The Chinese brutality doesn't end there. In 1995 the Dalai Lama identified Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a six-year-old boy, as the 11th Panchen Lama. Within a month the Chinese had abducted him and ordered senior lamas to come up with the second, Chinese-approved choice. Beijing's interest in controlling the appointment of the Panchen Lama is in the fact that he may be influential in identifying the future reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. I asked some Tibetan pilgrims what they though of the current Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama, many see as a government puppet. They unanimously said he was not the 'real' one and had no respect for him.
Meanwhile the youngest political prisoner in the world is still under house arrest somewhere in China. There are groups campaigning for his release:
www.atc.org.au
Sign the petition - http://gopetition.com/petitions/release-the-kidnapped-panchen-lama-of-tibet-gedun-choekyi-nyima.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima or read 'In search for the Panchen Lama' by Isabel Hilton
Free Tibet http://www.freetibet.org/
http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/
Meanwhile the youngest political prisoner in the world is still under house arrest somewhere in China. There are groups campaigning for his release:
www.atc.org.au
Sign the petition - http://gopetition.com/petitions/release-the-kidnapped-panchen-lama-of-tibet-gedun-choekyi-nyima.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima or read 'In search for the Panchen Lama' by Isabel Hilton
Free Tibet http://www.freetibet.org/
http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/
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