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China Condemns Spanish Genocide Case
Reuters
The Chinese government has strongly condemned a Spanish court that has
decided to hear a case involving allegations that China has carried out
genocide in Tibet, resulting in over one million Tibetans being killed or
disappearing since China occupied the region in 1950. The court is considering
charges of crimes against humanity, state terrorism and torture against seven
high-ranking Chinese officials, including a former president in a lawsuit filed
by the Madrid-based Committee to Support Tibet. Chinese foreign ministry
spokesman Liu Jianchao condemned the Spanish court's decision to hear the
charges, saying: "The so-called genocide in Tibet is complete and sheer libel
and [a] fabrication against China". "The Tibet issue is purely a question of
China's internal affairs. We are opposed to the attempt of any country to
interfere in our internal affairs under the pretext of the Tibet question". The
councillor of the Spanish Embassy was summoned to the Chinese Foreign Ministry
in Beijing to discuss the issue but no details of the meeting were immediately
available, said Spanish spokesman Gregorio Laso.
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