Adversary to Amity…

The recent uprising in Tibet has been able to unmask the adjudicators of the world, if not anything else. The super power that squashed Communist dictatorship for decades has conveniently turned into compatibility mode and the super saver in Geneva, the convoyer of civil rights maintained an aloof indifference towards the gentile Tibetan’s strive against Chinese supremacy. Back home, in Kolkata where violations of human rights is perhaps an everyday ritual, our ruling party members, so-called comrades of the needy and the destitute invalidated even the slightest upheaval by the Tibetan students.

Here is a report by The Statesman:
Delhi says yes to rally, state says no

Statesman News Service

KOLKATA, April 11: Members of the Tibetan government-in-exile expressed strong discontent at the action of the state government at canceling permission at the last minute to the Tibetan Solidarity rally that was to be held over three days at Mayo Road. “The state and the Centre seem to have different points of view regarding Tibet,” said Mr Dawa Tsering (Gyalrong), a member of Parliament of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Even as Tibetans in the city were stopped from staging demonstrations, thousands of Tibetans held peaceful protests yesterday in the national Capital.

Hundreds of Tibetans who have congregated in the city from all over eastern and north-eastern India today held protest demonstrations in College Square. Shouting anti-China slogans and dressed in Chinese police uniform to display the torture meted out to Tibetan demonstrators in Tibet capital Lhasa, Tibetans from Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Kalimpong and many other parts of eastern India assembled in Mahabodhi Temple behind College Square this morning.

Expressing dismay at the state government's stance towards the Tibetan cause, Mr Tsering, who has traveled from Dharamsala to organize the Kolkata chapter of demonstrations, said: “We are very unhappy with the state government's stand. We held discussions with the city police DC Headquarters in person and agreed to the route suggested by senior officers of the Kolkata Police for our peaceful demonstration to be held for three days from yesterday. Yet, police cancelled permission at the 11th hour. They called us at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, when all the Tibetan participants had already spent a large sum to leave their homes in far-off states and had arrived here.”

Mr Tsering, who is also president of the Tibetan Solidarity Sub Committee, added that in spite of pleading with senior police officers to be allowed even to simply hold a prayer ceremony at Mayo Road, permission was not granted. “Police here are helpless, as they have to listen to orders from the state government,” Mr Tsering said. Asked for an explanation, a senior city police officer said yesterday that it was because of “government policy” that they had had to cancel permission.

Emphasising that the Tibetan government-in-exile did not want to disrupt the progress of the Olympic torch relay, Mr Tsering however, iterated that the great games should be held in a country that upholds human rights. “In that, Beijing is not a suitable venue for holding the Olympics. Even now, as the whole world has its eyes trained on China, the Chinese government is adamant on not letting up torture on Tibetans or allowing the international media into the troubled area,” said Mr Tsering.

General Secretary of the CPIM, Prakash Karat compared Tibet to separatist demands in India! The ‘Letter to the Editor’ below perhaps best explains the absurdity of his insensible comment:
Karat’s ignorance Sir, ~ CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat showed his ignorance when he compared Nagaland with Tibet. Nagaland was never independent, but Tibet was. This makes a qualitative difference between Nagaland and Tibet. This explains why, when in 1949 China suddenly set up a military camp at Clumby Valley of Tibet, near the Indian border, General Cariappa warned the Indian government with the words, “The Chinese have not come there for picnic.”

Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan observed “Tibet Day” in Delhi when the Chinese made further infiltration.

That Tibet was a sovereign, independent state is proved by the fact that it used to issue passport and visa until it was overrun by the Chinese military. Furthermore, it was a signatory to the document of MacMahon Line, which was the international border between Tibet and India.

Mr Karat should know that his writ runs on his mindless party members, but beyond that he cuts a sorry figure for his poor knowledge of Tibetan history. The military occupation of Tibet by China, of which Mr Karat is a great protagonist, is reminiscent of Hitler’s policy of imperialistic aggrandizement during World War II. The Marxist leader amusingly raises a hue and cry over the US-India civil nuclear deal on the sham plea of India’s sovereignty being compromised.
This betrays Mr Karat’s false show of loyalty to Indian nationalism, while his attachment to communist brotherhood beyond Indian borders is palpable.

~ Yours, etc., Dipti Kumar Majumdar,

Kolkata, 2 April.

Imperium in imperio being the mood of the moment in the communist Bengal, what else can one expect but felony against sovereignty?
Somanjana, SWB