martinz
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 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: Tibet top religious official sacked |
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All this unrest in China is not gonna help them organizing the Olympics 2008. Whether is it the western perception of the human rights protest or China's version of blatant act of XiZang terrorism, its gonna harm their reputation if the matter is properly handled. I wish that peace will settle for them all.
| Quote: | BEIJING: Tibet's top official for minority and religious affairs has been sacked, Chinese state media said Sunday, becoming the first apparent political casualty of the unrest in the Himalayan region.
Danzeng Langjie, director of Tibet's Ethnic Minority and Religious Affairs Commission, has been "removed" from his post, according to a statement posted on the website of the Tibet Daily newspaper.
It gave no further details on Danzeng's background or reasons for his removal.
It said he had been replaced by Luosang Jiumei, another ethnic Tibetan who has been vice secretary of the Communist Party committee of the capital Lhasa since 2004 after occupying a long list of district posts.
The change is believed to be the first announced by China following deadly rioting that hit Lhasa on March 14 and spread to Tibetan-populated areas of adjacent Chinese provinces.
The crisis, the biggest challenge to China's rule of Tibet in decades, appeared to catch authorities off-guard.
China has so far maintained the violence was instigated by pro-independence forces loyal to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, denying that Chinese political and religious controls were responsible for fuelling public anger in the region.
The announcement on Sunday gave only the Chinese versions of the two men's names. Their actual Tibetan names could not be immediately confirmed.
It also announced a reshuffle of several other posts, mainly Tibetan judicial positions.
It was not immediately clear if those reshuffles were part of normal rotations or a consequence of the unrest.
The protests began in Lhasa to mark the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet, an event that saw the Dalai Lama flee to India where he was lived ever since. - AFP/ac |
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