[Mb-civic] Birthday of Imprisoned Panchen Lama: The World's Youngest Political Prisoner Turns 16

[Barbara Siomos]

Thank you for sending this... we can only keep up the pressure on the Chinese and OUR government to release him, perhaps a visit and to know where he and his family are. Bush MUST do more.

peace,
barbara

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Subject: [Mb-civic] Birthday of Imprisoned Panchen Lama: The World's Youngest Political Prisoner Turns 16

Hecate  ( hecate at diamonddragon.com )
sent you this story from democracynow.org




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On May 17th, 1995 the Chinese government abducted Gendun Choekyi Nyima who was then six years old and had just been recognized by the Dali Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama - which is the second most prominent holy man in Tibetan Buddhism. He turns 16 today. We speak with Robert Thurman of Columbia University. [includes rush transcript]
This story continues at: 
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/25/1342210

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