12 years under house arrest beginning at the age of FIVE is too much! CHINA, FREE THE PANCHEN LAMA NOW!!!

In 1989, the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet stated that "whatever good China has done for Tibet, it will never be equal to the destruction which was caused". Some days later, he was found DEAD.
The monks of the Tashi Lunpo monastery, who were on charge for finding his reincarnation, asked for Dalai Lama's advise. Some years later, in 1995 they found the child they were looking for, the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, the 11th Panchen Lama. He was 5 years old.
When China found out that Dalai Lama was involved in the research of the reincarnation and that he had given the final and most important approval for the recognition, arrested the FIVE-year old Panchen Lama and his family and begun a propaganda against them in Tibet. Noone has ever heard of them since then. It is believed that he is somewhere in Beijing, under house arrest.
Very soon after this, the Chinese put another team of Lamas to find another kid and give him the title of the 11th Panchen Lama. This child has not been accepted by the Tibetan people all these years.

THE PANCHEN LAMA IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD TODAY AND HE HAS BEEN UNDER HOUSE ARREST SINCE THE AGE OF FIVE. HE HAS LIVED NO CHILDHOOD AND HE MIGHT LIVE NO ADULT LIFE EITHER UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING!! PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO HEAL HIS WOUNDS:

http://petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3839

For those who do not know, the Panchen Lama is the second most important Lama of Tibet (directly after the Dalai Lama).

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