Hundreds of Tibetan-Americans from around northern California converged this morning on San Francisco to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile and has symbolized Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation ever since.
"Even though 50 years have gone by, it has not added an ounce of legitimacy to the Chinese invasion and control of Tibet," said Tenzin Tethong, 60, a Sunnyvale resident who for 17 years was the Dalai Lama's representative to the united states. "The people inside Tibet have suffered for too long."Read more here
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Calls for a free Tibet
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