NAM GIAO

XIN HÃY ĐỨNG CHUNG VỚI ĐỨC ĐẠT LAI LẠT MA

VÀ LÊN TIẾNG ỦNG HỘ NGÀI !

Quỳnh Vi

From: lienhoa5951@hotmail.com
Subject: Xin hãy đứng chung với Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma và lên tiếng ủng hộ Ngài!
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:33:52 -0700

Dưới áp lực của nhà cầm quyền cộng sản Trung Quốc, Nam Phi đã từ chối cấp visa cho Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma tham dự buổi họp mặt lần thứ 14 của những người đã từng nhận giải thưởng Nobel Hòa Bình.

Tồ chức Tibetan National Congress đang kêu gọi những nhà đoạt giải Nobel Hoà Bình tẩy chay và không tham dự cuộc họp mặt này khi Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma bị cấm nhập cảnh vô cớ, vi phạm quyền tự do đi lại của Ngài và là một quyền con người được bảo vệ bởi Bản Tuyên Ngôn Nhân Quyền Quốc Tế.

Như người bạn của tôi, anh Jigme Ugen đã viết trong lời kêu gọi: Nếu các nhà đoạt giải Nobel Hòa Bình mà cũng không đứng lên đòi hỏi công bằng cho một người đoạt giải khác trong lúc cần thiết, đặc biệt là vì sự đàn áp của một chính phủ, thì có lẽ chúng ta đang sống trong một thời kỳ tồi tệ nhất của lịch sử nhân loại ...

Đừng để Trung Quốc biến thời đại của chúng ta trở thành thời kỳ tăm tối nhất, điều đó chỉ và sẽ xảy ra khi chúng ta ngồi im và không hành động gì ...

Mong mọi người ủng hộ và chia sẻ dùm!  Xin cảm ơn tất cả!

Quỳnh Vi

Tiếng Việt: http://www.tibetnc.org/get-involved/stand-with-a-fellow-nobel-laureate-vi/

Tiếng Anh: http://www.tibetnc.org/get-involved/stand-with-a-fellow-nobel-laureate/#form

Chúng tôi lên án hành động từ chối thị thực cho Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma đời thứ 14 của chính phủ Nam Phi, vì đó thật sự là việc ngăn chặn Ngài tham gia Hội nghị Cấp cao Quốc Tế lần thứ 14 dành cho những Nhà đoạt giải thưởng Nobel Hòa Bình ở Cape Town.

Chúng tôi yêu cầu những Nhà đoạt giải thưởng Nobel Hòa Bình được mời đến cuộc hội nghị cấp cao lần này hãy đứng chung thành một khối thống nhất và từ chối có mặt trừ phi Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma cũng được cho phép tham dự. Chúng tôi kêu gọi quý vị hãy ký tên vào lá thư chung. Hãy để cho họ nghe đưọc sự lên tiếng của quý vị.

Lá thư chung sẽ được chuyển đến những Nhà đoạt giải Nobel Hòa Bình đã đưọc mời tham dự cuộc Hội Nghị Cấp Cao sau đây:

Mrs. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Mrs. Betty Williams, Prof. Jody Williams, Prof. Muhammad Yunus, President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mrs. Tawakkol Karman, Mrs. Leymah Gbowee, President José Ramos-Horta, President Lech Walesa, Lord David Trimble, President Frederik Willem De Klerk and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Dear Nobel Peace Laureate:

As one of the Laureates’ invited to the 14th World Nobel Peace Summit, you may be surprised to learn that in yet another incomprehensible and disheartening move, the South African Government has denied a visa to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to attend the Summit with you.

South Africa, synonymous with the triumph of truth over falsehood, the powerless over the powerful and right over wrong, has produced some of the most inspirational freedom fighters in recent history. Leaders who have not only regained their country from the clutches of colonial masters but more importantly, chaperoned the country to a new dawn of co-existence and peace, choosing to leave the past of racism, hatred, and bigotry behind. South Africa has set unparalleled standards of morality for itself and the world to learn from.

So, it is deeply painful to hear that South Africa’s government has yet again denied His Holiness the Dalai Lama a visa, especially to an event meant to celebrate the Late Nelson Mandela’s Legacy and to promote Peace. Nelson Mandela once famously said: “To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." This is a question the South African government must ask themselves on this occasion. His Holiness the Dalai Lama's role as an advocate for peace is universally known and respected, and he has consistently sought to bring humanity to a new age of cooperation and coexistence based on mutual respect and love.

I ask you be guided by the same courage that characterizes your legacy and stand in solidarity with a fellow Laureate, who is clearly being denied the right to be at this historic event due to outside pressure exerted by the Chinese Government, the same government that holds prisoner another Laureate, Liu Xiaobo, at this very moment.

If the civilized world continues to bow under pressure to such a megalomaniacal regime, it only encourages and rewards such behavior in the future, and in turn undermines the progress of genuine progressive and harmonious relationship between nations to a better cohesive future world.

THEREFORE, I hope you, a moral compass of humanity, will take a unified stand with the other Nobel Peace Laureates invited to this Summit, and forego your attendance unless His Holiness the Dalai Lama is permitted to attend with you.

Thank you for your leadership.

Deepest respect,

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YÊU CẦU TỔNG THỐNG NAM PHI JACOB ZUMA

HÃY CẤP HỘ CHIẾU CHO ĐỨC DALAI LAMA.

14 Nobel Laureates urge Zuma to give Dalai Lama visa

2014-09-15 16:39

Johannesburg - Fourteen Nobel Peace Laureates have asked President Jacob Zuma to guarantee the Dalai Lama a visa to South Africa, after the Tibetan spiritual leader was forced to abandon a trip to the country.

The Dalai Lama was to attend a summit of Nobel peace prize winners in Cape Town next month, the first-ever meeting of its kind in Africa.

But, according to an aide, he cancelled after he was denied a visa in a bid to avoid angering China, which regards the Buddhist monk as a campaigner for Tibetan independence.

"We are deeply concerned about the damage that will be done to South Africa's international image by a refusal - or failure - to grant him a visa yet again," the group said in a letter to Zuma.

Signatories include Poland's Lech Walesa, Bangladeshi entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus, Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Northern Irish peacemakers David Trimble and John Hume.

The Dalai Lama has applied three times in the last five years to visit South Africa.

Each time the government has dragged its heels until the trip was called off.

Each prior rejection has been met with public outcry by South Africans who see it as a betrayal of the commitment to human rights embraced by their government since the end of apartheid 20 years ago.

Two years ago, a top court found that the government had acted unlawfully by dragging its heels on a visa application by the Tibetan until it was too late.

China - South Africa's biggest single trading partner, with two-way trade worth $21bn in 2012 - regularly uses its economic and political clout to put pressure on governments around the world to limit contact with the Dalai Lama.

"We understand the sensitivities involved - but would like to point out that His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, no longer holds any political office," the signatories said.

Instead, they insisted, he "would participate in the summit solely in his capacity as a globally respected spiritual leader".

The Nobel summit in Cape Town on 13 October - 15 October is backed by foundations representing four South African peace laureates - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Albert Luthuli.

Along with the surviving South Africans - Tutu and de Klerk - the organisers say 13 individuals and eight organisations had confirmed that they would attend the summit, including former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.

Previous summits have been held in cities including Rome, Paris, Chicago and Warsaw.

The Dalai Lama was previously barred from entry to South Africa in 2011, when he was invited to give a lecture as part of celebrations for anti-apartheid activist Tutu's 80th birthday.

At the time, Tutu described the ANC as being "worse than the apartheid government".

The Dalai Lama was also denied a visa in 2009, but had visited three times before that and was personally welcomed by former president Mandela.

- AFP

Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/14-Nobel-Laureates-urge-Zuma-to-give-Dalai-Lama-visa-20140915-2