20 minutes/Agencies: “Strong discomfort” Chinese for the Spanish arrest warrant against former communist leaders

PHOTO: The Spanish National Court has issued international arrest warrants against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and four other former leaders of that country for the repression in Tibet.. (How Hwee Young / ARCHIVE / EFE)

• The National Court issues an international arrest warrant against five former leaders, including a former Chinese president and another prime minister.
• Accuses them of crimes against humanity for leading the repression in Tibet.
• China acusa a las instituciones españolas de "ignorar la posición china" y "manipular este asunto".
• "Estas acciones están condenadas a fracasar", they assure.

Agencies. 20.11.2013

China ha expresado este miércoles su "fuerte malestar" for the decision of the Spanish Justice to issue an international arrest warrant against five former communist leaders, including former President Jiang Zemin and former Prime Minister Li Peng. "China expresa su fuerte malestar y su firme oposición a las instituciones españolas que, ignoring the Chinese position and being inconsistent with previous statements, manipulan este asunto", The spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Hong Lei pointed out at a press conference. Let's hope that in Spain they don't do anything that damages the relationship between China and Spain"

We hope that the relevant parties in Spain take the Chinese concern seriously., y no hagan nada que dañe a este país o la relación entre China y España", assured the official source. Hong señaló que China ha pedido a España que clarifique la decisión y culpó a "separatistas tibetanos" de "crear rumores y calumnias, making false accusations against the Chinese government, para dañar sus relaciones bilaterales con otros países". "Esas acciones están condenadas a fracasar", The spokesman added, quien puntualizó que la posición china en el conflicto tibetano es "clara y consistente" y que España "también sabe eso".

The statements by the Chinese official come after this Tuesday the National Court issued international arrest warrants against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and four other former leaders of that country., within the case in which he investigates the repression of the Chinese communist regime on the inhabitants of Tibet.

The fourth section of the Criminal Chamber issued the arrest warrants in an order, which also affect Li Peng, Chinese prime minister at the end of the years 80 of the last century and the beginning of the 90; Qiao Shi, Former head of Chinese security and head of the People's Armed Police; Chen Kuiyan, Secretary of the Communist Party in the Tibet Autonomous Region between 1992 and 2001 y a Peng Pelyun, Minister of Family Planning of China in the years 80.

This case was opened after the Tibet Support Committee and the Casa del Tíbet Foundation filed a complaint against seven Chinese leaders, Among them, former president Hu Jintao, on whom the National Court has not issued an arrest warrant. With these international search and arrest warrants, the fourth section —Composed by magistrates Ángela Murillo, Carmen Paloma González and Juan Francisco Martel— revokes the decision of the investigating judge Ismael Moreno, that last May it was agreed that the arrest of these people was not appropriate because the procedures carried out did not allow it to be deduced that they participated in the reported events.

in 2006, The National Court declared itself competent to investigate the reported genocide. Instead, la sala cree que de lo investigado hasta ahora sí se deduce "la existencia de indicios en la participación en los hechos objeto de la querella en las personas de los mencionados, habida cuenta de la responsabilidad política o militar de cada uno de ellos en el largo periodo a que se remontan los hechos objeto de la investigación".

The complaint that gave rise to the procedure was admitted for processing in January 2006, when the National Court declared itself competent to investigate the reported genocide given the impossibility of it being investigated by Chinese courts or by the International Criminal Court. A los querellados se les acusa de un delito de lesa humanidad por dirigir un ataque "generalizado y sistemático contra la población tibetana" in the years between the end of the decade of the 80 of the last century and the beginning of the 90. The National Court investigates this matter because the third complainant is the lama Thubten Wangchen, who has Spanish nationality.