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"The media, today, are full of information about China. Reports, articles and books write unremittingly about China’s development and modernisation, and about the economic miracle which is taking place there. In this context, the media have, recently, also been writing about Tibet.
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stated in a recent report that ‘China is doing a lot of good for the Tibetans’, because it is helping what is one of the world’s poorest regions to emerge from its backward state. The report points to Chinese investment in transport and telecommunications infrastructure, education, health and access to water and electricity. So it seems that President Hu Jintao’s plan is being put into effect, which, while improving Tibetans’ standard of living, is attempting to force them to relinquish their freedom of speech, freedom of religion and aspirations for autonomy. However, can his strategy be successful?
The unrest in Lhasa, which broke out two years ago on the anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising, as well as the events of two weeks ago, have shown most emphatically that the Tibetans feel persecuted in their own land. The history of my own country has taught me that any price would be worth paying for liberty and dignity. Economic interests cannot be made a reason to forget the persecuted and the suffering.
It seems to me that the European Parliament is a body which should call particularly strongly for the right of the Tibetans to preserve their identity. We represent, here, the people of the European Union, and on their behalf we should assure the Tibetans of our solidarity."@en1
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