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For Immediate Release
May 26, 2008
19 TIBETAN MARCHERS STILL UNDER DETENTION; 5 FOREIGNERS ON MARCH TO TIBET ORDERED TO LEAVE INDIA
Nainital - After the 4th day, 19 Tibetan Marchers still remain under police detention despite request from the Marchers at Banspatan in Pithoragarh District, Uttarkhand. The District authorities served immediate notification to 5 foreigners accompanying the March to Tibet to leave India within one week. They are Maryla Cross, Poland; Jim Peterson, USA; Lex Pelger, USA; Paul Christians Buntz, Norway; and David Huang, USA.
The supporters who have been on the March since March 10 had an emotional farewell at Banspatan. They left the site covered in Khatas (white Tibetan scarf). “They are all Tibet supporters and supporters of this non-violent movement. It’s really disturbing for us and the Marchers to see them leave us after months of walking together,” said Ngawang Woebar, President of Gu-Chu-Sum, the Ex-Political Prisoners’ Movement of Tibet.
Another group of 15 Tibetans, mostly monks were stopped and sent back 4 kms before Seraghat. These Tibetans came all the way from Mundgod Tibetan Settlement in South India and were disappointed not being able to join the Marchers at Banspatan but they are still determined to do any Non Violent protest.
The March to Tibet started on March 10th from Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, and reached Banspatan after traversing many states over the course of 76 days. Tibetans living in exile in India launched the March to Tibet as part of the Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement. On the same day the march was launched, monks of monasteries in Lhasa, as well as in eastern Tibet, led peaceful protests, shouting slogans calling for Tibetan independence and the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet. These protests rippled across Tibet, and the Chinese authorities launched a brutal crackdown that has resulted in the killing and detention of thousands of Tibetans by the Chinese Police.
The March to Tibet and the Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement aim to revive the spirit of the Tibetan National Uprising of 1959, and engage in non-violent direct action to bring about an end to China’s illegal occupation of Tibet.
Contact:
Ngawang Woebar: +91 9418 102 483
Tsewang Rigzin: +91 9805 247 259
B. Tsering: +91 9418 792 810
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Good luck to all the marchers, and nay the force be with you!
Our thoughts and heats go out ot you and your struggle.
As long as the Han Chinese Communist cabal in Beijing is in power there is little hope that any sense, or even some semblance of accepted standards will prevail.
Little hope of a let up of the oppression, racist subjugation and exploitation of Tibet and its hapless people.
They will continue to plough their inane, by now well and truly hackneyed line, that Tibet was and always will be a part of China.
It appears utterly impossible to elicit any reaction or response from this depraved cabal, which would resemble even just slightly a human trait.
So calls for a dialogue, appeals for common sense, or restraint are falling, not on death ears, but will never even enter a mind that could possibly comprehend such rational behaviour.
Of course there is never any mention of the fact that Tibet was exclusively populated by a completely distinct race with a unique culture and its own sovereign government before the Han Chinese Communist hordes invaded the country.
The uprising must be seen in context of the most barbaric repression and subjugation of a people that were independent for millennia and have endured this tyranny for over 50 years without any letup.
Nor has the world stood up for the victimized Tibetan people, or shown any sympathy, but in fact has tacitly approved of this heinous crime in order to pursue lucrative trade with the most populous nation on the planet.
Every government has prostituted itself so as not to offend the tyrants in Beijing, for trade and the mighty $ is all that matters in this ‘modern day’ world.
Forget about principals, ethics or morals, the suffering and genocide is someone else’s, and there is no oil there anyway.
Realpolitik = Prostitution
This is the 21st century and the year this regime is allowed to host the Olympics, an event that is supposed to be in the spirit of freedom, cooperation, friendship and harmony.
But events all around China and particularly Tibet belie this illusion and the games must be a defining event for the oppressed people of Tibet.
If only the so called “free press” would live up to this nomer and report the truth and facts about the Chinese atrocities in all its starkness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhjad2MJsT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a2ory5hr4g
Hello my brothers and sisters, I have been off the march for a week now and I muss you guys. Im sad that they have asked the remaining Westerners to leave India a nation that gained independence because of non violent protest like the march to Tibet. Ghandiji is rolling in his grave at the lack of understanding of the current Indian governemnt. My heart and prayers are with you all everyday and I look forward to meeting you all in Lhasa.
Much Love and Respect and kepp standing up for your rights