On April 14 a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 9.6 devastated the Yushu Tibetan county in the western part of the country.
The official death toll is 2,064, while 175 people are still disperse.Le victims were mostly Tibetans and resided in the largest city in the county, Gyegu, located on the Tibetan plateau at an altitude of 4,000 meters.
The site is affected by the earthquake also that he was born the Dalai Lama. The surviving population in need of everything from basic necessities to help to rebuild homes, schools, buildings completely razed to the ground.
Rimé Onlus is on their side, help to help with a small gesture.
Donate to Rimé Onlus via:
account: No 93737351
made out to Rime Onlus - Via di Monteverde, 59 00151 Roma
IBAN: IT 94 J076 0103 2000 0009 3737 351
SWIFT Code: BPPIITRRXXX for foreign grants
The funds will be sent to the Tibetan government in exile and TWA - Tibetan Women's Association authorities for forwarding to the population and areas affected by the earthquake.
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the urgent to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers The Minister for Foreign Affairs; to know - given that: According to information gathered by international NGOs, the International Campaign for Tibet by Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty, the Government and the Tibetan Parliament in exile and the media, as exemplified by the newspaper 'La Repubblica' for Wednesday, April 28, 2010 that documents, a detailed report of the actual situation, the earthquake that April 14 has shocked the County of Yushu in Qinghai Tibetan region has caused tens of thousands of deaths reported so far against the two thousand by the Chinese authorities, according to some NGOs and humanitarian as reported by the same report "China in the earthquake hidden ', signed by Giampaolo Visetti, the newspaper' La Repubblica ', in the main road that connects to 820 miles County of Yushu with the capital, there would be several checkpoints to prevent hundreds of Tibetan monks to take part in the rescue, even forbidding access to international journalists to ascertain the true situation in the region, on the basis of these findings dozens of villages and neighborhoods, after two weeks, have not yet been reached by rescuers and the chairman of the People's Consultative Conference, Jia Qinglin, said that "overseas hostile forces trying to sabotage the relief effort." Among the writer Gyal, intellectual reference among Tibetans in Qinghai, was detained in Xining after writing an open letter in which he denounced the forgeries on the true extent of humanitarian disaster by the authorities, according to the government in Beijing the 2223 earthquake would have caused deaths, 90 missing, 12,000 injured and about 100 000 homeless. However, the counting of the monks and Tibetan sources, confirmed by international NGOs at the scene, raising the number of deaths identified over six thousand. Sources related to the survivors of the region, say the real figure is between 15 to 20 thousand dead after days of funerals and silence about the real situation, hundreds of monks protested against the official data. The seriousness of the situation is confirmed by other information: 1) Gyegu, the holy city of Tibet, is razed to the ground, 2) of the 238 Buddhist monasteries of the region, wedged between the Sichuan and Tibet today, 87 fell and 60% other is unsafe, and 3) The Sengze Gyanak Mani, the sacred Buddhist mountain of stones larger than the world is destroyed. Over two billion stones engraved with the mantra, are overwhelming landslide eight stupas and prayer wheels to ten meters high, 4) Thousands of ancient statues of Tibetan deities, of precious sutras and texts of thangka, painted and embroidered on silk, are lost; 5) Deep cracks temple of Princess Wencheng, protected from a cave, and in the temple of Jyekundo, the Tibetan name Gyegu. Among the 23 000 monks of the Gelugpa, in the region, the local government would have said 84 victims. Sources related to Tibetan lamas claim to have lost over a thousand brothers, between capital and province are collapsed 70% of the 192 schools, while others are impassable. According to official figures, the students who died in the region would be 207. Monks and human rights activists, however, are in possession of lists stating that only 769 students who died in the 67 institutes and colleges of Gyegu. Hundreds of students are missing. The most violent shock of the earthquake of 14 April 2010, at 7:49 am, surprised many students were in class clean room or to prepare for exams. Only in the primary school number 3, according to official figures, there were reportedly 40 vittime.Secondo journalist Republic, the principal of a school collapsed, Nyima Gyaltsen, the approximately 3100 children who attended the 18 school buildings collapsed in the area, only 63 survivors were found. Massacres similar denials by the authorities, would have occurred in all other schools, professional women in the institution, crumbled in the orphanage where they lived a thousand children, in hospitals collapsed; to know: - if the Italian government is aware of the information gathered by international NGOs about the real situation created in Tibet following the severe earthquake, and if it considers reliable - such as humanitarian aid have been made available by the Italian government of the Chinese authorities and if these aid has been accepted - if it does not consider the Government to intervene urgently with the sending of international observers, in agreement with the European Union and the UN, to ascertain the true situation developing in Tibet - unless the Government considers urgent action in all international fora and bilaterally with the Chinese government about the need to reach as soon as possible to aid and support to the Tibetan population of the earthquake zone - finally if the Government does not consider that to prevent international press to reach the places affected by the earthquake does not violate the most elementary rules relating to freedom of information, and therefore does not consider should ask the Chinese authorities to give free access in these areas; Members radicals - Pd: Matthew Mecacci, Maurizio Turkish Beltrandi Marco Bernardini Rita Maria Antonietta Farina Coscioni Elizabeth Zamparutti
