China Fears Tibet Inquiry
We previously wrote that His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Amnesty International were calling for an inquiry into the violence in Tibet.
We wrote: “China will obviously protest this violation of its ‘sovereignty,’ but there are good precedents for such an action. International law recognizes that sovereignty is conditional on a ‘duty to protect,’ and when a state fails in that duty its sovereignty is trumped by human rights concerns. ”
We also wrote: “what does China have to hide, if it is so confident that its military forces are acting properly? Since China is claiming it is acting above board in Tibet, shouldn’t it be welcoming an international inquiry to clear its name?”
Well, apparently the Chinese government has a lot to hide in Tibet! After kicking out foreign tourists and reporters, now China is rejecting calls for an international inquiry:
International observers were not acceptable ‘because it is a completely internal affair’, foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said of the Tibetan protests. [...]
China on Monday expelled journalists from Lhasa and suspended permits for foreigners to travel to the region as a Tibetan exile group reported mass arrests ahead of the midnight deadline.
Liu said the exclusion of journalists from Lhasa was ‘only natural’ because it was ‘quite unstable’ in the city.
‘The Chinese government has nothing to conceal,’ he said. ‘What happened is very clear.’
Comrade Liu doth protest too much, methinks. China has a lot to conceal, and it is taking all the steps it can to hide from the world its continuing bloody crackdown in Tibet.
Governments and the U.N. ought to grow backbones and clamor for international observers in Tibet; if they had any decency at all, this is what they would be doing.
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