Press statement/CAT: “The National Court orders to issue international arrest orders against five Chinese authorities charged with genocide in Tibet.”

19 November 2013

The Tibet Support Committee (CAT) informa:

The list includes former president Jiang Zemin and former- The Ministro of the Lives of the Penates."

Ayer 18 November 2013, Section 4ª of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court (AN) He estimated the appeal filed by the CAT and spoke in favor of dictating the international arrest orders for extradition purposes against Chinese leaders after the judge denied him with the support of the prosecutor last spring. Now the room after the oral view of the appeal of the past 29 July in his car yesterday admits the argumentation and evidence presented by the CAT and the co-querellantes and private accusation Thubten Wangchen and the Casa del Tibet Foundation.

This car reaches a few weeks that the AN was pronounced in favor of the imputation of former Chinese president Hu Jintao. Yesterday's car is based on the investigations practiced by the Court of Instruction from the admission to the complaint of the complaint in January of 2006.

In this sense a broad volume of documentary evidence, Expert reports practiced and the testimony of victims and direct witnesses practiced at judicial headquarters, It has served as a basis for this time the judges of the Criminal Chamber have ruled that “rationally and cousin facie, The existence of indications in the participation in the objects in the complaint is deduced” of the Chinese leaders denounced.

The importance of the latest expert reports on “The chain of command of the Chinese authorities in relation to the events that occurred in Tibet, that allow the conclusion of the participation of the complaints, according to their respective responsibility, In the facts reported in the complaint ".

In another resolution of the Central Court of Instruction Nº2 de la AN, Also yesterday, It is accessed to notify the complaint and ask to declare former president Hu Jintao as accused and the statement of questions for his interrogation is requested via rogatory commission.

The CAT thinks:

¡Good news for those who believe in justice!

The direct responsibility of those complained in the exercise of their positions in the commission of international crimes reported in the initial complaint is evidenced.

It is a good and hopeful news not only for the Tibetan victims of the occupation and repression of Tibet but for the health of the Spanish judicial system and the independence of powers of our democracy.

Motivation of orders, Rank and responsibilities of the accused:

In this way, it is concluded to decree international arrest orders for the following reasons against:

  –             JIANG ZEMIN: previous president of China, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the highest authority of the Popular Army of Liberation. His responsibility is rolled up shortly after the Tiananmen massacre when in June 1989 Jiang Zemin was appointed general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the Central Military Commission.

–              LI PENG: former prime minister during the Tibetan repression of the late 80 and principles of 90. It is important to record, As highlighted by the Human Rights Law Foundation expert report, that in 1990 The then Prime Minister Li Peng officially announced that Tibet family planning policies should not only be quantitative, but also "qualitative". He said that birth control should be carried out to “improve the quality of the population, And not only limit the number of births.

–              QIAO SHI: Chief of Chinese security and responsible for the Popular Armed Police during the repression of the late years 80. Although Qiao Shi is usually known more for facilitating the enormous repression throughout China after the Tiananmen massacre in June of 1989, Almost a year earlier he had let the cruelty of his attitude towards Tibetan protesters in Lhasa, Calling protesters, “Rebels”, And saying that the Government would "adopt a policy of mercilessness", As manifested in the expert report of International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).

 –             CHEN KUIYAN: Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) In the autonomous region of Tibet during the period 1992-2001. The expert report ratified by Kate Saunders and that it serves as the basis for this car found that "under the government of Chen Kuiyuan the disappearances increased greatly after the changes in the penitentiary administration that were made in 1994". He also identified Buddhism, as the root from which secessionist activities are born, promoted by the Dalai Lama and that the monks that do not conform to the socialist religion would be severely punished.

–              Peng Pelon: Minister of Family Planning in the years 90, accused of imposing the policies of the Ministry of Family Planning in the Autonomous Region of Tibet and that are not directed, as is usually the case with the Chinese policy of "a single child", to reduce overpopulation, but simply to reduce the population of Tibetans as a specific ethnic and religious group.

End of the Cat press release- Tibet Support Committee

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