereabouts are unknown to their families. Information has been tightly controlled through news blackouts and extensive restrictions for travel and investigations in Tibet. Sweeping new measures to purge monasteries and ban worship in the wake of the protests reveals a renewed systematic attack on Tibetan Buddhism and culture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. An intensification of ‘Patriotic Education’ and ‘Anti-Dalai Campaigns’ continue to cause despair and even suicide as the Tibetan Communist Party Leader, Zhang Qingli called the Dalai Lama “a monster with a human face and an animal’s heart”.

Today, as we commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Raise Tibetan Flags Campaign (RTFC) remains committed to see the day when Tibetans inside Tibet will be free to raise their national flag in their homeland. At present, possessing a Tibetan flag would carry a lengthy prison sentence if found on charges of ‘splittism’. This past month, Paljor Norbu, an 81-year old Tibetan traditional printer from Lhasa was tried in secret and sentenced to 7 years in prison on suspicion that he had printed the banned Tibetan flag. In response to Norbu’s case, Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director of Human Rights Watch stated, “no one should be jailed for printing flags, books, or pictures just because a government would prefer to suppress those ideas – that’s why freedom of expression is a basic right.”

China’s brutal repression in Tibet continues to challenge to the very principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One simple act the international community of Tibetans and Tibet supports can carry out on this Human Rights Day is to raise the Tibetan flag. Since not one Tibetan flag is allowed inside Tibet, together, we can raise millions around the world to keep the dialogue about Tibet alive and help preserve Tibet’s unique cultural heritage which is being systematically destroyed inside Tibet.

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Raise Tibetan Flags Campaign (RTFC)
Promoting Peace and Awareness by Raising Tibetan Flags Worldwide

www.tibetanflags.org
peace@tibetanflags.org

Comment by Komal on December 10, 2008 at 9:57am

Thanks you have given the text of human Rights Day. actually today men and women understand Human right means I can mixed water in Milk, I can pure things in Inpure things but it is not Human Rights. Human Right means We live together brotherhood, Happiness and Lovefull Life. You have use Pure things in the world.
Thanks
Komal

Comment by toeg on December 10, 2008 at 9:31am

Overall, I was very impressed. There are some areas that weren't mentioned that I feel needed to be. I think it's important for Americans to know that our Coonstitution DEMANDS that we abide by EVERY international treaty where we are signatories. That would be the case for the United Nations in general, and the Declaration of Human Rights in specific. I also feel very strongly that the heinous acts of torture, deprivation of rights, illegal imprisonment of others, and the whole litany of violations committed by the US during the current regime as well as all previous ones, need to be emphasized repeatedly lest our history of wrongdoing and malfeasance become nothing more than a collection of dusty, faded and forgotten memories in the annals of US history.

When the atrocities of inhumane treatment by the Germans were finally discovered by the allies towards the end of the war, Eisenhower FORCED the citizens of the towns where these camps were located to walk by INSIDE THESE CAMPS and acknowledge with their own eyes the evil that was theirs. I demand NOTHING LESS for those in this government and past governments and the citizens who constantly voted for the continuance of these crimes to be shown repeatedly what their ignorance and blindness of the policies they created have done to the rest of the world.

We have intruded more than 163 times in the affairs of other countries since 1800. We have caused the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world and the suffering of hundreds of millions all in the name of "defending and promoting Democracy." Americans would be wise to learn from the famous speech of John Quincy Adams in 1821 often called the Monsters to Destroy speech. He spoke of the America that the world has longed for. He also points out in clear thoughts the evil that we will become, or in our case have already become, by not heading his words.

Finally, I am a great fan of TED. I subscribe to all their videos. I have rarely seen such intellectually stimulating videos under one roof. I abhor commercials of all types, but in the case of TED, they are indeed welcomed. If that is part of the success of TED, then I will accept them. I suggest that everyone hook up with TED and watch the videos that come on a regular basis. I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

toeg

Comment by Marena Chen on December 10, 2008 at 9:19am

While I agree with most of the issues - there is one glaring hole in all of this. I see NOT ONE Person mentioning the worst of all human rights abuses and that is FEMALE INFANTICIDE. There are now over 100 MILLION "missing" females because of this EVIL practice. Female foetuses are aborted by the MILLIONS and the others are murdered after birth by poisioning (with tobacco juice, ground glass etc) strangled, buried alive, wrapped tightly in wet cloth and left to catch pneumonia and die and a multitude of other methods. OVER 100 MILLION. Where is the outcry for justice for them???

Where are the World Organizations and their field officers who should be educating people (especially MEN) about the XX -YX chromosomes issue? Men dubbing women who "can't give them a son" as worthless and who then either take NEW wives, divorce those "useless wives" subject them to horrific abuse, and even kill them. Who in this damn world is standing up for them and their innocent female babies who are murdered by the MILLIONS?

A world populated by people who think that "GAY RIGHTS" are more important than the atrocities I mentioned above - should hang it's head in utter shame. The Gays can fight their own battles - but who fights for the rights of the MILLIONS of murdered FEMALE BABIES and the "WORTHLESS WOMEN" who give birth to them?

Comment by Dia hamdan on December 10, 2008 at 9:05am

Yea that's right many in this world does not benefit from the human rights ... the right that the world give it to people and prohibited from another .. he may classified countries as some of them deserve to be human and other not ... lets see the people of Gaza strip as a significant example about what am arguing how Israel being treat them like an animal its the big jail in the world even in the human history were more than a million and a half are forbidden from movement and transportation and they don't have even food to eat many of them dying in every day because of the siege and the world make it self blind and don't see any thing so now Who will support them after all the world been abandon them to let it israel freely kill them and in cold blood .

Comment by Michael C. Dewey on December 10, 2008 at 9:03am

All that many will say is that my older brother took his own life. I guess because of trash/cash troubles. No! It was from a broken heart (money troubles too) from a plant closing he loved to work at. (he even should up there in the morning... for reasons I don't know.)
Its the ways of the powers that be, who cost me a Brother!

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