U.N. ACTION ON TIBET

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29339, 19 October 1960, Page 17

U.N. ACTION ON TIBET

Stronger Move U?ge<l (Rec. 11 p.m.) • NEW YORK. October 18. The orother of the exiled Dalai Lama said yesterday that no small Power would be safe if the United Nations should in any way indicate acceptance of Communist Chinese '‘expansionism.’’ The Tibetan leader’s brother. Mr Gyalo Thondup. refused to say specifically whether he thought giving Communist China United Nations membership would constitute such "acceptance.” This was a question that should be left solely to the consideration of United Nations member States, be said. Mr Thondup, sent to New York from his brother’s refuge in India, appealed for much stronger United Nations action on the Tibetan question than has been taken. He told a press conference, that unless some way was found quickly to make the Chinese abandon their "aggression." it would mean “the complete destruction and death of Tibet and its people." A draft United Nations resolution on Tibet, due for consideration in the next few weeks, is expected to be limited to a general condemnation of Interference with human rights, according to United Press International. Mr Thondup said he would like to see the question brought up during the General Assembly’s discussion on colonialism, a topic originally proposed by the Soviet Union.

He said conditions in Tibet had grown much worse since the Assembly passed a resolution of condemnation against Communist China last year. Chinese forces had been guilty of genocide, of suppression of the Buddhist religion and of a concerted effort to wipe out Tibetan culture. Thousands of Chinese had been brought to colonise Tibet until they outnumbered by several times the total native population.