#Pariser Platz

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Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany.

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The Brandenburg Gate at night. by Pascal Volk

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A moment in Berlin 2018.

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Lesser Ury (German, 1861-1931), Brandenburger Tor vom Pariser Platz aus gesehen [Brandenburg Gate seen from Pariser Platz], 1928. Pastel on board, 35 x 50 cm.

Lesser Ury - Brandenburger Tor vom Pariser Platz aus gesehen. 1928

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Prometheus by Reinhold Begas

Wrapped in chains and walled in, the marble Prometheus by Reinhold Begas languished for decades in the Akademie building at Pariser Platz near the Brandenburg Gate.

After he enraged Zeus, the hero of Greek culture and mythology was tied up and perpetually tortured by an eagle. Resigned to his earthly fate as an artwork, he waited and remained inaccessible until he was discovered in 1990 and set free five years later.

Akademie der Künste

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Merry Christmas from Pariser Platz

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City lantern, Pariser Platz, Berlin. 12 October 2024.

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Tibetan Uprising Day 2024 and a Half-Forgotten Human Rights Disaster

Protesters on Tibetan Uprising Day at Pariser Platz. Berlin, March 10, 2024. Photograph by me (Edith Haimberger). All rights reserved.

"Tibetans inside Tibet: We are with you!"

�� sign at Berlin protest on March 10, 2024

The red, yellow and blue colours of Tibet's flag flew across the Pariser Platz square behind Brandenburg Gate on Sunday as some 80 protesters gathered for Tibetan Uprising Day.

Reeducation camps for Uyghur Muslims in China, more rarely developments in Hong Kong, and controversies around the Dalai Lama who is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, may dominate international news headlines.

But the plight of inhabitants in the Tibetan region that the protestors portrayed in signs, speeches, and information panels yesterday is no longer common knowledge.

A youngish man in jeans and a puffer jacket, who was walking across the square on Sunday, asked the police officer beside him who had mentioned Tibet, "Was ist das?" ('What is it?') The police officer, at least, knew the answer.

Miniature History In 1950 the Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded the remote region bordering Nepal. Ever since then, the autonomy or even the independence of Tibet has been hotly disputed, as well as the measures through which the ruling Chinese Communist Party governs the country. Tibetan Uprising Day marks the anniversary of a revolt in 1959.

Image: "Tibetexpedition, Kloster in Samada." (Tibet Expedition, Convent [or Monastery] in Samada.) Photo taken by Ernst Krause in 1938. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archives.

'Many of us standing here today,' a speaker wearing traditional embroidered clothing told the crowd in Berlin, 'have never been in Tibet.'

Instead the protesters on Sunday were often exiles, many second-generation.

Their relatives in Tibet face systematic repression.

"Menschenrechte für Tibet" "Freiheit für Tibet"

— 'Human rights for Tibet' and 'Freedom for Tibet.' Signs at the Berlin protest on March 10, 2024.

The Berlin speakers accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of cultural genocide. Children as young as 5 years old are sent to residential boarding schools where they are educated as Chinese, while Tibetan language and culture are forbidden.

Monasteries and convents that were destroyed in the mid-20th century and only partly rebuilt in the 1980s remain vulnerable.

The Chinese government has been building massive hydroelectric dams in Tibet. Permission from Tibetans is not asked, a reporter from Tibet.tv said at the protest in Berlin. Instead, entire villages and monasteries, dating back even to the times where Europe was in the Middle Ages, are destroyed.

Local Tibetans who protest mega-dam projects are arrested and, at times, beaten.

A-Nya Sengdra, a nomad in Qinghai province, is in the middle of a 7-year prison sentence on charges like 'provoking trouble.' In a 2020 press release from the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, experts say that he had been active for example against "illegal hunting and poaching of endangered animals."

As his prison sentence continues, friends are worried for his health.

Outside Tibet, in his Indian exile of Dharamshala, the Dalai Lama has also spoken enigmatically about his successor as spiritual leader. He is 88 years old. The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has a spiritual dimension for Tibetan Buddhists, but the Chinese Communist Party — a secular body —wants the next Dalai Lama to be approved by them first.

But, also explaining why Tibet is seldom in news headlines, it is difficult to obtain information from within the region. Writing for the Human Rights Watch website in 2022, an expert spoke of

draconian controls on the flow of information between Tibet and the outside world *

The Heyday of International Awareness of Tibet In the 1980s and 90s and early 2000s, Tibet was a cause célèbre. Actress Sharon Stone and actor Richard Gere, who are Tibetan Buddhist, spoke out in favour of its independence. The Tibet-inspired American fantasy film The Golden Child (1986) earned $149.4 million at the box office. In 1997, two films followed: Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese, and Seven Years in Tibet . When this reporter arrived in Germany in 2006, a string of Tibetan prayer flags crossed above a neighbourhood street. Tourists were drawn to Tibet — this has not changed: it is estimated that 15 million of them visited in 2015. But Tibet was not just famous in cultural spheres. In 1989, the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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Tenuous links exist between Tibetans in countries like Germany and Tibetans in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. But the CCP's surveillance extends beyond international borders. Telephone calls may be monitored, participation in protests by Tibetans in exile become a problem for relatives.

Young women at the Tibetan protest in Berlin, Germany, speak out against the Chinese Communist Party's gathering of DNA as part of a surveillance programme. Photograph taken by me (Edith Haimberger), on Sunday, March 10, 2024. All rights reserved.

Surveillance within Tibet is so severe that human rights organizations and activists reported in 2022 that the CCP are gathering DNA on a large scale — of hundreds of thousands of people, including schoolchildren — to track dissidents.

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The Tibet Initiative Deutschland and the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, two non-governmental groups, co-organized the Berlin protest on March 10.

The Gesellschaft noted on their social media that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to China in April.

In Tibetan communities in the country and abroad there are conflicting opinions on how to resist the Chinese Communist Party. Peacefully, through classic forms of protest? Through self-immolation?

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

— Quoted during the March 10 protest. From Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) [Wikiquote]

A speaker from the Tibet Initiative Deutschland described his group's campaign to persuade municipalities across Germany to raise the flag of Tibet over their town halls for Tibetan Uprising Day in solidarity. Over 400, he said, had agreed.

Efforts at the federal level by the German chancellor, foreign minister, and others on behalf of minorities' civil and political rights, however, are apparently often undermined by German corporations.

A representative of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker told the crowd in front of the German Foreign Ministry yesterday:

Corporations doing business within China — the German foreign ministry reports in its China-Strategie publication that there are 5,000 of these — lobby for silence, fearing financial losses.

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Brandenburg Gate ❀ꦿ֗

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People in motion by Pascal Volk

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Court Circular | 29th March 2023

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The King and The Queen Consort left Royal Air Force Brize Norton this morning for the State Visit to Germany. Their Majesties were received at the Airport by the Lord Parker of Minsmere (Lord Chamberlain) and His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire (Mrs Marjorie Glasgow). The King and The Queen Consort this afternoon arrived at Berlin-Brandenburg Government Airport and were received by His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (Her Excellency Mrs Jill Gallard), the Ambassador from the Federal Republic of Germany to the Court of St James’s (Mr Miguel Berger), Mrs Dörte Dinger (State Secretary of the Federal President’s Office) and Mr Till Knorn (Chief of Protocol of the Federal Foreign Office). The King and The Queen Consort drove to the Brandenburg Gate and were received by The President of the Federal Republic of Germany and Mrs Büdenbender. His Majesty inspected the Guard of Honour. The King and The Queen Consort, with The President of the Federal Republic of Germany and Mrs. Büdenbender, subsequently walked through Pariser Platz before departing by car for Bellevue Palace, Berlin. The King later attended a Sustainability Reception at Bellevue Palace and planted a tree for The Queen’s Green Canopy in the Palace Garden. The King and The Queen Consort were entertained this evening at a State Banquet given by The President of the Federal Republic of Germany and Mrs Büdenbender at Bellevue Palace. The following are in attendance: the Rt Hon James Cleverly MP (Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs), the Rt Hon Sir Clive Alderton, Mr Christopher Fitzgerald, Mrs Jennifer Jordan-Saifi, Mr Tobyn Andreae, Professor Charles Deakin, Dr Douglas Glass, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson and Mrs Sophia Densham.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal this morning visited Adnams Brewery, Sole Bay Brewery, East Green, Southwold, to mark its One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary and was received by Mr Robert Rous (Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk). Her Royal Highness later opened the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science’s new Headquarters, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk (Clare, Countess of Euston). The Princess Royal, Patron, Friends of Happisburgh Lighthouse, this afternoon visited Happisburgh Lighthouse, Lighthouse Lane, Happisburgh, and was received by Major General Sir William Cubitt (Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk). Her Royal Highness later visited Elm House Temporary Accommodation, 55 Elm Road, Thetford, and was received by Mrs Melinda Raker (Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk).

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Gloucester, Patron, Heritage of London Trust, this afternoon received Mr James Cayzer-Colvin upon relinquishing his appointment as Chairman. The Duke of Gloucester, Patron, Richard III Society, and The Duchess of Gloucester this evening attended a screening of “the Lost King’” at Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Gloucester, Honorary President, the Lawn Tennis Association, this morning received Ms Sandra Procter (President) and Mr Scott Lloyd (Chief Executive Officer).

St James’s Palace

The Duke of Kent, Patron, this evening held a Concert and Dinner at St. James’s Palace to commemorate the Ninetieth Anniversary of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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17 February 2014 | Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Philippe of Belgium walk on Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany. King Philippe and Queen Mathilde are in Berlin to attend a German-Belgian conference. (c) Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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Remembering the victims and the kidnapped of the Ovtober 7th terror attac. Berlin, Pariser Platz, Today, 6:30 pm.

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Lesser Ury - Brandenburger Tor vom Pariser Platz aus gesehen. 1928

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Militärputsch in Chile vor 50 Jahren

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"Sie dürfen damit durchkommen" - das war über Jahre die Parole der Menschen in Chile, die sehr wohl merkten, dass die multinationalen Konzerne, die Großgrundbesitzer und die rechten Paramilitärs unterstützt von den USA versuchten, die sozialistische Regierung zu stürzen.

9/11

Heute vor 50 Jahren, am  11. Sptember 1973 geschah es dann wirklich. Die Armee putschte unter der Führung von Genral Pinotchet. Die Luftwaffe bombardierte den Präsidentenpalast La Moneda. Die Militärdiktatur unter der Führung von Augusto Pinochet blieb in Chile bis zum 11. März 1990 an der Macht.

Zehntausende Menschen wurden willkürlich verhaftet, viele im zentralen Stadion in Santiago de Chile eingesperrt und gefoltert. Mehr als 40.000 durchliefen die Haft im Stadion, etwa 3197 (gesicherte Anzahl der Opfer) bis 4000 Menschen während der Diktatur ermordet, der Großteil davon in den Wochen nach dem Putsch.

Wikipedia.de schreibt zu den Opferzahlen: Die Schätzung von Amnesty International mit bis zu 30.000 Toten alleine im ersten Jahr der Diktatur ist wohl aus heutiger Sicht als zu hoch anzusehen. Interessant ist, dass die US-Botschaft von 5.000 Ermordeten ausgeht.

Nach dem Putsch schuf die neu gegründete DINA, die Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional  Geheimgefängnisse, wie das "Londres 38" folterte dort insbesondere im Zeitraum nach dem Putsch von 1974 bis 1977. Etwa 20.000 Menschen flohen noch 1973 ins Ausland. Die Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HV A) im Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR half im Herbst 1973 bei der Ausschleusung führender chilenischer Politiker der gestürzten Regierung, u.a. von Carlos Altamiranos. Viele Geflüchtete fanden in der DDR eine neue Heimat.

Über lange Zeit vorbereitet

Der von den USA unterstütze Putsch am 11.9.73 war die letzte Etappe einer Reihe von Geheimoperationen, die bereits ab 1963 in Chile von der CIA durchgeführt wurde mit dem Ziel, die Wahl des sozialistischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten Salvador Allende zum Staatspräsidenten zu verhindern. Das mißlang und auch 1969 wurde die Unidad Popular (UP) wieder gewählt. Trotz aller Destablisierungsversuche gewann die UP bei einer hohen Wahlbeteiligung von mehr als 81 % sogar Anfang 1973 noch einmal auf 44��% dazu und erreichte damit 67 von 150 Sitzen im Abgeordnetenhaus, das beste Ergebnis ihrer Geschichte.

Wikipedia.de listet die CIA Aktionen in Chile im Detail auf. Ein Detail zum BND hat uns dabei erschüttert: Aus der Veröffentlichung von Unterlagen durch Präsident Clinton 1999 geht hervor, dass die CIA den Bundesnachrichtendienst in Deutschland bereits einige Tage vor dem Umsturz vom geplanten Putsch unterrichtete. Der BND soll unterlassen haben, den damaligen Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt davon zu unterrichten. Über Alfred Spuhler, einen Stasi-Spion im BND, gelangte die Information in die DDR. Eine Warnung an Allende aus Ost-Berlin kam jedoch zu spät.

Gedenken und Mahnung

In vielen Veranstaltungen wird heute und morgen den Opfern dieses faschistischen Putsches gedacht.

50 Jahre Militärputsch in Chile, 10.9.23 11-15h, Frankfurt/M, DGB Gewerkschaftshaus, Wilhelm-Leuschner Str. 69-77

KUNDGEBUNG BERLIN VOR US- BOTSCHAFT, 11.9.23 16:30-20h, Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin

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Mehr dazu bei https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-Intervention_in_Chile und https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putsch_in_Chile_1973

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