Dutch Prime Minister refuses to meet with the Dalai Lama
Monday, 25 May 2009
Justice for the World International Press Release
The Dutch Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, should immediately revoke his decision to deliberately and strategically not meet with the Dalai Lama. He had originally planned to personally meet the Dalai Lama early next June, but now refuses to, after being pressured by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The decision of the Dutch Prime Minister has been criticized by other Dutch politicians, to which the Prime Minister's response was that he wishes not to undermine his efforts for an open dialogue with the 'Prime Minister' of China about human rights issues such as Tibet.
Though his intentions may be good, his decision gives out the wrong signal and the reason for the decision may attest to the idea that the dialogues about human rights with the CCP are merely arbitrary, and not based on the right foundation of respect to begin with. These dialogues on human rights have not contributed to any improvement whatsoever but the illusion of improvement or chance thereof may even contribute to the world turning a blind eye to cultural suppression of Tibet and the now almost ten years of persecution in China of the peaceful yoga-like qigong practice known as Falun Gong.
The Dutch Prime Minister, who has in the past attested to being highly intellectual, should not be dictated by the Chinese Communist Party into refusing to meet with the Dalai Lama. The CCP keeps misrepresenting the Dalai Lama's words and human rights issues and is thereby underestimating the world's intellect including that of the Chinese worldwide, most of whom, both in and outside of China, have grown particularly critical of the Party, to which, sadly so, most international media have thus far remained oblivious.
The use of photo - of the watercolor and pencil on board by Boris Chaliapin of Martin Luther King, Jr. - by (CC) courtesy of Twentieth-Century Americans - Portrait Gallery. The painting (48"x36" oil on linen 2008) of Barack Obama entitled 'A New Day' by (CC) courtesy of Gregg Chadwick.
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