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Attempts to Divide the
Australian Tibetan Communities

KELSANG In 1959, after a massive motivated outsider to penetrate because they were Caucasian, place in Dee Why on the July
GYALTSEN uprising against Chinese and create disharmony amongst while the other was refused 10, 2016. It was the first Sydney
Communist occupation of Tibetans in Australia by means simply for being in the photos celebration of Tibet’s traditional
Tibetans cannot Tibet, Tibetans were brutally of political donation or financial with the Dalai Lama while he Sho-ton Festival. I noted most
be divided simply suppressed by its military bribery. was giving public teachings and VIPs were of Chinese Han
by using the same forces. Under the leadership talks. ethnicity and from various
outdated Chinese of His Holiness the 14th So how does the Chinese Chinese community associations.
Communist Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Communist Party penetrate and In the case of a failure to fulfill Although news reported more
Party tricks government officials and divide the Tibetan community? the above three conditions, than sixty Tibetan and Chinese
and methods over 80,000 Tibetan people many Tibetans have to give up participants, from the photos
of winning over escaped across the Himalayas 1. Threatening the safety of on going back to their homeland we can only see Chinese people
opportunists. and rehabilitated in exile in their families living inside to visit their parents, leaving dressed in Tibetan clothes.
India, Nepal and Bhutan. The Tibet behind huge regrets when their
PHOTO: ZIPEI XIA Tibetan government was then The majority of the families of parents pass away. The other event was the
established in exile. Many Australian Tibetans live in Tibet. 3. Establishing pro-Chinese Tibetan New Year Forum which
20 Tibetans travelled even further, If Tibetans living in Australia Communist Party took place on March 5, 2017
and today Tibetan refugees are participate in activities such associations in Sydney. Approximately ten
scattered and rehabilitated in as the Birthday Celebration On 24 November 2013, a Tibetans from all over Australia
more than thirty countries. of the His Holiness the Dalai so-called Australian Tibetan participated in this event.
The first Tibetan migrants Lama, the International Day of Friendship Association (澳大利 However, what we saw from
into Australia arrived in 1972. Human Rights, the Celebration 亚藏族同胞联谊会社团) was the report is that apart from
In 1996, when His Holiness the of Nobel Peace Prize Day to established in Australia. Initially Changmao Wu, the President
Dalai Lama visited Australia, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the motivation was to forge of the pro-Chinese Communist
the Representative Office of Tibetan Democracy Day and mutual communication between Party Australian Chinese
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 10th March Uprising Day, it the Chinese people and the Dalai Association, participants included
which is known as the Tibet will affect their relatives in Lama along with the Tibetan Minister Wei Cai and Counselor
Information Office (TIO), Tibet, their admission to work Information Office. However, Weiming Chang of Chinese
and Australian Tibet Support as Tibetan Civil Servant of CTA due to being too intimate with the Embassy, Vice Consul-General
organizations negotiated with Dharamsala or their joining the Chinese Embassy and organizing Xuejun Tong and Consul-General
the then Australian Immigration army. Civil Service and Military activities with other pro-Chinese Can Wang of the Chinese
Minister and subsequently Recruitment advertisements clearly Communist Party organizations, General Consulate in Sydney.
the Australian government state: “Those people whose many Tibetans realise they There were no mentions of any
began to accept a few Tibetan immediate or subordinate have been deceived and misled specific Tibetans attending this
refugees and their families relatives serving in Dalai group and have already withdrawn. event. This shows that the event
under the Special Humanitarian or participating in free Tibet Although this very small was not transparent, because
Project (SHP) - an ongoing movements, shall not apply.” minority has been disgraced in even though there were Tibetans
program. However, the Tibetan the Tibetan community, they attending, they dared not publish
Government in Exile, with 2. Refusal to grant visa to are still quite active with the it.
special consideration, prioritized visit one’s family help of the Chinese Embassy in
this opportunity to those The only way Australian Tibetans Canberra. The first reason is that We are willing to talk with
ex-Tibetan political prisoners are able to visit relatives back in the Chinese Embassy provides all Chinese and Chinese
and their families. There are Tibet is to obtain a visa through a lot of convenience for them. associations. We also know
currently about 2,500 Tibetans the Chinese Embassy. There are They can enter China freely and that Tibetan issues can only
living in Australia with 1,500 in three conditions for granting often attend events organised by be resolved through meeting
Sydney, 500 in Melbourne and visas: the Chinese Embassy such as and dialogue between the
the rest scattered in other cities. China’s National Day celebrations. Representative of His Holiness
Despite the small population First, admitting wrongdoings: Secondly, if they want to apply for the Dalai Lama and leaders
of Tibetans in exile, our existence being deceived into participating a Chinese visa, their applications of China. However, Tibetans
and solidarity, influence and in protests against China as well will be approved with reference cannot be divided simply by
good international standing as escaping to India and later letters issued by the president of using the same outdated Chinese
are quite visible wherever there Australia. this so-called Australian Tibetan Communist Party tricks and
are Tibetan communities. Friendship Association Paljor methods of winning over
This is mainly due to Tibetan Second, promising from now Tsering, and the vice-president opportunists, from people who
people’s unity and strong spirit on not to participate in any Tinley Rinchen. Thirdly, they make up less than 1% of the
of working towards Tibet’s political activities. act as the propaganda channel Tibetan community, to represent
freedom, and love for our of the Chinese Communist Tibetans under the guise of
culture and nation. Despite Third, do not join the Tibetan Party by publicising the three patriotism.
bad conditions and low levels Community Association which above-mentioned conditions for Kelsang Gyaltsen is the Chinese
of education, the common is pro-Dalai, and do not give obtaining a Chinese visa. Liaison Officer of the Tibetan
experience of political torture ‘freedom donations’ to the lnformation Office in Australia. To
by the Communist regime in Tibetan Information Office. Finally, after my arrival in learn more visit:
Tibet makes us strong and Some Tibetans were refused a Australia, I witnessed this www.tibetoffice.com.au
determined. It is not easy for any visa because they teach Tibetan Association’s organization of
at language schools operated by two events. The first one took
Tibetan communities. In the case
of couples, one was granted a visa

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