Tenzin Choeying, Students for a Free Tibet

TIBETANS LAUNCH HISTORIC MOVEMENT AHEAD OF BEIJING OLYMPICS

Global Uprising to Include Exiles' March to Tibet

New Delhi -- Five leading Tibetan organizations announced today the launch of the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement", a new coordinated Tibetan resistance effort in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Games will take place only months before the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising against China's invasion of Tibet. The movement's organizers are calling on Tibetans worldwide to join protests during the Beijing Olympics and support a return march of exile Tibetans to their homeland.

"Today, in the spirit of the 1959 Uprising and in memory of the courageous Tibetans who sacrificed their lives for Tibet's independence and continue to resist China's brutal occupation, we are launching a unified movement to bring about an end to Chinese rule in Tibet," said Tsewang Rigzin, President of Tibetan Youth Congress.




The organizing committee that China's leadership is using the Beijing Olympics as a platform to gain international acceptance and to legitimize its illegal rule in Tibet. After almost five decades of oppression and cultural assimilation, the situation inside Chinese occupied Tibet is dire.

"We are calling on Tibetans worldwide to join us at this critical moment when China is trying to spread its Olympics propaganda," said B. Tsering, President of the Tibetan Women's Association. "Together, we will seize this unprecedented opportunity to voice Tibetan resistance and reinvigorate our freedom struggle."

The march to Tibet is an initiative by exile Tibetans to strengthen Tibetan resistance by taking the struggle home. The march will commence on March 10th, the 49th commemoration of the Tibetan National Uprising in Tibet. Tibetans worldwide will engage in non-violent direct actions and mass protests during China's Olympic torch relay and the Games themselves.

"Our message to China's leadership is loud and clear that after fifty years, Tibetans in exile are determined to return to our homeland and be reunited with our Tibetan brothers and sisters," said Ngawang Woeber, President of the Gu Chu Sum, the ex-political prisoners' association.

Members of the organizing committee: Tibetan Youth Congress, Tibetan Women's Association, Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet, National Democratic Party of Tibet, and Students for a Free Tibet, India.

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[mrmackeymkaymkay]

obviously he's lying, judging from his eye movements.

[okyou08]

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

These protests are a manifestation of the deep-rooted resentment of the Tibetan people under the present governance.

As I have always said, unity and stability under brute force is at best a temporary solution. It is unrealistic to expect unity and stability under such a rule and would therefore not be conducive to finding a peaceful and lasting solution.

[jewishwarrior666]

BREAKING NEWS: An angry and visibly intoxicated Dalai Lama was arrested early this morning after assaulting a photographer outside the newly revamped Studio 54 discotheque in Manhattan. "I grabbed him by his saffron prayer robe and pulled him off (Pallas). "That did it," Studio 54 patron Larry Hoffman said. According to Hoffman, the Dalai Lama then yanked Pallas's camera away and wielded it threateningly at him shouting, "You like picture? You want to eat camera, picture boy?"

[jewishwarrior666]

This is a terrorist recruiting agency. Just listen to their rhetoric. In time they will show their true colors and resort to violence like they have already said they would. This is the rightwing militia side to the freetibet movement that the media doesn't talk about however words out of their own mouth is that terrorism is very effective to meet the objectives and they are willing to sacrifice their followers to meet their goals of an independent tibet. Peaceful Terrorist! LOL

[ChinaKillsNuns]

centralk

Next bunch of lies please.

[ChinaKillsNuns]

I sleep well. Please watch

Tibetan Refugee Part Three

[killevilness]

the olympics have started, tibetan exiles and anti-china idiots, are you frustrated? can you sleep well at night?

[456inthemix]

What is objectiveness to you? Is it to argue always with past facts without incorporating the present facts or situation? Is this the whole view of an issue?

[05191944]

If Tibetan are better of under Chinese then China should expand its boundaries -- what a idiotic explanation.

China had no right to be in Tibet-- Tibet is for Tibetan and China is for Chinese.

China should leave Tibet alone

[jarodeu]

Free Dharamsala, Free Sikkim for Dalai Lama.

[nanchaku58]

The word "We" means Ethnic Han in general. When you said to stay by the facts of the present and not to switch to the past, do you mean people should analyse issues just from one point and not from a whole view? Is it objective?