CTA rejects Chinese criticism of US Tibetan Support Act

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, February 6

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has rejected the false accusations made by the so-called “People’s Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region” on the landmark Tibetan Policy and Support Act (TPSA) 2020 of the US Government.

As per the Chinese state media, the People’s Congress of Tibetan Autonomous Region has expressed its indignation and firm opposition to the passing of the US Act on Tibet. It alleged, “The Tibet Bill grossly interferes in China’s internal affairs and gravely violates the fundamental principles of international laws and basic norms governing international relations. The Act maliciously distorts Tibet’s social development, makes groundless accusations, denigrates China’s ethnic and religious policies, and interferes in the normal reincarnation procedure of living Buddha’s under the pretext of human rights and religion”.

The CTA in a statement issued here today said, “The condemnation of the TPSA 2020 by the People’s Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region is a frail attempt to represent the voice of the people, as is practised in a true democracy, which in the case of China is widely known to be farcical”.

The statement said, “The TPSA 2020 addresses the urgent, deteriorating human rights, religious freedom, and environmental and other challenges faced by the Tibetan people in Tibet. The deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet amounts to cultural genocide and the suppression of rights under the guise of developmental policies such as urbanisation, economic and environmental development and the politicisation of the sacred traditional system of the reincarnation of religious leaders, including the Dalai Lama”.

“These exacerbated conditions in Tibet and China’s failure to solve the fundamental problem facing its illegal occupation of Tibet in over more than 60 years have compelled the enactment of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act”.