PERMANENT PEOPLES' TRIBUNAL
TIBET
Strasburg, France
Friday 20 November 1992
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I. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Permanent Tribunal of peoples met in Strasbourg, France, from 16 to 20 November 1992. The Tribunal comprised the following persons for this Session : President Professor François RIGAUX (BELGIUM), Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) ; Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London) ; President of the International Foundation Lelio Basso .

Members
Professor Richard BAUMLIN ( SWITZERLAND)
Professor Madjid BENCHIKH (ALGERIA)
Justice Michael KIRBY (AUSTRALIA)
Mr Raniero LA VALLE ( ITALY)
Mr Leo MATARASSO (FRANCE)
Mrs Freda MEISSNER-BLAU (AUSTRIA),
Professor Ward MOREHOUSE (USA)
Mr Makoto ODA (JAPAN)
Associate Professor Giuliano PONTARA ( ITALY)
Professor John QUIGLEY (USA)
Mr Sulak SIVARASKA (THAILAND)

1.2 In the course of six sessions held in public on 16, 17, and 18 November 1992, the Tribunal heard the following witnesses and submissions and received the following exhibits :

MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER 1992

Opening Session

1. MRS CATHERINE TRAUTMANN
Mayor of Strasbourg. Speech of Welcome to the Tribunal.

2. PRESIDENT
Introduction to the Session by Professor Françis RIGAUX.

3. SECRETARY GENERAL
Statement by Mr G. TOGNONI concerning a communication by the Consul General of the Peoples I Republic of China .

4. MR MICHAEL HERVE
Statement by the Chairman of the European Parliament' s Study Group on Tibet.

The Accusation

5. MR LODI G GYARI
Statement of the Accusation by the President of the International Campaign for Tibet.
Ex-1: Opening Statement by Hr Gyari and Annexures A to G.

6. MR KEITH PITTS
Senior Staff Member to Congressman C Rose (USA) .
Ex 2: Congressional Ceremony to welcome his Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet to the Congress of the United States of America.
Ex-3: Central Intelligence Agency (US) Integration of Tibet: China's Progress and Problems II .
Ex-4: Statement of Chen.
Ex-5: UNPO Conference Report 2/1992 Human Rights Dimensions of Population Transfer.

7. MR WALTER ASCHMONIT
Representative Asia-Terre des Hommes
Ex-6: Life-Qualityin China. Focus : Tibet .

8. MR RICHARD BOELE
Statement by Representati ve of the Australia Tibet Council.
Ex-7: Resolutions of the Australian Parliament of 6 December 1990 and 6 June 1991.
Ex-8: Report of the Australian Human Rights Delegation to China, 14-26 July 1991 (Chapter on Tibet).
Ex 9: Written Richard Boele . Written Statement by Mr Richard Boele.

9. MRS KIM MORRIS
Representative of the International Committee o Lawyers for Tibet.

1 0 . MRS CLAUDE LEVENSON
Representative of the Swiss Committee on Tibet

1 1. MR T C RAKRA TETHONG
Statement on Buddhism in Tibet : doctrine and history.
Ex 10: Statement, "Buddhism in Tibet".

12. MR YONTEN GYATSO
Statement on Tibetan History.
Ex 11: Resumé l' Histoire du Tibet .

13. DR MICHAEL VAN WALT
The Legal Status of Tibet . Ex 12: Submission to the Tribunal on International Legal Issues .

14. MRS M L DONDHI
Statement on the Swaraj Committee of India .

15. PROFESSOR M L SONDHI
Professor, Jawarharlal University, India.
Ex 13: Statement: The Tibetan Issue in the Present Geopolitical Situation.

16. MR SANJEEV PRAKASH
Representaive of Eco-Tibet, India.
Ex 14: Tibet: Environment and Development Issues 1990 and French. Language Dossier Eco-Tibet No 2 : France-Tibet
Ex 15: Statement: Do Tibetans Have Environmental Rights? (and 2 attached documents) .


TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 1992

17. MR JANIS SAKELLARIOU
Member, European Parliament Commission for Foreign Affairs and Security addressed the Tribunal and undertook to provide its resolution.

18. DR MICHAEL VAN WALT
Recalled.
Ex 16: Extract from Ram Rahul, Modern Tibet, 1992, Chapters 4 and 5 prov ided .


Testimonies

19. DR TENZ IN CHOEDRAK
Statement on torture, detention and denial of freedom of expression .
Ex 17: Statement by Dr Tenzin Choedrak, Chinese Torture and Prison Condi tions.

2O. FILM ON TIBET
Ex 18: Film on alleged torture, prison conditions, deprivation of hUman rights and abortion and steilization measures in Tibet , including interview with HH the Dalai Lama .

21. DR TASHI DOLMA
Ex 19: Statement "China' s population Extermination Policy in Tibet" , together with "Statements by a Tibetan lady doctor" .

22. PRESIDENT
Announced that the Tribunal had decided to accede to a request for the Accusation to have a right of reply and the Defence a right of rejoinder. Further statements tabled from previous witnesses as follows :
Ex-20: European Parliament Commission for Foreign Affairs and Security. "Pour une reprise des negociations avec le Gouvernement Tibtain en exil." (Provided by Mr Sakellariou) .

23. MR TENPA TZERING RETING
Statement on Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule in Tibet .
Ex 22: "Chinese Treatment Tibetans"

24. THE VEN TENZIN PALBER
aka Alak Tsawu .
Ex 23: Statement: "Cultural and environmental destruction in Tibet."

25. DR MICHAEL VAN WALT
Recalled.

26. MR LODI G GYARI
Recalled; Questioned by Mr Oda .

27. DR MICHAEL VAN WALT
Recalled; Questioned by Mr Gyari .
Ex 24: "The relationship between environmental management and human rights in Tibet. "

28. MR RICHARD BOELE
Recalled; . Questioned by Mr Gyari.

29. DR MICHAEL VAN WALT
Recalled; Questioned by Mr La Valle.
Ex 25: Extract from John F Avedon II In Exile from the Land of Snows " , Wisdom publications, London, 1985, pp 294, seq, "Story of Dr Tenzin Choedrak" .

30. MR LODI GYARI
Recalled again; Questioned by Hr Oda.
Ex 26: Facsimile Statements arrest of children in provided by TIM London .

31. DR MICHAEL VAN WALT
Recalled; Questioned by Defence .
Ex 27: M C Van Walt van Praag "The Status of Tibet", Westview Press , Coloradi, 1987, including appendices.

32. PROFESSOR M L SONDHI
Recalled; Questioned by Defence and Mr Gyari

WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 1992

Expert Testimony

33. Professor J Verhoeven
Department of International Law, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Other documents submi tted to the Tribunal:

Ex 28: P Kelly, G Bastian and P Piello "The Anguish of Tibet'. , Parallel Press, California, 1992. Extract '.The Legal Status of Tibet II , pp 73-7, p 9.
Ex 29: Statement Meindersma . Oral submission for UN Commission Under Item 12 -1989. Except of speech delivered to the European Parliament, April 1990, during the Hearing on Tibet, in the Political Affairs Commission of the European Parliament .
Ex 30: Video Film '.Deforestation of Tibet'. , viewed by the Tribunal.
Ex 31: Schedule of Resource Documents relied on b