Newsletter on the campaigns of the Radical Party for the freedom of Tibet and the democracy on 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".

Tenzin GYATSO, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, 1992

Issue 61, July 31st, 1997

Editors office: Tiziana Falletti

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NOW, MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST CONTINUE

"Are you shocked when I tell you that Deng, after a futile attempt to send them (the students in Tien an Men Square) safety home, did the right thing when he allowed the troops to open fire? Though it may be this is my opinion: if the students had won that day, China would have reverted to times of Chiang Kai Shek, and become a mosaic of feudal powers at war with one another."

These are the words of Indro Montanelli, one of themost famous Italian editorial writers, and were published in the July 13 edition of "II Corriere della Sera." We must not forget or understimate these ignoble words. They are an example of how powerful and arrogant those who propose the old methods of order and efficiency h ave become. They tell us, in new ways, that we can do without rights and democracy.

In the meantime, we will be in Geneva for the entire month of August, attending the SubCommission on Minorities at the United Nations. Fully aware of our own status as a minority, we will defend our positions. We will present our statements on Tibet, China, Kosov, and many other minorities, peoples, and, most of all, the oppressed citizens living under authoritarian regimes, totalitarian regimes that are acceptable to our governments for as long as they present some commercial opportunity.

We will also be at the United Nations in New York, engaged in another battle for civility and rights: for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. We will be in Rome and in Brussels to relaunch the Transnational Radical Party through a massive campaign for subscriptions. The objective: 10,000 subscriptions by the end of September.

(Published by FREEDOM FOR TIBET/DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ! - Number 61 - 31 July, 1997)