Well there is this Sam but nothing came of it:
(AFP) – Jul 9, 2008
MADRID (AFP) — A Tibetan rights organisation said Wednesday it would file an extension to a lawsuit in Spain that accuses top Chinese leaders of genocide.
The extension would be presented Thursday in Spain's top criminal court, which since June, 2006 has been hearing the case against seven Chinese leaders, the non-governmental Tibet Support Committee said.
The original suit accuses the leaders, including former president Jiang Zemin and former prime minister Li Peng, of torture and crimes against humanity as well as genocide allegedly carried out in Tibet during the 1980s.
"This extension to the lawsuit denounces the new wave of oppression that began in Tibet on 10th March 2008, and just goes to prove that acts of genocide continue to be committed against the Tibetan people," the Tibet Support Committee said in a statement.
Unrest in the Tibetan region erupted on March 14 after four days of peaceful protests against Chinese rule.
The Tibetan government-in-exile says 203 Tibetans were killed and about 1,000 hurt in China's crackdown. Beijing insists that only one Tibetan was killed, and has in turn accused the "rioters" of killing 21 people.
"The extension to the lawsuit also denounces China's manipulation of the global war against terrorism in its attempt to justify and cover up crimes against humanity committed against the Tibetan people," the statement said.
The group also denounced "the lukewarm attitude of most of the international community when it comes to demanding effective protection of human rights."
The suit was admitted under the principle of "universal competence" adopted by the Spanish judiciary in 2005 and under which Spanish courts can hear cases of genocide and crimes against humanity wherever they occur and whatever the nationality of the defendant.
China's opponents accuse it of systematic political, cultural and religious oppression in the remote and devoutly Buddhist Himalayan region.
China has condemned the accusations of genocide in Tibet as slander and it has accused Madrid of trying to interfere in its administration of the Himalayan region.
China has ruled Tibet since 1951, a year after sending troops in to "liberate" the region.
In a separate development, Spain's top anti-terrorist Judge Baltasar Garzon also hit out China's crackdown in Tibet.
"Crimes against humanity have occurred" against Tibet, for which there had been "no judicial response" on the part of the Chinese authorities, he told a summer school at the Complutense University in the town of San Lorenzo de el Escorial outside Madrid.
He called on the international community to "put a stop to this situation."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gE3HbZz1xzBVSPsRCqlkhqpZJC1w
Meanwhile the international community has been responding with resolutions like this since '59 (pay close attention to the resolution in Dec. 65 since India had some interesting comments to make):
21 October 1959
Resolution 1353 (XIV) called for "respect for the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people and for their distinctive cultural and religious life." Adopted by 45 votes to nine, 26 abstentions; Britain abstained.
12 December 1961
Resolution 1723 (XVI) called for "the cessation of practices which deprive the Tibetan people of their fundamental human rights and freedom including their rights to self-determination." It also expressed "the hope that member states will make all possible efforts as appropriate towards achieving the purpose of the present resolution." Adopted by 56 votes to 11, with 29 abstentions; Britain (after initial doubts) approved.
December 1965
Resolution 2079 (XX) renewed the call for "the cessation of all practices which deprive the Tibetan people of the human rights and fundamental freedoms which they have always enjoyed." Adopted by 43 votes to 26, with 22 abstentions. On this occasion the Indian delegate accused the Chinese of trying "to obliterate the Tibetan people" and of suppression that "surpasses anything that colonialists have done in the past to the people they ruled as slaves." Britain supported the resolution.
1971-1989
The People's Republic of China joined the UN in 1971, and the Tibetan question was next mentioned in March 1985, by the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, a Non-Governmental Organisation. The Tibet issue was not raised by a government until March 1989, when Canada and Holland expressed concern about the situation in Tibet.
23 August 1991
The UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities adopted Resolution 1991/L.19 to express concern at "continuing reports of violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms which threaten the distinct cultural, religious and national identity of the Tibetan people". The resolution called on the Chinese Government "fully to respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of the Tibetan people". The resolution was passed by nine votes to seven, with four abstentions.
This was the first UN Resolution on Tibet since 1965 and the first formal statement on Tibet by a UN body since the People's Republic replaced Taiwan as the representative of China in 1971.
On 4 March 1992 a draft resolution on China's abuses of human rights including a specific mention of the treatment of Tibetans was proposed at the UN Commission on Human Rights. A vote on a proposal "not to take a vote" was taken: 27 for, 15 against.
March 1994
China persuades the UN for the fourth year running to reject a modestly-worded resolution criticising its human rights record. 20 votes to 16 ruled that "no action" be taken on the resolution; 17 countries abstained.
The UK called for discussion of China to preserve the Commission’s credibility. The US, however, supported the resolution only on condition that the European countries, as proposers, modified the wording so that Tibet was defined as a minority, and therefore as part of China.
This controversial insistence by the US on inserting a gratuitous statement about Tibet's political status in an inappropriate human rights context ran against European wishes, and led to fierce criticism from the Tibetan Government-in-Exile.
March 1995
China avoids censure on its human rights record by only one vote at the annual meeting of the Human Rights Commission of the UN in Geneva. The resolution included specific references to abuses in Tibet.
This was the first time the resolution had been debated.
From 1992 to 1994, all the resolutions were blocked by a procedural move called a Motion for No Action which was tabled by China.
In 1996 the Motion for No Action was again passed, after vigorous lobbying by Chinese diplomats to enlist the support of developing nations.
http://www.freetibet.org/about/united-nations-tibet
See? Since China is on the security council how are you going to be able to take measures against it when they have veto rights?
I know I get bitchy when people bring up the UN but they cause me such a rash. I mean seriously what's the point of these countries 'expressing their concern' in the same worded resolutions time after time for the chinese to come along and finally say 'motion for no action' and it gets passed? See how the UN needs to be reformed or remain a complete inefficient waste of nicely worded minutia that don't amount to a hill of beans buried beneath cow dung.
That's my rant for the day, now I'm off to the gym.
