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Just as the
U.S. Congress was getting ready to vote on its much-needed
economic stimulus package that provides financial relief to
struggling Americans, it added an unexpected and incredible
addendum: life-saving provisions to protect the
tortured and massacred Tibetan people, as well as their
peaceful religious and political leader, the Dalai
Lama. While U.S. law has traditionally been
relatively silent on this topic, the Tibetan people have spent
decades suffering as the Chinese government drove their leader
into exile, kidnapped and "disappeared" many of his
associates, and continues to imprison and murder their people.
Finally, the U.S. is standing up for
international human rights and freedom of religion by standing
up for Tibet.
This long-overdue step states
that the U.S. will implement economic sanctions on top Chinese
Communist Party leaders if the Chinese government tries to
name its own Dalai Lama in order to control Tibetans even
further. It also prohibits China from establishing any new
consulates on U.S. soil until the U.S. is allowed to establish
its own consulate in the capital of Tibet, Lhasa. These are
awe-inspiring steps — but it shouldn't end here. Every single
day, the Tibetan people continue to be brutalized.
Some experts estimate that approximately 1.2 million
Tibetan people have been murdered in a state-sponsored mass
genocide. It's time for the European Union to follow
the U.S.'s lead. Tell the European Parliament to pass a law
stating that they will sanction the Chinese government if it
interferes in the naming of the Dalai Lama's
successor!
Thank you,
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Miranda
B.
The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. Tibetan
monks, nuns, and civilians alike have been subjected to
torture, imprisonment, and murder. Tell the European Union to protect the Dalai
Lama and his followers now! |
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