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加拿大华人周日渥太华集会规模空前 预计人数超过五千
李牧 2008-04-10 16:21 环球华网 |  渥太华集会T恤
今天中午，记者与集会的组织者张先生通电话，他当时正在验收统一订作的T恤衫。据张先生介绍，“这次活动，旨在和平宣传西藏真相,维护祖国统一。我们要用和平、合法并且郑重的方式，来宣传祖国的领土神圣不可侵犯。虽然我们身在海外，但仍要严历谴责骚 乱分子的罪恶行径,用我们自己的方式,为祖国和平做出一份贡献。”
渥太华集会虽然准备时间较短，但充分吸取了多伦多、温哥华和蒙特利尔等地的经验，各项工作进行的非常有成效。目前，统一制作的T恤衫（见图）已经完工。相应人数不断增加，到今天为止，经专门培训的纠察队员增加到60人。
本次集会非常强调公众性和认同性，要求除中国国旗五星红旗外，大量准备加拿大国旗枫叶旗。专门打造的英文声明已经成文（见附录一）。集会对标语有统一要求，特别强调中文标语必需加上相同意义的英文（见附录二）。
渥太华集会在加拿大首都举行，集会地点在国会大厦门前，重大的政治意义引起举国关注。随着多伦多和蒙特利尔两市专程赴会者的增加，集会向政府申报的预定人数，已经从400人上升到2000人。
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附录一：渥太华集会英文声明
One China and No Violence（4.13集会英文声明)
On March 14, 2008, a riot happened in Lhasa. Mobs launched racial attacks on ethnic Han Chinese and ethnic Hui Muslim Chinese. This riot caused many civilian deaths. We, Chinese, living in Ottawa are outraged by such violence towards civilians and have come to be deeply disturbed by biased media coverage at main Canadian television stations, newspapers and magazines. We condemn any attempt to provoke racial tension in Tibet coming from separatist groups and western special interest groups.
Tibet had been part of China for hundreds of years. An imposing array of valuable cultural relics on display at the Sagya Monastery in Lhasa prove that Tibet became part of China in the Yuan Dynasty and has remained under the administration of the central government of China since then. According to the historical records of the monastery, Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Yuan dynasty, asked Phags-pa, head of the Sagya Monastery, to be his spiritual guide, or a senior official of the central government, after Khan had created the Yuan Dynasty in 1271.[1] The history of Tibet within China is far longer than the advent of western settlers on the North American continent.
In the riot on March 14, 2008, many innocent civilians, especially ethnic Han and ethnic Hui Muslim Chinese who are living in Lhaza, were deliberately targeted by terrorists, mobs, and separatists. Five teenage girls working as clerks in the YiChun shop were burned to death. The charred remains of five people were found later on, including an eight-month-old boy, killed when a motorcycle shop he was in was set on fire by ruthless mobs. Such atrocities shocked the Ottawa Chinese community. Is this atrocity a “peaceful protest”? Is this atrocity in line with some “cultural tradition”? Is this atrocity a natural outcome of the democracy movement? It is shameful to see Canadian media describe such events as “peaceful protest”.
Unfortunately, in the past weeks, the Canadian mass media have been full of biased allegations concerning China and ethic Han Chinese. Some Canadian media have actually provoked and encouraged violence in Tibet by distorting events there, overstating the vehemence of efforts law enforcement officials used, and failing to highlight what was indeed racial violence unleashed by Tibetan mobs and Tibetan separatists in Lhasa.
Protest is a natural expression of human rights. However, protest should not be expressed through means that effectively destroy others’ human rights. There are lots of ways to express personal and political objectives. Killing innocent other-ethnic civilians is not a legitimate act; it is instead a mortal crime. Our deep sympathy goes to innocent ethnic Han Chinese and ethic Hui Muslim Chinese that terrorists burned to death in Lhasa. We must condemn any riot that harms innocent civilians. We condemn any organizations and groups that may turn out to have been behind this bloody killing.
The biased comments and propaganda from Canadian media will do no good to any party. Such intemperate language can only help to bring about a further deterioration of the situation in Tibet and provoke more racial violence.
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