Uproar in Lok Sabha over Tibet Repression by China

[Nagarjuna]

PTI News about Uproar in Indian Parliament over Chinese deadline for
Surrender :
NEW DELHI: The Chinese crackdown on protestors in Tibet created uproar
in the Lok Sabha on Monday, with several parties barring the Left
expressing concern over the "cultural genocide" in Lhasa.

Members of the BJP, BJD, Samajwadi Party and RJD wanted India to
condemn the violence and seek immediate intervention by the United
Nations and the main Opposition even walked out.

Responding to the concern by members, External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee expressed distress over the "unsettled situation and
violence" in Tibet and wanted the causes of trouble in the autonomous
region of China to be resolved through dialogue and non-violent means.

He informed the House that the government had already issued a
statement in this regard. Raising the issue in Zero Hour, BJP's V K
Malhotra alleged that Tibetans were being "massacred" in Lhasa and
China was trying to "culturally finish Tibet", even when the Dalai
Lama is saying he wanted autonomy and not separation from China.

While Samajwadi Party's Ramjilal Suman wanted government to inform the
House about its stand on the 'violation of human rights' in Tibet,
BJP's Adityanath claimed if China was not stopped now, it would "annex
Nepal and then the Northeastern states."

B Mahtab of the BJP wanted the government to protest the "ethnic
cleansing and tell China to exercise restraint and stop cultural
genocide."

He also asked the government to press for immediate UN intervention in
Tibet. When the Opposition walked out, Mukherjee said the policy on
Tibet and China, which was formulated in 1959, remained the same and
no government, including NDA, had changed it.