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Nelson Mandela now in critical condition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     By Andrew Beatty | AFP

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 25 June 2013

The family of critically ill anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela gathered around his hospital bedside on Monday as millions in South Africa and across the world feared for the worst.

“Former president Mandela remains in a critical condition in hospital,” South African President Jacob Zuma said in a televised address to an anxious nation broadcast around the globe.

“The doctors are doing everything possible to ensure his well being and comfort,” Zuma said.

Mandela, the hero of black South Africans’ battle for freedom during 27 years in apartheid jails, was rushed to hospital on 8 June with a recurring lung infection.

Despite intensive treatment at Pretoria’s Mediclinic Heart Hospital, the 94-year-old’s condition appears to have suddenly and dramatically deteriorated.

Ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — herself a figurehead of the anti-apartheid struggle — daughters Zindzi Mandela-Motlhajwa and Zenani Mandela-Dlamini and scores of officials flocked to the hospital on Monday.

The family visits, while common since Mandela was admitted 17 days ago, come amid heightened fears for the former statesman’s health.

Mandela’s eldest daughter Makaziwe has said her father appears to be at peace with himself.

“He has given so much to the world. I believe he is at peace.”

At the same time she complained about the “media frenzy” over her father’s condition.

“Whether these are the last moments with us, to be with our dad, or there is still a longer (time), but they (media) must back off,” she told CNN.

Zuma on Monday also hailed the life of a man seen as the father of the nation, whose citizens must accept his frailty.

“All of us in the country should accept that Madiba is now old,” Zuma said, using Mandela’s clan name.

“I think what we need to do as a country is to pray for him to be well and that the doctors do their work.”

On the world stage Mandela is seen as a moral beacon that continues to shine long after the Nobel Peace laureate retired from public life.

Mandela was last seen in public in 2010 at the football World Cup finals in South Africa.

“He is the father of democracy and this is the man who fought and sacrificed his life,” said Zuma, who spent 10 years in jail on Robben Island at the same time as Mandela.

The anti-apartheid hero went on to become South Africa’s first black president in 1994 after almost half a century of white minority rule.

‘Nothing we can do but to pray for him’

Mandela is due to celebrate his 95th birthday on 18 July. He has been hospitalised four times since December, mostly for the pulmonary condition that has plagued him for years.

As the world looked on, South Africans appeared to be coming to terms with Mandela’s decline.

“Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do but to pray for him and the doctors that are helping him,” said Phathani Mbath outside the hospital, where flowers, cards and messages of support have piled up.

In Soweto, the township where Mandela lived for more than a decade, James Nhlapo said South Africa must accept Mandela will not live forever.

“There will soon come a time when all the medical help won’t work. We have to face that sad reality now,” he said as he served customers in his grocery store.

A similar sentiment was expressed in Mthatha, a rural town in the region where Mandela grew up.

“It is not up to us to decide what happens now. There is nothing we can do,” said Aphiwe Ngesi a teacher in Mthatha. “All we can do is hope for the best.”

Well wishes have also come from abroad. In Washington the White House said its thoughts and prayers were with Mandela.

US President Barack Obama leaves Wednesday on a much-awaited tour of Africa that will take him to South Africa as well as Senegal and Tanzania.

The White House said it was monitoring Mandela’s condition and could not yet say whether his failing health would affect the visit.

Upon his release from jail in 1990 in one of the defining moments of the 20th century, Mandela negotiated an end to apartheid and won the country’s first fully democratic elections.

As president he guided the country away from internecine racial and tribal violence.

It was 18 years ago to the day on Monday, in a deeply symbolic moment, Mandela handed the rugby world cup to a victorious Springboks captain Francois Pienaar.

The impact of a black president appearing at this, the most white of South African sporting occasions, still reverberates today.

“Mandela soared above the petty confines of party politics,” said political commentator Daniel Silke.

His extraordinary life story, quirky sense of humour and lack of bitterness to his former oppressors has ensured global appeal for the charismatic leader.

The South African government has been criticised amid revelations that the military ambulance that carried Mandela to hospital developed engine trouble, resulting in a 40-minute delay until a replacement ambulance arrived.

The presidency said Mandela suffered no harm during the wait for another ambulance to take him from his Johannesburg home to a specialist heart clinic in Pretoria 55 kilometres (30 miles) away.

“There were seven doctors in the convoy who were in full control of the situation throughout the period. He had expert medical care,” said Zuma.

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Gyalo Thondup Says Tibet-China Contact Should be a Two-Way Process

Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama and a former chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet in Dharamsala, has said that visits of the envoys of the Dalai Lama are positive, but that China should know that it is a two-way traffic in terms of confidence building.

In an interview to Radio Free Asia's Tibetan service (it was broadcast in parts from July 17, 2003) Thondup, whose meeting with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 began a series of contact between Tibetans and the Chinese leadership, said the visit of the Dalai Lama's envoys helped re-establish contact and to fill the gap. Asked why the Chinese side publicly fail to acknowledge that they are dealing formally with envoys of the Dalai Lama, Thondup responded saying we should not pay much importance to their public stance on this. The work will need to be done in stages and step by step, he said.

Thondup said the Tibetan problem could be solved only through face-to-face meeting with Chinese leaders. He said at his personal level he has been volunteering his service since 1952 to find a solution to the Tibetan problem. Asked why he changed his approach in 1979 from leading a resistance movement launched at his initiative to engaging with the Chinese, Thondup said his experience showed that neither India nor the United States were helpful in solving the Tibetan problem. He realized that it is only through talks with the Chinese side that we can see progress.

Thondup supported Dharamsala's initiative at confidence building. He, however, felt it should be a two-way traffic and said the Chinese leaders could do more to make progress on the Tibetan issue. He said he had criticized the Chinese side for banning the Tibetans from holding incense-burning ceremony on the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is a religious ritual and the Chinese should allow this, he said. Thondup blamed local leaders in Lhasa and Amdo, etc. for such actions saying the senior leaders may not be aware of this.

He said during his meetings with the Chinese leaders in 1992 he told them that he was thinking of abandoning his efforts to find a solution because he did not see any movement on the Chinese side. The Chinese side asked him not to do this and said it takes time and effort to kick the ball through the goal post. When he was in Hong Kong he received a phone call saying a message would be waiting for him at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi. When he returned to India from that trip (accompanied by Sonam Topgyal, a former chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet), he was informed by the Chinese Ambassador in New Delhi that Dharamsala should think of moving the Tibetan Government-in-Exile to Lhasa to strengthen the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Thondup said this message was conveyed to the Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala who wanted reconfirmation. When Thondup contacted the Chinese Ambassador on this, his position had changed and the Ambassador said that was only his personal view.

Asked about Dharamsala's announcement that there was just one channel of contact between the Tibetans and the Chinese leadership, Thondup said his efforts were at the personal level, but the issue that he took up was not personal and concerned Tibet.

Thondup said China has changed much in the past 10 years and that he was hopeful of the young leaders who have assumed office in China. Thondup urged Tibetans to have an indepth understanding of China.

The last part of the interview is yet to be broadcast.
                                                                            

The cause of the Tibetan People

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        For decent work and a fair wage
Today among young Tibetans who live in cities, the unemployment rate has now reached 80%.

And even if they can find a job their pay is on average 40% lower than that paid to the children of Chinese settlers.

Unemployed or starvation wages are hunted, with their families, from the historical to make way for new buildings intended for the nomenklatura. Against this background by real apartheid for those who remain in the city life was made impossible and most of the families have to survive on less than a year redito 2000.00 yuan.
Inflation, which reached record levels in 2008, he then decimated the already low wages further reducing the standard of living of Tibetans. And in the countryside things are not going well.

Stop the deportation of peasants and pastoralists

In recent months, the Chinese Communist Party has issued an order to require the nomadic pastoralists and farmers to move at their own expense, in the "gulag" carried out in areas easily controlled by the Chinese security forces.
In the "socialist villages" there is no room for flocks and herds and the Tibetans are forced to sell off livestock and poultry, their only source of livelihood, before "move" in the new concentration camps.
While those who have dared to challenge the injunction government will be seen to raze the old house.
And this is just the beginning of the deportation of all pastors, all the peasants who still live in rural Tibet.
If the experiment is successful Doctors' modern settlements "where the natives will be" invited "to move on pain of arrest and the confiscation of all property.
2,500,000 Tibetans, over a third of the population, then they risk deportation!
After the inauguration of the railway, which has already resulted in Tibet tens of thousands of new settlers, today we are witnessing the largest mass deportation from the days of Soviet Russia.
The farmers and shepherds who have not yet been deported in the new "socialist villages" are seen expropriate the land in exchange for compensation symbolic that often are not even paid.
Among the Tibetans the literacy rate has plummeted as families are no longer able to pay for their studies to their children.
Health care is guaranteed only to those who can pay for care and medicines for us prohibitively expensive. The security simply does not exist.

Tibet belongs to Tibetans, the land belongs to those who work

Today, the Tibetan resistance has taken a big leap organizing the indefinite strike of the farmers in the eastern provinces.
To the young Tibetans in Lhasa, religious rioting in all the major monasteries today joined thousands of poor farmers who were able to give life to an extraordinary mobilization against the occupier.
For the first time in the history of Tibet agricultural workers went on strike assuming the leadership of the insurgency, one "political strike" claiming the release of all those arrested and the withdrawal of the occupation troops.
The strike began in early March has seen a massive membership in the villages of Jiwariwa, Dragan, Tsanbha, Ambha, Godha, Dhotrengdha, Ketreng, Jodha, Washul, Gazi, Shilu, Nguldha, Thartse, Bhothang, Khathang, Rongsum.
Despite a fierce repression (more than a hundred young farmers arrested and tortured by the communist political police in recent weeks) and well aware of the fact that even if able to escape arrest will face great sacrifices because the harvest has been affected, farmers do not signs of slowing and urge other workers to emulate their non-violent struggle.
And to no avail the appeals of political commissars and communist collaborators, both inside and outside Tibet, to stop the fight.
So are you finally laid the foundations for the creation of a social opposition that will be successful to the extent that we can give life to a great free union of all working men and women of Tibet.
It is not unrealistic to think that the protest of Tibetan farmers may now be closely connected with the rebellion of the Chinese peasants who see themselves "expropriate" the land by party officials and every day collide with the repressive apparatus of the regime.
Also remember that a few months ago millions of migrant workers were forced to return to their villages after they were expelled from companies in crisis.
The union has not been willing or able to do anything for them, and now, without remittances, entire rural communities will no longer have to support themselves.
This reserve army of labor in route no longer has any hope of finding a new job in rural and impoverished, without income and without protection, you may also decide that the time has come to settle accounts with the regime.

Organize to fight against exploitation and colonial domination Chinese

We believe it is necessary to overcome the heroic spontaneity that characterized this season of revolt and give birth to an independent union of all Tibetans of all productive sectors, to unify and organize the protest action.
Despite a thousand difficulties and sacrifice of many lives we have shown that we are able to cope with the last colonial power and its repressive apparatus.
Now, thanks to the support, the solidarity of Unions of free countries we can try to give hope to the millions of Tibetans who have not yet found the courage to rebel.
We must be able to demonstrate in practice that the struggle pays off and that rebelling is possible.
There are men and women determined to sacrifice their lives in the struggle for freedom and social justice and with the help of the international trade union movement will be victorious!

For an independent and democratic Tibet

After the tragic events of last spring many compatriots have finally realized that the liberation struggle will be a long-term struggle as the autocrats in Beijing have learned the lessons from the collapse of the USSR and do not intend to repeat the same mistakes of the CPSU.
We watch with interest the experience of Polish Solidarnosc has taught us that we need to build an underground network that is able to organize civil disobedience, strikes and demonstrations; resolute action, but which, to the extent possible, do not expose the our people in the reprisal of the Chinese Communists.
But if we can not build alliances while the brave patriots have limited possibilities to overthrow the regime.
There are other peoples, other nations colonized by the People's Republic Cinese.Uomini and women who feel like we can not accept the oppression of a bloody regime.
It is therefore necessary to build a United Front of all opposition, political and social, from East Turkestan to Tibet, Mongolia, South Manchuria.
Join forces and develop a shared strategy which would finally bring down the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party.
You also have to establish friendly relations with the workers and the Chinese democratic and create the conditions for a frank debate about the future of nations and peoples colonized by Beijing today.
We believe that should be the Tibetan people to freely determine their own future.
To this end, the United Nations will have the duty to organize all the territories occupied in a referendum to certify the will of the Tibetan people to regain possession of their country and their freedom. Thus exercising their inalienable right to self-determination.

Long live the struggle of the Tibetan People's Right!
Long live the Free Trade Union of Workers Tibetans!

Turin, 12/6/2009

Tibetan Solidarity

Translation by Sector International Politics of the ICFTU Piedmont

Freedom for Tibet, democracy for China!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The story, even recently, of our old Europe teaches us that it is not sacrificing himself on the altar of the ideology of non-violence that can break down the totalitarian regimes. 

The strength of the right of the oppressed has never, by itself, reason prevailed on the strength of the oppressors.

Only the courage and self-sacrifice of the patriots in revolt, determined to fight with every means against all forms of oppression, he brought peace and justice in a continent for centuries battered by ruthless tyranny.

Fascism was defeated only by the armies of the Allied and popular insurgency, the partisan struggle and the Anglo-American war effort.

The peoples of the Balkans were freed only after Tito's legacy dramatically reasserted its national identity in a clash painful.

The already tottering Soviet empire collapsed after a long, at times violent, conflict started in the distant province Polish and then extended to all domains.

And the young Berliners were able to enjoy dancing on the remains of the wall only through the sacrifice of those who were able to resist, even the strong support of free countries, the violence of the repressive apparatus.

In China, nobody can delude themselves then, as it is the heroic illusion that students who besieged the Forbidden City, that a dictatorship can tolerate self-reform and some form of transition to democracy.

In Tibet no mistake that the theoreticians of "democratic centralism" will never tolerate even a semblance of self-government.

The liberation struggle will be long lasting as the autocrats in Beijing have learned from the Soviet experience and certainly will not repeat the "errors" committed by the CPSU.

A special committee made up of brilliant researchers of the best Chinese universities has analyzed the reasons for the Soviet collapse and the hierarchs proposed the adoption of effective preventive measures, measures that later proved so effective as to prolong the agony of the regime and give new impetus to the "development" of the country.

Social control has extended the already weak political opposition was annihilated, workers intimidated by mass layoffs, the peasants deported.

China has thus become a superpower intended, with the current rates of economic and population growth, to dominate the world by imposing its "Eastern values" of Confucian.

It will do so because of its economic strength, political and financial.

Even today, leaders in Beijing, wisely dosing seduction commercial and military threat, they can heavily influence the decisions of individual governments and international organizations.

After yet another farce staged at the UN Human Rights Commission even the United States seem to be more cautious in countering the hegemonic will of Beijing.

It 'a few weeks ago the news that the request of the American union to impose some rules for import of products "made in gulag" was rejected by the White House not to affect the profits of the multinationals who, working for many years in China , finance the election campaign of President.

China is rampant and the new colonial power which has already taken (without a shot being fired!) Control of Hong Kong and Macao and is preparing to retake the reason of force the "renegade province" of Taiwan.

Keeps artificially alive territorial disputes with India and Bhutan, feeds the Maoist guerrillas in Nepal, provides (via Pakistan) nuclear technology to North Korea, works with the Laotian regime, says the Burmese dictatorship.

And in a world in which there is no need to physically occupy a territory to impose its domination look, thanks to its rich and powerful diaspora, to become the engine of development of all the countries in the area to make them dependent on its economic policies .

Faced with all this pathetic appeal for dialogue and the spread of self-harm Tibetan leaders only strengthens the will to power of the colonizers.

Fuelling the resignation will only lead to future, even more bloody conflicts whose responsibility will fall on all of us.

Instead, we must contribute to the creation of a grand alliance of all those who are fighting against the regime and give hope to those who, humiliated and oppressed, have not yet found the courage to rebel.

 Before it's too late!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               copy frm dossiertibet.com

Why Boycott Made in China ?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Did you know that millions of political prisoners are forced to work
to produce the "Made in China"?
- Did you know that the raw materials needed in many of these productions
come from illegally occupied territories such as Tibet, Turkestan
Eastern and Mongolia?
- Did you know that almost all of the toys sold in Europe are manufactured in
China and are dangerous to the health and safety of your children?
- Did you know that many products are manufactured with waste materials harmful
and radioactive pollutants?
- Did you know that all the Chinese workers are deprived of any protection, private
the most elementary rights of exploitation and forced to die for
starvation wages?
- Did you know that because of unfair competition from Chinese companies are
already lost 20 million jobs in the world?
- Did you know that the majority of Chinese enterprises are owned
Army and their profits are used to reset the system?
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW NOW YOU KNOW!
Do not continue to fund the most brutal dictatorship in the world
Defend your health, protect your workplace
BOYCOTT THE "MADE IN CHINA"
At the side of the Chinese workers who are fighting for democracy in China
Together with the Tibetan patriots who are fighting for the freedom of Tibet

Lhasa Apso in Exile

jampa  tenzin lhasawa n lhasa apso

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lhasa Apso, the little longhaired cute and snow-lion like domestic dog is one of the most popular dog species in India and Western Countries. These days, Lhasa apsos are regular participants and fetch awards at every dog show held. But most of the apso owners or lovers hardly think of how this rare Lhasa dog reached every corner of the world. The origin of Lhasa Apso dates back to thousands of years in Lhasa, Tibet. But no one knows much of its origins or has made any efforts to trace it. On the other hand most of us also do not know how the Lhasa Apso traveled from Tibet to India and the western countries. It is believed that in 1904 H.H.The Thirteenth Dalai Lama presented a Lhasa Apso to Col. Younghusband Leader of the British Expedition to Tibet. Col. Younghusband left Lhasa the Capital of Tibet September 23rd 1904 and took this Lhasa Apso with him to England. Later in the year 1928, The first breeding of Lhasa Apso started and the breed of Apsos were accepted by the foremost clubs accepted the first breeding of Lhasa Apsos, and the breeding of Apsos started all over the world. Later when the communist China invaded Tibet in 1959, thousands of Tibetans had fled along with their Leader His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to India. Together with these Tibetan refugees, a good number of Lhasa Apsos came into exile. Now the Lhasa Apsos have to take refugee in India with their kind owners and have started breeding in exile. (Now the Lhasa Apsos have to take refugee in India with their kind owners and started breeding in exile.) Initially Lhasa Apsos were confined to Tibetan Refugee Settlements in various parts of India. The first Lhasa Apsos Kennel in Tibetan Refugee self Help Center, Darjeeling was started in 1960. Slowly and steadily foreign and local tourists were attracted towards this little exiled dog of Lhasa. According to the Hungarian Ambassador who visited Darjeeling in April 1992, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian tibetologist Alexander Csoma de Koreas who died in Darjeeling, there is a breed of dog, which is very similar to the Tibetan Lhasa Apso in his country. Hungarians have always claimed that their roots came from the Orient, particularly Tibet, so, Csoma had travelled all the way to Darjeeling hoping to go to Tibet, but unfortunately, he died in Darjeeling after getting Malaria. Nowadays Lhasa Apsos have become very popular as a rare and exotic breed seen at all dog shows. They are greatly loved, admired and fetch exorbitant prices even in exile. As such every animal lover aspires to own a little snow-lion like dog of Lhasa. Unfortunately Lhasa Apsos are losing their originality and purity. At the same time this rare and lovely little dog may head for extinction. For example in 1960 Chinese invaders of Tibet began mass killings of dogs including the beautiful little dog Apso. Nowadays Dho-Khe (Tibetan Mastiff) both with and without thick hair is a rare species in Tibet also. Therefore, all environmentalists and conservationist are requested and called upon to make some effort in conserving purity of these rare species of animals in exile.

Writen by :: Jampa Tenzin,(Lhasa wa)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      address : jampa tenzin                                                                                                               tibetan refugee self help centre   darjeeling                                                                                                     65 gandhi road                                                                                                                                     cell number : 9434195453