Tibetan Youth Congress to embark on ‘Bharat Jagran Yatra’
TYC President Tenzing Jigme and VP Tamdrin Rhichoe at the press conference at the head office of TYC in Dharamshala on November 30, 2017. |
Tibetan Youth Congress, a worldwide
non-governmental organization of Tibetans is launching a nationwide
grassroots level campaign among the Indian people on the undeniable
cultural and historical bond between Tibet and India, and the strategic
importance of relation of Tibetan Independence with the security
interest of India. The month long campaign will start from three
different cities McLeod Ganj (Dharamshala), Salaugara (West Bengal) and
Chennai on Dec 10, World Human Rights Day and will cover over 150 towns
and cities all over India.
The campaign aims to raise awareness on the Tibet issue and garner
support of the Indian people and government leaders to recognize that
Tibet was historically an Independent country and is currently an
occupied nation by the communist government of China. This campaign will
include travelling from village to village, towns to towns and cities
to cities where at each stop; public rally, press conferences,
distribution of pamphlets, signing of petitions, and advocacy work would
be organized.
India and Tibet shares a long historical, cultural, religion and
trade relations that brings the two countries into a close-knitted
neighborhood. By virtue of its geographical closeness too, the two
countries political, environmental and economic fate are greatly
inextricably interlinked. Tibet’s transboundary and transnational
position directly affects the national interests of India. The loss of
Tibet as its buffer zone after the Chinese invasion in 1949, replaced a
peaceful historical Indo-Tibetan border with the trouble-ridden, highly
tensed Sino-Tibetan border. Since then, India and China, two nuclear
powers and giants of Asia, have had treacherous eyeball to eyeball
confrontations over the decades with the ghosts of the brief yet bloody
1962 war looming large over them. The recent standoff between the two
countries in the Droklam region, which has historically been a part of
Tibet, reinforces the fact that India’s Security lies in an Independent
Tibet. China’s expansionist policies and its global ambitions are
clearly spelled out in the hostile and callous manner in which they have
responded to the ongoing crisis in Droklam. China has played the victim
card, led an international diplomatic assault to portray India as the
aggressor while sending out not so subtle threats to India.
The communist government of China has shown no remorse in siding with
nations and groups who vehemently oppose India. They have plotted to
contain India militarily and limit India’s global outreach by blocking
India’s entry into NSG and obstructing India’s candidature as a
permanent member of the UN Security Council. Beyond the strategic
vantage point that Tibet holds looking over south Asia, China also
controls the mighty rivers that flow down from the plateau which support
and sustain livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people living
downstream. The dumping of nuclear wastes in Tibet, building of dams,
diversion of rivers and deforestation will create imminent disasters
since Himalayan rivers like Indus, Sutlej and Brahmaputra etc. originate
in Tibet.
Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest Tibetan NGO in exile, asserts
that Tibet’s independence is the safest guarantee for India’s security
and peace along the Himalayas. TYC President Tenzing Jigme stated that,
“it is in India’s interest that New Delhi officially recognizes Tibet as
an illegally occupied nation and leads a regional coalition to pressure
China to resolve the issue of Tibet. The buffer zone has now become a
war zone and if we want a zone of peace in the region then Tibet must be
Free”.
Appeals:
1. We appeal to the Indian people to urge their MLA’s to take up the issue of Tibet in their respective legislative assembly.
2. We appeal to the government of India to review its policy and
recognize that Tibet was historically an Independent country and is
currently an occupied nation by China.
3. We appeal to the India masses and Tibetans to Boycott products Made in China
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