The Tibetan independence movement is a movement for the independence of the lands where Tibetan people live and the political separation of those lands from the People's Republic of China. It is principally led by the Tibetan diaspora in countries like India and the United States, and by celebrities and Tibetan Buddhists in the United States and Europe. The movement is not supported by the 14th Dalai Lama, who although having advocated it from 1961 to the late 1970s, proposed a sort of high-level autonomy in a speech in Strasbourg in 1988,[1] and has since restricted his proposals to the Tibetan Autonomous Region within China.[2]
To legitimize claims to independence, campaigners assert that Tibet has been historically independent, although there is no clear answer to question because of differing ideas of "Tibet" and "independence". Also, campaigners argue that Tibetans are currently mistreated and denied certain human rights, although the government disputes this and cites progress in human rights. Various organizations with overlapping campaigns for independence and human rights have sought to pressure various governments to support Tibetan independence or to take punitive action against China for opposing it, although the effectiveness of these campaigns have been questionable.
They have now closed Tibet to to tourist we will pray for their cause to be treated in a humane manner.
ColaBling 8 months ago