Tibetan refugees arriving in Nepal in 2005.
Por Matteo Mecacci *
The publication of an interview with El Dalai Lama in a German media (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) It has given rise to some sensational owners derived from an interview that included questions about the refugee crisis in Europe.
These publications, apparently, se centran en palabras que habría dicho el Dalai Lama contra la "dominación árabe” or in relation to what " Europe has too many immigrants ". In any case, And ultimately, They are words incompatible with the well -known compassion approach to Dalai Lama, the refugee for more than half a century, and with the perspective of continuing to be in the long term.
The Nobel Peace Prize Dalai Lama for decades has defended tolerance, The interreligious dialogue and has rejected the concept of a clash of civilizations, calificándolo de "falso y peligroso". Es ridículo y claramente fuera de contexto afirmar que el Dalai Lama diría seriamente que Alemania está en riesgo de convertirse en "árabe" as a consequence of the refugee crisis.
Over the years, violent conflicts worldwide have forced the amazing figure of 60 millions of people to flee from their homes, many of which, Like Dalai Lama himself, With little realistic perspective of returning home.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (ACNUR), The number of internal refugees and displaced people has reached its highest point since World War II.
Dalai Lama has insistently asked the international community to provide assistance to people in imminent danger and warns, at the same time, about the need to work to resolve violent conflicts and disasters made by man, and that are the fundamental causes of the humanitarian crisis.
The Dalai Lama has always praised countries that act in a responsible and compassionate manner towards refugees, among them Germany, and emphasizes that the only long -term solutions to this crisis are going to work more effectively to resolve conflicts that are forcing people to flee their homeland. He has insisted, again and again, in which we all have to do our best to restore peace in the lands of these refugees.
Every refugee yearns for the day to return to their country of origin and be out of danger. The international community is the main responsible for achieving this objective. Recognizing this reality, There is no sense to interpret that refugees are not welcome to Europe.
The Tibetan term for compassion, 'nying-I", It means love, keen, Good heart. But also, and more important, denotes a feeling of connection with others. In this sense, Dalai Lama affirmed The Big Issue, A newspaper for homeless: "Como refugiado, yo, naturally, siento conexión con aquellos que huyen de Siria y de otros lugares debido a la crisis que envuelve estos países".
* Matteo Mecacci, He is president of International Campaign for Tibet. Born in Florence, Italia, studied international law there. Represented the radical party and ‘there is no peace without justice’ on the United Nations in New York between 2001 and 2008. He was later a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, as well as an elected official of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), participating in more than 20 Electoral Observation Missions, including those of the OSCE, as a special coordinator in Serbia and Belarus in 2012.
He was appointed head of the OSCE electoral observation mission / Oiddh a Georgia one 2013. He was president of the Italian parliamentary intergroup for the Tibet, and in 2009, organized 5ª World Convention of Parliamentarians on Tibet in Rome. He was co-president of the International Network of Parliamentarians on Tibet (Impat) and played an active role in promoting Tibetan democracy in exile. He was also one of the co -chants of the Tibet electoral observation mission in 2011.
