First Tibetan in exile gets Indian passport

[vajratruth]

Indian Passports have been available to Tibetans in exile since the enactment of the Citizenship Act of 1955 (http://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in/acquisition1.htm) but to consider it was first regarded as unnecessary (recall the Dalai Lama and his Nechung Oracle prophesied on a number of occasions that theTibetans would be returning home in no time. Most didn't even bother to build proper houses in anticipation of the prophesies) and then unthinkable and anathema to being a loyal Tibetan.

The CTA had the TYC and other stooge-bodies spread the idea that it was taboo to seek an Indian passport. Why? Firstly, the CTA needed the Tibetans to remain in exile for that was the only reason for the CTA to even exist. Secondly, the CTA needs to be able to control the Tibetan  and having an Indian Passport would expose the Tibetans how inadequate the CTA and how futile it is to rely on the Tibetan leaders.

The following in an excerpt from an article by Lobsang Wangyal published in the Tibet Sun. Have a read and see people are waking up to their rights, precisely what the CTA and Dalai Lama have bee trying to avoid.


Passport and the Tibetan movement

Now, I have become a Tibetan-Indian. What does that mean? Will I start speaking in Hindi, move away from Tibetan society, change all my friends, stop paying the green book (tax to the CTA), and shun the Tibetan movement for a free Tibet? The argument that carrying an Indian passport by Tibetans in India will weaken the Tibetan movement is how Tibetans say, the rabbit worrying about the sky falling.

Having a passport makes life easier. One is free from the problems related to the Yellow Book. Holding a passport saves a lot of time and will make a person more efficient in doing things for the Tibetan cause. If one feels that holding the Yellow Book is patriotic and does more for the Tibetan cause, they can continue to hold that. There is no one forcing anybody to carry an Indian passport. But the opportunity is there now, one can make their own choice. Thinking that the Tibetan movement will be weakened by one holding a passport is not understanding and trusting their own fellow countrymen.

Another argument is that holding a passport will make the holder just a “Tibet supporter” rather than being a Tibetan. That argument disregards the exile Tibetan charter itself. Article 8 of the Charter says that if a Tibetan domicile out of necessity has to take up citizenship of other countries, that person could do so without losing their Tibetan domicile, as long as the person abides by Article 13 of the Charter.

Article 13 of the Charter has five clauses — that a Tibetan: 1. Has belief and trust in the Tibetan nation; 2. Respects and practices the Charter and other rules and regulations; 3. Works for the just cause of the Tibetan freedom struggle; 4. Pays the tax to CTA as determined; and 5. Fulfills duties during a national emergency.

The Tibetan movement will remain intact. But still the Kashag, instead of looking away from this real issue, should face it and give proper guidance to those who seek Indian passport.

CTA should further make the necessary amendment to the the requirement of RC for those applying for CTA programmes. There is a double standard, that for any ordinary Tibetan applying for a job or benefits, RC is required, yet when one gets to serve in the highest CTA posts such as Sikyong and the Kalons (Ministers) of the Departments, RC is not mandatory. This needs to be rectified, as this is not ok, and it’s undemocratic.

With true citizenship and all its benefits such as a passport, our love, appreciation, and gratitude towards India will increase many times more. I am already indebted for all that India and her people have provided for the Tibetan people. Tibetans have sacrificed their lives for India. And I am ready and willing to do whatever is necessary and possible for this great country.

https://www.tibetsun.com/opinions/2017/04/24/bye-bye-yellow-book

[Matibhadra]

The funny thing here is how much self-exiled Tibetans prefer to be third class residents in India, rather than being first class citizens in their own country.

Therefore, all the ordeals described in the above linked article are just self-inflicted suffering, and the consequence of their ridiculous belief in some “independent” Tibet, which is just another name for a envisaged, Western-colonized puppet country.

Tibet has not been independent since at least the 13th century, the reason being that the different Tibetan factions have ever since relied on external powers in order to achieve internal dominance.

Switzerland is a tiny country, mountainous like Tibet, encircled by most powerful nations, but nevertheless has managed to keep its sovereignty and integrity throughout so many centuries, and one important reason is that the Swiss people did not allow their internal rifts, such as those between Catholics and Protestants, as serious as they were, to be exploited by foreign powers; rather they would forget their differences and unite while facing an external threat.

Not so the Tibetans, whose different factions have historically been all too eager to run for the support of the available external powers of the day in order to achieve internal dominance. So did Sakyapas, Kagyupas, and  Gelugpas, associating themselves with assorted Mongolian butchers; so did the evil traitor the 13th dalie running for the support of the brutal British invader, and giving them South Tibet, now Arunachal Pradesh, as a token of his subservience.

And so does nowadays the evil 14th dalie, who chose to become a US puppet and CIA operative, and so do all those Nyingmapa, Kagyupa and Sakyapa smart lamas receiving big money from the international terrorist-financier George Soros' Tsadra Foundation and the dirty-moneyed Rockefellers, in the hopes of eventually be reinstated to their former glory as theocratic slave owners in the future, Western colonized Tibet of their wet, indecent dreams.

Therefore, thanks to the lack of scruples of their own traitorous leaders, who have never hesitated to be the vassals of foreign powers as long this would ensure the internal dominance of their faction, Tibetans have lost and keep losing every single day their right to constitute a sovereign nation, and those who suffer as third-class residents in exile are just paying the price of their blind faith in such despicable leaders, while feeding their illusions of a “free Tibet”.

Bottom line, the only reasonable path for the self-exiled but sincere Tibetan patriots is to go back to their own country, to unite with their fellow Tibetans, to work for their country, culture, traditions, language, and religion, and to give up the medieval religious sectarianism and factionalism poisoning them such as their anti-Shugden hatred, all of which will only be possible by deposing from their hearts the impostor dalie, and placing him where he belongs, the garbage bin of history.