Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, June 18: Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Monday joined as a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Tibet Atrocities Determination Act, legislation that seeks a formal U.S. assessment of whether China’s treatment of Tibetans constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity.
The bill, introduced by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY), directs the U.S. Secretary of State to investigate and determine whether the Chinese government’s longstanding policies and actions in Tibet amount to an “ongoing genocide” or “crimes against humanity” under international law.
“The American people will never turn a blind eye to the CCP’s oppression of innocent Tibetans who wish to live freely and follow their faith,” Moolenaar said in a statement announcing his support for the legislation. “This legislation is the first step to holding China accountable for its atrocities in Tibet.”
Introduced on April 29, 2926, as H.R. 9085, the Tibet Atrocities Determination Act serves as the House companion to Senate bill S. 4432. The legislation mandates that the Secretary of State submit a comprehensive report to Congress within one year of enactment, examining evidence of systematic abuses committed against Tibetans under Chinese rule.
The bill specifically calls for an investigation into allegations including arbitrary killings, mass detention, forced sterilization, torture, restrictions on religious freedom, and the involuntary separation of Tibetan children from their families through a network of state-run colonial boarding schools.
Lawmakers backing the measure argue that Chinese authorities have intensified efforts to erase Tibet’s distinct cultural, linguistic, and religious identity through policies aimed at the sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism and the assimilation of Tibetans into the dominant Han Chinese culture.
According to the bill’s sponsors, the legislation would also require the State Department to assess Beijing’s broader campaign against Tibetan language and culture and recommend potential U.S. policy responses, including targeted sanctions, visa restrictions, and other accountability measures against Chinese officials implicated in abuses.
Moolenaar’s endorsement adds further momentum to the bipartisan legislation as lawmakers continue to raise concerns over China’s human rights record in Tibet alongside similar congressional scrutiny of Beijing’s policies in East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang) and Hong Kong.
COMMUNIST CHINA HAS BEEN COMMITTING GENOCIDE SINCE THE DAY IT ILLEGALLY INVADED AND OCCUPIED TIBET! Clashes between Tibetans and Chinese invaders took place as early as 1949 as the Chinese encroached on Tibetan territory. The Chinese tried to dupe the Tibetans initially by giving money to to induce them to comply. However, the Amdowas and Khampas are a staunchly independent people and they did not readily comply to the invaders will. The Chinese communists who knows only the language of violence used intimidatory tactics to cow the Tibetans to submission! When this didn’t work they used extreme violence against the Tibetan people to subdue them. The rebels fled to the mountains and mounted attacks on the Chinese for three long years! They were led by Aku Lamar in Hormukha and Choeje Pon Wangchen in the Amdo Nangra region. According to Tibetan sources, few battles took place between the Chinese invaders and the Tibetans and some 631 Tibetans were killed by the Chinese invaders.When Nangra and Hormukha were captured by Chinese reinforcements to the tune of seventy thousand troops, the rebel leaders Choeje and Wangchen were arrested and imprisoned to be never heard or seen anymore! In 1956, Kham Lithang became a epicentre of revolt against the Chinese invaders. The Khampas resisted Chinese confiscation of the properties and homes and started a guerrilla movement to fight the invaders. During this war, innocent Tibetans were caught in the cross fire and sought refuge at Monasteries. The communist Chinese had no compunction to bomb a monastery full of unarmed Tibetans seeking refuge! The Chinese bombed monasteries such as Chatreng Samohel Ling and Lithang Ganden Thubchen Chokhorling resulting in the murder of hundreds possibly thousands of innocent civilians! One of the great hero’s of these battles was Yunru Pon Sonam Wangyal. He died a hero’s death by shooting a Chinese military commander in full view of the Chinese soldiers! How the evil communists treated the Tibetans is demonstrated by the treatment of Lithang abbot Khangsar Rinpoche. He was hanged with his legs chained together, a pole placed across his chest and arms bound with wire. He was suspended by heavy chain around his neck and hanged! The second senior most Lama, the chant master was stripped and had his thighs, chest and under armpits burned with two finger thick iron pin! This terrible torture was inflicted upon him for three consecutive days! Two ex-abbots were shot and then poured boiling water over them and strangled! These are just an example of the unimaginable barbarity, the Chinese communist regime visited upon the Tibetan people for the last seven decades. 1.2 million Tubetans have been slaughtered including 187,000 on the fateful day of March 10th 1959 by Chinese own accounts. 6000 monasteries have been ransacked, pillaged and razed to the ground! Tibetan natural resources are plundered mercilessly without any benefit for the Tibetan people. Massive environment destruction and ecological disaster is created by excessive extraction of Tibet’s rich resources dam building! Today, the satanic regime is ERASING TIBET’S ANCIENT CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND RELIGION OF THE TIBETAN PEOPLE TO BE SUBSUMED BY THE CHINESE HAN AND OBLITERATE TIBET FOR GOOD IN ORDER TO GAIN PERPETUAL OWNERSHIP OF TIBET. THIS IS TEXT BOOK GENOCIDE AND CANNOT BE ALLOWED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW! The attempt by US senators with conscience to highlight the inhumanity and genocide committed by the satanic Chinese communist regime is most welcome! The Tibetan people applaud the humanity of concerned senators and entreat them to leave no stone unturned to condemn the evil Chinese regime for its atrocities and Genocidal acts against the hapless Tibetans under Chinese illegal and brutal occupation!