Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move the motion as amended:

The Senate—

(a)   notes:

  (i) the tragic deaths by self-immolation of four monks from the Kirti Monastery and one nun from the Dechen Chokorling nunnery, in Ngaba county eastern Tibet (Sichuan province) between 16 March and 17 October 2011, and

  (ii) since March 2011, ten Tibetan people have set themselves on fire in order to highlight the continued human rights abuse and oppression of the Tibetan people;

(b) ecognises:

  (i) the people of Tibet continue to be subject to appalling human rights abuses, and

  (ii) the Chinese authorities have continued to take repressive measures against monks and nuns, particularly of the Kirti Monastery, since the self-immolation of a monk in March this year; and

(c) calls on the Government to urge the Chinese Government to cease repressive measures against the Tibetan people and respect human rights in Tibet.