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Tibetan Youth Congress at Leh

Protests in Leh against Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
September 2008 | Color Prints

While China stages 'mother of all shows' at Olympic opening, thousands of Tibetans and pro-Tibet supporters protests against the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the continuing colonial occupation of Tibet and oppression of Tibetans by the illegal Communist Chinese regime in Tibet.

Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) reginal chapter in Leh - capital of pro Tibetan region of Ladakh in north India - have organized several campaign activities including a 'Free Torch March' from the city airport to the Polo ground where crowd waited.

Deeply concerned and frustated over the continued suffering of the six million Tibetan people and human rights violations in Tibet, The TYC is left with no option except to organize these non-violent direct action campaigns against the Chinese authoritarian rule in Tibet.

The recent pro-independence demonstrations in Tibet will go down in history as yet another example of man's indomitable spirit in fighting against tyranny and oppression. The unanimous call for "Independence for Tibet", "Long Live the Dalai Lama", "Release Panchen Lama", and "China quit Tibet" from Tibetans inside Tibet in all the traditional three provinces of Tibet are the true aspirations of the six million Tibetans. Their courageous defiance against the colonial Chinese regime by shedding their blood brought to fore the deeply held resentment Tibetans feel against the repressive and discriminating of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1949.

Olympics are a symbol of freedom and peace, an international event where friendship and brotherhood is celebrated. It is a tradition that brings the world under a single umbrella embodying peace and harmony through sport. But the International Olympic Committee (IOC) went against its ideals and made the biggest blunder by awarding this prestigious event to the illegal Communist Chinese regime that is responsible for the killings of over one million Tibetans, the illegal Communist Chinese regime that has razed over 6000 Tibetan monasteries to the ground, the illegal Communist Chinese regime that has flooded Tibet with Han Chinese reducing Tibetans to an insignificant minority in their own country.

The Chinese people deserve to host the Olympic Games but what the Tibetans and the Chinese people deserve more now is freedom; freedom of speech, of religion, of association, of equal opportunity, of electing their own government, of feeling safe in their own homes. The day might not be far when Tibet will again be an independent nation and Chinese would be free from the inhuman communist regime, only then it will be the right time for Beijing to host the prestigious Olympic Games.

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