Jose Elias Esteve | Javier de Lucas
@xdelucas
09/03/2019
Tibet, THE WORLD ROOF, It is a country that is home to one of the oldest cultures we know and whose history as a people dates back to the 7th century.. in 1907, a treaty between China, Russia and the United Kingdom attributed sovereignty over Tibet to China. in 1911 and even 1950, the religious leader of Tibet declared it an independent country, with a regime very close to theocracy, which had the firm support of the Tibetan people. in 1950, the People's Liberation Army (EPL) Chinese occupied Tibet, but maintained its own Tibetan government, until the rebellion of 10 March 1959, key date for the recent history of this town.
60 years Tibet
They are fulfilled today 60 years of that national uprising of the Tibetan people against the Chinese occupation forces, which ended with an order from the Chinese State Council ordering the dissolution of the Tibetan government, that had tried to coexist with the presence of the Popular Liberation Army in the country. Brutally suffocated, the fourteenth Dalai Lama and a good part of his followers were forced to go into exile. Passing the Indian border, issued the famous Tezpur Declaration, in which he accused China of militarily occupying Tibet. Immediately, the prime minister of india, Nehru, Not only did it have all the means to welcome the thousands of Tibetan refugees who escaped through the high passes of the Himalayas, but it allowed the establishment in the town of Dharamsala, of a Tibetan Government in Exile. Mao no perdonaría esta injerencia india en "sus asuntos internos" and , months later, a border war would break out between the two Asian powers. Since then, Neither the Dalai Lama nor the fled Tibetans have been able to return to their country and reunite with their families., The Sino-Indian border dispute has by no means been resolved.. It's more, this enmity on account of Tibet, years later, caused Beijing to help Pakistan become a nuclear power. All of which has not only further soured the already deteriorating Indo-Pakistani relations, But any confrontation in Kashmir, like the one we've been experiencing these last few weeks, makes the shadow of the atomic threat loom.
From 1959, the only authority in Tibet became that of the PLA, with the establishment of Military Control Committees in all cities and villages. El resultado directo de la represión armada en el distrito central del Tíbet en los primeros meses de la nueva "administración" imposed by martial law was the death of more than 87.000 Tibetans, according to a report from the Chinese army's own intelligence service. But, above all, the repression unleashed 10 March, apart from transforming regional geopolitics, sowing a permanent threat to international peace and security, marked the beginning of one of the most forgotten genocides of the 20th century. Under the direct supervision of the prime minister, Zhou Enlai, se consideró que el levantamiento del pueblo tibetano constituía "crímenes monstruosos", que amenazaban la unidad del país y que la tarea prioritaria en esos momentos en Tíbet era la de "limpiarlo de todos los rebeldes", who deceive the population with religious superstitions. For this purpose, the Military Command for Tibet was created, which, only in three days, led to the massacre of ten to fifteen thousand Tibetans in the capital, Lhasa. That same year the International Commission of Jurists published a report arguing that a national and religious genocide was being committed against the Tibetan people.. The problem did not go unnoticed by the UN General Assembly, in whose debates for the first time a country was formally accused of committing this crime. That session ended with the resolution 1723 (XVI) of 20 December 1961, which recognized the right of self-determination of the Tibetan people, which continues to be a dead letter and ignored by the entire international community.
Well then, hoy, in this 60 anniversary of the massacre, in case anyone had doubts, se ha publicado un informe de Freedom House que sitúa al Tíbet como el "territorio menos libre" in between 195 countries examined, only ahead of Syria, with a score of 1 on 100. The last measure, la nueva "muralla china", is the prohibition of entry to Tibet for any tourist or journalist during the months of February and March.
Despite the incessant propaganda of the Beijing regime, lo cierto es que éste no puede acreditar los supuestos "avances sin precedentes" that have benefited the Tibetan people in this long half century. Indeed, for decades, another reality supersedes the official one with such resistance and intensity that it must be silenced or, if necessary, hold back. Each 10 March members of the Politburo in Beijing fear that the Tibetan people will once again demand the rights that are theirs, As was evident in the 2008.
But, Of course it is, Maoist China at the gates of its Cultural Revolution is not today's China, in which the ideology and single government of the Communist Party formally coexist with a savage capitalist system that is interested in maintaining and feeding Western States and, above all, their large corporations.. Hoy, The postulates of real-politik seem to impose inexorable consequences that lead to forgetting what has all the elements to be considered a just cause..
Indeed, This pragmatism explains the crucial diplomatic turn undertaken by Rajoy's Spanish government that, in line with what has already been advanced by the Zapatero Government regarding Israel, reformed universal jurisdiction to archive the case of the genocide of the Tibetan people in response to diplomatic demands from Beijing. The socialist government of President Sánchez, with the firm decision of the Minister of Justice, tried to recover that universal jurisdiction but finally real-politik was imposed again through the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who opposed recovering that same universal justice while rolling out the red carpet in the Royal Palace for President Xi Jinping. To close the circle, This same week the Constitutional Court has finished burying the hope of justice, denying protection to Tibetan victims and thus sealing the circle of impunity. One more time, peaceful ways in accordance with International Law and Human Rights have lost a new game in the face of the increasingly indisputable hegemony of the markets.
Y, however, the fight for rights must continue: This will be demonstrated by the peaceful protests of the 10 of March that are deployed in cities around the planet. Let us not forget this cause that leads to massive human rights violations and the imposition of genocide and exile.. Certainly, as shown by that of the Palestinian people, is not the only example, but it does seem the most forgotten. Free Tibet!
* Javier de Lucas is a professor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy and Director of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Valencia., of which he is founder.
* Jose Elías Esteve is a professor of International Law and author of the book El Tíbet: the frustration of a state.
