Prague – The total of 364 town halls in the Czech Republic today hoisted Tibetan flags, one more than a year ago, the Internet information system on Tibet said.
However, the flag was not hoisted by a number of town halls and regional authorities.
On the other hand, the Czech Green (SZ) deputies today hoisted the Tibetan flag from the window of their group’s office in the Chamber of Deputies to support Tibet’s fight for human rights.
They thus joined the international campaign Flag for Tibet in support of Tibetans’ non-violent struggle for their rights and national identity.
The Greens also placed Tibetan flags on their benches in the lower house. They want to demonstrate their support to all nations and groups whose rights are suppressed.
The Tibetan flag was also hoisted by Vlastimil Sehnal (Civic Democratic Party, ODS), chairman of the Senate commission for the support to democracy in the world, from the window of his office in the Senate building.
Neither the Chamber of Deputies nor the Senate have joined the campaign as institutions.
The campaign Flag for Tibet is held globally on March 10 to remember the uprising against Chinese occupation of Lhasa, in which at least 80,000 Tibetans died. Czech advocates of Tibet joined it for the first time in 1996.
In Prague, most of the town halls have joined the campaign. The Prague 3 town hall was one of the first to have done so in 1996 and it has hoisted the flag already fifteen times.
Out of the bigger towns in the Czech Republic, the campaign was joined by Brno, Karlovy Vary, Chomutov, Pardubice and Jihlava.
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