THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY CALLS ON UN TO DENOUNCE THECHINESE POLICY IN TIBET, INNER MONGOLIA AND EASTERN TURKESTAN

Geneva-Brussels, August 20, 1999. Taking the floor at the UN subcommission on minorities in geneva, in the framework of the debate on the agenda item 10 dedicated to freedom of movement and populations's transfers the Transnational radical Party addressed the UN body a strong denounce of the Chinese 50 years long brutal policy in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Eastern Turkestan. As a result of the Chinese massive population transfers and severe birth control policy Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongols are already small minorities in their own homelands.

"This population policy, accompanied with other serious violations of human rights towards Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongols, threatens to end with complete disappearance, or dissolution, of these peoples", declared Olga Cechurova for the Radical Party.

The Transnational Radical Party strongly stressed the danger represented by a World Bank project including the resettlement of about 60.000 Chinese into Amdo Province of Tibet (now incorporated into Qinghai Province). Moreover the TRP delegation denounced the fact that the Chinese security agents have detained 3 days ago and American who was inspecting the project in northwestern China and accused him of engaging in an "illegal investigation".

The Transnational Radical Party urged the UN body "to strongly pronounce itself against the above-mentioned policy of the People's Republic of China and to seriously review the situation of China's autonomous regions since its adoption of the resolution on Tibet 1991/10 on 23 August 1991". It also encouraged "the Sub-Commission to support the appointment of a Special Rapporteur to investigate the human rights situation in Tibet, Eastern Turkestan and Inner Mongolia".

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