Torture of Tibetans Reported to United Nations
The DIIR (Department of Information and International Relations) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has submitted a report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture entitled, “THE CONTINUING USE OF TORTURE AGAINST THE TIBETAN PEOPLE”
The report says, in part, the following:
It presents a detailed account of the Chinese government’s violations of the convention against torture by attributing those with ‘evidence of torture in connection with recent protests in Tibet’, ‘torture as a common practice in Tibet even before the March demonstration’, ‘failure of China’s legal system to ban the use of torture’, ‘absence of independent judiciary’ and the ‘Chinese authorities threat of disciplinary action against lawyers’.
The report, which evaluates China’s compliance with the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (torture convention) with respect to Tibet, said, “China continues to engage in widespread and systematic violations of the torture conventions against the Tibetan people.”
China has also failed to make genuine progress in the areas of concern noted by this committee in its ‘1996 and 2000 Concluding Observations’, which is supported by the recent findings of the Special Rapporteur on Torture, following his mission to China, noted the report.
Please note that similar efforts to bring the Chinese government to account for the use of torture has been sidestepped in the past using procedural methods backed by other nations with similar human rights records and financially supported by the PRC government.
In the United States Congress the rampant corruption and human rights violations are also a mute point since the 39th President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, made “Normal Trading Status” for the People’s Republic of China permanent with the consent of the 106th Congress. (link)
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