The 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, Gendhun Choekyi My Face, suspiciously disappeared last year 1995 when I only had 6 year old. The constant requests that parliamentarians and world leaders have made to the Chinese authorities to know where he is and how he is, They have never received a response. The fate of the Panchen Lama symbolizes that of many other brave Tibetans who remain imprisoned and deprived of their basic human rights..
CHINA: Where is the Panchen Lama?
This Wednesday 17 May 2023, The Casa del Tibet Foundation and the Tibetan Community have called a CONCENTRATION at the Casa del Tibet Foundation to Plaza Sant Universidad de Barcelona on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the kidnapping of the XI PANCHEN LAMA of Tibet by the Chinese army.
CONCENTRATION: 18h-20h House of Tibet Foundation.
The current Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi My mind wasn't there 6 years old when the Chinese government kidnapped him and his family, a few days after being named the 11th Panchen Lama by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
He 14 May 1995, after six years of searching and consultations, The Dalai Lama announced that he had found the new Panchen Lama: Gendun Choekyi Yourself, born on 25 April 1989 in the town of Lhari (Tibet).
He 17 May 1995 a special group of the chinese army, in a surprise operation and with the landing of numerous helicopters in the village of Gendun, kidnapped the little lama and took him to an unknown place in Chinese territory. Gendun Choekyi Nyima became the youngest political prisoner in the world.
For a year, The Chinese government did not want to give any information about the location of the child and his parents..
He 28 May 1996, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua announced that Gendun was “under government protection at the request of his parents, due to the risk of being kidnapped by separatists”.
Nineteen years later, Still no one knows where he is or how he is..
He 29 November 1996 The Chinese government annulled the appointment of the Panchen Lama made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and, at the same time, announced his own appointment in the person of Gyaltsen Norbu, a boy of the same age as Gendun and who, randomly, He was the son of a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
Today, 28 years after the kidnapping, The truth about the kidnapping and whereabouts of Gendun Choekyi Nyima is unknown, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet.
We demand that China report on the situation of the Panchen Lama.
We count on your presence and support.
We are waiting for you!
“WHERE IS THE PANCHEN LAMA”
Video in English (Where is the Panchen Lama) with music by Bern-based Tibetan artist and activist (Swiss), Lots Namling.
