Resolution Adopted
by the CCAR
Tibet
Adopted by the 101st Annual
Convention of
the Central
Conference of American Rabbis
Seattle, Washington, June 1990
Background
We are commanded not “to
stand idly by the blood of your neighbor,” to seek justice,
to free the prisoner. We have
suffered persecution, indignity, tyranny, genocide.
Thus we are responsive and sensitive to the plight
of our brothers and sisters of
Tibet who have suffered the loss of more than one sixth of
their population–l,200,000 killed.
over 6,000 monasteries and many other holy places destroyed,
and their most elementary
and
fundamental freedoms trampled by the invaders of the People’s
Republic of China. Recent discoveries have disclosed that these
occupiers have ravaged the environment,
with enormous loss of wildlife and disruption of the ecosystem.
Brutality abounds.
The Dalai Lama
has reached out to the Jewish community for advice and support.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the
Central Conference of American Rabbis call upon
the President of the United States to welcome the
Dalai Lama to the White House in
order to strengthen the hand of the Dalai Lama and to indicate
to the government
of the People’s
Republic of China that we are sincere in our condemnations of its
brutal oppression
of Tibet, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the
CCAR call upon the Congress of the United States to
invite the Dalai Lama to address it and testify
before it, and speedily pass HR#
4300 providing American visas for Tibetans, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we condemn the
People’s Republic of China for its arrogant
invasion of Tibet and its brutal oppression thereof,
its genocidal policy, its desecration
and destruction of holy places, its torture and unjustifiable
imprisonment of countless persons, including nuns, its violation of
the environment, its defilement
of
a holy nation, a peaceful people, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we commend the Nobel Committee for
conferring the Peace
Prize on the
Dalai Lama, who is truly a man of peace, committed to non-violence and
resistance on the highest level,
and to whom we reach out in friendship, solidarity,
and support.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we further state our intent that the Dalai
Lama be invited
to address a
convention of the CCAR.