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Thursday, April 17, 2008

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1. SEX OFFENDERS IN DAY AND FOSTER CARE HOMES.................VO/SOT

2. ANIMAL TESTING BILL.......................................VO/SOT

3. SALMON HEARING....................................UNSCRIPTED

4. TIBET RALLY........................................................VO/SOT

4. TIBET RALLY VO/SOT

LIVE: THE PRESIDENT OF A BUDDHIST GROUP IN SACRAMENTO SAYS THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN CHINA HAVE FOCUSED THE WORLD'S ATTENTION ON REPORTED VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN TIBET BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. THE GROUP ONE BODHI TREE RALLIED FOR TIBET WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN THE CAPITOL PARK ROSE GARDEN.

SUPER: APRIL 16, 2008/CAPITOL PARK

VO: (:30) RAVI VERMA, PRESIDENT OF ONE BODHI TREE AND A TEACHER OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION TECHNIQUES, SAYS IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN FIRST-HAND INFORMATION ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN TIBET SINCE MARCH 10TH. THAT'S WHEN THE COMMUNIST CHINESE GOVERNMENT LED AWAY TIBETAN MONKS WHO APPROACHED WESTERN JOURNALISTS TOURING TIBET IN ADVANCE OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES. VERMA SAYS HE HAS RELIED ON SECOND-HAND INFORMATION FROM FRIENDS IN HIS NATIVE INDIA, BASED ON REPORTS FROM TIBETANS WHO HAVE FLED TIBET BY CROSSING THE HIMALAYAS INTO INDIA. HE SAYS TIBETAN BUDDHISTS UNIVERSALLY PRACTICE NON-VIOLENCE, BUT THAT EVEN A PEACEFUL RALLY IN TIBET WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.

SUPER: RAVI VERMA/ONE BODHI TREE

SOT: (:52)

SAYS: "YOU KNOW, 1989-TIANEMEN SQUARE. JUST FEW STUDENTS CHANTING DEMOCRACY AND TANKS ROLLED OVER THEM. SO, SO THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS NOT IN TIBET ALONE, IT'S IN ENTIRE CHINA. SO WHAT WE ARE DOING TODAY IS THAT WE WANT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA. INCLUDING TIBET.

REPORTER: "OKAY. TIBET IS KIND OF THE SYMBOL OF THE OVERALL OPPRESSION..."

SAYS: "WE ARE, BECAUSE WE ARE BUDDHISTS, SO IT HURTS US MORE WHEN WE SEE TIBETAN PROBLEM, BUT HUMAN RIGHTS IS AN ISSUE IN ENTIRE CHINA. LAST YEAR CHINA EXECUTED 470 PEOPLE. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S LIKE MORE THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED, BASICALLY, UH REPORTED. SO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE FOR ENTIRE CHINA. IT'S NOT JUST TIBET."

VO TAG: VERMA SAYS THE COMMUNIST CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS MOVING ETHNIC CHINESE PEOPLE INTO TIBET, IN AN EFFORT TO ELIMINATE THE NATIVE TIBETAN IDENTITY AND CULTURE. HE SAYS BECAUSE TIBETANS ARE BUDDHISTS, THEY WILL NOT VIOLENTLY RESIST CHINESE GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION, BUT HOPES THAT WORLD-WIDE AWARENESS OF THE TIBETANS' OPPRESSION WILL SHAME THE CHINESE INTO RECOGNIZING TIBETAN AUTONOMY

EDITOR'S NOTE:

THE ORGANIZATION IS PRONOUNCED "BOH-dee."

EXTRA BITES:

SUPER: RAVI VERMA/ONE BODHI TREE

SOT: (:31)

SAYS: "IT'S VERY HARD TO GET INFORMATION OUT OF THAT PLACE. SO BUT FORTUNATELY, SOME PEOPLE HAD UM, MUTED CAMERAS AND TELEPHONE CALLS, AND I'M FROM THE ( ?? ) IN NEPAL IN INDIA. SO WE GET LOT OF UH, UNINFORMED, UNVERIFIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SITUATION'S PRETTY BAD, BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES CROSSING OVER TO INDIA VIA HIMALAYAS HAS INCREASED IN THE LAST MONTH OR SO. SO THAT IS A SIGN OF CRACKDOWN."

SOT: (:19)

SAYS: "SEE THE SITUATION IN TIBET HAVE BEEN BAD FOR 60 YEARS. SO WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS NO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR 60 YEARS. FORTUNATELY THERE'S SOME ATTENTION NOW, AND WE ARE HOPING THE ATTENTION STAYS AFTER OLYMPICS ALSO. BECAUSE AT THIS TIME S CHINA IS LISTENING."

SOT: (:19)

SAYS: "SEE IF YOU CANNOT FIND INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON THERE, THAT'S A SIGN TAT WE DO NOT KNOW. WE SHOULD HAVE FREE ACCESS TO WHAT'S HAPPENING OVER THERE. IT'S VERY HARD TO GET VISA. AND THERE SHOULD BE NO REFUGEE TRYING TO LEAVE TIBET AND COME TO INDIA. SO THOSE ARE THE SIGNS OF REPRESSION."

SOT: (:20)

SAYS: "WHAT I'M A, SHAME IS CONSIDERED A JEWEL IN BUDDHISM. SHAME. A SENSE OF SHAME. THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG AND WE ARE WATCHING IT. SO I THINK IS THAT IF A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT WE ARE ASHAMED OF OUR FRIEND CHINA, THAT WILL WORK."

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