LETTER: Tibet’s new leader should join hands with China
President-elect Tsering must promote policies and practices centred on co-operation rather than pointing fingers at China
The use of the word “genocide” in your Reuters report was overly dramatic and not conducive to building relations between people and cultures (“Tibetan president-elect urges world to resist China’s ‘cultural genocide’ (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/asia/2021-05-24-tibetan-president-elect-urges-world-to-resist-chinas-cultural-genocide/)", May 24). It is especially disappointing since the quote in question is uttered by someone new to his office. It would have been better for Central Tibetan Administration president-elect Penpa Tsering to seek to build bridges rather than being unnecessarily alarmist.
The article in question quotes Tsering arguing that mainland China is in the process of deliberately killing Tibet’s “religion, language, education and labour”. This is being achieved, according to him, though mass immigration of Han people into Tibet. There are several shortcomings with describing such migration as approximating cultural genocide...
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