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Conferenza Tibet
Sisani Marina - 14 settembre 1995
Danish MPs accuse China of intimidating Tibetans

BEIJING, Sep 11 (Reuter) - The head of a Danish parliamentary group accused China Monday of intimidating a group of exiled Tibetan women after hotel security interrupted and ended a news conference she had arranged for the Tibetans.

The Danish group, led by Helle Degn of the ruling Social Democratic Party, booked a room in their plush Beijing hotel for two hours Monday afternoon and invited five Tibetan exiles to express their views to the foreign media.

After 30 minutes, the hotel management asked them to leave, saying it had not received the necessary prior notice to hold a news conference, said Degn, in Beijing to attend the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.

The members of Parliament then escorted the Tibetans past what appeared to be Chinese secret police, some filming with video cameras, and took them to the conference site.

The Tibetans, living in exile in Canada, Australia and the United States, have complained of repeated official harassment at a parallel forum of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a suburb of Beijing that closed last Friday.

"At an NGO forum everyone should have the right of free expression pro or against any government on earth," Degn said. "The Tibetan women were terribly intimidated by official Tibetans."

She said she agreed with Chimi Thonden, one of the five women, who told the news conference that NGO forums under U.N. auspices should have clear guidelines and that the sites where they were held should be considered as U.N. territory.

At the news conference, Degn read a letter from the Tibetan government-in-exile that called for the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights to visit Tibet and investigate the condition of women there.

"The free voice of Tibetan women was not heard at the conference," the letter said. Degn said she planned to deliver it to the Chinese chairwoman of the Women's Conference.

Official Tibetan delegates to the NGO forum denounced the exiles as liars who were out of touch with the reality of present-day Tibet and accused them to wanting a return to the feudal society that existed before 1959.

In that year, Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fled to India with thousands of followers after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule. He has lived in exile ever since.

Beijing says Tibet has been part of China for centuries and accuses the Dalai Lama of trying to split China. According to historians, after many wars China took over Tibet in 1720.

 
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