The 1960 report made the important international legal determination that "Tibet demonstrated from 1913 to 1950 the conditions of statehood as generally accepted under international law. " Now the ICJ has returned to the issue of Tibet and produced another important report. It finds that repression in Tibet has increased since 1994. This is an assessment which my daughter Maura shares after having visited Tibet and having worked closely for many years with Tibetan refugees who continue to make the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to flee persecution in their homeland. In 1996 she returned from Tibet to report that. ... in recent months Beijings leaders have renewed their assault on Tibetan culture. especially Buddhism. with an alarming vehemence. The rhetoric and the methods of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s have been resurrectedreincarnated. what you willto shape an aggressive campaign to vilify the Dalai Lama.
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