Tibetan Buddhist Monk's Documentary Reveals CCP's Atrocities

ANCHOR:
As the international debate over Tibetan freedom unfolds, a documentary tells the story of a Tibetan Buddhist monk who was imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese communist army for 33 years. The film, "Fire Under the Snow" is showing at the Tribeca Film Festival here in New York city.

STORY:
The Tibetan Buddhist monk still has eyes that smile serenely. But the lines on Palden Gyatso's face tell a different story, a story of torture and imprisonment for 33 years.
Gyatso recounts his arrest in 1959 while he was peacefully demonstrating with thousands of monks and nuns. The CCP put him in prison for 23 years where he was tortured and in labor camps for 10 years. He was finally released in 1992.

Japanese film-maker, Makoto Sasa was drawn to Gyatso's story mostly because of his strong, unbroken spirit despite such soul wrenching suffering.

[Makoto Sasa, Film-maker, Director]:
"He could have gotten out of the prison if he would have said -- 'Yes, Tibet belongs to China, so I agree with what the Chinese government says.' But he didn't do that because he didn't believe in it. And this spirit I think is what people feel most from the film. And with that, they can look at the
Tibetans, the current situation in Tibet and I think that's what they are going to get from the film."

The film also shows his travels as an activist. In Turin, Italy he went on a hunger strike to protest the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

[Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist Monk]:
"When I finally got to India I felt that I had reached the land of freedom and I felt that the atrocities that I had experienced, the atrocities that my fellow prisoners faced in prison, I felt that I had the duty to tell about those atrocities to the outside world."

"Fire Under the Snow" is one of the two documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, which have Tibetans as their subject. The other film, "The Dalai Lama: Peace and Prosperity" is a visual record of the Dalai Lama's visit and presentation to a sold out Radio Music Hall in New York City. The Tribeca Film Festival began April 23rd and will wrap up on May 4th.

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[angpassanggolay]

Thanks

[Gangrirawai]

****

Thank you.

[dawag41]

Thanks for making such a wonderful film. I would be so grateful if you could make a ducumentry film on greedy illegal Chinese in USA, Australia and Europe. Fck Satan servant communist government and it's supporter.

[airforcemax]

@Ngnidnal Americans who save money from having their stuff made in China or send jobs there only care when people become aware of who they are. Many US businesses create jobs in China and those in the US can barely sustain a small American family. Money can be a blessing, but it also causes wars - just study world history.

[snifflesofdeath]

owner boners :(

[ktang1234]

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[72won10lost]

播音员嗓音不错，听着像练过的。

国内哪个学校毕业的？还有个疑惑就是，在国内已经了无牵挂了吗？­

[Ngnidnal]

This simple monk's power to spends decades in Chinese prison and come out as a normal human being with a smile represents the whole generations of Tibetans suffering from Chinese occupation.

We should all support their freedom movement.

[beatlesfab1]

Freedom for Tibet and the Tibetan people!

[tarashiva]

@hisphoninesss You call the Tibetan system before chinese communist fundamentalist invasion as " feudal " because they were opressed by religious-political rulers. CHINESE COMMUNIST FUNDAMENTALISM IS EVEN MORE OPRRESSIVE THAN THE RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL THAT YOU MENTIONED...AT LEAST, TIBETAN PEOPLE WERE THE OWNERS FROM THEIR LAND AND WERE NOT TREATED AS SECOND CITIZEN IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AS THEY ARE TREATED UNDER CHINESE MURDER DICTATORSHIP !