Gallerie fotografiche
Jean-Pierre Grandjean per Dossier Tibet
Grand lecteur des récits de voyage de Nicolas Bouvier, d'Ella Maillart ou d'Alexandra David-Néel, Jean-Pierre Grandjean a privilégié l'expérience de la rencontre avec les peuples d'Asie du sud-est. Dès son premier voyage au Viêt-nam, au Laos, au Cambodge et en Birmanie en 1989, il est sensible à l'importance de la religion dans le quotidien et dans les questions géopolitiques : à cette époque, les monastères sont bannis au Viêt-nam et le gouvernement chinois perpétue un ethnocide au Tibet. Jean-Pierre Grandjean assiste à diverses célébrations et, très touché par l'accueil chaleureux des Bouddhistes, il apprécie leur sérénité apportée par la spiritualité. Pour lui, il s'agit plus d'une philosophie de vie que d'un enseignement religieux à proprement parler. Le bouddhisme devient progressivement un des thèmes majeurs du photographe qui a voyagé à plusieurs reprises dans les pays pratiquant cette confession.
I° Forum Internazionale per la libertà del Tibet
The 1th International Forum for the freedom of Tibet in Turin
Fifty delegates coming from Europe, Asia and North America met in the Congress Centre “Torino Incontra” for the 1th International Forum for the Freedom of Tibet, organized by ISCOS-CISL with the collaboration of the Tibet Culture House and the French associations “Tibet Destination Rangzen” and “Alternative Tibetaine”.
Even some very important exponents of the Chinese dissidence like Wei Jingsheng, winner of the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament, took part at the meeting, to search a common strategy for a non violent struggle to assert democracy in China.
Some representatives of the institutions of Piedmont, as the member of Regional Council Giampiero Leo, coordinator of the “Associazione dei Comuni, Province e Regioni per il Tibet”, and some members of Italian Parliament, were invited and took part in the debate.
Harry Wu (Laogai Research Foundation) e Larry Gerstein (International Tibet Indipendence Movement), unable to be present, sent their notes to the Presidency of the Forum.
Monks and laymen met in Turin not only to reassert the right of Tibetan people to the self determination, but even to plan a new and more effective kind of relationship between the political and social opposition in the occupied territories.
The meeting, started with a speech of Claudio Tecchio, of the “Campagna di Solidarietà con il Popolo Tibetano”, continued with the speeches of all the most authoritative members of the Tibetan diaspora, as Jamyang Norbu, president of Rangzen Alliance and Dhundup Namgyal Khorko, representative of the associations of the ex partisans of Eastern Tibet.
Mario Scotti, General Secretary of the CISL of the Piedmont, stressed the importance of the counter-information to try to mobilize the international community and he supported the subscription for a Popular Petition to ask the Italian Government to promote a motion against China to the Security Council of the U.N.
At the end of the meeting a document was approved laying the foundations of an international network that make more incisive the action of who is fighting for the Tibetan independence and for the independence of all the countries illegally occupied by China.
Besides the document emphasizes the commitment to found a free Trade Union that makes it possible for the Tibetan workers to oppose the current deportations and to lay the foundations of a social opposition opposing to the antidemocratic government imposed by the occupants.
The Forum, organized with the sponsorship of the “Compagnia di San Paolo” and the patronage of the Piedmont Region, was taken with particular attention by some international media as Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, that broadcasted live the most important moments of the debate.
Le immagini della rivolta
Dal 9 Marzo 2008 si sono registrate proteste e manifestazioni in 115 località
Arresti effettuati nel periodo Marzo 2008 - Febbraio 2010 :
- 5857 religiosi
- 3423 laici
Condanne ( da scontare nelle carceri o nei Laogai ) : 385 sentenze ( di cui 6 pene capitali e 13 ergastoli )
Vittime della polizia comunista cinese : 303* morti ,di cui :
- Lhasa (Marzo 2008 ) 160 vittime ,di cui soltanto 40 identificate (vedi elenco nominativo allegato)
- Il 15 Marzo testimoni oculari riferivano di aver visto 80 corpi nei pressi del Lhasa Public Security Bureau Office
- Ngaba ( Marzo 2008 ) 23 vittime ,di cui 10 identificate (vedi elenco nominativo allegato)
- Karze ( 11 Marzo 2008 ) 3 vittime non ancora identificate
*nel totale sono compresi 10 sospetti suicidi
Feriti : 2290 ( di cui : 725 hanno subito gravi lesioni durante gli interrogatori )
Dispersi :
730 religiosi (di cui :18 del monastero di Drepung, 190 del monastero di Ganden,30 del monastero di Gyalshoe Bhenkar,5 del monastero di Onpo)
231 laici
CPC : Chinese rule has brought economic development to Tibet
“Chinese rule has brought economic development, higher living standards and infrastructure to the remote Himalayan plateau …”
Zhang Qingli, Communist Party
"It is obvious that Tibetans in the PRC have also advanced under Chinese rule and improved their social, education, health and economic situation."
Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy,TGiE
Foto di Tashi Wangsu



