Tibetans condemn Nepal's secret cremation of Nyedon

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Tibetans condemn Nepal's secret cremation of Nyedon

September 24: Tibetans exiles today protested against Nepal government's secret cremation of Karma Nyedon Gyatso, a differently abled monk who set himself on fire near Boudhanath stupa in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on August 6.

The protestors put up an empty white cloth and a clay pot at the protest site to represent the Nepalese government's failure to release the body of Gyatso and return his ashes to the Tibetan community.

The protest action was jointly organized by Dharamshala regional chapters of Tibetan Women's Association, Tibetan Youth Congress and Students for a Free Tibet, India.

The organizers also offered prayers and butter lamp to mark the 49th day of his demise.

"Nepal cannot forget the civilizational relations with Tibet coming under the Chinese government's political pressure today. Our gratitude for asylum cannot condone Nepal's ongoing repression of Tibetan refugees living there" said Tenzin Tsundue of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress.

Earlier in March, the Nepalese authorities secretly cremated Drupchen Tsering despite repeated appeals from Tibetans and their supporters to release his body.

"This is the second time that the Nepalese government has committed such a heinous and cowardly act. Denying Karma Nyedon Gyatso his final Buddhist cremation rites is utterly saddening and outrageous," said Tenzin Jigdal, Program Director of Students for a Free Tibet, India. "Nepal still has an opportunity to show the world that it respects human rights and religious freedom thereby upholding its moral and principal values. The Nepalese government should stop kowtowing to China."

Although no official confirmation was made on Gyatso's secret cremation Radio Free Asia earlier reported that Gyatso was secretly cremated on September 2 at Pyre No. 5 at Pashupatinath Aryaghat crematorium in Kathmandu.

In 2010, Nepal disrupted Tibetan elections by confiscating ballot boxes containing thousands of ballots just an hour before the polls were due to be closed.

Nepal, which is home to some 20,000 Tibetans, has accommodated Tibetan exiles for decades, but has come under increasing pressure from China, a major donor for the impoverished country, to crack down on the political protests.

Tibetans condemn Nepal's secret cremation of Nyedon - www.phayul.com

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One wonders why the Nepal Govt has to secretly cremate the differently abled Tibetan monk.

It appears that Nepal has scant regards for human rights when it comes to its relations with China.

Nepal is a surrogate of China?
 

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Tibetans exiles today protested against Nepal government's secret cremation of Karma Nyedon Gyatso, ...who set himself on fire...
I'm sorry. There is just something funny about protesting the cremation of somebody who had set himself on fire.

Am I a bad person? :notsure:
 

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I'm sorry. There is just something funny about protesting the cremation of somebody who had set himself on fire.

Am I a bad person? :notsure:
The issue is not about the protest or immolation.

It is about cremation of the charred body under Buddhist rites by his near and dear ones.

Even when a criminal is hung, his immediate family is allowed to cremate or bury his body with full religious rites.

The Govt does not secretly cremate such bodies.

And anyway, the Tibetans in Nepal are not in such numbers as in India to create a law and order situation.

Why then is the fear?

But, yes, China would have been angered!
 

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And it Nepal finds the Tibetan an embarrassment which can sour relations with China, throw them out!

Nepal is carrying out the idiom of having their cake and eat it too@

If they throw them out, the international community will be up in arms and funds will dry out and yet at the same time kowtow to China!
 

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And it Nepal finds the Tibetan an embarrassment which can sour relations with China, throw them out!

Nepal is carrying out the idiom of having their cake and eat it too@

If they throw them out, the international community will be up in arms and funds will dry out and yet at the same time kowtow to China!
What cake? Did international community give any significant aid to Nepal govt as the price of the accommodation of Tibetans?
 

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What cake? Did international community give any significant aid to Nepal govt as the price of the accommodation of Tibetans?
Ray thinks India and the US suffice for the international community.
 

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What cake? Did international community give any significant aid to Nepal govt as the price of the accommodation of Tibetans?
Who got anyway any aid to accommodate Tibetans.

People are not that cash crazy like you all.

There is something called humanism that prompts peoples and countries to bring succour to the deprived!
 

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No it means all except China, which thinks that they alone are always right and moral!
All except China? Where's your source that all nations except China prefer Tibetan separatists to operate out of Nepal?
 

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All except China? Where's your source that all nations except China prefer Tibetan separatists to operate out of Nepal?
How many Nations came out in China's favour during the Tibetan revolt crushing?

What do the Nations feel about China's Human Rights record. What do Human Rights in China, Amnesty International state?

What does the Al Jazeera have to say about your Laogais?

Do you think trampling Uighur Muslims religious right indicate China is a shining example of human rights and equality?

China bans Muslims from fasting during Holy Ramadan

August 6: While the Christian majority countries in the West and the other non-Muslim countries around the world give their Muslim citizens freedom to perform fasting in the holy month of Ramadan and observe the other religious rites, the Communist China is the only country on this planet that bans its citizens from fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern province of Xinjiang have banned Muslim officials and students from fasting during the month of Ramadan, prompting an exiled rights group to warn of new violence. Guidance posted on numerous government websites called on Communist Party leaders to restrict Muslim religious activities during the holy month, including fasting and visiting mosques.

"They are extracting guarantees from parents, promising that their children won't fast on Ramadan," Dilxat Raxit, Sweden-based spokesman for the exile World Uighur Congress (WUC), told Radio Free Asia on June 13.

Xinjiang is home to about nine million Uighurs, largely a Muslim ethnic minority, many of whom accuse China's leaders of religious and political persecution. The region has been rocked by repeated outbreaks of ethnic violence, but China denies claims of repression and relies on tens of thousands of Uighur officials to help it govern the province.

A statement from Zonglang township in Xinjiang's Kashgar district said that "the county committee has issued comprehensive policies on maintaining social stability during the Ramadan period. "It is forbidden for Communist Party cadres, civil officials (including those who have retired) and students to participate in Ramadan religious activities."

The statement, posted on the Xinjiang government website, urged party leaders to bring "gifts" of food to local village leaders to ensure that they were eating during Ramadan. Similar orders on curbing Ramadan activities were posted on other local government websites, with the educational bureau of Wensu county urging schools to ensure that students do not enter mosques during Ramadan.

During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more closer to God, pious and charitable. An exiled rights group, the World Uyghur Congress, warned the policy would force "the Uighur people to resist [Chinese rule] even further." "By banning fasting during Ramadan, China is using administrative methods to force the Uighur people to eat in an effort to break the fasting," said group spokesman Dilshat Rexit in a statement.

Xinjiang saw its worst ethnic violence in recent times in July, 2009, when Uighurs attacked members of the nation's dominant Han ethnic group in the city of Urumqi, sparking clashes in which 200 people from both sides died, according to the government.

Uighur Muslims are suffering: Amid fresh arrests, restrictions on fasting and prayers at mosques, Uighur Muslims are suffering under the latest episode of Chinese government crackdown on their ethnic minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. "If any religious figure discusses Ramadan during the course of religious activities, or encourages people to take part, then they will lose their license to practice," Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, told Eurasia Review.

"The more serious cases will result in arrests for incitement to engage in illegal religious activity," he said. A day before the start of the holy fasting month for China's Muslims, at least 11 people were killed in a series of attacks in the north-western region of Xinjiang. Chinese authorities blamed the attacks to the ethnic minority, after which the Chinese police shot dead two Muslims. The attacks came less than two weeks after 18 people were killed in an attack in the restive Xinjiang region.

No Fasting: Beijing slapped severe restrictions on Chinese Muslims as the holy fasting month of Ramadan started. As for Muslim members of the government throughout Xinjiang, the government forced them to sign "letters of responsibility" promising to avoid fasting, evening prayers, or other religious activities.

"Fasting during Ramadan is a traditional ethnic custom, and they are allowed to do that," an employee who answered the phone at a local government neighborhood committee office in the regional capital Urumqi said confirming the restrictions. "But they aren't allowed to hold any religious activities during Ramadan," she added. "Party members are not allowed to fast for Ramadan, and neither are civil servants."

As for private companies, Uighur Muslim employees were offered lunches during fasting hours. Anyone who refuses to eat could lose their annual bonus, or even their job, Raxit added. Officials have also targeted Muslim schoolchildren, providing them with free lunches during the fasting period. A Uighur resident of Beijing said students under 18 are forbidden from fasting during Ramadan.

Moreover, government campaigns forced restaurants in the Muslim majority region to stay open all day. More restrictions were also imposed on people trying to attend prayers at mosques. Everyone attending prayers has to register with their national identity card, he added. "They have to register," he said. "[After prayers] they aren't allowed to [congregate and] talk to each other."

In Ramadan, adult Muslims should abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex between dawn and sunset. The sick and those traveling are exempt from fasting especially if it poses health risks. Muslims dedicate their time during the holy month to be closer to Allah through prayers, self-restraint and good deeds.

Residents of Xinjiang province say that Chinese policies regarding Ramadan have become steadily more draconian over the years. "It has been bad since 1993 and it is getting worse," said Tursun Ghupur, 33, who comes from Kashgar but has been living in Beijing. "Usually for ordinary people it is OK. You can pray and you can observe Ramadan. But if you go to school and have a job with the government, you can't be religious."

Identity Struggle: Struggling with the Chinese government to guarantee religious freedoms, Islamic practices were becoming a symbol of Uighur identity. "These measures will only solidify the distance between the ethnicities in Xinjiang," Dr Reza Hasmath, an Oxford researcher with a focus on China's ethnic minorities, said. Other experts warn that the situation in Xinjiang is more than a localized security issue.

Xinjiang saw its worst ethnic violence in recent times in July, 2009, when Uighurs attacked members of the nation's dominant Han ethnic group in the city of Urumqi, sparking clashes in which 200 people from both sides died, according to the government.

"China needs to manage its minorities better," said Ronan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore. "At this point, threats to the government comes primarily from its ethnicities." By cracking down repeatedly on Uighur Muslim identity, China has entered a "vicious circle" that only created more resentment.

"Over the past few weeks, the central leadership has had only one idea – to use as much security as possible," said Kerry Brown, director of Sydney University's China Studies Centre. "And it's a very questionable strategy.

"The government has a paranoid mindset, but this is a real problem that has nothing to do with outsiders," he said. These measures were actually threatening mass uprising with potential to spill over on a regional, or even national, level. "China could explode anywhere, but Xinjiang is at the forefront," said Brown.

It's the perfect storm: Uighur Muslims are a Turkish-speaking minority of eight million in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Xinjiang, which activists call East Turkestan, has been autonomous since 1955 but continues to be the subject of massive security crackdowns by Chinese authorities. Rights groups accuse Chinese authorities of religious repression against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in the name of counter terrorism.

Muslims accuse the government of settling millions of ethnic Han in their territory with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture. Analysts say the policy of transferring Han Chinese to Xinjiang to consolidate Beijing's authority has increased the proportion of Han in the region from five percent in the 1940s to more than 40 percent now.

http://www.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2013/8/6/China-bans-Muslims-from-fasting-during-Holy-Ramadan.aspx
The same is being said by a Muslim site




The right to fast: Why is China barring Xinjiang Muslims from their Ramadan ritual?

http://www.albawaba.com/news/china-bars-xinjiang-muslims-ramadan-fast-509133

You call them {the Tibetan refugees) separatists and you are entitled to say so, for reasons best known to you, but they came as refugees and they get no help to foment problems in Tibet,be it in Nepal, India or anywhere in the world they are residing as refugees.
 
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