[ Published by FREEDOM FOR TIBET/DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ! - Number 57 May 1st, 1997 ]

On April 1920 a seminar on nonviolence took place in Bonn, Germany. The seminar was organized by UNPO (Organization for nonrepresented peoples and nations) and by the Heinrich Boll Foundation. The seminar, which was also a preparation for a conference which will be held in Tallin, Estonia next July, counted among its participants the German Green Party deputy Angelika KoesterLossak, Steve Withing and Helen Stevens of the "Quaker Peace and Service," Erkin Alptekin of Eastern Turkestan, Edita Tahiri of the Democratic League of Kossov, Jampa Tsering of Tibet, and Masssimo Lensi and Tiziana Falletti of the Transnational Radical Party. The seminar's work was concluded with the individuation and summation of the key points for the Tallin Conference by Michael van Walt Van Praag, the Secretary General of UNPO. Almost all of the speakers affirmed the necessity of choosing a concrete and nonviolent human rights initiative in the coming months.