Subject: TRANSNATIONAL (13) - part 7 of 8
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GEDUN CHOEKYI NIMA, REINCARNATION OF THE PANCHEN LAMA, KIDNAPPED BY THE
CHINESE AUTHORITIES
Brussels, 23 June 1995 - Statement by Olivier Dupuis: "From official
sources of the Government of Tibetans in exile, we have learnt that the
military authorities of the People's Republic of China have kidnapped a
Tibetan boy of six years old, Gedun Choekyi Nima, recognized by the Dalai
Lama as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest religious
authority of Mahayan Buddhism.
The interference of the Peking authorities in the deepest religious aspects
of Buddhism give us cause for alarm and confirm the complete refusal of the
PRC to enter into unconditional negotiations, the only possible peaceful
solution to the Sino-Tibetan question.
On 14 May the Dalai Lama had recognized Choekyi Nima as the reincarnation
of Panchen Rimpoche, who died in 1989; the Peking government then denied
the recognition of the highest Tibetan religious authority, proclaiming
itself as the only authentic authority in this field and denying the Dalai
Lama his role as a supreme spiritual leader.
Also in view of the fact that the Government of Tibetans in exile is
preparing important forms of nonviolent resistance to the Chinese military
occupation of Tibet, we ask the Chinese authorities for an immediate change
in their policy on Tibet with the immediate release of Gedun Cheokyi Nima
and his family, in line with the friendship which had always existed
between the Chinese and Tibetan peoples before the 1959 invasion."
