{"id":11874,"date":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/human-rights-watch-report-they-say-we-should-be-grateful\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T22:00:00","slug":"human-rights-watch-report-they-say-we-should-be-grateful","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/human-rights-watch-report-they-say-we-should-be-grateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch: \u201cThey say we should be grateful\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"<\/a>Since 2006, the Chinese government has implemented large-scale programs to \u201crehouse\u201d\u2014through renovation of existing houses or construction of new ones\u2014a majority of the rural population of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) under a policy called \u201cComfortable Housing.\u201d In parallel, the government has accelerated the relocation and sedentarization of nomadic herders in the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau, mostly in Qinghai province, and laid the ground for similar policies in other parts of the plateau. Both policies are a component of the government\u2019s effort to \u201cBuild a New Socialist Countryside\u201d in Tibetan areas, which the government says is designed to rapidly increase the living standards of rural Tibetans and boost the local economy.<\/p>\n

The scale and speed at which the Tibetan rural population is being remodeled by these policies is unprecedented in the post-Mao era. According to official figures, under the Comfortable Housing policy, 2 million people\u2014more than two-thirds of the entire population of the TAR\u2014were moved into new houses or rebuilt their own houses between 2006 and 2012. Twenty percent of those rehoused between 2006 and 2010\u2014about 280,000 people\u2014had to be relocated, some nearby and others at a great distance. The government intends to rehouse 180,000 more by 2015.<\/p>\n

The 115-page report,\u00a0\u201c\u2018They Say We Should Be Grateful\u2019: Mass Rehousing and Relocation in Tibetan Areas of China,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0documents extensive rights violations ranging from the absence of consultation to the failure to provide adequate compensation, both of which are required under international law for evictions to be legitimate. The report also addresses defects in the quality of the houses provided, absence of remedies for arbitrary decisions, failures to restore livelihoods, as well as a disregard for autonomy rights nominally guaranteed by Chinese law in Tibetan areas.<\/p>\n

To read the full report, click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chinese government is subjecting millions of Tibetans to a policy of mass rehousing and relocation that radically changes their way of life, and about which they have no say, Human Rights Watch said in its new report “They Said We Should Be Grateful: Mass Rehousing and Relocation in Tibetan Areas of China”, published on 27 June 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[679],"news_tag":[671],"class_list":["post-11874","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","hentry","categorie-research-and-analysis","news_tag-chinese-policy-and-leadershipenvironment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHuman Rights Watch: \u201cThey say we should be grateful\u201d - Campaign for Tibet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/human-rights-watch-report-they-say-we-should-be-grateful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Human Rights Watch: \u201cThey say we should be grateful\u201d - 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