New York, October 24 – Tibetans in New York displayed their outrage against the Chinese government’s execution of four Tibetans last Tuesday inside Tibet with protests at the UN building. Led by Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of New York & New Jersey, the Tibetans demanded UN intervention for justice and human rights in Tibet.
Four coffins draped with the Tibetan national flag were paraded while the Tibetans shouted slogans calling for an immediate end to repression in Tibet.
A protestor who held a Tibetan national flag said, “We can not sit silent in a free country while our brothers and sisters are being murdered like animals by the Chinese regime which has no respect whatsoever for human lives. Who would speak for the our people inside Tibet whose voices are suppressed by the communist regime?”
According to Dharamsala based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), four Tibetans namely, Lobsang Gyaltsen, aged 27, Loyak, aged 25, Penkyi, aged 21 and an unidentified Tibetan were executed on 20th October for their alleged involvement in the 2008 anti-China unrest in Lhasa. China, however, has confirmed the execution of only two Tibetans.
While condemning the arbitrary execution of the Tibetans RTYC New York and New Jersey appealed to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to investigate the deteriorating human rights conditions in Tibet and also requested President Barrack Obama to raise the issue of Tibet and question Beijing over the execution during his visit to China next month.
Protesters observed one minute silence to mourn the deaths of the four Tibetans and paid the respects to their souls with a prayer vigil in front of the Chinese consulate.
