Dharamshala, 29th December: Tibetans in the Dharamshala region staged a candlelight vigil in Mcleodganj here on Tuesday in support of a crisis situation in Kham Drago, Central Tibet, and called on China to halt its harsh actions in the region.
A Tibetan who attended the vigil said “Today Tibetan Youth Congress and Students for Free Tibet organized this candlelight vigil to share our solidarity with Tibetans in Kham Drago, where the situation is very critical, where the Chinese government has implemented repressive policies, where the monasteries are demolished, schools are destroyed,”
“Recently in the Kham Drago, areas of Central Tibet, the Chinese government has destroyed a giant Buddhist statue. The statue is almost 600 feet statue of Buddha. And then, they also destroyed a monastery. So this vigil is s sign of China’s rising repression of Tibetan practice of Buddhism inside Tibet and this is not just happening in central Tibet that we got to know recently but in many other places,” said another Tibetan who took part in the vigil.
He went on to say “So China’s attempt to destroy aspects of Tibetan Buddhism culture is their way of homogenizing, criticizing entire Tibet and not only Tibet, East Turkistan, and southern Mongolia also. This is an attempt to Sinicise entire China and China’s occupied country,”
The vigilante emphasized that such Chinese activities are a threat to Tibetan religion, culture, and identity and that such acts by the Chinese constitute a threat to Tibetan religion, culture, and identity. “China directly is contradictory to Beijing’s promise of autonomy or rights for what is called minorities to practice their religion and culture.”
“China is doing this even when their Winter Olympics is coming which is after two months. So, therefore, we are protesting, we are leading this candle vigil, we are spreading awareness of this and we are telling China to stop the repression in Tibet,” he added.
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