SHILLONG, MAY 27: Even as the Tibetan Parliament In Exile (TPIE) has revealed that of the one hundred and seventeen Tibetans-men, women, monks, nuns- who have immolated themselves protesting against the brutal Chinese rule in Tibet 100 of them have succumbed to their burn injuries between February 7, 2009 to April 24, 2013, it has urged the Indian government to put diplomatic pressure on China to free Tibet.
TPIE member Dhardon Sharling said though the TPIE doesn’t encourage this extreme form of political protest, but she rues that whenever efforts were made to put a stop to self immolation, the self-immolation acts only increases and felt that right now the only solution is to the form multi-lateral forum to force the Chinese government to make relaxation to all the oppressive policies against the Tibetans in Tibet.
In 1949, Communist China started invading Tibet from its eastern borders wherein the so-called 17 points agreement for the peaceful liberation of Tibet’ had to be singed under Chinese duress in 1951. The national uprising in 1959 in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet forced His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the legitimate Tibetan government headed by him to seek refuge in India.
Ever since the Chinese occupation, the Tibetans both within Chinese occupied Tibet and other parts of the world have been fighting to free Tibet from Chinese occupation.
Launching a massive ‘All India Parliamentary Lobby Campaign’, the TPIE sought the timely support of both the Indian as well as state governments, including Meghalaya, for immediate global intervention to end the crisis inside Tibet.
In the North-East zone, the eighth and final leg of the lobby campaign kick-started in Shillong on May 23 with a mass solidarity candlelight vigil led by members of Tibetan Parliament in exile besides a series of successful lobbying campaign in West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh.
While acknowledging the steadfast support of the Indian government and its people towards the Tibetans cause, the TPIE delegation appealed to the Indian leaders for public expressions of its solidarity towards the Tibetans cause and the crackdown by Chinese government on the Tibetans in Tibet
Sharling told reporters at a news conference held in Shillong on Monday. “The delegates also urges India to engage in urgent diplomatic actions pressurizing the Chinese Government on various fronts as number of governments around the world have openly pressurised the Chinese government on current crises in Tibet.
Sharling said during the last 60 years, the Chinese’s government repressive policies in Tibet was aimed to annihilate the identity of Tibet as a nation and its people in the form of its religion, culture, language and customs.
Sharling said to oppose these repressive policies, the Tibetans inside Tibet have resorted to the new form of non-violent protests of self-immolation making a clarion call for-“freedom inside Tibet and return of His Holiness Dalai Lama into Tibet”.
Sharling also revealed that the population of Tibetans in Tibet is estimated to be around 6 millions though over the past 50 years no proper census has been conducted.- By Our Reporter
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