Tibetans took to the streets in India’s capitol New Delhi on Sunday to mark the sixty fifth anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion in opposition to China. The march gathered Tibetans from numerous backgrounds and teams of ages who carried the Tibetan flag and indicators resembling “Tibet was by no means a part of China” and “China, cease repression in Tibet”, calling for the independence of Tibet from the “Chinese language invasion”. A part of the protest took place exterior the Chinese language embassy in New Delhi. A member of the Tibetan Youth Congress which organized the march, said in an interview that it’s the duty of each individual born in exile to struggle for the liberty of Tibet.
The date of March 10 marks the start of a sequence of historic events that resulted in a battle between China and Tibet that has been happening for greater than six a long time. On March 10, 1959, hundreds of Tibetans protested within the metropolis of Lhansa in opposition to the Chinese language occupation and attacked Chinese language troops after the Individuals’s Republic of China (PRC) claimed its “nationwide sovereignty ” over the Tibetan area on January 1, 1950. The Chinese language military responded with a crackdown which led many protestors to depart Tibet with their non secular chief, the Dalai Lama. Many, together with the Dalai Lama, settled in India.
Tibetans throughout the globe commemorate this date to recollect the sacrifices of their ancestors for freedom and independence, whereas additionally advocating for human rights in Tibet in opposition to the continuing Chinese language coverage in Tibet which is claimed to be characterised by quite a few human rights violations.
