I was most interested to read in the story headlined, '$1.25b World Bank loan hits snag' (South China Morning Post, June 14), that the World Bank has now decided, despite its earlier promises, not to make public the inspection panel's review of its so-called 'China Western Poverty Reduction Programme'.
This project was rejected from the outset by both Germany and the US and has been very widely condemned as breaching both the World Bank's own project guidelines and international law, that forbids demographic aggression against occupied territories.
The project is aimed at relocating 60,000 poor mainland farmers on traditional Tibetan lands.
The Amdo region of Tibet was illegally annexed by the PRC in 1965. Since then, the Chinese Communist Party has consistently pursued a policy of demographic aggression against the people of Amdo in an attempt to impose a 'final solution' in that part of eastern Tibet.
It is a disgrace that the World Bank has, in effect, helped the Chinese Communist Party in this genocidal endeavour and it is a scandal that by not publishing its report, the bank attempts to cover up its actions.
It is patently clear, however, to everyone apart from the World Bank and the Chinese Communist Party, that the only way in which a just and genuine solution to the problem of Amdo, Kham, and U-Tsang (the three regions of Tibet) will ever be reached is via a negotiated settlement between the Chinese Government and the Tibetan government-in-exile.