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Today, Wednesday 8, 2012, Tibetans around the world are/will be holding peaceful candlelight vigils to demonstrate our solidarity with the Tibetans living inside Tibet under the repressive conditions of the Chinese communist regime, and to honour the many lives sacrificed in our struggle for freedom. In recent months, the Chinese government has met our demands for more empathy and self-determination with violent crackdowns that have left several Tibetans dead and many more injured. The more restive parts of occupied Tibet have been shut out from the rest of the world, with access to the Internet and telephone lines withheld to restrict information getting out. Even so, we have been receiving ongoing news about more Tibetans burning themselves in protest and the Chinese police retaliating with relentless brutality.  Only four days ago, China, along with Russia, vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations to condemn the Syrian regime’s violent crackdown on its own people that’s killed and is still killing hundreds of protesters guilty only of wanting a freer, democratic Syria. This thoughtless decision itself should be a testimony to the fact that China sees no wrong in killing if it means to protect its power and eliminate dissent. With a history of blood in its hands, we have already witnessed the heartless massacre of their own people during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. How then, can we expect any sympathy from them for the Tibetans inside occupied Tibet?  The worldwide protests and candlelight vigils will commemorate those we’ve lost to the numerous self-immolations carried out in ultimate desperation, and will call for the international media and political heads of states to speak up against the CCP’s mindless repression of the Tibetan people.  Picture: Demonstration held in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France on Wed. 8, 2012. Photo courtesy - Tennam Yzz.

Today, Wednesday 8, 2012, Tibetans around the world are/will be holding peaceful candlelight vigils to demonstrate our solidarity with the Tibetans living inside Tibet under the repressive conditions of the Chinese communist regime, and to honour the many lives sacrificed in our struggle for freedom.

In recent months, the Chinese government has met our demands for more empathy and self-determination with violent crackdowns that have left several Tibetans dead and many more injured. The more restive parts of occupied Tibet have been shut out from the rest of the world, with access to the Internet and telephone lines withheld to restrict information getting out. Even so, we have been receiving ongoing news about more Tibetans burning themselves in protest and the Chinese police retaliating with relentless brutality. 

Only four days ago, China, along with Russia, vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations to condemn the Syrian regime’s violent crackdown on its own people that’s killed and is still killing hundreds of protesters guilty only of wanting a freer, democratic Syria. This thoughtless decision itself should be a testimony to the fact that China sees no wrong in killing if it means to protect its power and eliminate dissent. With a history of blood in its hands, we have already witnessed the heartless massacre of their own people during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. How then, can we expect any sympathy from them for the Tibetans inside occupied Tibet? 

The worldwide protests and candlelight vigils will commemorate those we’ve lost to the numerous self-immolations carried out in ultimate desperation, and will call for the international media and political heads of states to speak up against the CCP’s mindless repression of the Tibetan people. 

Picture: Demonstration held in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France on Wed. 8, 2012. Photo courtesy - Tennam Yzz.

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