The Global Community perspective of the Dalai Lama request for the sovereignty of Tibet and of his leadership as a peacemaker
Introduction
Who owns Tibet?
Historical facts
Ways to create nations
What is freedom? Does freedom bring up Peace? or war? Does living at Peace make demands on freedom?
Pathway to Peace amongst nations
Pathway to war and destruction
Global Community criteria for sovereignty
What is a Tibet at Peace and sustainable?
Global voting on the Dalai Lama claim of being the leader of Tibet and a peacemaker
A) Dalai Lama claim of being a peacemaker
What is the Nobel Peace Prize ?B) Dalai Lama claim of being the leader of Tibet in exil
Why was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore in 2007 ?
Why was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Dalai Lama in 1989 ?
Global Justice Movement aspects
Global Community Peace Movement aspects
Global voting on the sovereignty of Tibet and its future
Global rights in Tibet
Conclusion
1) What have I learned from the history ?
2) Global impacts of being associated with the United States
3) Position of the Global Community concerning the Dalai Lama
4) Global Community principles:
Global Community Peace Movement
Global Justice Movement
5) Recommendations to the:
a) Dalai Lama
b) Tibetan officials
c) Global Citizens
Introduction
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For decades I used to like the Dalai Lama and what he stood for in the world. Not as a religion because I believe God is for real. But as a person of Peace and compassion.
That is the image he has been promoting in the world. I myself been promoting similar values since 1985.
I never questioned what he was promoting.
And I even had the picture of a monk Buddhist as a link to religion on the Portal of the Global Community.
That was because I respected his view enough to refer to him on the website.
But this is history now.
After the last riot against China and using the 2008 Summer Olympics event to promote his cause, as of now I am totally opposed to the Dalai Lama. He is an extremist leader and has to be stopped. Buddhism is not the question here, the Dalai Lama is the matter. Buddhism as a religion for Peace and compassion is fine. I believe in the promoting of Peace and compassion. I will always be promoting Peace and compassion. In my view the Dalai Lama is no longer representing Peace and compassion. Let me explain.
The Dalai Lama has presented himself to be a peaceful, angel-like figure, for such a long time. If you look at what the Dalai Lama really is, and this what the following analysis is about, you will realize that truly he is not a person of Peace and should have never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
After I heard about the riot of March 14, 2008, my first reaction was to investigate the cause of the event. I started my investigation thinking that the Dalai Lama was right and China was wrong. Really!
During the riot, government buildings and fire trucks have been destroyed, and one source says that some of the power lines had been cut. Han Chinese shops and vehicles have been looted and burned, and Hans Chinese people in the city were being attacked as well. A Han Chinese girl remains in the hospital after being beaten as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out Lhasa. The violent protests in Lhasa against Chinese rule left many people dead.
I could not believe my eyes and ears. My heart was crying. And the Soul of Humanity was telling me to understand both sides: the Dalai Lama and Tibetan officials.
So I started to read on the history of Tibet, Buddhism, and China, and how the world reacted to violent events such as the March 14 event.
I had to find the truth.
The above image shows the process I have followed to find the truth about Tibet and the Dalai Lama extremist activities.
Germain Dufour
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
1) What have I learned from the history ?
2) Global impacts of being associated with the United States
3) Position of the Global Community concerning the Dalai Lama
4) Global Community principles:
5) Recommendations to the:
What have I learned from the history ?
The gradual merger of the Tubo culture of the Yalong Valley in the middle part of the basin of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and the ancient Shang-Shung culture of the western part of the Qinghai, Tibet Plateau formed the native Tibetan culture.
Buddhism was introduced to the Tubo people from the Central Plain of China, India and Nepal, and gradually developed into Tibetan Buddhism with its distinctive characteristics.
China is a united multi-ethnic country. As a member of the big family of the Chinese nation, the Tibetan people have created and developed their brilliant and distinctive culture during a long history of continuous exchanges and contacts with other ethnic groups, all of whom have assimilated and promoted each other's cultures. Tibetan culture has all along been a dazzling pearl in the treasure-house of Chinese culture as well as that of the world as a whole.
The Indian and Nepalese cultures of South Asia, the Persian and Arabic cultures of West Asia and especially the Han Chinese culture of the Central Plain had considerable influence on the development of Tibetan culture.
The "Tibet Question", the political status of Tibet vis-a-vis China, is an intractable nationalistic conflict that has become a volatile component of Sino-American relations. The roots of the conflict can be traced back hundreds of years, but in modern times the Tibet Question entered the international arena at the turn of the 19th century when British attempts to open relations with Tibet culminated in the 1903-04 invasion and conquest of Lhasa by the British. Lhasa was, and is still today, the governing site of the of Tibet.
"British history" inspired monk Tibitans and warlords (nobles) to declare independence.
The Qing China, which considered Tibet politically subordinate, countered this perceived threat to its hegemony by taking measures to increase its control over Tibet's administration. These actions ended in 1911 when the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in China.
This was a great opportunity for monk Tibitans and warlords (nobles) to declare independence. And they did. Monk Tibetans then expelled all Chinese troops and officials and the 13th Dalai Lama triumphantly returned from exile in India, immediately issuing a proclamation that is considered by many Tibetans to be a declaration of independence.
Tibet proclaimed its independence from China in 1911, right before the fall of the Qing government. However, at no time did any western power come out in favor of its independence or grant it diplomatic recognition. The People's Republic of China (PRC), citing historical records and the Seventeen Point Agreement signed by the Tibetan government in 1951, claims Tibet as a part of China (with a small part, depending on definitions, controlled by India). Currently every country in the world recognizes China's sovereignty over Tibet.
From 1911-1959, Tibet functioned as a defacto independent nation, conducting all governmental functions without interference from China or any other country. Nevertheless, its international status was ambivalent since China continued to claim Tibet as part of its state.
During the 1911 - 1959 period, Tibet became a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper-class monks and nobles. This ensured that Tibetan Buddhist culture gained the dominant position in Tibetan culture for a long period of time, until the Democratic Reform was carried out in 1959. Throughout this period, a handful of upper-class lamas and aristocrats monopolized the means of production, culture and education. Dalai Lama and his regents were the predominant political power administering religious and administrative authority over large parts of Tibet from the traditional capital Lhasa. Cultural and artistic pursuits were regarded as their exclusive amusements, while the serfs and slaves, who constituted 96 percent of the Tibetan population, lived in extreme poverty and were not guaranteed even the basic right of subsistence and freedom, let alone the right to enjoy culture and education. The long reign of feudal serfdom under theocracy not only severely fettered the growth of the productive forces in Tibet, but also resulted in a hermetically sealed and moribund traditional Tibetan culture, including cultural relics, historic sites and sites for Buddhist worship. As for modern science, technology, culture and education, they did not get any chance to develop at all.
When China regained control of Tibet, the Central People's Government gave freedom and human rights to Tibetans. There is a similar example of the kind of situation we see in the Dalai Lama and Tibet: the French Revolution. The French Revolution (1789–1799) was period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of nationalism, citizenship, and inalienable rights.
In May 1951, representatives of the central and local governments signed the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Tibetan Local Government on Measures for Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, widely known as the 17 Point Agreement.
This agreement recognized Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, but also recognized the right of the Dalai Lama's government to continue to administer Tibet, at least until the Tibetan people and leaders wanted reforms.
The central government of China adopted the principle of peaceful liberation of Tibet in light of historic and actual situation in the region after the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949.
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Law on Ethnic Regional Autonomy, the Central People's Government and the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region have made great efforts in the past 40-plus years to promote the social and economic development of Tibet, to satisfy the Tibetan people's increasing needs for their cultural lives. At the same time, they have devoted large amounts of human, financial and material resources to protecting and carrying forward the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture, as well as initiating and developing modern science, culture and education by employing legal, economic and administrative means. As a result, considerable achievements attracting worldwide attention have been attained. All the people in Tibet, as masters of the new era, jointly carry on, develop and enjoy the traditional Tibetan culture, and jointly create modern civilized life and culture, bringing unprecedented prosperity and development to Tibetan culture.
In 1954, Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama went to Beijing to attend the first session of the National People's Congress (NPC), at which the Dalai Lama was elected vice chairman of the NPC standing committee, while Panchen was elected a member of the NPC standing committee.
In 1956, the preparatory committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region was set up and the Dalai Lama served as head of the committee.
In March 1959, some officials of the former Tibet local government Kasha and some members in the upper class launched an armed rebellion, which attempted to safeguard the feudal serf system, split the country and oppose democratic reforms in Tibet. Acting on the order of the central government, the Chinese People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet put it down.
After 1959, China regained power over Tibet.
The PRC government does not view itself as an occupying power and has vehemently denied allegations of demographic swamping. The PRC also does not recognize Greater Tibet as claimed by the government of Tibet in Exile, saying that the idea was engineered by foreign imperialists as a plot to divide China amongst themselves, (Mongolia being a striking precedent, gaining independence with Soviet backing and subsequently aligning itself with the Soviet Union) and that those areas outside the TAR were not controlled by the Tibetan government before 1959 in the first place, having been administered instead by other surrounding provinces for centuries.
Since the signing of the Seventeen Point Agreement in 1951, Tibet has been officially regained by China. According to this Agreement between the Tibetan and Chinese central government, the Dalai Lama ruled Tibet, an area that was called a highly autonomous area of China. Before 1951, according to anthropologists, a vast majority of the people of Tibet were serfs often bound to land owned by monasteries and aristocrats, and most Tibetans were still serfs in 1951, and have proclaimed that the Tibetan government inhibited the development of Tibet during its self-rule from 1911 to 1959, and opposed modernization efforts by the Chinese government. From 1911 to 1959, Tibet became a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper class monks and nobles, the Tibetan Government did nothing to improve the Tibetans' material and political standard of life, and opposed any reforms proposed by the Chinese government. This is the reason for the tension that grew between some central government officials and the local Tibetan government in 1959. The lives of Tibetans have deteriorated during that period of time.
In 1959, with the support of the Central Government, Tibet carried out the Democratic Reform to abolish the feudal serf system and liberate the million serfs and slaves, and implemented the ethnic regional autonomy system step by step. China was able to reform land tenure in Tibet to the benefit of all Tibetans. This marked the advent of a new era in the social and cultural development of Tibet, and ended the monopoly exercised over Tibetan culture by the few upper class feudal lamas and aristocrats, making it the common legacy for all the people of Tibet to inherit and carry on.
For the Dalai Lama, the hope that the U.S. would exert leadership in garnering world support for their cause and help them regain their country ended when Kissinger/ Nixon established rapprochement with China in the years after 1969. At this point, the U.S. withdrew its backing for the Nepal-based Tibetan guerrillas and the operation collapsed within a few years. With its China policy focused on improving the accommodation with China, Tibet became an awkward embarrassment for the U.S. The Tibet Question not only was no longer relevant to U.S. national interests, in fact, it was potentially harmful. By the mid 1970s, therefore, shifting world alignments placed the Dalai Lama in a much weakened position.
Consequently, the Dalai Lama' post-1959 efforts had no impact on the situation in Tibet. The CCP restructured farming and pastoral nomadic areas into communes. The people of Tibet got their land back from the monks and nobles.
When the People's Republic of China (PRC) refers to Tibet, it means the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR): a province-level entity which, according to the territorial claims of the PRC, includes Arunachal Pradesh. The TAR covers the Dalai Lama's former domain, consisting of Ü-Tsang and western Kham, while Amdo and eastern Kham are part of Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan, and Sichuan. After the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the Central People's Government attached great importance to the protection and development of the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture.
In September 1965, the Tibet Autonomous Region was founded.
The Central People's Government and the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region have made great efforts in the past 40-plus years to promote the social and economic development of Tibet, to satisfy the Tibetan people's increasing needs for their cultural lives. At the same time, they have devoted large amounts of human, financial and material resources to protecting and carrying forward the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture, as well as initiating and developing modern science, culture and education by employing legal, economic and administrative means. As a result, considerable achievements attracting worldwide attention have been attained. All the people in Tibet, as masters of the new era, jointly carry on, develop and enjoy the traditional Tibetan culture, and jointly create modern civilized life and culture, bringing unprecedented prosperity and development to Tibetan culture.
The death of Mao Zedung in 1976, the subsequent fall of the "Gang of Four," and the rise to power of Deng Xiaoping, produced major changes in China that included a new cultural and economic ideology, normalization of relations with the United States, and new initiatives to reconcile two outstanding conflicts that concerned the unity of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and the Tibet Question. Concerning Tibet, in 1978, China made a number of unilateral gestures such as releasing a group of prisoners, announcing Tibetans will be able to visit relatives abroad, and issuing visas to a group of private Tibetans to visit Tibet. This developed quickly into an "external" strategy for trying to solve the Tibet Question by persuading the Dalai Lama and his followers to return to China. Informal talks took place in Hong Kong in 1978 between representatives of the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama's elder brother (Gyalo Thundrup) at which both sides expressed an interest in reconciling the Tibetan Question. Soon after this, in 1979, Deng Xiaoping invited the Dalai Lama's elder brother to Beijing and told him that apart from the question of total independence all other issues could be discussed and all problems could be resolved. He also said that the Dalai Lama could send fact-finding delegations to Tibet in 1979-1980 to observe conditions in Tibet. Beijing obviously believed that the delegations would be impressed by the progress that had been made in Tibet since 1959 and by the solidarity of the Tibetan people with the nation. China also felt that after twenty years in exile the Dalai Lama would be eager for rapprochement with the new, more "liberal" leaders of China.
Sino-Tibetan relations entered a new phase in 1978 when China embarked on a more liberal trajectory under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. Beijing embraced a policy that emphasized meeting the ethnic sensibilities of Tibetans while improving their economic situation. At the same time, Beijing and the Tibetan exiles began secret talks to resolve their dispute.
Beijing's external strategy was paralleled by the development of a new internal strategy that sought to resolve the Tibet Question by improving economic conditions in Tibet in a manner that met the ethnic sensibilities of Tibetans. After considerable preliminary investigation of the situation there, the communist party convened a major Tibet Work Conference in Beijing in early 1980.
Over the past four decades and more, Tibet has made much headway in carrying forward the fine aspects of its traditional culture, while maintaining Tibetan cultural traits. The main body of Tibetan culture, which was monopolized by a small handful of feudal serf-owners in the past, by monks and nobles who ruled Tibet during the period of 1911 to 1959, has been changed completely, and the entire Tibetan people have become the main body jointly carrying forward and developing Tibetan culture and sharing its fruits. Tibetan culture has undergone deep changes with social progress and development, decadent and backward things inherent in feudal serfdom have been abandoned, the religious beliefs of Tibetan religious followers enjoy full respect and protection, and the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture have been carefully preserved and carried forward. Improvement has been steadily made both in its contents and forms, adding some topical contents to reflect the new life of the people and the new needs of social development. A substantive shift has taken place in the development stance of Tibetan culture, from the self-enclosed, stagnating and shrinking situation to a new stance - the stance of opening-up and development oriented to modernization and the outside world. While developing and promoting its traditional culture, Tibet is also developing modern scientific and technological education and news dissemination at an unprecedented rate.
Dharamsala and the Dalai Lama launched a new political offensive what we can think of as their "international campaign." It sought, on the one hand, to secure new Western political and economic leverage to force Beijing to offer the concessions they wanted, and on the other hand, to give Tibetans in Tibet hope that the Dalai Lama was on the verge of securing U.S. and Western assistance to settle the Tibet Question. The U.S. government was central to this new campaign. The Dalai Lama's new campaign, therefore, sought to regain active U.S. support by working through the soft-underbelly of U.S. foreign policy Congress. The key innovation in this strategy was having the Dalai Lama for the first time carry the political message to the U.S. and Europe, particularly at governmental forums. Prior to this he had traveled and spoken only as a religious leader. With the help of Western supporters/donors and sympathetic U.S. congressmen/ congressional aides, a campaign was launched in the U.S. to gain support for the Dalai Lama's cause, in essence, to re-direct the significance of the Tibet Question from the arena of geo-political national interests to the sphere of core U.S. values to the U.S. ideological commitment to freedom and human rights. The goal was to create momentum for the U.S. supporting Tibet because it was the just and right thing to do as freedom-loving Americans. This new strategy was somewhat ironic.
And now the Dalai Lama was asking for military help from "democracies in the West" so he could regain power in Tibet and re-establish a theocracy that previously enslaved people. Not a democracy! No human rights! Just enslaved people!
What is even more ironic is that America fought against slavery in America for a long time.
Although many of the Han and Tibetan officials in Tibet disagreed with the Central government new policy in the period immediately after 1980, China implemented various aspects of Hu's general program. Individual religious practices reappeared on a massive scale throughout Tibet, monasteries reopened (with certain restrictions) and new child monks poured in to these monasteries to resurrect the old tradition. Signs in Tibetan were mandated on shops and offices, offices serving the public were instructed to use Tibetan language in their dealings with citizens, the number of Tibetan officials was increased, plans were made to improve education in Tibetan language and a number of Chinese cadre left. And not only were exile Tibetans welcomed to return for visits, but Tibetans could travel abroad to visit their relatives.
The Dalai Lama formally sent negotiating delegations to Beijing in 1982 and 1984. These talks, however, proved fruitless. The Dalai Lama was unwilling to accept a solution that addressed only cultural, religious and linguistic issues and did not give him political control over Tibet. Complicating the situation was the Dalai Lama's demand for creation of a "Greater Tibet" that would include not only political Tibet (the Tibet Autonomous Region) but also the ethnic Tibetan areas in Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan provinces.
In the aftermath of the 1982 meeting, the Dalai Lama leadership started on a more agresssive campaign to destabilize China. He continued to attack Chinese policies and human rights violations in Tibet, often actually going beyond what the actual situation warranted, e.g. with charges of Chinese genocide. Dharamsala still felt more comfortable pursuing an adversarial model of interaction than one that emphasized friendship and harmony as its goal.
The Dalai Lama hopes that the flow of history will provide him the victory he desires but cannot attain on his own. Ideally, he hopes that China will soon disintegrate like the Qing Dynasty did in 1911 (and the U.S.S.R. more recently), and that this will afford him the opportunity to regain control over Tibet. Thus, while waiting for history to solve his dilemma in a satisfactory manner, he is trying to induce Western nations to renounce their acceptance of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and to pressure China to make concessions. Such a campaign of violence and terrorism would seek to disrupt and prevent China from improving the lives of Tibetans and modernizing Tibet.
The Dalai Lama and his followers are capable and willing to create serious violence and terrorism to make Tibet a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper-class monks and nobles, a regressing society. With the coming of the Summer Olympics, China hosting its first Olympics, the Dalai Lama and his followers are planning to launch a new tactic of large scale violence and terrorism that could impact on the internal stability of China itself. It might, for example, precipitate a chain of events that would destabilize China at this very important juncture in its history. Moreover, given that the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala in India, and his supporters in the West and in Tibet see Soviet-like disintegration in China as their greatest hope, they are likely to jump at any sign of major economic or political instability in order to exacerbate and accelerate this instability. This whole scenario has serious impacts globally.
In 1987 several events occurred. The Dalai Lama was invited to speak to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in September, and in June, the House of Representatives adopted a bill that condemned human rights abuses in Tibet, instructed the president to express sympathy for Tibet, and urged China to establish a constructive dialogue with the Dalai Lama (this ended up later in the year as an amendment to the State Department Authorization Bill).
The Dalai Lama made his first political speech in America before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus on 21 September 1987. It was a carefully crafted and powerful talk that laid out the argument that Tibet had been independent when China invaded. That invasion began what the Dalai Lama called China's illegal occupation of the country. Specifically, he said, "though Tibetans lost their freedom, under international law Tibet today is still an independent state under illegal occupation." The speech also raised serious human rights charges, referring twice to a Chinese inflicted "holocaust" on the Tibetan people.
On 27 September 1987, less than a week after the Dalai Lama's first speech in Washington, nationalistic monks from Drepung monastery in Lhasa staged a political demonstration in support of Tibetan independence and the Dalai Lama's initiative. They began by walking around the Inner Circle Road (bagor) that is both a main circumambulation route (going around the holy Lhasa Cathedral) and the main Tibetan market area, but, when nothing happened after several circuits, marched down a main road to the offices of the Tibetan Government. There they were arrested.
Four days later, on the morning of October 1st, another group of 20-30 monks demonstrated in Lhasa to show their support for the Dalai Lama and the previous monk demonstrators, and to demand the latter's release from jail. Police arrested them and later, this escalated into a full-scale riot. In the end, the police station and a number of vehicles and shops were burnt down, and 6 Tibetans were killed, including ethnic Tibetans.
The post-riot months in Lhasa saw more demonstrations by monks and nuns, and a steady stream of anti-government posters. Nevertheless, the police were able to arrest them quickly without provoking a riot. A cat and mouse game developed with the nationalistic monks launching demonstrations and the government trying to arrest the demonstrators in a manner that would prevent another riot, for it was clearly the riot that caught world attention, not simply the small demonstrations.
Beijing is also upgrading the education system, which was non-existent during the during the 1911-1959 period when Tibet became a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper-class monks and nobles, to create a "modern," better educated Tibetan elite. For example, in addition to the standard school system in Tibet, a program of building special Tibetan lower-middle schools in other parts of China began in 1985 and was expanded substantially after 1987. Today there are roughly 10,000 Tibetan youths attending such schools throughout the rest of China, and more also attend upper middle schools and vocational schools. In 1994, another wave of educational and party reform was begun within Tibet that seeks both to reduce illiteracy and to control more closely the content of education so that Tibetan students will not be exposed to subtle nationalist, separatist ideology.
Beijing is proceeding at full speed with a policy to develop and modernize Tibet rapidly and thoroughly. The Dalai Lama is not particularly favorable for a negotiated resolution. The Dalai Lama and his top officials are anxious to stop the influx of non-Tibetans into Tibet, arguing that Tibetan culture, religion and language cannot flourish if Tibet becomes swamped with non-Tibetans. Consequently, they are encouraging supporters in the West to urge Beijing to resume talks with them and are approaching other "neutral" countries to intercede on their behalf.
The Dalai Lama and his followers are capable and willing to create serious violence and terrorism to make Tibet a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper class monks and nobles, a regressing society. With the coming of the Summer Olympics, China hosting its first Olympics, the Dalai Lama and his followers are planning to launch a new tactic of large scale violence and terrorism that could impact on the internal stability of China itself. It might, for example, precipitate a chain of events that would destabilize China at this very important juncture in its history. Moreover, given that the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala in India, and his supporters in the West and in Tibet see Soviet-like disintegration in China as their greatest hope, they are likely to jump at any sign of major economic or political instability in order to exacerbate and accelerate this instability. This whole scenario has serious impacts globally.
In China, opponents of Hu Yaobang's Tibet "moderation" policy saw the Dalai Lama's unwillingness to get down to substantive issues and his officials' continuation of attacks as a sign of his insincerity. In fact, some explicitly saw this as deja vu, as a replay of what they considered the duplicitous behavior of the Dalai Lama and his government in the 1950s. Beijing, therefore, moved to intensify its "internal" strategy by allocating increased funds for development. This policy was finalized at the Second Tibet Work Conference held in Beijing in 1984. It approved 42 major construction projects in Tibet and extended China's "Open Door" policy to Tibet. Since Beijing could not solve the Tibet Question by inducing the Dalai Lama to return to solidify its control of Tibet, it sought to do so without him by quickly modernizing and developing Tibet while allowing Tibetans the freedom to express their culture and practice their religion.
China continued to implement its internal policy, and by late 1985, early 1986, initiated a second wave of reforms which would fulfill the special autonomous status implied by Hu Yaobang's statements wherein most officials would be ethnic Tibetans and the language of government would be Tibetan. And a new head of the Party in Tibet, Wu Jinghua, was appointed who was himself a minority (from the Yi nationality). He immediately began overt shows of respect for Tibetan culture, wearing Tibetan dress on holidays, and creating an atmosphere of support for development of Tibetan language and culture. Consequently, there was a feeling of possibility in the air in Lhasa, at least among Tibetan intellectuals. Great strides have been made to allow Tibetan culture to flourish. Tibetans in exile were visiting Tibet in increasing numbers despite having to get visas as "overseas Chinese," and most Tibetans in Tibet who went abroad to visit relatives returned.
In 1986 - 1987, the Dalai Lama launched a new strategic initiative whose aim was to secure increased political support from the U.S. and Europe in order to exert new and effective leverage on China. A key element in this new strategy was that the Dalai Lama for the first time would make political speeches in the West. In September 1987, he initiated this strategy in Washington, D.C. with a major speech before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. The following June, he made a another important address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Several days after the Dalai Lama's speech in Washington, a small group of monks in Lhasa demonstrated in support of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence. They were arrested without incident, but a few days later when more monks demonstrated to demand the release of the first monks, a full-scale riot erupted. During the succeeding two years, three other riots occurred in Lhasa, the last one compelling Beijing to declare martial law in Tibet for one year.
Beijing accelerated a program of rapid economic development that increased Tibet's integration with the rest of China and, over time, it is hoped to help more "modern Tibetans" who will be less influenced by religion and lamas. The economic strategy, however, pulled in large numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs/laborers to Tibet to work, increasing the size of the non-Tibetan population in Tibet.
As a way of comparison, a similar situation has been going on in the State of California, U.S.A., where a large portion of the work force comes from Mexico. Of course that has created social problems. But Mexicans in California have human rights just the same as anyone else.
But in China, Tibet, we have a situation of people from a different cultural background helping in the development of Tibet.
Protests against the Chinese powerholders -- initiated by Buddhist monks -- had been growing since March 10, 2008, the anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule. Buddhist monks in Tibet begun a hunger strike. This has led to violent protests in Lhasa as well, with up to 1,000 people participating. Government buildings and fire trucks have also been destroyed, and one source says that some of the power lines had been cut. Han Chinese shops and vehicles have been looted and burned, and Hans Chinese people in the city were being attacked as well. A Han Chinese girl remains in the hospital after being beaten. March 14, 2008 as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out Lhasa. The violent protests in Lhasa against Chinese rule left many people dead.
On March 18, 2008, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao blamed supporters of the Dalai Lama for recent violence in Tibet, and said Chinese forces exercised restraint in confronting unrest there. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on March 21, 2008 criticized China for its crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tibet and called on "freedom-loving people" worldwide to denounce China. The Communist Party newspapers on March 23, 2008 accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating the riots in Tibet to try to mar the 2008 Summer Olympics in August 2008 and overthrow the area's communist leaders. The government disseminated footage of Tibetan protesters attacking Chinese and accusations of biased reporting by Western media via TV, the Internet, e-mail and YouTube, which is blocked in China. A man, thought to be a pro-Tibet protester interrupted the speech of the China organising committee chief during the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece March 24, 2008.
Although Tibetan culture is developing continuously, the Dalai Lama clique is clamoring all over the world that "Tibetan culture has become extinct," and, on this pretext, is whipping up anti-China opinions with the backing of international antagonist forces. From the 40-odd years of history following the Democratic Reform in Tibet it can be clearly perceived that what the Dalai Lama clique is aiming at nothing but hampering the real development of Tibetan culture.
First, as a social ideology, culture varies with the changes in the other parts of the social economic foundation and superstructure. The formation and development of modern Western culture are inseparable from the modern European bourgeois revolution, in which the dictatorial system of feudal serfdom and theocracy in the Middle Ages was eliminated, along with the religious reforms and great changes in the ideological and cultural fields caused by it.
The development of a culture has never been achieved in isolation, and it is bound to acquire new contents and forms ceaselessly with the progress of the times and development of the society, and nourish and enrich itself while adapting to and absorbing other cultures. The development of Tibetan culture in the last four decades and more has been achieved while Tibetan society is gradually putting an end to ignorance and backwardness, and heading for reform, opening-up and modernization, and while Tibetan culture and modern civilization, including modern Western civilization, are absorbing and blending with each other. The people's mode of thinking and concepts are bound to change with the changes of the modes of production and life in Tibet. During this process, some new aspects of culture which are not contained in the traditional Tibetan culture but are essential in modern civilization have been developed, such as modern scientific and technological education and news dissemination. The fine cultural traditions with Tibetan features are being carried forward and promoted in the new age, and the decayed and backward things in the traditional culture that are not adapted to social development and people's life are being gradually sifted out. It is a natural phenomenon in conformity with the law of cultural development, and a manifestation of the unceasing prosperity and development of Tibetan culture in the new situation. To prattle about the "extinction of Tibetan culture" due to its acquisition of the new contents of the new age and to its progress and development is in essence to demand that modern Tibetan people keep the life styles and cultural values of old Tibet's feudal serfdom wholly intact. This is completely ridiculous, for it goes against the tide of progress of the times and the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people.
At present, as mankind has marched into the new millennium, economic globalization and informationization in social life are developing rapidly, increasingly changing people's material and cultural lives. With the deepening development of China's reform and opening-up and the modernization drive, especially the practice of the strategy of large-scale development of the western region, Tibet is striding toward modernization and going global with a completely new shape, and new and still greater development will certainly be achieved in Tibetan culture in this process.
Global impacts of being associated with the United States
The Global Community Peace Movement has declared a planetary state of emergency for reasons given in our April Newsletter. This is a very serious matter. Everytime the Dalai Lama give a speech at the White House and publicly call himself 'a friend' of the United States, a friend of President Bush, means he actually agrees with the activites being carried on by that nation. There is no grey area here. When you bought a first class ticket from India to the US to give a speech at the invitation of White House concerning the military help you need to beat up China out of Tibet, that means you are guilty of stirring up conflicts and wars. When you associate yourself with a nation that has created a link in a 737-strong chain of American military bases in 130 countries, you become one of them. Those military bases are there for many reasons. They are mainly there for resources. They are also there to invade.
For decades the US has help the Dalai Lama and his followers to create conflicts in Tibet and between Tibet and China. That is what Americans do best, to create conflicts between communities.
If the Dalai Lama had his way there would be another military base created this time in Tibet. The breaking up of China has always been the ultimate goal of the USA.
The global impacts of such a conflict are immense.
Certainly we ought to disarm all nations from all weapons of mass destruction.
The leadership of the United Nations has failed to enforce disarmement. It is a tragedy that such a failure is now seen as the source of other nations, such as North Korea, Iran and others, wanting to defend themselves against an invasion by the USA.
The world knew America was invading the Middle East. Why has the UN not enforced hard sanctions against the USA for its bullying tactics at the UN to get what it wants? Proper UN leadership could have avoided the situation we have today. The UN did nothing at a critical time and just watched things happening. The UN is the organization where bullying takes place by those with nuclear war heads.
The USA is invading the world, and the UN can do nothing to stop them. The USA was allowed to invade other nations, change their governments, and has often made lies in speeches to the UN, to the world. Remember what the US representatives told the world at the UN prior to the invasion of Iraq? Lies! All lies! And the leadership of the UN never did anything to reprimand the US representatives and implement hard sanctions for the invasion of Iraq. Ever since the partitioning of Palestine by the UN in 1947, the USA have given Israel enough WMDs, including nuclear war heads, to destroy the entire Middle East region and no sanctions were ever enforced against Israel and the USA. Where was the UN leadership? What has the UN done to stop the invasion? Nothing! The UN has never done anything to help humanity. And that is a crime against humanity. To do nothing is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth.
The Earth Court of Justice along with
the Agency of Global Police 
have
made mandatory that all nations let inspectors verify proper dismantle of weapons facilities. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that
means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting!
And again that also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world, and not just in some Middle East country and North Korea.
There are many instances where the Earth Court of Justice could be successful in bringing Peace amongst nations and helping to step down the planetary state of emergency.
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want. Justice is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations. Justice is to be applied to the military as well. Everyone! Every business and organization!
The planetary state of emergency was brought up by the threat of global warming, climate change, blood resources and blood money,
disarmament not being a world issue, which have let us with no other alternatives than to assume someone is guilty until proven innnocent.
Like President Bush said: a preventive strike is our only alternative from now on. In view of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth,
a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise.
It was an American submarine that exploded nuclear war heads over the ocean bottom and created the Indian ocean tsunami of 2004 came about? Exploding war heads in our oceans is at least as bad as a major oil spill. It is showing barbarism. It is killing the global communities of life in the oceans and destroying the delicate balance of our oceans physical, biological and chemical characteristics that can accelerate the climate change drastically when disturbed. It is showing ignorance and stupidity.
There are many acts of extreme violence conducted by the American military, the war industry, the melting of the North Pole is one of them.
In 1947, the White House has strategically planned the invasion of the Middle East to protect its interests in the oil and gas resources for its military. Dont you think the White House would think twice to melt the North Pole so that by year 2050 the American population would have all the energy reources needed for its military? We know that by 2050 the oil and gas reserves of the Middle East will be practically non-existant. Middle East peak oil has already gone by!
So the North Pole is the most likely place to dig. The polar cap is not a problem. We have known for decades that USA military submarines have been exploring under the ice cap of the North Pole.
They have already mapped the bottom of the ocean under the ice. Here again the USA military thought ahead! They will need the oil and gas resources,
and other primary resources of the North to fuel the war industry of America. Planning stragegically is what the military has been doing ever since 1947. So they
do it again. It is very likely that nuclear explosions have started the melting of the polar cap. By 2050, the resources of the North will be made available to the military.
Now again there is no proof of this theory. But it is very likely true. For a nation capable of so much destruction in the Middle East and in several other places in
the world, melting the North Pole is a minor exercise.
The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth. The Earth Court of Justice will see that Justice is done. In view of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth, a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise. Global Law must be applied. The United States must pay for the independent investigation.
Now, being in Iraq, Americans will have the opportunity to invade China. Invade China...!! Who said that?! Now, now! I did not say bombing China with thousand of nuclear war heads. That would be stupid! No, it will not happen that way. What have I said, money. Ya! Americans will get the Chinese people to work for them. Let the cow gives all its milk. How is that possible?? Very simple! And Americans have got very good at that. Get them to buy arms and make sure they kill each others in the process. Americans have mastered the arts of war from way back when. They have already made trillions of dollars in the Middle East. As far as they are concerned, everyone has been buying their arms. So China is the biggies. Lots of money to make.
First, they will allow China to get their oil and gas from Iran. The chinese economy will be good because they have energy and the base products, oil and gas, from which they can make plastics. And with plastics they can manufacture all kinds of toys such as computers and parts for cars. Thousands of different products make use of plastics. Now the American
Congress has passed legislation to allow rich, powerful, American corporations to invest in China. Why?! Because of cheap labour! No environmental costs! Many reasons. The facts are that China now is working for American corporations.
Now this is when the American war industry gets into the picture. They have to sell arms to the Chinese people. And how are they going to do that?! The war industry have had plenty of learning in the Middle East. They will make
sure that a Chinese province or community is at war against another Chinese community.
You know, there has to be a reason why people hate each other. So creating hate between the Chinese people will be a priority. Create a
chaos! Remember the Iran-Iraq war... So easy! If they hate one another then they will want to kill each other. This is when the American (and British) war industry sell their arms. So in effect, they all work for
America. Yep! Cheap labour! And they all can go to kingdom come! And then America will bring up the flags of fighting for the establishment of democracy, freedoms, and 'whatnots'. Americans back home will love it! It is so pathetic
that one would want to cry. People used to look up to America. But now Americans are just killers, criminals, invaders, predators, and arms dealers. It is not just about survival. It is about a civilization gone so bad that its people
would do anything for money.
So well masterminded!
Actually this has nothing to do with intelligence. Americans have done this by pure instinct, that of a predator instinct. Like a bird would fly at high speed between the branches of a tree does not need intelligence. It is an instinctive maneuver a bird has learned to do naturally throughout its evolution as a species. Same thing here when the American and British people create ' hate ' to make money. You only need to listen to your own basic instincts to be successful at making money in our society. But they would need intelligence to create peace. To create peace is a much more difficult thing to do! Why!? Because peace goes against our survival instinct as a people and, as world population increases to 10 billion people, things will get much more difficult to manage. To create peace by 'destroying and killing' is basic instincts, not intelligence. Intelligence seems to be what is missing most from our world leaders. Even the leadership at the United Nations (UN) is bad, corrupted and subjected to powerful lobbying groups and nations and, guess which nations are doing most of the bullying: America, and Great Britain.
The eventual invasion of China is the reason why the United States dont want North Korea and other Middle East nations to have nuclea weapons. What else could it be? Americans are all over the Middle East creating hate between the different communities, invading, stealing oil and gas reserves, and spreading the false belief that democracy is the best political system. Democracy got us to where we are today: the worst polluters on the planet and threatening the existence of all life. Our consumer driver political system is wrong. Our ways of life are wrong! We know it, and we still try to impose them to other Peoples. America would like the Peoples of North Korea, China and of the Middle East nations to be like us consumers, the worst polluters and on a planetary destructive path. In this way, Americans back home would not be feeling so guilty of being so bad. They would rather let others take the blame for their failure as a society.
Americans want everyone on the planet to be just like they are in America: the worst polluters on a planetary destructive path.
And guess who is next: China. Americans want the people of China to be just like Americans: a consumer driven society and the worst polluters. And the invasion of China is their long term economic and military plan. But the United States would rather make money in the process, and that means letting rich American corporations getting richer by having the people of China working for them and so, polluting the planet even more on their behalf.
Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself. The Global Community and its membership are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence:
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. This peace mouvement is about courage. Not the courage it takes to go into battle but the courage to organize resistance to war when a bloody taste for it inflames the world, and the threat of prison in a nation where the human rights and freedom of expression have diminished significantly. It is about the courage to say NO to the war industry. It is an industry that destroys life on Earth, corrupts society, and violates morality. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong. There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself. We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
The axe of evil: the war industry, our consumer-driven society and money. Together they bring up the worst in every human being.
The evil is the war industry. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus develops the ethic of nonviolence and love of the enemies. Early Christians were probably the first individuals to renounce participation in war unconditionally. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Christ has taught us to show mercy, to forgive enemies, to put up patiently with oppression, to return only good for evil and love for hatred and, therefore, war is inconsistent with the Spirit of Jesus Christ. This shows that a Christian should take no part in war, never, in any way. This all means that violence is futile in the long run. To respond to violence with violence is only perpetuating a vicious cycle of violence.
God prohibits killing, and no exception at all ought to be made to the commandment that it is always wrong to kill. The sanctity of human life is unconditional. A short while ago God, Allah, has spoken to humanity once more. The New Revelations
are His Word. His Revelations are to be added to previous ones
revealed thousands of years ago. Together they are God's Word, and they will guide humanity for the thousands of
years to come. His Word reinforce His compassion and love for humanity and His care for all living inhabitants on Earth
and of Earth itself. God has said:
"Thou shall banish war as a solution to problems between communities. All Souls involved with war, directly or indirectly, shall face the Soul of Humanity to be purified. All Souls involved in the making of weapons, war product and equipment shall be facing the Soul of Humanity."
There are several reasons for objecting to war: religious, moral and political. People have different degrees of refusal to go to war. Absolute pacifists, such as the Global Citizens, will not cooperate with any preparation for war as decided by the war industry, let alone war itself.
The military option goes against global peace in a big way. The UN has shown bad leadership! Failure to help humanity! An accomplice of the war industry. An accomplice of the oil and gas industry to make it easy for the industry to make our planet unsustainable and destroy the global life-support systems. All world leaders just pretending to resolve global warming and its effects on the global climate have broken Global Law and are dangerous criminals and will be prosecuted. The UN should have insisted in giving hard sanctions to the US for invading Iraq.
The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. We can accomplish this task by concrete actions such as:
That was because I respected his view enough to refer to him on the website.But this is history now.
After the last riot against China and using the 2008 Summer Olympics event to promote his cause, as of now I am totally opposed to the Dalai Lama. He is an extremist leader and has to be stopped. Buddhism is not the question here, the Dalai Lama is the matter. Buddhism as a religion for Peace and compassion is fine. I believe in the promoting of Peace and compassion. I will always be promoting Peace and compassion. In my view the Dalai Lama is no longer representing Peace and compassion. Let me explain.
The Dalai Lama has presented himself to be a peaceful, angel-like figure, for such a long time. If you look at what the Dalai Lama really is, and this what the following analysis is about, you will realize that truly he is not a person of Peace and should have never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
After I heard about the riot of March 14, 2008, my first reaction was to investigate the cause of the event. I started my investigation thinking that the Dalai Lama was right and China was wrong. Really!
During the riot, government buildings and fire trucks have been destroyed, and one source says that some of the power lines had been cut. Han Chinese shops and vehicles have been looted and burned, and Hans Chinese people in the city were being attacked as well. A Han Chinese girl remains in the hospital after being beaten as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out Lhasa. The violent protests in Lhasa against Chinese rule left many people dead.
I could not believe my eyes and ears. My heart was crying. And the Soul of Humanity was telling me to understand both sides: the Dalai Lama and Tibetan officials.
So I started to read on the history of Tibet, Buddhism, and China, and how the world reacted to violent events such as the March 14 event.
I had to find the truth.
The above image shows the process I have followed to find the truth about Tibet and the Dalai Lama extremist activities.
Germain Dufour
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
Conclusion
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1) What have I learned from the history ?
2) Global impacts of being associated with the United States
3) Position of the Global Community concerning the Dalai Lama
4) Global Community principles:
Global Community Peace Movement
Global Justice Movement
5) Recommendations to the:
a) Dalai Lama
b) Tibetan officials
c) Global Citizens
What have I learned from the history ?
The gradual merger of the Tubo culture of the Yalong Valley in the middle part of the basin of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and the ancient Shang-Shung culture of the western part of the Qinghai, Tibet Plateau formed the native Tibetan culture.
Buddhism was introduced to the Tubo people from the Central Plain of China, India and Nepal, and gradually developed into Tibetan Buddhism with its distinctive characteristics.
China is a united multi-ethnic country. As a member of the big family of the Chinese nation, the Tibetan people have created and developed their brilliant and distinctive culture during a long history of continuous exchanges and contacts with other ethnic groups, all of whom have assimilated and promoted each other's cultures. Tibetan culture has all along been a dazzling pearl in the treasure-house of Chinese culture as well as that of the world as a whole.
The Indian and Nepalese cultures of South Asia, the Persian and Arabic cultures of West Asia and especially the Han Chinese culture of the Central Plain had considerable influence on the development of Tibetan culture.
The "Tibet Question", the political status of Tibet vis-a-vis China, is an intractable nationalistic conflict that has become a volatile component of Sino-American relations. The roots of the conflict can be traced back hundreds of years, but in modern times the Tibet Question entered the international arena at the turn of the 19th century when British attempts to open relations with Tibet culminated in the 1903-04 invasion and conquest of Lhasa by the British. Lhasa was, and is still today, the governing site of the of Tibet.
"British history" inspired monk Tibitans and warlords (nobles) to declare independence.
The Qing China, which considered Tibet politically subordinate, countered this perceived threat to its hegemony by taking measures to increase its control over Tibet's administration. These actions ended in 1911 when the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in China.
This was a great opportunity for monk Tibitans and warlords (nobles) to declare independence. And they did. Monk Tibetans then expelled all Chinese troops and officials and the 13th Dalai Lama triumphantly returned from exile in India, immediately issuing a proclamation that is considered by many Tibetans to be a declaration of independence.
Tibet proclaimed its independence from China in 1911, right before the fall of the Qing government. However, at no time did any western power come out in favor of its independence or grant it diplomatic recognition. The People's Republic of China (PRC), citing historical records and the Seventeen Point Agreement signed by the Tibetan government in 1951, claims Tibet as a part of China (with a small part, depending on definitions, controlled by India). Currently every country in the world recognizes China's sovereignty over Tibet.
From 1911-1959, Tibet functioned as a defacto independent nation, conducting all governmental functions without interference from China or any other country. Nevertheless, its international status was ambivalent since China continued to claim Tibet as part of its state.
During the 1911 - 1959 period, Tibet became a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper-class monks and nobles. This ensured that Tibetan Buddhist culture gained the dominant position in Tibetan culture for a long period of time, until the Democratic Reform was carried out in 1959. Throughout this period, a handful of upper-class lamas and aristocrats monopolized the means of production, culture and education. Dalai Lama and his regents were the predominant political power administering religious and administrative authority over large parts of Tibet from the traditional capital Lhasa. Cultural and artistic pursuits were regarded as their exclusive amusements, while the serfs and slaves, who constituted 96 percent of the Tibetan population, lived in extreme poverty and were not guaranteed even the basic right of subsistence and freedom, let alone the right to enjoy culture and education. The long reign of feudal serfdom under theocracy not only severely fettered the growth of the productive forces in Tibet, but also resulted in a hermetically sealed and moribund traditional Tibetan culture, including cultural relics, historic sites and sites for Buddhist worship. As for modern science, technology, culture and education, they did not get any chance to develop at all.
When China regained control of Tibet, the Central People's Government gave freedom and human rights to Tibetans. There is a similar example of the kind of situation we see in the Dalai Lama and Tibet: the French Revolution. The French Revolution (1789–1799) was period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of nationalism, citizenship, and inalienable rights.
In May 1951, representatives of the central and local governments signed the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Tibetan Local Government on Measures for Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, widely known as the 17 Point Agreement.
This agreement recognized Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, but also recognized the right of the Dalai Lama's government to continue to administer Tibet, at least until the Tibetan people and leaders wanted reforms.
The central government of China adopted the principle of peaceful liberation of Tibet in light of historic and actual situation in the region after the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949.
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Law on Ethnic Regional Autonomy, the Central People's Government and the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region have made great efforts in the past 40-plus years to promote the social and economic development of Tibet, to satisfy the Tibetan people's increasing needs for their cultural lives. At the same time, they have devoted large amounts of human, financial and material resources to protecting and carrying forward the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture, as well as initiating and developing modern science, culture and education by employing legal, economic and administrative means. As a result, considerable achievements attracting worldwide attention have been attained. All the people in Tibet, as masters of the new era, jointly carry on, develop and enjoy the traditional Tibetan culture, and jointly create modern civilized life and culture, bringing unprecedented prosperity and development to Tibetan culture.
In 1954, Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama went to Beijing to attend the first session of the National People's Congress (NPC), at which the Dalai Lama was elected vice chairman of the NPC standing committee, while Panchen was elected a member of the NPC standing committee.
In 1956, the preparatory committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region was set up and the Dalai Lama served as head of the committee.
In March 1959, some officials of the former Tibet local government Kasha and some members in the upper class launched an armed rebellion, which attempted to safeguard the feudal serf system, split the country and oppose democratic reforms in Tibet. Acting on the order of the central government, the Chinese People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet put it down.
After 1959, China regained power over Tibet.
The PRC government does not view itself as an occupying power and has vehemently denied allegations of demographic swamping. The PRC also does not recognize Greater Tibet as claimed by the government of Tibet in Exile, saying that the idea was engineered by foreign imperialists as a plot to divide China amongst themselves, (Mongolia being a striking precedent, gaining independence with Soviet backing and subsequently aligning itself with the Soviet Union) and that those areas outside the TAR were not controlled by the Tibetan government before 1959 in the first place, having been administered instead by other surrounding provinces for centuries.
Since the signing of the Seventeen Point Agreement in 1951, Tibet has been officially regained by China. According to this Agreement between the Tibetan and Chinese central government, the Dalai Lama ruled Tibet, an area that was called a highly autonomous area of China. Before 1951, according to anthropologists, a vast majority of the people of Tibet were serfs often bound to land owned by monasteries and aristocrats, and most Tibetans were still serfs in 1951, and have proclaimed that the Tibetan government inhibited the development of Tibet during its self-rule from 1911 to 1959, and opposed modernization efforts by the Chinese government. From 1911 to 1959, Tibet became a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper class monks and nobles, the Tibetan Government did nothing to improve the Tibetans' material and political standard of life, and opposed any reforms proposed by the Chinese government. This is the reason for the tension that grew between some central government officials and the local Tibetan government in 1959. The lives of Tibetans have deteriorated during that period of time.
In 1959, with the support of the Central Government, Tibet carried out the Democratic Reform to abolish the feudal serf system and liberate the million serfs and slaves, and implemented the ethnic regional autonomy system step by step. China was able to reform land tenure in Tibet to the benefit of all Tibetans. This marked the advent of a new era in the social and cultural development of Tibet, and ended the monopoly exercised over Tibetan culture by the few upper class feudal lamas and aristocrats, making it the common legacy for all the people of Tibet to inherit and carry on.
For the Dalai Lama, the hope that the U.S. would exert leadership in garnering world support for their cause and help them regain their country ended when Kissinger/ Nixon established rapprochement with China in the years after 1969. At this point, the U.S. withdrew its backing for the Nepal-based Tibetan guerrillas and the operation collapsed within a few years. With its China policy focused on improving the accommodation with China, Tibet became an awkward embarrassment for the U.S. The Tibet Question not only was no longer relevant to U.S. national interests, in fact, it was potentially harmful. By the mid 1970s, therefore, shifting world alignments placed the Dalai Lama in a much weakened position.
Consequently, the Dalai Lama' post-1959 efforts had no impact on the situation in Tibet. The CCP restructured farming and pastoral nomadic areas into communes. The people of Tibet got their land back from the monks and nobles.
When the People's Republic of China (PRC) refers to Tibet, it means the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR): a province-level entity which, according to the territorial claims of the PRC, includes Arunachal Pradesh. The TAR covers the Dalai Lama's former domain, consisting of Ü-Tsang and western Kham, while Amdo and eastern Kham are part of Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan, and Sichuan. After the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the Central People's Government attached great importance to the protection and development of the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture.
In September 1965, the Tibet Autonomous Region was founded.
The Central People's Government and the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region have made great efforts in the past 40-plus years to promote the social and economic development of Tibet, to satisfy the Tibetan people's increasing needs for their cultural lives. At the same time, they have devoted large amounts of human, financial and material resources to protecting and carrying forward the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture, as well as initiating and developing modern science, culture and education by employing legal, economic and administrative means. As a result, considerable achievements attracting worldwide attention have been attained. All the people in Tibet, as masters of the new era, jointly carry on, develop and enjoy the traditional Tibetan culture, and jointly create modern civilized life and culture, bringing unprecedented prosperity and development to Tibetan culture.
The death of Mao Zedung in 1976, the subsequent fall of the "Gang of Four," and the rise to power of Deng Xiaoping, produced major changes in China that included a new cultural and economic ideology, normalization of relations with the United States, and new initiatives to reconcile two outstanding conflicts that concerned the unity of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and the Tibet Question. Concerning Tibet, in 1978, China made a number of unilateral gestures such as releasing a group of prisoners, announcing Tibetans will be able to visit relatives abroad, and issuing visas to a group of private Tibetans to visit Tibet. This developed quickly into an "external" strategy for trying to solve the Tibet Question by persuading the Dalai Lama and his followers to return to China. Informal talks took place in Hong Kong in 1978 between representatives of the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama's elder brother (Gyalo Thundrup) at which both sides expressed an interest in reconciling the Tibetan Question. Soon after this, in 1979, Deng Xiaoping invited the Dalai Lama's elder brother to Beijing and told him that apart from the question of total independence all other issues could be discussed and all problems could be resolved. He also said that the Dalai Lama could send fact-finding delegations to Tibet in 1979-1980 to observe conditions in Tibet. Beijing obviously believed that the delegations would be impressed by the progress that had been made in Tibet since 1959 and by the solidarity of the Tibetan people with the nation. China also felt that after twenty years in exile the Dalai Lama would be eager for rapprochement with the new, more "liberal" leaders of China.
Sino-Tibetan relations entered a new phase in 1978 when China embarked on a more liberal trajectory under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. Beijing embraced a policy that emphasized meeting the ethnic sensibilities of Tibetans while improving their economic situation. At the same time, Beijing and the Tibetan exiles began secret talks to resolve their dispute.
Beijing's external strategy was paralleled by the development of a new internal strategy that sought to resolve the Tibet Question by improving economic conditions in Tibet in a manner that met the ethnic sensibilities of Tibetans. After considerable preliminary investigation of the situation there, the communist party convened a major Tibet Work Conference in Beijing in early 1980.
Over the past four decades and more, Tibet has made much headway in carrying forward the fine aspects of its traditional culture, while maintaining Tibetan cultural traits. The main body of Tibetan culture, which was monopolized by a small handful of feudal serf-owners in the past, by monks and nobles who ruled Tibet during the period of 1911 to 1959, has been changed completely, and the entire Tibetan people have become the main body jointly carrying forward and developing Tibetan culture and sharing its fruits. Tibetan culture has undergone deep changes with social progress and development, decadent and backward things inherent in feudal serfdom have been abandoned, the religious beliefs of Tibetan religious followers enjoy full respect and protection, and the fine aspects of traditional Tibetan culture have been carefully preserved and carried forward. Improvement has been steadily made both in its contents and forms, adding some topical contents to reflect the new life of the people and the new needs of social development. A substantive shift has taken place in the development stance of Tibetan culture, from the self-enclosed, stagnating and shrinking situation to a new stance - the stance of opening-up and development oriented to modernization and the outside world. While developing and promoting its traditional culture, Tibet is also developing modern scientific and technological education and news dissemination at an unprecedented rate.
Dharamsala and the Dalai Lama launched a new political offensive what we can think of as their "international campaign." It sought, on the one hand, to secure new Western political and economic leverage to force Beijing to offer the concessions they wanted, and on the other hand, to give Tibetans in Tibet hope that the Dalai Lama was on the verge of securing U.S. and Western assistance to settle the Tibet Question. The U.S. government was central to this new campaign. The Dalai Lama's new campaign, therefore, sought to regain active U.S. support by working through the soft-underbelly of U.S. foreign policy Congress. The key innovation in this strategy was having the Dalai Lama for the first time carry the political message to the U.S. and Europe, particularly at governmental forums. Prior to this he had traveled and spoken only as a religious leader. With the help of Western supporters/donors and sympathetic U.S. congressmen/ congressional aides, a campaign was launched in the U.S. to gain support for the Dalai Lama's cause, in essence, to re-direct the significance of the Tibet Question from the arena of geo-political national interests to the sphere of core U.S. values to the U.S. ideological commitment to freedom and human rights. The goal was to create momentum for the U.S. supporting Tibet because it was the just and right thing to do as freedom-loving Americans. This new strategy was somewhat ironic.
And now the Dalai Lama was asking for military help from "democracies in the West" so he could regain power in Tibet and re-establish a theocracy that previously enslaved people. Not a democracy! No human rights! Just enslaved people!
What is even more ironic is that America fought against slavery in America for a long time.
Although many of the Han and Tibetan officials in Tibet disagreed with the Central government new policy in the period immediately after 1980, China implemented various aspects of Hu's general program. Individual religious practices reappeared on a massive scale throughout Tibet, monasteries reopened (with certain restrictions) and new child monks poured in to these monasteries to resurrect the old tradition. Signs in Tibetan were mandated on shops and offices, offices serving the public were instructed to use Tibetan language in their dealings with citizens, the number of Tibetan officials was increased, plans were made to improve education in Tibetan language and a number of Chinese cadre left. And not only were exile Tibetans welcomed to return for visits, but Tibetans could travel abroad to visit their relatives.
The Dalai Lama formally sent negotiating delegations to Beijing in 1982 and 1984. These talks, however, proved fruitless. The Dalai Lama was unwilling to accept a solution that addressed only cultural, religious and linguistic issues and did not give him political control over Tibet. Complicating the situation was the Dalai Lama's demand for creation of a "Greater Tibet" that would include not only political Tibet (the Tibet Autonomous Region) but also the ethnic Tibetan areas in Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan provinces.
In the aftermath of the 1982 meeting, the Dalai Lama leadership started on a more agresssive campaign to destabilize China. He continued to attack Chinese policies and human rights violations in Tibet, often actually going beyond what the actual situation warranted, e.g. with charges of Chinese genocide. Dharamsala still felt more comfortable pursuing an adversarial model of interaction than one that emphasized friendship and harmony as its goal.
The Dalai Lama hopes that the flow of history will provide him the victory he desires but cannot attain on his own. Ideally, he hopes that China will soon disintegrate like the Qing Dynasty did in 1911 (and the U.S.S.R. more recently), and that this will afford him the opportunity to regain control over Tibet. Thus, while waiting for history to solve his dilemma in a satisfactory manner, he is trying to induce Western nations to renounce their acceptance of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and to pressure China to make concessions. Such a campaign of violence and terrorism would seek to disrupt and prevent China from improving the lives of Tibetans and modernizing Tibet.
The Dalai Lama and his followers are capable and willing to create serious violence and terrorism to make Tibet a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper-class monks and nobles, a regressing society. With the coming of the Summer Olympics, China hosting its first Olympics, the Dalai Lama and his followers are planning to launch a new tactic of large scale violence and terrorism that could impact on the internal stability of China itself. It might, for example, precipitate a chain of events that would destabilize China at this very important juncture in its history. Moreover, given that the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala in India, and his supporters in the West and in Tibet see Soviet-like disintegration in China as their greatest hope, they are likely to jump at any sign of major economic or political instability in order to exacerbate and accelerate this instability. This whole scenario has serious impacts globally.
In 1987 several events occurred. The Dalai Lama was invited to speak to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in September, and in June, the House of Representatives adopted a bill that condemned human rights abuses in Tibet, instructed the president to express sympathy for Tibet, and urged China to establish a constructive dialogue with the Dalai Lama (this ended up later in the year as an amendment to the State Department Authorization Bill).
The Dalai Lama made his first political speech in America before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus on 21 September 1987. It was a carefully crafted and powerful talk that laid out the argument that Tibet had been independent when China invaded. That invasion began what the Dalai Lama called China's illegal occupation of the country. Specifically, he said, "though Tibetans lost their freedom, under international law Tibet today is still an independent state under illegal occupation." The speech also raised serious human rights charges, referring twice to a Chinese inflicted "holocaust" on the Tibetan people.
On 27 September 1987, less than a week after the Dalai Lama's first speech in Washington, nationalistic monks from Drepung monastery in Lhasa staged a political demonstration in support of Tibetan independence and the Dalai Lama's initiative. They began by walking around the Inner Circle Road (bagor) that is both a main circumambulation route (going around the holy Lhasa Cathedral) and the main Tibetan market area, but, when nothing happened after several circuits, marched down a main road to the offices of the Tibetan Government. There they were arrested.
Four days later, on the morning of October 1st, another group of 20-30 monks demonstrated in Lhasa to show their support for the Dalai Lama and the previous monk demonstrators, and to demand the latter's release from jail. Police arrested them and later, this escalated into a full-scale riot. In the end, the police station and a number of vehicles and shops were burnt down, and 6 Tibetans were killed, including ethnic Tibetans.
The post-riot months in Lhasa saw more demonstrations by monks and nuns, and a steady stream of anti-government posters. Nevertheless, the police were able to arrest them quickly without provoking a riot. A cat and mouse game developed with the nationalistic monks launching demonstrations and the government trying to arrest the demonstrators in a manner that would prevent another riot, for it was clearly the riot that caught world attention, not simply the small demonstrations.
Beijing is also upgrading the education system, which was non-existent during the during the 1911-1959 period when Tibet became a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper-class monks and nobles, to create a "modern," better educated Tibetan elite. For example, in addition to the standard school system in Tibet, a program of building special Tibetan lower-middle schools in other parts of China began in 1985 and was expanded substantially after 1987. Today there are roughly 10,000 Tibetan youths attending such schools throughout the rest of China, and more also attend upper middle schools and vocational schools. In 1994, another wave of educational and party reform was begun within Tibet that seeks both to reduce illiteracy and to control more closely the content of education so that Tibetan students will not be exposed to subtle nationalist, separatist ideology.
Beijing is proceeding at full speed with a policy to develop and modernize Tibet rapidly and thoroughly. The Dalai Lama is not particularly favorable for a negotiated resolution. The Dalai Lama and his top officials are anxious to stop the influx of non-Tibetans into Tibet, arguing that Tibetan culture, religion and language cannot flourish if Tibet becomes swamped with non-Tibetans. Consequently, they are encouraging supporters in the West to urge Beijing to resume talks with them and are approaching other "neutral" countries to intercede on their behalf.
The Dalai Lama and his followers are capable and willing to create serious violence and terrorism to make Tibet a local regime practicing a system of feudal serfdom under a theocracy, and ruled by a few upper class monks and nobles, a regressing society. With the coming of the Summer Olympics, China hosting its first Olympics, the Dalai Lama and his followers are planning to launch a new tactic of large scale violence and terrorism that could impact on the internal stability of China itself. It might, for example, precipitate a chain of events that would destabilize China at this very important juncture in its history. Moreover, given that the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala in India, and his supporters in the West and in Tibet see Soviet-like disintegration in China as their greatest hope, they are likely to jump at any sign of major economic or political instability in order to exacerbate and accelerate this instability. This whole scenario has serious impacts globally.
In China, opponents of Hu Yaobang's Tibet "moderation" policy saw the Dalai Lama's unwillingness to get down to substantive issues and his officials' continuation of attacks as a sign of his insincerity. In fact, some explicitly saw this as deja vu, as a replay of what they considered the duplicitous behavior of the Dalai Lama and his government in the 1950s. Beijing, therefore, moved to intensify its "internal" strategy by allocating increased funds for development. This policy was finalized at the Second Tibet Work Conference held in Beijing in 1984. It approved 42 major construction projects in Tibet and extended China's "Open Door" policy to Tibet. Since Beijing could not solve the Tibet Question by inducing the Dalai Lama to return to solidify its control of Tibet, it sought to do so without him by quickly modernizing and developing Tibet while allowing Tibetans the freedom to express their culture and practice their religion.
China continued to implement its internal policy, and by late 1985, early 1986, initiated a second wave of reforms which would fulfill the special autonomous status implied by Hu Yaobang's statements wherein most officials would be ethnic Tibetans and the language of government would be Tibetan. And a new head of the Party in Tibet, Wu Jinghua, was appointed who was himself a minority (from the Yi nationality). He immediately began overt shows of respect for Tibetan culture, wearing Tibetan dress on holidays, and creating an atmosphere of support for development of Tibetan language and culture. Consequently, there was a feeling of possibility in the air in Lhasa, at least among Tibetan intellectuals. Great strides have been made to allow Tibetan culture to flourish. Tibetans in exile were visiting Tibet in increasing numbers despite having to get visas as "overseas Chinese," and most Tibetans in Tibet who went abroad to visit relatives returned.
In 1986 - 1987, the Dalai Lama launched a new strategic initiative whose aim was to secure increased political support from the U.S. and Europe in order to exert new and effective leverage on China. A key element in this new strategy was that the Dalai Lama for the first time would make political speeches in the West. In September 1987, he initiated this strategy in Washington, D.C. with a major speech before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. The following June, he made a another important address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Several days after the Dalai Lama's speech in Washington, a small group of monks in Lhasa demonstrated in support of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence. They were arrested without incident, but a few days later when more monks demonstrated to demand the release of the first monks, a full-scale riot erupted. During the succeeding two years, three other riots occurred in Lhasa, the last one compelling Beijing to declare martial law in Tibet for one year.
Beijing accelerated a program of rapid economic development that increased Tibet's integration with the rest of China and, over time, it is hoped to help more "modern Tibetans" who will be less influenced by religion and lamas. The economic strategy, however, pulled in large numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs/laborers to Tibet to work, increasing the size of the non-Tibetan population in Tibet.
As a way of comparison, a similar situation has been going on in the State of California, U.S.A., where a large portion of the work force comes from Mexico. Of course that has created social problems. But Mexicans in California have human rights just the same as anyone else.
But in China, Tibet, we have a situation of people from a different cultural background helping in the development of Tibet.
Protests against the Chinese powerholders -- initiated by Buddhist monks -- had been growing since March 10, 2008, the anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule. Buddhist monks in Tibet begun a hunger strike. This has led to violent protests in Lhasa as well, with up to 1,000 people participating. Government buildings and fire trucks have also been destroyed, and one source says that some of the power lines had been cut. Han Chinese shops and vehicles have been looted and burned, and Hans Chinese people in the city were being attacked as well. A Han Chinese girl remains in the hospital after being beaten. March 14, 2008 as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out Lhasa. The violent protests in Lhasa against Chinese rule left many people dead.
On March 18, 2008, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao blamed supporters of the Dalai Lama for recent violence in Tibet, and said Chinese forces exercised restraint in confronting unrest there. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on March 21, 2008 criticized China for its crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tibet and called on "freedom-loving people" worldwide to denounce China. The Communist Party newspapers on March 23, 2008 accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating the riots in Tibet to try to mar the 2008 Summer Olympics in August 2008 and overthrow the area's communist leaders. The government disseminated footage of Tibetan protesters attacking Chinese and accusations of biased reporting by Western media via TV, the Internet, e-mail and YouTube, which is blocked in China. A man, thought to be a pro-Tibet protester interrupted the speech of the China organising committee chief during the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece March 24, 2008.
Although Tibetan culture is developing continuously, the Dalai Lama clique is clamoring all over the world that "Tibetan culture has become extinct," and, on this pretext, is whipping up anti-China opinions with the backing of international antagonist forces. From the 40-odd years of history following the Democratic Reform in Tibet it can be clearly perceived that what the Dalai Lama clique is aiming at nothing but hampering the real development of Tibetan culture.
First, as a social ideology, culture varies with the changes in the other parts of the social economic foundation and superstructure. The formation and development of modern Western culture are inseparable from the modern European bourgeois revolution, in which the dictatorial system of feudal serfdom and theocracy in the Middle Ages was eliminated, along with the religious reforms and great changes in the ideological and cultural fields caused by it.
The development of a culture has never been achieved in isolation, and it is bound to acquire new contents and forms ceaselessly with the progress of the times and development of the society, and nourish and enrich itself while adapting to and absorbing other cultures. The development of Tibetan culture in the last four decades and more has been achieved while Tibetan society is gradually putting an end to ignorance and backwardness, and heading for reform, opening-up and modernization, and while Tibetan culture and modern civilization, including modern Western civilization, are absorbing and blending with each other. The people's mode of thinking and concepts are bound to change with the changes of the modes of production and life in Tibet. During this process, some new aspects of culture which are not contained in the traditional Tibetan culture but are essential in modern civilization have been developed, such as modern scientific and technological education and news dissemination. The fine cultural traditions with Tibetan features are being carried forward and promoted in the new age, and the decayed and backward things in the traditional culture that are not adapted to social development and people's life are being gradually sifted out. It is a natural phenomenon in conformity with the law of cultural development, and a manifestation of the unceasing prosperity and development of Tibetan culture in the new situation. To prattle about the "extinction of Tibetan culture" due to its acquisition of the new contents of the new age and to its progress and development is in essence to demand that modern Tibetan people keep the life styles and cultural values of old Tibet's feudal serfdom wholly intact. This is completely ridiculous, for it goes against the tide of progress of the times and the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people.
At present, as mankind has marched into the new millennium, economic globalization and informationization in social life are developing rapidly, increasingly changing people's material and cultural lives. With the deepening development of China's reform and opening-up and the modernization drive, especially the practice of the strategy of large-scale development of the western region, Tibet is striding toward modernization and going global with a completely new shape, and new and still greater development will certainly be achieved in Tibetan culture in this process.
Global impacts of being associated with the United States
The Global Community Peace Movement has declared a planetary state of emergency for reasons given in our April Newsletter. This is a very serious matter. Everytime the Dalai Lama give a speech at the White House and publicly call himself 'a friend' of the United States, a friend of President Bush, means he actually agrees with the activites being carried on by that nation. There is no grey area here. When you bought a first class ticket from India to the US to give a speech at the invitation of White House concerning the military help you need to beat up China out of Tibet, that means you are guilty of stirring up conflicts and wars. When you associate yourself with a nation that has created a link in a 737-strong chain of American military bases in 130 countries, you become one of them. Those military bases are there for many reasons. They are mainly there for resources. They are also there to invade.
For decades the US has help the Dalai Lama and his followers to create conflicts in Tibet and between Tibet and China. That is what Americans do best, to create conflicts between communities.
If the Dalai Lama had his way there would be another military base created this time in Tibet. The breaking up of China has always been the ultimate goal of the USA.
The global impacts of such a conflict are immense.
Certainly we ought to disarm all nations from all weapons of mass destruction.
The leadership of the United Nations has failed to enforce disarmement. It is a tragedy that such a failure is now seen as the source of other nations, such as North Korea, Iran and others, wanting to defend themselves against an invasion by the USA.
The world knew America was invading the Middle East. Why has the UN not enforced hard sanctions against the USA for its bullying tactics at the UN to get what it wants? Proper UN leadership could have avoided the situation we have today. The UN did nothing at a critical time and just watched things happening. The UN is the organization where bullying takes place by those with nuclear war heads.
The USA is invading the world, and the UN can do nothing to stop them. The USA was allowed to invade other nations, change their governments, and has often made lies in speeches to the UN, to the world. Remember what the US representatives told the world at the UN prior to the invasion of Iraq? Lies! All lies! And the leadership of the UN never did anything to reprimand the US representatives and implement hard sanctions for the invasion of Iraq. Ever since the partitioning of Palestine by the UN in 1947, the USA have given Israel enough WMDs, including nuclear war heads, to destroy the entire Middle East region and no sanctions were ever enforced against Israel and the USA. Where was the UN leadership? What has the UN done to stop the invasion? Nothing! The UN has never done anything to help humanity. And that is a crime against humanity. To do nothing is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth.
The Earth Court of Justice
along with
the Agency of Global Police have
made mandatory that all nations let inspectors verify proper dismantle of weapons facilities. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that
means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting!
And again that also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world, and not just in some Middle East country and North Korea.
There are many instances where the Earth Court of Justice could be successful in bringing Peace amongst nations and helping to step down the planetary state of emergency.
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want. Justice is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations. Justice is to be applied to the military as well. Everyone! Every business and organization!
The planetary state of emergency was brought up by the threat of global warming, climate change, blood resources and blood money,
disarmament not being a world issue, which have let us with no other alternatives than to assume someone is guilty until proven innnocent.
Like President Bush said: a preventive strike is our only alternative from now on. In view of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth,
a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise.
It was an American submarine that exploded nuclear war heads over the ocean bottom and created the Indian ocean tsunami of 2004 came about? Exploding war heads in our oceans is at least as bad as a major oil spill. It is showing barbarism. It is killing the global communities of life in the oceans and destroying the delicate balance of our oceans physical, biological and chemical characteristics that can accelerate the climate change drastically when disturbed. It is showing ignorance and stupidity.
There are many acts of extreme violence conducted by the American military, the war industry, the melting of the North Pole is one of them.
In 1947, the White House has strategically planned the invasion of the Middle East to protect its interests in the oil and gas resources for its military. Dont you think the White House would think twice to melt the North Pole so that by year 2050 the American population would have all the energy reources needed for its military? We know that by 2050 the oil and gas reserves of the Middle East will be practically non-existant. Middle East peak oil has already gone by!
So the North Pole is the most likely place to dig. The polar cap is not a problem. We have known for decades that USA military submarines have been exploring under the ice cap of the North Pole.
They have already mapped the bottom of the ocean under the ice. Here again the USA military thought ahead! They will need the oil and gas resources,
and other primary resources of the North to fuel the war industry of America. Planning stragegically is what the military has been doing ever since 1947. So they
do it again. It is very likely that nuclear explosions have started the melting of the polar cap. By 2050, the resources of the North will be made available to the military.
Now again there is no proof of this theory. But it is very likely true. For a nation capable of so much destruction in the Middle East and in several other places in
the world, melting the North Pole is a minor exercise.
The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth. The Earth Court of Justice will see that Justice is done. In view of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth, a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise. Global Law must be applied. The United States must pay for the independent investigation.
Now, being in Iraq, Americans will have the opportunity to invade China. Invade China...!! Who said that?! Now, now! I did not say bombing China with thousand of nuclear war heads. That would be stupid! No, it will not happen that way. What have I said, money. Ya! Americans will get the Chinese people to work for them. Let the cow gives all its milk. How is that possible?? Very simple! And Americans have got very good at that. Get them to buy arms and make sure they kill each others in the process. Americans have mastered the arts of war from way back when. They have already made trillions of dollars in the Middle East. As far as they are concerned, everyone has been buying their arms. So China is the biggies. Lots of money to make.
First, they will allow China to get their oil and gas from Iran. The chinese economy will be good because they have energy and the base products, oil and gas, from which they can make plastics. And with plastics they can manufacture all kinds of toys such as computers and parts for cars. Thousands of different products make use of plastics.
Now the American
Congress has passed legislation to allow rich, powerful, American corporations to invest in China. Why?! Because of cheap labour! No environmental costs! Many reasons. The facts are that China now is working for American corporations.
Now this is when the American war industry gets into the picture. They have to sell arms to the Chinese people. And how are they going to do that?! The war industry have had plenty of learning in the Middle East. They will make
sure that a Chinese province or community is at war against another Chinese community.
You know, there has to be a reason why people hate each other. So creating hate between the Chinese people will be a priority. Create a
chaos! Remember the Iran-Iraq war... So easy! If they hate one another then they will want to kill each other. This is when the American (and British) war industry sell their arms. So in effect, they all work for
America. Yep! Cheap labour! And they all can go to kingdom come! And then America will bring up the flags of fighting for the establishment of democracy, freedoms, and 'whatnots'. Americans back home will love it! It is so pathetic
that one would want to cry. People used to look up to America. But now Americans are just killers, criminals, invaders, predators, and arms dealers. It is not just about survival. It is about a civilization gone so bad that its people
would do anything for money.
So well masterminded!
Actually this has nothing to do with intelligence. Americans have done this by pure instinct, that of a predator instinct. Like a bird would fly at high speed between the branches of a tree does not need intelligence. It is an instinctive maneuver a bird has learned to do naturally throughout its evolution as a species. Same thing here when the American and British people create ' hate ' to make money. You only need to listen to your own basic instincts to be successful at making money in our society. But they would need intelligence to create peace. To create peace is a much more difficult thing to do! Why!? Because peace goes against our survival instinct as a people and, as world population increases to 10 billion people, things will get much more difficult to manage. To create peace by 'destroying and killing' is basic instincts, not intelligence. Intelligence seems to be what is missing most from our world leaders. Even the leadership at the United Nations (UN) is bad, corrupted and subjected to powerful lobbying groups and nations and, guess which nations are doing most of the bullying: America, and Great Britain.
The eventual invasion of China is the reason why the United States dont want North Korea and other Middle East nations to have nuclea weapons. What else could it be? Americans are all over the Middle East creating hate between the different communities, invading, stealing oil and gas reserves, and spreading the false belief that democracy is the best political system. Democracy got us to where we are today: the worst polluters on the planet and threatening the existence of all life. Our consumer driver political system is wrong. Our ways of life are wrong! We know it, and we still try to impose them to other Peoples. America would like the Peoples of North Korea, China and of the Middle East nations to be like us consumers, the worst polluters and on a planetary destructive path. In this way, Americans back home would not be feeling so guilty of being so bad. They would rather let others take the blame for their failure as a society.
Americans want everyone on the planet to be just like they are in America: the worst polluters on a planetary destructive path.
And guess who is next: China. Americans want the people of China to be just like Americans: a consumer driven society and the worst polluters. And the invasion of China is their long term economic and military plan. But the United States would rather make money in the process, and that means letting rich American corporations getting richer by having the people of China working for them and so, polluting the planet even more on their behalf.
Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself. The Global Community and its membership are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence:
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. This peace mouvement is about courage. Not the courage it takes to go into battle but the courage to organize resistance to war when a bloody taste for it inflames the world, and the threat of prison in a nation where the human rights and freedom of expression have diminished significantly. It is about the courage to say NO to the war industry. It is an industry that destroys life on Earth, corrupts society, and violates morality. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong. There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself. We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
The axe of evil: the war industry, our consumer-driven society and money. Together they bring up the worst in every human being.
The evil is the war industry. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus develops the ethic of nonviolence and love of the enemies. Early Christians were probably the first individuals to renounce participation in war unconditionally. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Christ has taught us to show mercy, to forgive enemies, to put up patiently with oppression, to return only good for evil and love for hatred and, therefore, war is inconsistent with the Spirit of Jesus Christ. This shows that a Christian should take no part in war, never, in any way. This all means that violence is futile in the long run. To respond to violence with violence is only perpetuating a vicious cycle of violence.
God prohibits killing, and no exception at all ought to be made to the commandment that it is always wrong to kill. The sanctity of human life is unconditional. A short while ago God, Allah, has spoken to humanity once more. The New Revelations
are His Word. His Revelations are to be added to previous ones
revealed thousands of years ago. Together they are God's Word, and they will guide humanity for the thousands of
years to come. His Word reinforce His compassion and love for humanity and His care for all living inhabitants on Earth
and of Earth itself. God has said:"Thou shall banish war as a solution to problems between communities. All Souls involved with war, directly or indirectly, shall face the Soul of Humanity to be purified. All Souls involved in the making of weapons, war product and equipment shall be facing the Soul of Humanity."
There are several reasons for objecting to war: religious, moral and political. People have different degrees of refusal to go to war. Absolute pacifists, such as the Global Citizens, will not cooperate with any preparation for war as decided by the war industry, let alone war itself.
The military option goes against global peace in a big way. The UN has shown bad leadership! Failure to help humanity! An accomplice of the war industry. An accomplice of the oil and gas industry to make it easy for the industry to make our planet unsustainable and destroy the global life-support systems. All world leaders just pretending to resolve global warming and its effects on the global climate have broken Global Law and are dangerous criminals and will be prosecuted. The UN should have insisted in giving hard sanctions to the US for invading Iraq.
The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. We can accomplish this task by concrete actions such as:
a) Tracking armed conflicts within and between nations around the world and offering assistance in dispute resolution;
b) Promoting human rights and democracy;
c) Monitoring democratic elections;and
d) Educating the public about the advantages of a peaceful solution to any conflict.
War is not sustainable to all life on the planet. It never was. The military option, war, is against global sustainability and global peace in a big way.
The worst environmental degradation happens in wars. Farm products in fields and livestock are abandoned, there is no more control on toxic wastes, and water, air, and land are polluted. People are displaced and feel no longer
responsible for the quality of life in their communities. Historically, the industrialized nations have caused the most damage to the environment, with their careless technology and policies. Emissions from factories and vehicles have
caused ozone depletion, acid rain, and dangerous greenhouse gases
have forced the global warming of the planet and the climate to change dangerously, the worst threat to humanity and all life. Leaders of the wealthier nations must be willing to accept responsibility for past mistakes and to help pay the financial burden for environmental protection of the developing nations. This is the
most damaging conflict of interests between the rich industrialized countries and those that are poor and struggling just for existence. The Global Community helps wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each other's needs.
All aspects are interrelated: global peace, global sustainability, human and Earth rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation, finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their children to survive. Environmental issues become
meaningless to the poor. In reality, all concerns are interrelated. As soon as the environment is destroyed beyond repair, human suffering is next. Ecology has no boundaries. All nations suffer the effects of air pollution, global
warming, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, acid rain, ozone depletion, silting of streams, and countless of other environmental problems. This was the reason for developing the
Scale of Human and Earth Rights.
It allows humanity to see life on Earth in its right place and shows us how to protect it. The Scale gives a mean to arrest a new type of criminals because destroying the
global life-support systems is a criminal act and must be punished severily.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another. It brings deaths and injuries, starvation, diseases, millions of people losing their homes and livelihoods, and massive destruction of property. Children and teenagers are placed in internment camps, and several are often forced to serve as soldiers. War not only corrupts the morals of soldiers, it leads to a decline in the morality of the whole nation. Political and military leaders are always convinced that their particular war is justified. From their point of view, there are several reasons to go to war: loyalty to allies, religion, a thirst for power, greed, ancient grievances to be settled, or the desire to alleviate suffering among their people. A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. War is self-defeating because it cannot secure what it sets out to achieve, protection against attack. The hatred for the enemy whipped up by war and the desire for revenge among the losers leads to an accursed vicious circle from which there is no escape. The difference between agressive and defensive, or just and unjust wars, is ridiculous. They are tags each side adopted to suit its interests. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation. What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight. Territorial conflicts has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others. Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources. Blood resources started when the first explorers came to America and started to shut dead Natives. Explorers had to come back home with the prospect of future catches for their countries. We have seen oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin. We have seen water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins. We have seen wars being fought over minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over resources is the governing principle behind the use of economic and military power. Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries. Geopolitical boundaries between nations are gradually disappearing to make place to georesources boundaries. Democracy is an excuse to gain control over those resources by mega corporations. 'Blood oil and gas' is certainly a proof of this statement. Conservation, restoration, and management of the Earth resources is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large gap between rich and poor is connected to ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural resources. We, the Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all. The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all life. The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
It has become clear that the U.N. has promoted a culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption which cannot reform itself. The Global Community is here to replace the U.N.
Position of the Global Community concerning the Dalai Lama
Our position is clear, we dont approve of the Dalai Lama extremist activities. We consider him as a terrorist.
Global Community principles
Global Community Peace Movement
The Global Community has expressed the many different ways Peace can be achieved amongst nations.
What Peace amongst nations means?
It allows humanity to see life on Earth in its right place and shows us how to protect it. The Scale gives a mean to arrest a new type of criminals because destroying the
global life-support systems is a criminal act and must be punished severily.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another. It brings deaths and injuries, starvation, diseases, millions of people losing their homes and livelihoods, and massive destruction of property. Children and teenagers are placed in internment camps, and several are often forced to serve as soldiers. War not only corrupts the morals of soldiers, it leads to a decline in the morality of the whole nation. Political and military leaders are always convinced that their particular war is justified. From their point of view, there are several reasons to go to war: loyalty to allies, religion, a thirst for power, greed, ancient grievances to be settled, or the desire to alleviate suffering among their people. A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. War is self-defeating because it cannot secure what it sets out to achieve, protection against attack. The hatred for the enemy whipped up by war and the desire for revenge among the losers leads to an accursed vicious circle from which there is no escape. The difference between agressive and defensive, or just and unjust wars, is ridiculous. They are tags each side adopted to suit its interests. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation. What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight. Territorial conflicts has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others. Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources. Blood resources started when the first explorers came to America and started to shut dead Natives. Explorers had to come back home with the prospect of future catches for their countries. We have seen oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin. We have seen water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins. We have seen wars being fought over minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over resources is the governing principle behind the use of economic and military power. Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries. Geopolitical boundaries between nations are gradually disappearing to make place to georesources boundaries. Democracy is an excuse to gain control over those resources by mega corporations. 'Blood oil and gas' is certainly a proof of this statement. Conservation, restoration, and management of the Earth resources is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large gap between rich and poor is connected to ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural resources. We, the Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all. The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all life. The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
It has become clear that the U.N. has promoted a culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption which cannot reform itself. The Global Community is here to replace the U.N.
Position of the Global Community concerning the Dalai Lama
Our position is clear, we dont approve of the Dalai Lama extremist activities. We consider him as a terrorist.
Global Community principles
Global Community Peace Movement
The Global Community has expressed the many different ways Peace can be achieved amongst nations.
What Peace amongst nations means?
Introduction to Peace amongst nations
Global Community principles
Global Justice Movement
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Justice Movement stands for:
The Global Community has shown that corporate-style globalization that ignores the needs of the poor and the environment will no longer be tolerated. The Global Community is joining students, environmentalists, people of faith, human rights activists, and others, in the global struggle against corporate globalization being fought in cities and towns across the world.
We works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability. We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world free of corporate domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial and trade institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. We stand for the globalization of our rights to speech, thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment, self-determination, freedom from fear and persecution and freedom from poverty.
We stand for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people and the environment before profits. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that another world is possible and necessary.
The Global Community is a non-hierarchical nonviolent organization of individuals and organizations that promotes the arts, conducts workshops, facilitates nonviolent direct actions,
educates, organizes, campaigns, empowers, and aims to rip injustice from its roots.
The Global Community movement for Global Justice is committed to making all Global Dialogues and Global Exhibitions safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all.
We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.
- Peace amongst nations means follow the pathway to Peace in the world.
- Peace amongst nations means having a global vision for humanity and knowing what is needed to give a healthy future to the next generations.
- Peace amongst nations means Justice for all.
- Peace amongst nations means sharing global values, understanding our global commons.
- Peace amongst nations means sharing natural resources.
- Peace amongst nations means applying the new way of doing business and trade.
- Peace amongst nations means applying the fundamental principle: you have a property, use it, share it, or lose it. This principle applies to eveyone from a private individual to worldwide financial institutions.
- Peace amongst nations means effective Earth governance and management.
- Peace amongst nations means participating in the Global Dialogue to resolve problems.
- Peace amongst nations means the absence of wars, disarmament from all nations.
- Peace amongst nations means getting involved, participating, volunteering.
- Peace amongst nations means respecting human and Earth rights.
- Peace amongst nations means politics without borders.
- Peace amongst nations means universal health care, education and employment for all.
- Peace amongst nations means a robust global economy.
- Peace amongst nations means the building of global communities for all life and the making of a global symbiosis society.
- Peace amongst nations means a global, legitimate, transparent, comprehemsive, visionary, inspiring, creative, compassionate leadership to harmonize diversity with unity for the good of all. The Global Community organization offers such leadership.
- Peace amongst nations means integrating into our ways of life global standards and practices, and global law for the protection of the global life-support systems.
- Peace amongst nations means having the Global Protection Agency (GPA) to give every community security and safety.
- Peace amongst nations means no global destruction of the environment and life habitats.
- Peace amongst nations means educating the population on the need to obtain a negative average annual population growth rate.
- Peace amongst nations means land and all other natural resources on the planet belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where these resources are found.
- Peace amongst nations means acknowledging, respecting and protecting within a constitutional framework the diverse cultural, religious, racial, and minority groups that make up a population.
- Peace amongst nations means that the education and upbringing of chidren include the principles and global concepts listed in the different sections included here.
- Peace amongst nations means creating new global ministries serving the Global Community.
- Peace amongst nations means no taxes on labor but taxes on the uses of natural resources.
- Peace amongst nations means creating symbiotical relationships between communities and nations. As with global ministries, these relationships must follow the fundamental criteria.
- Peace amongst nations means giving the people of a population the rights to vote democratically for a government of their choice, to participate in the global referendum on issues, to make sustainable choices for their communities.
- Peace amongst nations means by celebrating Life Day on May 26 of each year.
- Peace amongst nations means by participating in the Global Exhibition each year.
- Peace amongst nations means decreasing the wealth gap between rich and poor, between the industrialized nations and the developing nations.
Global Community principles
Global Justice Movement
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has the right to have warmth, clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with access to a quality health and educational system.
2. Every person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person must respect the rest of creation and take responsibility for preserving the environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are interdependent and share a divine origin with humanity.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and equal justice before the law.
6. Global Economic System that is fair for all.
7. It is the duty of democratic government to secure the results the people want from the transparent management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not infringe on the rights of the individual.
8. The Global Community Global Peace Movement
9. Global Justice for all Life on the planet
* establishing respect for human and Earth rights;
* implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
* establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights;
* practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours;
* promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples;
* maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means;
* finding unity in diversity with all Life;
* establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet;
* keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things,
* applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
The Global Community has shown that corporate-style globalization that ignores the needs of the poor and the environment will no longer be tolerated. The Global Community is joining students, environmentalists, people of faith, human rights activists, and others, in the global struggle against corporate globalization being fought in cities and towns across the world.
We works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability. We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world free of corporate domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial and trade institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. We stand for the globalization of our rights to speech, thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment, self-determination, freedom from fear and persecution and freedom from poverty.
We stand for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people and the environment before profits. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that another world is possible and necessary.
The Global Community
is a non-hierarchical nonviolent organization of individuals and organizations that promotes the arts, conducts workshops, facilitates nonviolent direct actions,
educates, organizes, campaigns, empowers, and aims to rip injustice from its roots.
The Global Community movement for Global Justice is committed to making all Global Dialogues
and Global Exhibitions safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all.
We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.
Building global communities require understanding of global problems this generation is facing. There are several major problems: conflicts and wars,
no tolerance and compassion for one another, world overpopulation, human activities,
as population increases the respect and value of a human life is in decline,
insufficient protection and prevention for global health, scarcity of resources and drinking water, poverty, Fauna and Flora species disappearing at a fast rate,
global warming and global climate change, global pollution, deforestation, permanent lost of the Earth's genetic heritage, and the destruction of the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet. We need to build global
communities for all life on the planet. We need to build global communities that will manage themselves with the understanding of the above problems.
Results from previous Global Dialogues
have showed us that the governance of Earth through global cooperation and
symbiotical relationships was the only possible option for a large population such as the Earth's population, and so, to help
achieve this goal we have developed the Global Constitution
and the
Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act
to govern ourselves as member nations of Global Community Earth Govewrnment (GCEG).
Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth.
GCEG Global Protection Agency will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. This is a great opportunity for globallateralism.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) is leading a group of people in the world who participate in:
a) peacekeeping or peacemaking mission;
b) creating global ministries for:
c) enforcing global law;
d) saving the Earth's genetic heritage;
e) keeping the world healthy and at peace;
f) protecting the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet;
g) dealing with the impacts of: global poverty, lack of drinking water and food, global warming and the global climate change, threat to security, conflicts and wars, lack of good quality soil for agriculture, polluted air, water and land, overcrownded cities, more new and old diseases out of control, widespread drugs, human and Earth rights abuses, world overpopulation, and lack of resources;
h) broadening the traditional focus of the security of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the planet.
Global security policies include:
In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place.
There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems:
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world, and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people, institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Today the security of people within the Global Community is just as important as the security of states. Citizens must be secure. The Global Community is just as important as the security and life of citizens and states.
There are many threats to security other than the threats to the global life-support systems and threat caused by weapons of mass destruction and the threats to the sovereignty of a state, and they include:
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states are protected by the Global Community.
In connection between human well-being and a sound environment, Earth rights are ecological rights and the rights that human beings have in protecting their global life-support systems. Earth rights are those rights that demonstrate the connection between human well-being and a sound environment. They include individuals and global communities human rights and the rights to a clean environment, and participation in development decisions. We define ecological rights as those rights of the ecosystem of the Earth beyond human purpose. They are those rights that protect and preserve the ecological heritage of the Earth for future generations. The Earth Court of Justice guarantees ecological rights in its Statute. The Court guarantees also the rights to a safe environment and an environment free
from environmental degradation.
Earth rights are the rights to life on Earth.
The Global Protection Agency provides leadership for training of other countries' citizens who would like to participate in peacekeeping and Earth security ...
so that we have a ready cadre of people who are trained and equipped and organised and have communications that they can work with each other.
The overall size of the force, or who would pay for it, have not been discussed, but the idea has been raised with countries in Europe and Asia.
As well, there are questions about how many nations would sign up if such a force were under the control of GCEG.
To act as a global policing force, as the GPA aspires to do, many foundations must be laid, especially regarding the move from wielding power derived from GCEG to legitimate global leadership.
There are many required characteristics that are prerequisite for legitimate leadership:
The defence function of a leader requires that he safeguard the good of the whole by whatever the most skillful means are to accomplish that defence.
While that is not a comprehensive catalog of leadership prerequisites, I do think those few requirements are foundational and relatively unquestionable. Without at least a solid foundation of those requirements, the GPA’s actions among nation-states will remain those of a unilateralist leader rather than a global leader. We will be, and should be, legitimated in the role of a global leader among nation-states and validated as an enforcer of global law. GCEG offers a few recommendations for actions that would strengthen and legitimate the GPA’s role as a true global leader by gradually creating an international structure that better safeguards the whole than we can ever do now as a unilateralist leader.
The GPA recommendations:
As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with global problems.
I believe that there is no greater task in the world today than for the Global Community to proceed through the maturation of its leadership, emerging from a more self-interested adolescence as a global leader into a nobler adulthood. We have the potential to act as a torchbearer for a better tomorrow. Do we heed the call? I hope this message has convinced at least a few people that the question of how to proceed with that maturation is of far deeper significance than the reforming of the United Nations. I thus pray that we move with wisdom, grace, clarity, and love in the days, years, and even decades ahead.
Germain Dufour
(short Bio)
Prophet of God
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
Recommendations to the:
a) Dalai Lama
Surrender yourself to the Global protection Agency (GPA).
Recommendations to the:
b) Tibetan officials
Be compassionate to the monks. Buy more of their artifacts so they can have food to eat. Make sure the new railroad come close to the monasteries so that tourists can visit them and buy artifacts.
The Global Community consider the Dalai Lama as a dangerous religious extremist. He ought to be brought to justice. His crimes include:
a) organizing and leading deadly riots in Tibet for the purpose of putting down the Tibetan government and destabilizing China;
b) associating himself with President Bush and the White House; President Bush is a wanted criminal and the White House along with NATO have been shown to be rogue organizations worldwide, and criminal in nature; to give speeches at the White House for the purpose of obtaining military help; to make a deal with the US that would allow the US to build a military base in Tibet in exchange of military help; to help the US continue destabilizing China;
c) violating the human rights of those workers in Tibet whether they come from another part of China or not;
d) planning to destabilize China and that will have immense destructive and deadly consequences far beyond the area of Tibet and are a serious threat to
Recommendations to the:
c) Global Citizens
Our position toward the Dalai Lama is clear, we dont approve of the Dalai Lama extremist activities. We consider him as a terrorist. He ought to be brought to justice. Not all monks are bad. Most monks were following him as the leader.
For decades I used to like the Dalai Lama and what he stood for in the world. Not as a religion because I believe God is for real. But as a person of Peace and compassion. That is the image he has been promoting in the world. I myself been promoting similar values since 1985. I never questioned what he was promoting. And I even had the picture of a monk Buddhist as a link to religion on the Portal of the Global Community.
That was because I respected his view enough to refer to him on the website.
But this is history now.
After the last riot against China and using the 2008 Summer Olympics event to promote his cause, as of now I am totally opposed to the Dalai Lama. He is an extremist leader and has to be stopped. Buddhism is not the question here, the Dalai Lama is the matter. Buddhism as a religion for Peace and compassion is fine. I believe in the promoting of Peace and compassion. I will always be promoting Peace and compassion. In my view the Dalai Lama is no longer representing Peace and compassion.
The Dalai Lama has presented himself to be a peaceful, angel-like figure, for such a long time. If you look at what the Dalai Lama really is, you will realize that truly he is not a person of Peace and should have never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
This analysis has shown that the Dalai Lama is a religious extremist leader and has to be stopped. He must be brought to justice.
Germain Dufour
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
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and the
Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act
to govern ourselves as member nations of Global Community Earth Govewrnment (GCEG). Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth.
GCEG Global Protection Agency will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. This is a great opportunity for globallateralism.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) is leading a group of people in the world who participate in:
a) peacekeeping or peacemaking mission;
b) creating global ministries for:
1. the policy response to the consequences of the global warming, and
2. the development of strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change.
c) enforcing global law;
d) saving the Earth's genetic heritage;
e) keeping the world healthy and at peace;
f) protecting the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet;
g) dealing with the impacts of: global poverty, lack of drinking water and food, global warming and the global climate change, threat to security, conflicts and wars, lack of good quality soil for agriculture, polluted air, water and land, overcrownded cities, more new and old diseases out of control, widespread drugs, human and Earth rights abuses, world overpopulation, and lack of resources;
h) broadening the traditional focus of the security of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the planet.
Global security policies include:
* every person on Earth has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights;
* prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation, and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth Court of Justice
* military force is not a legitimate political instrument; ban military action in all parts of the world; the war industry must be shelved;
* weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments of national defence;
* eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect;
* all nations should sign and ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons;
* the production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or subsidy of arms exports by governments;
* the development of military capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry will make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority;
* anticipating and managing crises before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars;
* maintaining the integrity of the environment and global life-support systems; ratifying the Kyoto Protocol is certainly a minimum requirement for the achievement of this goal;
* managing the environmental, economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the security of people and all life on the planet;
* over the past decades and even now today, all Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (mostly the United States, Russia and Britain) were responsible for selling weapons and war equipment. These three nations are required to give back to the Global Community an amount of 8 trillion dollars (American) as a payment for the immense damage they have caused in the world. They have created a culture of violence throughout the world. They are nation bullies, nation predators. They are responsible for economic mismanagement, ethnic tensions, crimes, drug abuse, high unemployment, urban stress, worldwide poverty, and pressures on natural resources. Most conflicts in the world are direct legacies of cold war power politics, senseless politics. Other conflicts were caused by the end of the cold war and the collapse of old regimes. Other factors have combined to increase tension: religious, economical, political, and ethnic aspects. The dollar fine is to be administered by Global Parliament.
In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place.
There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems:
* global warming
* Ozone layer
* wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation
* climate change
* species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity
* the capacity for photosynthesis
* the water cycle
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* chemicals produced for human use and not found in nature and, eventually, reaching the environment with impacts on Earth's waters, soils, air, and ecology
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world, and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people, institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Today the security of people within the Global Community is just as important as the security of states. Citizens must be secure. The Global Community is just as important as the security and life of citizens and states.
There are many threats to security other than the threats to the global life-support systems and threat caused by weapons of mass destruction and the threats to the sovereignty of a state, and they include:
* the proliferation of conventional small arms
* the terrorizing of civilian populations by domestic groups
* gross violations of human and Earth rights
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states are protected by the Global Community.
In connection between human well-being and a sound environment, Earth rights are ecological rights and the rights that human beings have in protecting their global life-support systems. Earth rights are those rights that demonstrate the connection between human well-being and a sound environment. They include individuals and global communities human rights and the rights to a clean environment, and participation in development decisions. We define ecological rights as those rights of the ecosystem of the Earth beyond human purpose. They are those rights that protect and preserve the ecological heritage of the Earth for future generations. The Earth Court of Justice
guarantees ecological rights in its Statute. The Court guarantees also the rights to a safe environment and an environment free
from environmental degradation.Earth rights are the rights to life on Earth.
The Global Protection Agency provides leadership for training of other countries' citizens who would like to participate in peacekeeping and Earth security
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so that we have a ready cadre of people who are trained and equipped and organised and have communications that they can work with each other.
The overall size of the force, or who would pay for it, have not been discussed, but the idea has been raised with countries in Europe and Asia.
As well, there are questions about how many nations would sign up if such a force were under the control of GCEG.
To act as a global policing force, as the GPA aspires to do, many foundations must be laid, especially regarding the move from wielding power derived from GCEG to legitimate global leadership.
There are many required characteristics that are prerequisite for legitimate leadership:
1. Legitimate leadership is built upon trust. Those who are led must largely believe that the leader is committed to integrity, honesty, and transparent inquiry into problems. The leader’s actions must align with his words
2. Legitimate leadership rests upon checks and balances, which are necessary to ensure power is not corrupted.
3. Legitimate leadership is an act of service. Those in power must show a primary interest in the good of the collective ahead of their self-interest. In this way, true leaders are mission-centered rather than self-centered.
4. Legitimate leadership empowers others appropriately rather than concentrating power disproportionately. In other words, true leaders produce more leaders and empower them as situations demand.
5. Legitimate leadership is visionary, carrying the torch of a possible future.
6. Legitimate leadership is willing to lead by example, including following a foundation of ethics, performing more than one’s share of work, and making sacrifices where appropriate.
7. Legitimate leadership is compassionately fierce when something undermines the good of the whole.
In a company this might mean the CEO fires a slacking employee. In a city, the police may jail a murderer. On a global level, this might even mean arresting those breaking global law.
The defence function of a leader requires that he safeguard the good of the whole by whatever the most skillful means are to accomplish that defence.
While that is not a comprehensive catalog of leadership prerequisites, I do think those few requirements are foundational and relatively unquestionable. Without at least a solid foundation of those requirements, the GPA’s actions among nation-states will remain those of a unilateralist leader rather than a global leader. We will be, and should be, legitimated in the role of a global leader among nation-states and validated as an enforcer of global law. GCEG offers a few recommendations for actions that would strengthen and legitimate the GPA’s role as a true global leader by gradually creating an international structure that better safeguards the whole than we can ever do now as a unilateralist leader.
The GPA recommendations:
1. Ban military action in all parts of the world;
2. Lead the way in creating legitimate power for Global Parliament, subjecting ourselves and multinational corporations to taxation that generates money for programs that are focused on world betterment and world problems. As a mark of our global leadership, we should commit a greater percentage of our resources to this effort than any other organization.
3. Hold ourselves to a high standard of compliance around global treaties that aim for collective benefit and the redress of economic, environmental, military, and political problems. Our adherence should be exemplary. Or, if we truly question the merit of a global accord, we should lead the way in creating agreements that even better serve the global interest rather than simply ignoring or undermining the existing attempts.
4. Exert strong global leadership on multinational solutions to pressing health, environmental, and other problems. We should propose innovative new solutions and show leadership in carrying them out, especially in areas such as clean energy development.
5. Take seriously the process of coming clean by exposing corporate interests in politics, lobbying by powerful organizations, subsidies of fringe military groups, etc. When our global government officials commit to be honest and transparent, a much deeper foundation of international trust will be built.
As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with global problems.
I believe that there is no greater task in the world today than for the Global Community to proceed through the maturation of its leadership, emerging from a more self-interested adolescence as a global leader into a nobler adulthood. We have the potential to act as a torchbearer for a better tomorrow. Do we heed the call? I hope this message has convinced at least a few people that the question of how to proceed with that maturation is of far deeper significance than the reforming of the United Nations. I thus pray that we move with wisdom, grace, clarity, and love in the days, years, and even decades ahead.
Germain Dufour
(short Bio)
Prophet of God
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
Recommendations to the:
a) Dalai Lama
Surrender yourself to the Global protection Agency (GPA).
Recommendations to the:
b) Tibetan officials
Be compassionate to the monks. Buy more of their artifacts so they can have food to eat. Make sure the new railroad come close to the monasteries so that tourists can visit them and buy artifacts.
The Global Community consider the Dalai Lama as a dangerous religious extremist. He ought to be brought to justice. His crimes include:
a) organizing and leading deadly riots in Tibet for the purpose of putting down the Tibetan government and destabilizing China;
b) associating himself with President Bush and the White House; President Bush is a wanted criminal and the White House along with NATO have been shown to be rogue organizations worldwide, and criminal in nature; to give speeches at the White House for the purpose of obtaining military help; to make a deal with the US that would allow the US to build a military base in Tibet in exchange of military help; to help the US continue destabilizing China;
c) violating the human rights of those workers in Tibet whether they come from another part of China or not;
d) planning to destabilize China and that will have immense destructive and deadly consequences far beyond the area of Tibet and are a serious threat to
* global security as defined by the Global Community,The fact that the Dalai Lama is aware of those consequences makes him even more dangerous.
* global life-support systems,
* the global environment, and
* human and Earth rights on a global scale.
Recommendations to the:
c) Global Citizens
Our position toward the Dalai Lama is clear, we dont approve of the Dalai Lama extremist activities. We consider him as a terrorist. He ought to be brought to justice. Not all monks are bad. Most monks were following him as the leader.
For decades I used to like the Dalai Lama and what he stood for in the world. Not as a religion because I believe God is for real. But as a person of Peace and compassion. That is the image he has been promoting in the world. I myself been promoting similar values since 1985. I never questioned what he was promoting. And I even had the picture of a monk Buddhist as a link to religion on the Portal of the Global Community.
That was because I respected his view enough to refer to him on the website.But this is history now.
After the last riot against China and using the 2008 Summer Olympics event to promote his cause, as of now I am totally opposed to the Dalai Lama. He is an extremist leader and has to be stopped. Buddhism is not the question here, the Dalai Lama is the matter. Buddhism as a religion for Peace and compassion is fine. I believe in the promoting of Peace and compassion. I will always be promoting Peace and compassion. In my view the Dalai Lama is no longer representing Peace and compassion.
The Dalai Lama has presented himself to be a peaceful, angel-like figure, for such a long time. If you look at what the Dalai Lama really is, you will realize that truly he is not a person of Peace and should have never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
This analysis has shown that the Dalai Lama is a religious extremist leader and has to be stopped. He must be brought to justice.
Germain Dufour
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
