Tibetans in India protest against China to commemorate Uprising Day

Tibetans took to the streets in India’s capitol New Delhi on Sunday to mark the sixty fifth anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion towards China. The march gathered Tibetans from numerous backgrounds and teams of ages who carried the Tibetan flag and indicators akin to “Tibet was by no means a part of China” and “China, cease repression in Tibet”,  calling for the independence of Tibet from the “Chinese language invasion”. A part of the protest passed off exterior the Chinese language embassy in New Delhi. A member of the Tibetan Youth Congress which organized the march, acknowledged in an interview that it’s the accountability of each individual born in exile to battle for the liberty of Tibet.

The date of March 10 marks the start of a sequence of historic occasions that resulted in a battle between China and Tibet that has been occurring for greater than six many years. On March 10, 1959, 1000’s of Tibetans protested within the metropolis of Lhansa towards the Chinese language occupation and attacked Chinese language troops after the Folks’s Republic of China (PRC) claimed its “nationwide sovereignty ” over the Tibetan area on January 1, 1950. The Chinese language military responded with a crackdown which led many protestors to depart Tibet with their religious chief, the Dalai Lama. Many, together with the Dalai Lama, settled in India.

Tibetans throughout the globe commemorate this date to recollect the sacrifices of their ancestors for freedom and independence, whereas additionally advocating for human rights in Tibet towards the continued Chinese language coverage in Tibet which is claimed to be characterised by quite a few human rights violations.