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Belgian Tibetans hold demonstration before Chinese Embassy
Phayul [Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:49]
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The demonstration lasted from 2:30Pm to 5:00Pm with over 170 Tibetans and some local friends taking part in it. The regional chapter of the Tibetan Youth Congress was formed in July this year. The organizers say this is the first major anti-China demonstration since the chapter was established in Antwerpen, Belgium.
The Tibetan demonstrators mainly focused on “No Olympics in China” and “Release Panchen Lama”.
The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), headquartered in Dharamsala, India, is the largest Tibetan organisation in the exile Tibetan community and is devoted to restoring Tibet's lost independence.
The organisation launched an Indefinite Hunger Strike in Delhi last month, with 14 Tibetans sitting in it, as part of its “Mass Tibetan Movement”. The Hunger Strike was later called off on August 9 following strong appeal by the Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Indian law makers.
As part of the movement, an estimated 20,000 Tibetans assembled in the Indian capital to hold a massive rally against China's illegal occupation of their country and to highlight the plight of Tibetan people, and calling on Chinese Government to end its ongoing oppression inside Tibet.
The mass congregation on August 8 in Delhi, marking one year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Games, became what the Tibetans call it the largest demonstration gathering by the Tibetan exiles since 1959, when thousands of Tibetans followed the Dalai Lama into exile following China's brutal occupation of their country.
Based on report by Tendor from Belgium