Italian Senator demands China reveal fate of 11th Panchen Lama on 30th anniversary of his disappearance

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Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India] May 18 (ANI): On the 30th anniversary of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima’s enforced disappearance, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, Italian Senator Andrea De Priamo, who serves as the President of the Italian Tibet Interparliamentary Group, has released a powerful statement urging the Chinese government to free him and acknowledge the fundamental rights of the Tibetan people, as reported by the Central Tibet Administration (CTA).

On May 17, 1995, merely days after being acknowledged by 14th Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, the six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was taken by Chinese officials along with his family. Since then, no reliable information about their location has been made public. Senator De Priamo remarked that this incident represents the longest-running enforced disappearance in contemporary history and constitutes a severe, ongoing breach of international human rights and religious freedom, according to the CTA ...

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