Beijing, 13 feb (EFE).- Activists in exile today commemorate the centenary of Tibet's independence, una celebración que la potencia asiática ha tachado de "farsa" and that it occurs in the midst of a strong Chinese campaign against the acts of protest by the Tibetan population.
La organización "Radio Free Asia" (RFA) claimed today on its website its right to commemorate the centenary of the date to which they attribute their independence from China, he 13 February 1913, supposedly signed by the 13th Dalai Lama.
"Cada país tiene un día nacional o de independencia, regardless of your political status, por lo que Tíbet no es una excepción", apunta la organización "Estudiantes por un Tíbet Libre" (SFT, acronym in english) in a statement published by Radio Free Asia.
The Chinese Government, nevertheless, rated the celebration last day 11 de "mito y fabricación", as published by the official Xinhua agency then.
"Ese espectáculo es sólo una farsa", the communist authorities stressed.
The commemoration - celebrating the expulsion of Qing dynasty troops from Tibet- coincides with the last immolation attempt that occurred today in Nepal, which has raised to 100 the number of Tibetans burning themselves in protest of the Chinese occupation since 2009.
"En este momento, a global commemoration of this historic date will help renew our spirits, reafirmar nuestra visión y aumentar nuestra fuerza", noted the SFT organization.
Since last December, Beijing has been carrying out a tough campaign against the acts of protest by the Tibetan population in the provinces bordering the Roof of the World, that has left almost 80 detenidos sospechosos de "incitar a la inmolación" so far this year.
The largest collective arrest occurred on the day 8 February, when 70 Tibetans arrested in northwest China's Qinghai province on charges.
the same day, Huangnan Intermediate Court (Qinghai) condemned Phagpa, a Tibetan from 27 years, to thirteen years in prison after being found guilty of intentional homicide and attempted separation of the State, According to the official Xinhua agency.
Just a week before, a court of Sichan (southwest) sentenced to death with a two-year deferral for the execution of the sentence - commutable to life imprisonment if he demonstrates good behavior- to a Tibetan for inciting eight people to immolate themselves.
Last December, China passed a regulation under which anyone suspected of inciting or helping someone to set themselves on fire as a protest can be charged with murder..
China considers Tibet part of the country for centuries, by dynastic and conquest unions in the imperial era, si bien para los tibetanos en el exilio el "Techo del Mundo" achieved independence in 1913, when the 13th Dalai Lama signed the document.
