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http://www.dossiertibet.it Spanish court demands answers from Hu Jintao on Tibetan genocide allegations A Spanish judge has submitted 48 questions to former Chinese president Hu Jintao, giving him the chance to respond to charges of genocide.The charges relate to Hu’s tumultuous tenure as Communist Party secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region between 1988 and 1992, which saw the most violent riots since the Dalai Lama’s departure into exile 30 years earlier.“Are you aware that as a consequence of the repression by the military and the police, imposed by law for this campaign, 450 Tibetans have been killed, 7,000 wounded, 350 disappeared and more than 3,000 were detained?” judge Ismael Moreno asked the retired leader in one of the queries.Spain’s National Court gave Interpol arrest warrants for Hu and four other senior Communist Party figures earlier this month on charges of “genocide, torture and crimes against humanity”. The warrants were issued against former president Jiang Zemin; former premier Li Peng; former security czar Qiao Shi; Chen Kuiyuan, Hu’s successor as Tibet’s party secretary; and Peng Peiyun, former head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission. Interpol has yet to include their names in its public list of internationally wanted persons. The court also asked Hu whether he allowed security forces to torture to death hundreds of detainees at the Lhasa No. 1 Prison. Other questions include matters not directly related to the crackdown in 1989. In one question, Hu is asked whether a decision was made at the leadership’s Third Forum on Work in Tibet in 1994 about prosecuting those who met the Dalai Lama as counter-revolutionaries. The forum had set forth government policies in the restive region for the following decade. The judge also asked whether Hu, as the supreme commander of the People’s Liberation Army for a decade until last year, was aware of the detention and torture of Tibetans caught fleeing to Nepal and India.
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