According to reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), the Tibetan people in Lhasa City reel under massive influx of Chinese migrants now pouring into Lhasa City in wake of unprecedented flooding in lower plains of Mainland China.
Unprecedented rain in South Asia, particularly in China, have caused massive floods and water logging in the lower plains of China causing massive damages and washed away the homes and dwellings of hundreds and thousands of Chinese people.
The source also said that in light of millions left homeless and without future prospects in Mainland China, thousands of Chinese people affected by floods in large number were pouring into Tibet on the recently built Qinghai-Tibet Railway. This unprecedented movement of Chinese migrants to Lhasa has put pressure on the local Tibetans and their day-to-day livelihood.
The Chinese migrants were known to do any kind of work they were given by their clients. However, since the beginning of July 2007, the population of Chinese migrants in Lhasa city has increased in mammoth proportion. Thousands of them remain jobless in Lhasa. They were now beginning to express their anger and frustration amongst themselves over the lack of jobs and employment prospects.
Due to the unprecedented pressure of population density caused by large influx of Chinese migrants, the Lhasa city, particularly the local Tibetans were now reeling under a difficult situation they have never faced or anticipated. The price of commodities and essential goods were skyrocketing and the inflation has reached apogee of height. The prices of essential food and commodities such as meat, butter and cereals were increasing at frenetic pace. This development has stirred the anxiety of local Tibetans about their day to day livelihoods. Since the beginning of July 2007, the Chinese officials have ordered the Lhasa Public Security Bureau (PSB) to round up the beggars in the streets and to send back to their respective hometowns and regions. The beggars were issued with severe order not to ever return to Lhasa streets.
Today there are numerous unemployed Chinese migrant workers and fortune seekers straying the streets of Lhasa. Ironically, the Chinese officials are doing nothing to look after the issue of mushrooming unemployed Chinese migrants in Lhasa City while on the other hand the Tibetan beggars were high-handedly evicted from Lhasa streets and dispatched to hinterland countryside.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) expresses its grave concern over the situation of ongoing influx of massive Chinese migrant workers and fortune seekers into Tibet. We also request the Chinese government to address threats and challenges posed to the livelihood of Tibetan people in and around Lhasa. Turning blind eye to such situation is a blatant violation of the human rights of the native people and a stark contradiction to the spirit of Chinese Constitution and those of international laws.
3 August 2007 Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, India
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