Tibetan Youth Congress members protesting against 100 years of Communist Party of China at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, India, on 1 July 2021. ANI
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NEW DELHI, India, 1 July 2021
Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) members on Thursday staged a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi against the centenary celebrations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Dozens of Tibetans gathered at the Chinese Embassy to protest the cruelty and brutality of the CCP and to send the message that they were putting up an united front against it.
One of the protestors said, “Remember 1950, we are protesting against the centenary celebration of CCP. We want freedom, hail Tibet, while the world is witnessing a river of blood flowing, China is celebrating the 100 years of CCP.”
“We condemn CCP. The very existence of the party is a threat to global peace and harmony. They are the murderers, they are the killers”, said another protestor.
As China marks the 100th founding anniversary of its Communist Party, Tibetan Youth Congress strongly condemned and criticised the very existence of CCP and its establishment at the cost of countless innocent lives and its notorious history of human rights violations said a statement of TYC.
“The painful memories of annexation and occupation of Tibet and killings of more than a million courageous countrymen continue to stay in us and we will strengthen our freedom movement to fulfill their aspirations,” added the statement.
The invasion of Tibet by the CCP in 1959 led 14th Dalai Lama along with 50,000 Tibetan to escape to India and later spread across the globe.
The CCP continues to impose severe restrictions and use brutal measures to suppress and imprison any form of dissent inside Tibet. Due to such aggressive policies, Tibetans inside Tibet have resorted to measures like self-immolation.
Since 2009, 157 Tibetans inside Tibet have set themselves on fire to protest against China’s illegal occupation. Most of the self-immolators called for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and independence in Tibet, read the statement.
Tibetan Buddhism under Communist China went through a dark phase from demolishing more than 5,000 monasteries to the disrobing of 99.9 per cent monks and nuns.
Today in Tibet, the Chinese authorities are gearing up for increased control over Tibetan Buddhism, where monasteries are forbidden to give traditional monastic education which forms an integral part of Tibetan Buddhism, read the TYC statement.
Monks and nuns are, instead, subjected to regular “patriotic education” and other political campaigns that are fundamentally against the basic tenets of Tibetan Buddhism.
Political indoctrination has replaced Buddhist education in monastic institutions where monks are drawn to serve the interest of the Beijing government and are forced to follow CCP’s strict guidelines.
CCP’s authorities are empowered with direct supervision over managing and running the monasteries and nunneries, the statement added.
Apart from that, under China’s occupation, Tibet’s environment has been destroyed, the resources have been illegally mined and transported and the rivers have been polluted.
Their occupation has led the Tibetans devoid of their basic rights and the human rights situation inside Tibet continues to deteriorate and worsen each passing year under the Chinese Communist Party’s oppressive and repressive hardliner policies.
Owing to which Tibet has for the past six years only scored 1/100 and ranked as the least free place in the world for civil rights and political freedoms, TYC statement added.
Genocide and crimes against humanity are becoming a daily occurrence in Tibet, and CCP continues to aggressively pursue assimilation policies in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia.
Chinese authorities have tightened surveillance ahead of their centenary celebration and continue to detain Tibetans arbitrarily.
“The very existence of CCP is not only a threat to the survival of Tibetan culture and identity, but it poses a grave security threat to the rest of the world. Therefore, it’s high time to scale up the cooperation amongst the democratic countries and strengthen its position against the atrocities committed by the CCP,” said the statement.
While I appreciate TYC doing rounds of protests around the world but it doesn’t make any dent on barbaric CCP’s behavior in Tibet. What TYC can do and make a difference right now is to play a constructive role in diffusing current stalemate at Chithue. Why is TYC is eerily silent till now or putting its heads in the sand when the very foundation of CTA is being dismantled in front of our very eyes by CCP inspired or may be CCP funded certain rogue elements in Chithue? Now is the time for TYC to play its crucial role in diffusing this problem in the Tibetan community which is nagging most of the sensible Tibetans for sometime now. It may be a historic opportunity for this pan Tibetan organization to use its influence now or lose its prestige and honor in the community. Also, isn’t this a great opportunity for the organization to return its indebtedness to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his untiring work in setting up CTA from scratch and nurturing it for all these years. If this imbroglio continues it would be loss to the entire Tibetan people inside Tibet as well as abroad and we should be ashamed to our friends and allies around the world.
This matter pertains to Tibetan Women’s Association and Gu-Chu-Sum Association etc. too. If these organizations could not play any constructive role when it matters, what is the use of these after all. In the exile Tibetan history this is unprecedented and we have to give a stunning defeat to those who are directly responsible for this so that they wouldn’t dare to raise their ugly heads in the future.
If TYC acts same like Ugyen Topgyal and his accomplices, there is nothing to hope from this organization and should be condemned as such by the Tibetan people.
Can TYC do something different then this rudimentary protest at the Chinese Consulate? Chinese knows in advance that TYC will protest, as usual, and Delhi Chankyapuri police knows they have to arrest few and release them the next day. Tibetan Women’s Association in Delhi knows that they have to go offer food at Tihar jail and TYC knows they have to post pictures on their Facebook saying they protested, arrested and then released. While I completely respect the protestors but will such protests help the Tibet cause or Rangzen as far as TYC’s stand is concerned? I think Rangzen needs blood and real action instead of these routine works.