FREEDOM FOR TIBET/DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ! - #36

Newsletter on the campaigns of the Radical Party for the freedom of Tibet

and the democracy in China.

"I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of great change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world".

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, 1992

Issue #36, September 24th, 1996

Editors office: Massimo Lensi, Dorottya u. 3.III.em6 - 1051 Budapest (H)

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Published in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian andRumanian

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6 DAYS AWAY FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE FASTING DIALOGUE

FOR THE RELEASE OF THE PANCHEN LAMA AND WEI JINGSHENG:

357 PARTICIPANTS.

This issue of "Freedom for Tibet - Democracy for China Fax" is the last one before October 2nd. When we are going to close this issue, the number of participants at the fasting dialogue has reached 357, from 20 different countries. According to the situation in the last days, this total is supposed to go up. So far, these 357 participants who are going to fast, could also start the "Satyagraha 1998" campaign for the freedom in Tibet. October 2nd is a special day, because it is the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Ghandi, the father of the non-violent India liberation policy. However, we shoud know that if we really want to organize, for the 1998 an "international movement" for the straggle of freedom in Tibet and for the democracy in China, other difficult moments await for us.

In "Second Page" we published a press release on the "October 2nd initiative" faxed to the media. This release, evidently, can be integrated, in the coming days, with any declaration of participants at the fasting dialogue and with any interviews in order to make better the conference on September 30th.

A few more words, we wish to thank all the participants at this non-violent and dialogue initiative for the freedom in Tibet and for the democracy in China to ask and to obtain, from all the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, not just simple promises but concrete actions.

Tashi delek.

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LAST MINUTE LAST MINUTE LAST MINUTE LAST MINUTE

As of Tuesday, September 24, at 1,00 p.m., 404 people have adhered to the fasting dialogue.

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OCTOBER 2ND:

NON-VIOLENT, DIALOGUE, FREEDOM FOR TIBET

FASTING DIALOGUE FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE PANCHEN LAMA AND FOR WEI JINGSHENG

In the last few days another 123 people have decided to participate at the fasting dialogue on October 2nd. As of September 23rd, the total of participants has reached 357 from 20 countries. Fasting from one or more days will also be: Thomas NAGANT, President of "Amis du Tibet" (Belgium); Jordhen CHAZOTSANG, President of "Canada Tibet Committee"; Thubten SAMDUP of "Canada Tibet Committee"; Daniel HODEL, President of "Tibetan Rights Campaign"; Tsering YANGDON of "Tibetan Women's Association"; Flavio RODEGHIERO, "League North" Deputy; Konstantin ADZHAROV, president of the Republican Christian Party of Bulgaria; archbishop NIKON LAMEKIN of the Real Orthodox Church of Moscow. For the day before October 2nd, friends of "Canada Tibet Committee" would also organize, late in the evening a torch-light rally in support of the Panchen Lama and Wei Jingsheng.

* Remember that the fasting begins at noon on September 29th, ending at that same hour on October 2nd.

- for the freedom of Wei Jingsheng: that all Ambassadors of the twenty countries, in Peking can meet Wei Jingsheng in the prison of Tansghan, to check his health conditions.

- for the freedom of the Panchen Lama: that a note, which asks the Chinese Regime to bring Gedhum Choekyi Nyma back to the monastery of Tashi Lumpo in Tibet, has to be sent to all the Chinese Ambassador present in the twenty countries.

* LIST OF THE PARTICIPANTS BY COUNTRY

Albania ................. 5

Belgium ................. 58

Bulgaria ................ 5

Cambodia ................ 1

Canada .................. 3

Croatia ................. 17

Czech Republic .......... 7

France .................. 39

Germany ................. 1

Hungary ................. 15

Italy .................. 127

Poland .................. 25

Rumania ................. 4

Russia ................. 13

Slovenia ................ 1

Spain ................... 2

Switzerland ............. 3

Ukraine ................. 5

United Kingdom .......... 1

United States ........... 25

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Total 357

* LIST OF THE NEW PARTICIPANTS BY NAME (From September 19 to 23)

Albania (2): Genci KURSHUMI, one day (Tirana); Jetan PUSTINA, one day (Tirana); Belgium (16): Vinciane AUDAIN (Brussels); Marc BRISBOIS, one day (Brussels); Basil DISLA, one day (Brussels); Valentine D'UDEKEM, lawyer (Forest); Pierre MASSON, artist, two days (Flemalle); Thomas NAGANT, President of "Amis du Tibet", two days (Brussels); Manfred SCNACK, employee, one day (Brussels); Marc TONNEAU, two days (Brussels); Valérie VAN HEER, employee, one day (Brussels); Cécile DELHAIE, two days (Brussels); Claude DELHAIE, two days (Brussels); Marc SEYAERTS, employee (Tournai); Françoise DE COCQ (Brussels); Paolo ATZORI, TRP (Brussels); Annick FERAUGE (Brussels); Ottavio MARZOCCHI, TRP (Brussels); Bulgaria (5): Konstantin ADZHAROV, president of Republican Christian Party, one day (Sofia); Takuhi BAGDASARIAN, teacher, two days(Varna); Darinka KIRCHEVA, TRP (Sofia); Lidia IGNATOVA, poetry writer, one day (Sofia); Emila ORLINOVA, employee, one day (Sofia); Cambodia (1): Pierre VAN ROOSBROECK, European Commission (Phnom P

enh); Canada (3): Jordhen CHAZOTSANG, President of "Canada Tibet Committee" (Scarborough); Carole SAMDUP, "Canada Tibet Committee", one day (Coolbrook); Thubten SAMDUP, "Canada Tibet Committee", one day (Coolbrock); France (11): Daniel MEYER, painter, one day (Strasbourg); Alice-Claude GUILLOM, employee, two days (Nogent-Marne); Etienne RENAUD, CIEPAD, conscientious objector (Viols-le-Fort); Véronique BOUCHON, one day (Marseille); Isabelle DUFFAUD, one day (Cassis); Patricia BEGUE, physician (Hyvres); Geneviève DHAINNE, "France-Tibet", one day (Le Dolieu); Jany DELOCHE, artist, one day (Mazamet); Estelle FRENEAT, Treasurer of "Réseau Alternatif de l'Information", one day (La Madaleine); Gladys FRENEAT, secretary of "Réseau Alternatif de l'Information" (La Madaleine); Narhi FRENEAT, President of "Réseau Alternatif de l'Information", secretary of "France-Tibet" (La Madaleine); Francis LONGAVESNE, Vice-President of "France-Tibet", one day (Le Doulieu); Jonathan VAN DE WIELDE, student (Dottignes); Italy (57): Ro

ssella CASALE, TRP, one day (Milan); Tanina DE MARCO, one day (Milan); Nunzia BORRELLA, ARPA, merchant, one day (Grosseto); Salvatore MENNELLA, ARPA, merchant, one day (Grosseto);Antonio BRIVIO, insuring (Rome); Chiara CAMPAGNOLA, teacher (Recanati); Maria Elinda GIUSTI, student, one day (Modena); Amedeo BARLETTA, student, two days (Caserta); Gabriele BOTTEON, (Bologna); Peter BERGER (Corsano); Flavio RODEGHIERO, "League North" Deputy, two days (Padova); Mauro VAIANI, executive manager (Prato); Fioravante SCOGNAMIGLIO, entreprenuer, one day (Prato); Rosa A MARCA, journalist, two days (Florence); Patrizio TRONCI, teacher (Pistoia) Alessandra IMPALLAZZO, teacher (Livorno); Fabio GIACOBBI, employee (Massa); Carlo DEL NERO, employee, (Massa); Dario RUSSO, student (Pisa); Antonio CRISCIUOGLIO, officer, one day (Foggia); Erry MARANGELLI, employee, one day (Foggia); Daria CASCARANO, student (Foggia); Marco BAZZICHI, student, one day (Florence); Ennio BAZZONI, graphic expert, one day (Florence); Antonio CASTALDINI,

one day (Florence) Fabio GIGLI, student (Florence); Luigi ARMANDI, sociologist, city councillor, three days (Arezzo); Lella DALMIGLIO, artist, one day (Milano); Giuseppina FASSOLI BOSELLI, one day (Santa Lucia di Piave); Massimo FASSOLI VERZELLETTI, (Milan); Fabio SANTA MARIA, writer, one day (Milan); Marco PAOLETTI, student, one day (Florence); Alice CIGNA student, one day (Florence); Raffaele MERLINI, stock broker (Livorno); Marcello ORLANDI, physician (Cecina-Livorno); Guido BEDARIDA, student (Livorno); Gabriella BONCOMPAGNI, housekeeper (Arezzo); Eugenio MASCAGNI, engineer, two days (Arezzo); Salvatore MENNELLA, merchant(Grosseto); Nunzia BORRIELLO, merchant (Grosseto); Franca BARBIERI, housekeeper, one day (Genova); Caterina REBORA, retired, one day (Genova); Lucio DI CARLO, student, one day (Genova); Elia DI CARLO, student, one day (Genova); Franca TORRE, teacher, one day (Genova); Rachela COMI, housekeeper, one day (Genova); Gabriella DE SANTI, housekeeper, two days (Arenzano - GE); Davide CHIARLONE,

student, (Cairo Montenotte - SV); Maria Grazia BARBIERI, teacher, one day (Genova); Elisabetta CHIACCHELLA, teacher (Perugia); Tommaso CIACCA, physician (Perugia); Andrea MAORI, filing clerk (Perugia); Agostina GOVERNINI, employee, one day (Arezzo); Giusy NIBBI, student, two days (Arezzo); Susy CASTELLINO, translator (Rome); Pietro SCATRAGLI, employee, one day (Arezzo); Gianni SCHIAVI, TRP (Rome); Giovanni DELLA ROVERE, retired (Turin); Paola SAIN, free lince (Trieste); Marco GENTILI, employee, (Trieste); Bruno SCALERA, entrepreneur, one day (Udine). Poland (5): Mieczyslaw BOCZAR, University Professors, one day (Warsaw); Andrzej OCHOCKI, University Professor, one day (Warsaw); Mikolaj OLSZEWSKI, University Professor, two days (Warsaw); Alicja SZUBERT-OLSZEWSKA, graphic designer, one day (Warsaw); Michal HACHULSKI, physician, one day (Piascozno); Russian Federation (10): Iljja ZANEGIN, ARA (Moscow); Viktor DOLUDENKO, student (Moscow); Dmitrij NEPOMNJASCIJ, student (Moscow); Anna MOROZOVA, TRP (Moscow); Kiril

l SHULIKA, student (Moscow); Anna JAMPOLJSKAJA, translator (Moscow); Julia KALININA, journalist (Moscow); Natalja RJABOVA (Moscow); archbishop NIKON (LAMEKIN), Orthodox Church (Moscow); Irina NARCISSOVA, one day (Moscow); Ukraine (2): Natalia KHUDIAKOVA, TRP, one day (Kiev); Konstantin KLIMENKO, TRP, one day (Kiev); United States (10): Daniel HODEL, President of "Tibetan Rights Campaign" (Seattle); Chimie YUTHOK, "Tibetan Rights Campaign", Director (Seattle); Tsering YANGDON, "Tibetan Women's Association"; Kunzang YUTHOK, Executive Director of "Tibetan Rights Campaign"; Louis MARTINIE', "Black Moon Publishing", one day (New Orleans); Luthor LINDENSCHMIDT, "Black Moon Publishing", one day (New Orleans); Steve WEINBERGER, "International Tibet Independence Movement", one day (Indiana); Mary SCHATZ, ITIM, one day (Indiana); Katie MURPHY, ITIM, two days (Indiana); Larry GERSTEIN, ITIM (Indiana); Julie CROW, ITIM (Indiana); Mike BURNS, ITIM (Indiana); Lorraine HITZ-BRADLEY, ITIM (Indiana); Brent WERNER, Keynon Co

llege, "Students for a free Tibet"; Germany (1): Ursula KIRCHMAYER, druggist, one day (Monaco di Baviera);

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APPLICATION FORM FOR THE FASTING DIALOGUE

(The Panchen Lama's picture) (Wei's picture)

( ) I will participate in the fasting dialogue for the liberation of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, XIth Panchen Lama, and of the Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng.

* I have the intention to fast ( ) 1 Day

( ) 2 Days

( ) 3 Days

* We would like to know the dates of your fasting:

( ) September 30th

( ) October 1st

( ) October 2nd

Name ......................................................

Complete address ..........................................

Country ...................................................

Telephone .................................................

e-mail ....................................................

Profession/function .......................................

Organization ..............................................

Declaration (optional) ....................................

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(your declaration will be distributed on the multilingual telematic system Agora - telnet Agora).

* We would like to ask you to send this coupon to one of the addresses listed below:

- via regular mail: Radical Party, Rue Belliard 97-113, Rem 508, 1047 Brussels (Belgium); via fax:+32-2-230.36.70; via e-mail: pr.bruxelles@agora.stm.it

* It is possible to communicate your participation by phone at the following number: +32-2-230.41.21

This "Tibet-China Fax" is the last one before the beginning of the fasting dialogue. We would like to ask you to let the editor know the results reached: meeting with the own Minister of Foreign Affairs, press release, demonstrations, torch-light rally and everything else is going to be organized in any city, for the freedom in Tibet and Democracy in China. Tanks a lot.

* TIBET CHINA TELEX *

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UNITED NATIONS WAKE UP !!!

Demonstration in New York City to protest against the inactivity of the United Nations on the tragic situation in Tibet. From 9,00 a.m. to 12,00 p.m. of September 24th and 25th, in contemporaneous of the speeches given by the President of the United States, Bill Clinton and the Chinese Minister of the Foreign Affairs, at the United Nations's General Assembly, members and supporters of the Tibetan Association of New York and New Jersey, the Tibetan's Women Association, and the Transnational Radical Party will meet in New York City to ask the United Nations to do something in order to stop, immediately, the destruction of Tibet. The demonstration will take place at the Ralphe Bunche Park, between 1st Avenue and 42nd Street.

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WEI NOBEL FOR THE 1997 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:

378 CANDIDATURE PROPOSALS

The European Deputies: Laurens Jan BRINKHORST (ELDR), Leonie VAN BLADEL (PSE); the National Parliamentarians Lady COX, of the Britain Lord Chamber; Irish Parliament: John CONNOR (Christian Democratic); Dutch Parliament: John DE GRAAF (D66), Frans Joseph WERNER (CDA), Leopold DE BEER (VVD), Bob VAN DEN BOS (D66), Leoni SPIKES (Greenlinks) and Egbert SCHUURMAN (RPF); Belgian Parliament: Mark EYSKENS (CVP) Prime Minister; Hungarian Parliament: Zoltan ROCKENBAUER (Fidesz-MPP); Czech Parliament: Ladislav SKOPAL (CSSD); Italian Parliament: Adolfo URSO (AN) and Giorgio BORNACIN (AN);, Mauritian Parliament: Armoogum PARSURAMEN (MSM); New Zealander Parliament: Ross ROBERTSON (Labour); Slovak Parliament: Maria DURISNOVA (SDL), Gabriel PALACKA e Jan CARNOGURRSKY (KDH), support the Wei's candidacy. The total number of signatures collect as of September 23rd, is 378 (247 Parliamentarians, 130 University Professors, and one Government Member).

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IPU/PEKING MEETING/MEMORANDUM ON TIBET

(WTNN) In Peking, during the 96th IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union) Conference, the group "12+ Ad Hoc on the Tibetan cause" has handed out a memorandum on Tibet, in which expresses it concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet and invites, also all the Union's Parliamentarians to support the Dalai Lana and the Tibetans for a nonviolent solution of the Tibet cause. The group asks Parliamentarians also to organize "Tibet Friendship Group" inside their own Parliament. The group "12+Ad Hoc" was established by the Danish Deputy, Henning GJELLEROD, during the IUP Conference in Istanbul and is composed by Deputies from several countries like: United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and by National Deputies from several European countries. We wish to express our congratulations to all the members of the "12+ Ad Hoc" group for the results achieved during the IUP conference.

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SLOVAKIA: MEETINGS IN THE PARLIAMENT

A Transnational Radical Party's delegation has, recently meet a several Slovak Parlamentarians in Bratislave. Marina SIKORA and Olga CECHUROVA members of the T.R.P. during their meetings with representatives of the KDH (Christian-Democratic Movement), SDL (Party of The Democratic Left) and HZDS (Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) had the opportunity to introduce them to the T.R.P.'s initiatives in support of the freedom in Tibet and democracy in China. In particular, with Eva RUSNAKOVA, president of the Democratic Union, it has been took in consideration the possibility to support the UD's initiatives.

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PRESS RELEASE

* The visiting of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in Australia.

- El Pais (Spain), September, 18th: "Amenazas de China por el Dalai Lama".

- The Times (United Kingdom), September, 18th:"Dalai Lama visit angers China".

- Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), September, 18th: "Ein himmlisches Vergnuegen".

* Magyar Narancs (Hungary), September 5th: news on the "October 2nd fasting dialogue".

* Espresso (Italy), September 26th: "In the hell of Rangoon - Do not send us more money" by Daniela Minervain. The magazine published an analysis on the situation in Burma and also an interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy. "Do you believe that the economic development is the way for democracy (in Burma ndr)?" - San Su Kyi: "Absolutely not. Today, people are not the beneficiary of the investments. We analyzed, very well, the situation and we believed the sanctions can not influence, negatively, on Burmans's life because the economic is at the minimum and is also, extremely localized. Generals and their supporters have been the only beneficiaries of the foreign investments. Please, stop to invest in Burma!".

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Fasting for the Panchem Lama and Wei Jingsheng:Press Release

SEPT. 29 - OCTOBER 2: NON-VIOLENCE, DIALOGUE, FREEDOM FOR TIBET, DEMOCRACY FOR CHINA. FASTING DIALOGUE FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE PANCHEM LAMA AND DISSIDENT WEI JINGSHENG. AS OF TODAY, OVER 350 PARTICIPANTS FROM TWENTY NATIONS.

Brussels, New York, Rome, Sept 24th 1996. With the support of numerous Tibet Support Groups and other political, cultural, and religious organizations, the Transnational Radical Party has promoted, within the limits of the preparatory campaign for "Satyagraha 1998" (international campaign for the liberation of Tibet) a fasting dialogue of three days dedicated to the release of the Panchem Lama, second highest religious authority of Tibetan Buddhism, and of the Chinese political dissident Wei Jingsheng.

From noon on September 29th to noon of October 2nd (anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Ghandi), hundreds of people will fast for the opening of a non-violent dialogue so that their respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs will do all that is possible for the release of the Panchem Lama and of Wei. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is a boy of seven years who was recognized this past May by the Dalai Lama as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchem Lama. In actuality, however, he is sequestered in Peking by Chinese authorities. He is the youngest political prisoner in the world.

Wei Jingsheng, leader of the "Wall of Democracy" movement is one of the most prominent dissidents of the regime of Peking. He is serving, in grave health conditions, a new prison penalty of fifteen years for "subversive activity." An international campaign for his nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 is currently underway.

Over 350 people have registered as participants of the fasting dialogue. On October 2nd they will request the ministers of twenty nation in which they live the following two demands: that the respective ambassadors in Peking be allowed to meet with Wei Jingsheng where he is imprisoned in the prison of Tangshan, among other things, to observe the condition of his health, and that a message be sent to the ambassador of the people's Republic of China requesting the return of Gedhun Choekyi Nyma to his Tashi Lumpo monastery in Tibet. The participants of the days of fasting are: Carla ROCCHI, Italian Undersecretary of State, the deputies Tereza GANZA-ARAS and Stjepan RODE (Croatia), Flavio RODEGHIERO e Fabio CALZAVARA (Italy), Dimitru CALANCE (Rumania), Suzana DEWA (President of Amnesty International- Slovenian chapter), president of Italia-Tibet Piero VERNI, rector of the Academy of Tirana Giorgio ZHEJI, Thomas NAGENT and Patrick NATON (president and secretary of "Amis du Tibet", Belgium), writer and president o

f CSPT of Ginevra Claude LEVENSON, president of "Eco-Tibet" Francoise Bonzon, Robert TRAER of the "International Association for Religious Freedom" of Oxford, Tibor HENDREI (president of "Tibetet Segito Tarsasag of Budapest), president of "France -Tibet" Marcelle ROUX, Jordhen CHATZOTSANG (president of Canada-Tibet Committee), Daniel HODEL, President of the "Tibetan Rights Campaign" (USA), Tsering YANGDON of the "Tibetan Woman's Organization", and Konstantin ADZHAROV, president of the Christian Republican Party of Bulgaria.