New Delhi, January 6: “Now is the time, to show the true colours of China to the world,” Ms Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director of the Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), told some 60 enthusiastic members of South Delhi Tibetan Association (SDTA) gathered to hear her talk at Japan Temple, East of Kailash, New Delhi.
Ms Lhadon was in the city to attend a joint press conference, held on January 4, by five leading organizations where they called on exiled Tibetan to embark on a major protest march to Tibet ahead of the 2008 Beijing Games to denounce China’s illegal occupation of Tibet.
While focusing her talk mainly on Tibetan freedom campaigns in run up to the Beijing Games, she also spoke of her days growing up in Canada far away from the Tibetan exile community in India.
In her eloquently insisting talk, she called on Tibetans and Tibetan support groups to put forward a consistent campaign on a united platform ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to build up a renewed historical movement for Tibet.
Miss Lhadon concluded her talk by urging everyone present to initiate or participate in whatever action they can when the Olympics Torch Relay arrives in Mumbai on 17th April 2008 and also during the two-week (August 8-24) 2008 Games in Beijing.
The Tibetan gathering also held discussions on the drawbacks of the past Tibetan campaigns and raised several interesting questions on the Tibetan freedom struggle.
The four months old STDA comprises of a bulk of young Tibetan professionals and college students living in South Delhi. The association was initially set up for the social welfare of the Tibetans living in the area under the expert guidance and initiative of Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, member of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile.
Based on report filed by Lobsang Tenzin (lobt_99@yahoo.com) from New Delhi
