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Dr Tutu joins Tibet protests
by Bill Bowder
%235%23.jpg) Cartoon: Noel Ford |  Airbrushed out: the mural outside St John’s, Princes Street, Edinburgh. The figure of a Tibetan monk (bottom left) has been blacked out |
| ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu was expected to challenge China over its record in Tibet, when the Olympic flame was scheduled to make its only stop in the United States, on Wednesday night in San Francisco. Protesters scaled the Golden Gate bridge in the city earlier this week to demonstrate against China’s suppression of dissent in Tibet. Dr Tutu, who flew to the United States on Tuesday, was joining a growing wave of protest at the Chinese military action against people in Tibet. It has left 140 killed, according to exile sources. At a candlelit vigil near City Hall on Tuesday night, he urged world leaders to boycott the games: “For God’s sake, for the sake of our children, for the sake of their children, for the sake of the beautiful people of Tibet — don’t go.” Last Friday, the Commission on International Religious Freedom, a US monitoring group, asked President Bush not to attend the opening ceremony of the Games in Beijing unless there were “discernible changes in China’s policy towards Tibet”. If he did attend, he should visit Tibet first. Trouble over the Olympic torch began in Greece, when the flame was collected to take to Tiananmen Square, before beginning its 130-day, 137,000-kilometre “Journey of Harmony” on Monday of last week. After protests in London, the flame went to Paris, where it was extinguished four times along its route. There were reports this week that food and water supplies had been cut off at the three Tibetan monasteries around Lhasa. About 1000 Tibetans have been detained since the uprising began on 10 March. A pro-Tibet mural (pictured, left) outside St John’s Episcopal Church in Princes Street, Edinburgh, was defaced this week. The Rector, the Revd Dr John Armes, said on Monday that the protester had done “what many people feel the Chinese are doing to Tibet, airbrushing its people out of existence”. The church is hosting an exhibition on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is due to visit England in May to lead discussions on Christian-Buddhist relations. |
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