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中文版:2008-4-13参考消息
【德国外交政策网站4月8 日报道】题:火炬传递运动
柏林外交政策的一个前沿组织起决定作用地参与了当前的反华西藏运动的准备工作。这是从会议报告和一名加拿大记者的调查中得出的结论。
根据会议报告和记者调查,这个运动受设在华盛顿的一个总部的操纵。2007年5月,这个总部在弗里德里希一瑙曼基金会的一次会议上受委托组织全球“抗议活动”。
“抗议”计划是在美国国务院和自我任命的“西藏流亡政府”的协助下制定的。它们计划在奥运火炬传递期间采取能产生公众效应的行动,并使抗议活动在8月北京奥运会期间达到高潮。
这个运动在去年夏天已经启动,现在它从中国西部发牛的动乱中得到好处。这场动乱是从一群暴徒凶残和大屠杀式地袭击非藏民开始的。
根据这名加拿大记者的调查,当前的反华西藏运动一这个运动在巴黎用暴力迫使奥运火炬传递中断——的起点是弗里德里希一瑙曼基金会的一次会议。这次会议是第五次“支援藏人国际大会”,它于去年5月11日至14日在布鲁塞尔举行。
根据基金会提供的情况,这次会议与其前四次会议一样“应该协调国际西藏支持组织的工作,加强其与西藏中央流亡政府的联系”。这个在很大程度上由国家提供资金的德国基金会在2005年3月开始筹备这次会议,并与呆在达兰萨拉(印度)的达赖喇嘛协调行动。最后有来自56个国家的300多人参加了这次会议,36个西藏团体和145个西藏支持组织也派代表出席。
“国际会议”制定破坏奥运“路线图”
这次会议经过多天商谈后,以达成一份“行动计划’而告终。这份计划被视作“未来几年的西藏运动路线图”。它涉及四个议题:“为谈判提供政治支持”、“人权”、“环境与发展’和“2008北京奥运会”。
据弗里德里希一瑙曼基金会的负责人罗尔夫.贝恩特解释说,奥运会是公开为“西藏运动”做宣传的“极好机会”。与会者就此达成一致,即在未来15个月里,使奥运会成为其行动的主要攻击点。他们为这个运动聘用了一名专职人员,从那以后,这名专职人员从设在华盛顿的总部指挥世界范围的西藏行动。
由弗里德里希一瑙曼基金会筹备的布鲁塞尔会议决议被赋予了特殊意义,原因不仅是参与者人数众多,还因为这些决议的诞生离不开富有影响力的政治家的参与。在分裂主义者当中享有很高声誉的“西藏流亡政府”的代表是“总理”桑东仁波切。在场的还有来自印度喜马偕尔邦的一位知名政治家。特别是美国副国务卿、西藏问题特别协调员葆拉·多布里扬斯基也出席了布鲁塞尔会议,她属于布什政府中新保守派核心圈内的人物,被视为有能力达到目的的强硬派。
据记者调查,华盛顿宣传运动总部开展了相当成功的行动。一名女性成员早在2007年8月初,就在北京北部游客众多的长城边上组织了一次吸引公众眼球的行动。她与西藏“流亡政府”保持着紧密的联系。另一名成员不久前指挥了对希腊圣火采集仪式的破坏活动。设在华盛顿的运动总部也在操纵其他破坏火炬传递的“抗议”。该运动的行动将在8月奥运会期间到达高潮。一名活动分子说:“我们决心每天都在北京市中心开展非暴力活动。”
有意将报道方向引向“中国镇压”
这个反华西藏运动在德国弗里德里希一瑙曼基金会的一个前沿组织和美国国务院的一名高级代表的指导下成立,直到火炬传递开始前几天,中国西部爆发骚乱,该运动才开始发挥其全部影响。
在德国媒体主要报道中国安全部队的攻击时,事件在目击者的报道中却是另外的样子。英国《经济学家》周刊记者詹姆斯·迈尔斯当时逗留在拉萨,他描述了藏人团伙对城中非藏人大屠杀式的袭击。迈尔斯说,一些商店被打上了标记,没受到破坏,其他所有店铺都遭到抢劫、破坏或被点燃。仅在一幢被大火烧毁的建筑中,就有5名女店员死去。
除迈尔斯之外,西方游客也描述了非藏人受到的残忍攻击。一位加拿大人看到,多名藏人痛打一名骑摩托车的汉人,并用石块“毫无仁慈心地”折磨他。这名游客说:“他们最后把他推倒在地,用石块击打他的头部,直到他失去意识。我认为这个年轻人被打死了。”
迈尔斯在接受美国有线电视新闻国际公司访谈时,描述中国安全部队的反应相对克制,而德国媒体却把这些骚乱当作展示中国残暴镇压的背景。在这里,事实显然退居次要角色。电视台和日报在此期间不得不承认在画而上做了手脚:尼泊尔警察挥舞棍棒驱散示威者的镜头被说成所谓中国警察施威的文献资料。中国安全部队将一名男孩解救出来的照片,被严重误导成暴力逮捕。甚至对迈尔斯的报道也如此做了编辑加工,以使这些报道朝中国镇压当地民众的和平示威方向引导。
谢谢maplepine补充的原文出处
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/56145
The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign
2008/04/08
LHASA/BERLIN
(Own report) - Conference reports and the research of a Canadian journalist reveal that a German Foreign Ministry front organization is playing a decisive role in the preparations of the anti-Chinese Tibet campaign. According to this information, the campaign is being orchestrated from a Washington based headquarters. It had been assigned the task of organizing worldwide "protests" at a conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (affiliated with the German Free Democratic Party - FDP) in May 2007. The plans were developed with the collaboration of the US State Department and the self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile and call for high profile actions along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay and are supposed to reach a climax in August during the games in Beijing. The campaign began already last summer and is now profiting from the current uprising in the west of the People's Republic of China that is receiving prominent coverage in the German media. The uprising was initiated with murderous pogrom-like attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetan members of the population, including the Muslim Chinese minority. Numerous deaths of non-Tibetans provoked a reaction of the Chinese security forces.
According to the research by a Canadian journalist, a conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNSt) gave the impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that violently forced the interruption of the Olympian Torch Relay in Paris last Monday.[1] The conference was the fifth "International Tibet Support Groups Conference," that was held from May 11 - 14, 2007 in Brussels. According to FNSt information this conference was supposed to do nothing other than the four preceding conferences [2] - "coordinate the work of the international Tibet groups and consolidate the links between them with the central Tibetan Government in Exile."[3] The German foundation, which is largely state financed, began the conference preparations in March 2005, and coordinated its plans with the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in the self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala, India. More than 300 participants from 56 countries, 36 Tibetan associations and 145 Tibet support groups were represented at the conference.
Roadmap
After several days of consultations the conference ended with a concerted "plan of action". The paper is entitled "Roadmap for the Tibet Movement for the Coming Years" covering four areas of interest: "political support for negotiations", "human rights", "environment and development" and "the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing." The results of the conference are directed to the Tibetan people as well as "their supporters around the world."[4] Rolf Berndt, a member of the FNSt's executive council in Brussels, declared that the Olympic Games "are an excellent opportunity" to publicly promote the cause of the "Tibet Movement".[5] The conference participants agreed to make the Olympics the single focus of attack for their activities for the next 15 months.[6] They hired a full-time organizer for their campaign, who has since been directing the worldwide Tibet actions from their Washington headquarters.
State Department
The decisions taken at the conference in Brussels, prepared by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, are particularly significant not only because of the large number of participants but also because of the influential politicians who helped in their formulation. For example the self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile, which enjoys much prestige among separatists, was represented by its "Prime Minister" Samdong Rinpoche. Also attending was another eminent politician from the Indian Himachal Pradesh state, bordering on the People's Republic of China, where the town Dharamsala is located, the "seat" of the Tibetan "Government in Exile." A brisk interchange takes place between Himachan Pradesh and the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet. Paula Dobriansky, the Undersecretary of State in the US State Department and special coordinator for Tibet questions also participated. She was a member of the National Security Council already in the Reagan Administration, continued her career in the State Department during the administration of President Bush Sr. and since 2001 was again in the US foreign ministry. Ms Drobriansky is considered to be one of the members of the neo-conservative inner circle in the Bush Administration and ranks as a hard-liner capable of imposing policy.
Every Day
As a Canadian journalist learned through his research, the campaign headquarters in Washington, that had been decided upon at the conference in Brussels, has been able to develop rather successful activities. Already at the beginning of August 2007, exactly one year before the opening of the Olympics, a close associate organized a high profile action at the tourist filled Great Wall to the north of Beijing. She maintains close contact to the Tibetan "Government in Exile".[7] Another close associate recently orchestrated the disturbance of the Olympic Torch Relay in Greece, seen on television around the world. The Washington headquarters is orchestrating other "protests" intended to disturb the Torch Relay. The campaign will reach its climax during the Olympic games in August. "We are determined to have non-violent direct action in the heart of Beijing, inside the Games, every day," one activist declared.[8]
Merciless
The anti-Chinese Tibet campaign, initiated under the direction of a German Foreign Ministry front organization (Friedrich Naumann Foundation) and a high-ranking representative of the US State Department, is developing its full efficacy in the aftermath of the uprisings in West People's Republic of China that began only a few days before the start of the Torch Relay. Whereas the German media mainly reported on brutal attacks of the Chinese security forces, eye-witness accounts provide a different picture of what happened. The British journalist, James Miles ("The Economist"), who was in Lhasa from March 12 - 19, reports of pogrom-like attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetan members of the population of the city, among them the Muslim minority. According to Miles, the shops of Tibetan merchants were marked and left unscathed while all other shops were plundered, destroyed or set afire.[9] In one building alone five textile saleswomen were burned to death. Besides Miles, western tourists also described the attacks on non-Tibetans. One Canadian saw how a group of Tibetans beat a Chinese motorcyclist and proceeded to "mercilessly" stone him. "Eventually they got him on the ground, they were hitting him on the head with stones until he lost consciousness. I believe that young man was killed,'' reported the tourist.[10]
Manipulations
Whereas Miles was describing the reluctant reactions of the Chinese security forces in an interview broadcast over CNN, the German media is using the uprisings as a backdrop to represent brutal Chinese repression. Facts obviously play a subordinate role. In the meantime, television channels and daily journals have had to admit manipulations of pictures. Film sequences with Nepalese policemen beating demonstrators were sold as documentation of alleged Chinese police attacks.[11] The security forces' saving a boy from an attacking Tibetan mob was coarsely labeled a violent arrest. Even Miles' report was editorially presented in a context to focus on Chinese repression. For the purpose of comparison, german-foreign-policy.com documents excerpts of a CNN interview with the British journalist as well as the corresponding passage from a renowned German daily.[12] (Click here.)
Anticipation
The pogrom-like mob-violence not only created the necessary media profile for the current Tibet campaign, initiated with the help of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, it also permits an insight into the character of Tibetan separatism. The "prime minister" of the Tibetan "Exile Government," who had participated in the formulation of the plan of action at the May 2007 Tibet Conference in Brussels, had already at the end of the 1990s, expounded in the German media on his views of the future of non-Tibetans, who had immigrated to Tibet over the past 50 years. In the case of a successful secession, they will have to "return to China, or if they would like to remain, be treated as foreigners." He explained the planned measures: "they will, in any case, not be allowed to participate in the political life."[13] The prospect of discrimination against all non-Tibetan members of the population was anticipated in mid-March by mobs in their bloody attacks on Chinese and members of the Muslim minority.
Please read also Strategies of Attrition (I), Strategies of Attrition (II), Strategies of Attrition (III), Strategies of Attrition (IV) and The Olympic Lever.
[1] Doug Saunders: How three Canadians upstaged Beijing; Globe and Mail 29.03.2008. Die Konferenz wurde von der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Zusammenarbeit mit der selbsternannten tibetischen Exilregierung und einem interfraktionellen Zusammenschluss des belgischen Parlaments durchgeführt.
[2] Die ersten vier "International Tibet Support Groups Conferences" fanden 1990 (Dharamsala), 1996 (Bonn), 2000 (Berlin) und 2003 (Prag) statt. Bereits die zweite Konferenz wurde von der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung organisiert.
[3] Gerhardt kritisiert Belgien nach Absage des Dalai-Lama-Besuchs; www.fnst-freiheit.org 11.05.2007
[4] Brussels Tibet conference roadmap for peace in Tibet; www.tibet.com 14.05.2007
[5] Valedictory Speech, International Tibet Support Groups Conference 5th, Dr. h.c. Rolf Berndt, Executive Director, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung fuer die Freiheit,Brussels, 14th May 2007
[6], [7}, [8] Doug Saunders: How three Canadians upstaged Beijing; Globe and Mail 29.03.2008
[9] Transcript: James Miles interview on Tibet; CNN 20.03.2008
[10] Chinese beaten mercilessly - tourists; Herald Sun 19.03.2008
[11] Fotos aus Tibet; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 24.03.2008
[12] see also Augenzeuge
[13] "99 Prozent der Tibeter vertrauen in Seine Heiligkeit"; Berliner Zeitung 20.10.1997. ?hnlich hat sich erst kürzlich der Dalai Lama ge?u?ert. "Alle Chinesen, die Tibetisch sprechen und die tibetische Kultur respektieren, k?nnen bleiben", sagte er einer deutschen Zeitung - mit einer Einschr?nkung: "sofern es nicht zu viele sind". "China mischt sich auch in Deutschlands Angelegenheiten ein"; Süddeutsche Zeitung 21.09.2007 |
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