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...Panchen Lama is six years old and now lives in Beijing, where the Tibetan community claims he is being detained...
Protesters at Swedenborg Chapel were particularly concerned with the issue of political prisoners. Many carried signs demanding the freedom of several prominent Tibetans, including the Panchen Lama, another Tibetan religious leader...
...your coverage. It is rather that we fear for the fate of Tibet; we worry for the safety of Ngawang Choephel, missing since the summer, but recently seen in Nyari prison by a fellow prisoner who had been repeatedly beaten and tortured. We fear for the six-year-old Panchen Lama (probably the world's youngest political prisoner) and his family, who all "disappeared" over a month...
...CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING to break into the soul of Tibet by making its own selection of the Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet [CHINA, Dec. 11]. This, no doubt, is similar to actions Hitler would have taken had he won the war. He would have subjugated Italy and attempted to destroy the Vatican, representing as it did a powerful competing entity. Failing to snuff out the devotion of European Catholics, the dictator would probably have tried picking cardinals and Popes as the next best thing. We can only wish the Chinese no luck...
CHANCES ARE GOOD THAT CHINA HAS resorted to outright kidnapping of the legitimate Panchen Lama and made its own choice in order to control the independence drive of the Tibetan people. We must not forget that China has occupied Tibet. If the U.S. is to be the moral conscience of the world, it must address this issue with China. The Tibetan culture is unique, and it would be an incalculable loss to have it disappear forever. SABIR HASAN New York City Via E-mail