Please click on the following link to download Save Trulku Tenzin Delek brochure (2005) trulku_tenzin_delek-brochure
Briefing Paper on Tibet’s XIth Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
|
Ordained Name: Tenzin Gedhun Yeshe Trinley Phuntsok Pal Sangpo[Gedhun Choekyi Nyima]
Birthday: 25 April 1989
Birthplace: Lhari County, Nagchu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)
Date of formal announcement as the reincarnation of the Xth Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama: 14 May 1995
Date of Abduction: 17 May 1995
Current Age: 16 year-old
|
 |
Introduction:
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was born to Konchok Phuntsok and Dechen Chodon on 25 April, 1989, the nineteenth day of the third Tibetan month of the lunar calendar in the Tibetan Earth-Snake year at Lhari county of Nagchu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). On 14 May 1995, the Dalai Lama announced the then six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the reincarnation of the Xth Panchen Lama. Three days after the announcement, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his family disappeared from their home. Their whereabouts and well-beings still remain unknown. In November 1995, government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) appointed another boy, Gyaltsen Norbu, as the XIth Panchen Lama. He was enthroned in December of 1995.
This report looks at some of the Chinese government’s educational policies in Tibet that fail to benefit the Tibetan people but rather help achieve Beijing’s political aims. It also studies China’s compliance with its own laws – the Constitution, its various regional, ethnic, and minority laws that clearly promise the right to education to its people. The report also studies…
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) initiated the “Strike Hard” Campaign in China in 1983. It is a unique campaign which demonstrates China’s hardline approach against its exercise of fundamental human rights. The campaign left huge scars on its people and it dramatizes China’s image of an oppressive and ruthless state. The “Strike Hard” campaign drew huge criticism from the…
Please click on the following link to download the petition Petition to Special Rapporteur on Education on Closure of Monastic Schools in Ngaba, Tibet (2004)
SAVE TRULKU TENZIN DELEK FROM EXECUTION
27 October 2004
TCHRD Briefing Paper
This briefing paper contains brochure contains summarized version of background information on Trulku Tenzin Delek, his arrest and death sentence, court trial and imprisonment with recommendations for further actions. The execution verdict of Trulku Tenzin Delek will be confirmed by 25 January 2005 if his death sentence with a two-year reprieve is not reversed.
This briefing paper has been compiled to assist the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in his preparation for his June 2004 visit to China. It evaluates China’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), relative to Tibet, and updates the April 2000 paper of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and…
The Tibetan Centre for Human rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has for many years monitored and reported on the human rights situation in Tibet. The Centre through its reports and publications has kept the world informed of the gross human rights violations taking place in Tibet. Special reports covering specific cases of human rights violations have also been published. Education in…
For many years human rights monitors have reported on China’s denial of political and civil freedoms rather than focusing on economic issues. In return, China often defends its stance on civil and political issues by claiming that its citizens are more interested in economic security than in personal freedoms. With China’s ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and…
The summer and autumn of 2001 saw the dismantling of the leading centre for Buddhist scholarship and practice on the Tibetan plateau. In the 21 years of its existence, Serthar Institute (known as Larung Gar) had expanded from a solitary mountain hermitage to a spiritual oasis for over 8,000 monks, nuns, and lay students. Khenpo Jigme Phunstok founded Sertahr Institute…
The year 1998 marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Ironically, in Drapchi Prison the same year, Chinese prison guards and Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials violated all human rights norms with the use of brutal force on Tibetan prisoners. On the ill-fated days of 1 and 4 May 1998, the unarmed prisoners…