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Thousands sign petition urging parliament to reinstate sacked judges

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Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (File photo)

By Choekyi Lhamo

DHARAMSHALA, MAY 18: The petition to reinstate the sacked judges of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission that was launched on May 4 and has now reached 1100 signatures. The petitioner Tenzin Woeser who initiated the petition has sent the documents to the MPs individually and to the TSJC and the Kashag (Cabinet).

The petition calls on the members of the TPiE to “restore trust in the institutions of CTA and Tibetan movement”, “set aside regionalism and sectarianism”, “allow the newly elected Sikyong and MPs to immediately assume office”, and “stop causing further internal conflicts” as a way forward to solve the ongoing row.

Over a thousand Tibetans from 21 countries; India, Nepal, USA, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, UK, Nederland, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Russia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, and UAE, have signed the petition to reinstate the justices.

The impasse first emerged when the Tibetan parliament voted out the Chief Justice Commissioner and the two commissioners during the budget session on March 25 through an unprecedented secret ballot. Since then, Speaker of the parliament Pema Jungney and Dhomey MP Lobsang Choejor resigned citing their roles in the removal of the judges.

The Tibetan parliament on Sunday announced the postponement of the scheduled additional session from May 20 to May 24 despite the ongoing “corona curfew” in the state of Himachal. The one-day parliamentary session is likely to discuss the ways through which the new Sikyong-elect and MPs could take oath of office on May 26 and May 30 respectively.

7 Responses

  1. Like one medicine for a hundred of diseases, re-instigating the 3 justice commissioners will solve a hundred of problems.

  2. Hope TPIE will not turn a deaf ear on these petitions. After all they are elected by the people and they can’t ignore their voters. Reinstate TSJC and put back our system on the tracks.

  3. ཆེ་ཐོ་ཁྲིམས་ཁང་གི་ཁྲིམས་དཔོན་གསུམ་དེ་སྔོན་རང་སོ་སོའི་ལས་གནས་ཐོག་བཞག་རོགས་

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