BY Tsering Tsomo Chatsug
Beginning March this year when Tibetans all over are celebrating the festive season of Losar (Tibetan New Year), Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) in conjunction with Bharat-Tibbat Sahyog Manch (BTSM) will be carrying out a marathon ten-day mass awakening program to inform, educate and familiarize the common Indian public on the Tibet-China conflict and its far reaching implications India s security. The program will cover the remotest of hamlets, villages, towns and cities all over India.
In a never-before exercise in exile of grassroots awakening on the Tibet issue, the program will start simultaneously from Dharamsala(North India), Tezu(North-east) and Bylakuppee(South India). The Dharamsala group of marchers will tour whole of North India while the Tezu marchers will visit areas in the North-east. The Marchers from Bylakuppee Tibetan Settlement will cover South India. To coincide with the commemoration of Tibetan National Uprising Day, the program will conclude on March 10 at Delhi, Siliguri and Bangalore.
The Tibetan Youth Congress would make a series of appeals during the program which is titled Bharat Jagran Yatra . The Indian people would be requested to persuade their respective representatives in the State legislative assemblies to discuss the Tibet issue in the assembly. All governmental and non-governmental bodies and agencies and human rights commissions would be asked to take up the cases of the kidnapped 11th Panchen Lama and Trulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche who was recently given death sentence with two years reprieve by a Chinese court. Appeals to the members of both the houses of the Indian parliament to discuss the Tibetan issue and to the Indian government to recognize officially the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Government in Exile would be made.
Tsering Tsomo Chatsug can be contacted at ttchatsug@rediffmail.com
