Friday, March 9, 2007

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March 10: Anniversary of uprising in Lhasa, Tibet

On March 10, 1959 Tibetans, exacerbated by the abuse and harassment by the Chinese, Tibet entered into a free and independent country then, in 1950, the population of Lhasa rose up and the resentment of the Tibetan national uprising broke out in an open. A massive crowd of people gathered around the Norbulinka, the Summer Palace, where he was the Dalai Lama. Faced with the obvious colonialist ambitions of China brutally silenced any form of resistance, it is doggedly on the civilian population and, in fact, ousted the Dalai Lama from all power, people openly asked the government to reject any compromise with Beijing and useless, with great determination, he shouted to the Chinese to leave Tibet. The slogan was "Freedom and Independence."

forty-eight years have passed and the situation in Tibet has not changed. In view of the moderate demands of the Dalai Lama from exile claims that his country is recognized at least one form of real autonomy that can allow the survival of the Tibetan cultural heritage, Beijing responds with arrogance and rampant population with both physical and inhuman methods of repression psychological as well. Frustrated by the lack of concrete results, an increasing number of Tibetans has decided to stake their lives for Tibet can be saved: as in 1959, "Freedom and Independence" seems to be the cry that rises from the ranks of the people of Tibet.

unknown to the heroes of that time (between March and October of 1959 killed more than 87,000 Tibetans) must be added the names those of our day: brave men and women who have faced imprisonment, torture and death for peacefully called for the freedom of their country. Among others, we remember the artist Ngawang Choephel, the nun Ngawang Sangdrol and his cell mates in prison Drapchi, the Venerable Lama Palden Gyatso, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Chadrel Rinpoche, to the brutally murdered two young Tibetan Border Police China 30 September 2006, at the Nangpa Pass, while seeking the path of exile. But the list is endless. With them, we can not forget Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the XI Panchen Lama, kidnapped by the Chinese in 1995, aged just six years. Since then there has been no its news.

Text taken from the press association Italy Tibet

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