Siden 2006 er flere end to millioner tibetanere blevet tvangsflyttet for at virkeliggøre den kinesiske regerings vision om at skabe ”socialistiske landsbyer”. Human Rights Watch har netop udgivet en rapport, der dokumenterer sagens omfang.
NEW YORK, 27 June, 2013 (Human Rights Watch): The Chinese government is subjecting millions of Tibetans to a policy of mass rehousing and relocation that radically changes their way of life, and about which they have no say, Human Rights Watch said in a new report published Thursday.
Since 2006, under plans to “Build a New Socialist Countryside” in Tibetan areas, over two million Tibetans have been “rehoused” – through government-ordered renovation or construction of new houses – in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), while hundreds of thousands of nomadic herders in the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau have been relocated or settled in “New Socialist Villages.”
The 115-page report, “‘They Say We Should Be Grateful’: Mass Rehousing and Relocation in Tibetan Areas of China,” documents extensive rights violations ranging from the absence of consultation to the failure to provide adequate compensation, both of which are required under international law for evictions to be legitimate. The report also addresses defects in the quality of the houses provided, absence of remedies for arbitrary decisions, failures to restore livelihoods, as well as a disregard for autonomy rights nominally guaranteed by Chinese law in Tibetan areas.
“The scale and speed at which the Tibetan rural population is being remodeled by mass rehousing and relocation policies are unprecedented in the post-Mao era,” said Sophie Richardson , China director. “Tibetans have no say in the design of policies that are radically altering their way of life, and – in an already highly repressive context – no ways to challenge them.”
Læs hele artiklen (læs fra under videoen): http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/27/china-end-involuntary-rehousing-relocation-tibetans
Hent rapporten “‘They Say We Should Be Grateful’: Mass Rehousing and Relocation in Tibetan Areas of China,” og læs resume: http://www.hrw.org/node/116642/
