By Choekyi Lhamo
DHARAMSHALA, July 14: During the 44th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), CTA’s special appointee Thinlay Chukki at Tibet Bureau Geneva spoke against the “triad of collusion” by the Chinese authorities, police, and judiciary that permits misappropriation of Tibetan lands used for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and other “development projects” proposed by the Chinese government.
The CTA appointee welcomed the report by the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational companies which outlined various nexus of corruption in the Chinese model of business including land misappropriation. She further noted that Tibetan nomads have been forcefully displaced from their pastoral lands forcefully acquired by the Chinese authorities under BRI.
The statement pointed out that Chinese authorities forcefully grabbed lands and simultaneously detained and tortured Tibetans who opposed the action. Under the enforcement, Tibetans are sentenced under false charges of ‘separatism’. 21 Tibetans were imprisoned by Nangchen County People’s Court in 2019 for opposing the government.
Thinlay Chukki urged the UNHRC to hold a “special session on the deeply entrenched systemic human rights violations being carried out in China and for a special rapporteur on China to monitor, analyze and report on human rights violations being carried out in China including against Tibetans, Hong Kongers and Uyghurs.”
She also highlighted the case of Anya Sengdra, anti-corruption and environmental activist, who received a seven-year prison sentence in Dec 2019 on the charges of “provoking troubles, forming a mob to disturb social order, and other evil cases” by Gade County People’s court in Golog prefecture.
