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Author: Sonam Tsering
"I have enough time to rest but I don't have a minute to waste"
“I try to share with other people that the ultimate source of happiness is within us; it’s not found in money and fame. I promote fundamental human values on the basis of scientific findings and common sense. Evidence that basic human nature is compassionate is a source of hope.”
“I believe that if we make an effort to develop peace of mind within ourselves and cultivate a proper appreciation of the oneness of humanity, we can create a happier, more peaceful world. What we need is common sense—the positive use of intelligence—and warm-heartedness.”
“Inter-religious harmony is essential, because each of our religious traditions gives its followers a sense of how to lead a meaningful life. The important thing is to make religion relevant to our daily life rather than simply maintaining old traditions.”
“Developing compassion you feel much happier within—more calm, more peaceful—and other people respond to that. Through anger, real peace, friendship, and trust are impossible, but through love we can develop understanding, unity, friendship, and harmony — this is valuable.”
“Time’s always moving on. Nothing can stop it. The question is whether we use our time well or not. We can’t do anything about the past, but what happens in the future depends on what we do now. We can create a happier future by remembering that in being human we are all the same.”
As we marched under the scorching sun, passing through the hard-heating highways, the school kids warmly waved goodbye hands and Re-energized us, hoping our actions can inspire and encourage them to do something for a good cause.#tibetmattersmarch#ccp#stop#occupationpic.twitter.com/tRqCOdytgE
“”I often think of my mother as my first teacher of compassion. She was simple, uneducated, just a village farmer, but so kind-hearted – her kindness was unconditional. It is the love with which she nurtured me that is the core of the compassion I can find in myself & feel for others”. #MothersDay
The Tibetan Youth Congress organized a month-long “Tibet Matters March”, which has commenced on Tibetan Martyr’s Day on the 29th of April 2023. A month-long march was kicked off from the state of Sikkim crossing West Bengal, and conclude at Tezpur in Assam. TYC volunteers participating from across the Tibetan Youth Congress Regional Chapters in India and Nepal.
Flag-off ceremony of the Tibetan Youth Congress’s “Tibet Matters March” in presence of forest Minister of the state, Sikkim.
The following particular date and place are outlined to send a clear and concrete message to the G20 leaders that China’s “diplomatic assurances” are not to be trusted.
On 23rd May 1951, Tibetan delegates were forced to sign a “Seventeen-Point Agreement” with unacceptable intimidation, and large-scale military retaliation. The Tibetan delegates were also given the only choice of either signing the “Agreement” on their authority or accepting responsibility for an immediate armed indulgence in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet.
For the next eight years, Tibetans tried to abide by the terms of this document but China, on the other hand, showed no inclination to honour its own part of the “Agreement”, and PLA immediately set out to inflict unbelievable atrocities upon the Tibetan people and occupied Tibet in 1959. H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet and the Tibetan government (Kashag) repudiated the so-called “17th Point Agreement” in the Yugyal Lhuntse District of Tibet on 26th March 1959, and again on his arrival in Tezpur in Assam (India), H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama internationally repudiated the “17-point Agreement as having been “thrust upon Tibetan government and people by the threat of arms.”
“Tibet Matters March” aims to urge the G20 leaders to raise the issue of the Sino-Tibet conflict which plays a significant role in resolving the growing tension between China and a number of countries in Southeast Asia.
The very survival of almost 2 billion people depends on the freshwater resources originating from the Tibetan plateau. The continued exploitation of the Tibetan landscape, ecosystem, and natural resources by the Chinese Communist regime will produce a direct impact and long-lasting negative consequences for the downstream countries. Therefore, it’s high time to talk about Tibet which significantly matters in promising and promoting permanent peace and security in Asia.
After more than six decades of forceful and illegal occupation of Tibet, China has turned Tibet into the world’s least-free country, sharing the bottom spot with South Sudan and Syria in Freedom House’s global freedom scores. The current human rights situation in Tibet has been one of the worst in recent years with the forceful imposition of repressive policies that primarily aims to eliminate the very Identity of Tibetans.
Under the Chinese colonial education system, over one million Tibetan children have been separated from their families and forcefully placed into Chinese state-run colonial boarding schools. It is a genocidal policy to indoctrinate Tibetan children from their cultural roots: the Tibetan language, Tibetan religion, and cultural heritage.
And under the Chinese massive surveillance system, they have been taking their hands-on mass collection of Tibetan DNA samples including children as young as five. We believe this is their newest attack on Tibetan identity, massive surveillance on individual privacies, and freedom of movement inside Tibet. Therefore, Today, Tibetan Youth Congress urges the international community and the G20 leaders, in particular, to raise the Tibet issue with the Chinese leaders.
Demands:
1) We urge the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi Ji, and world leaders to raise the issue of the Sino-Tibet conflict with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the G20 summit in September 2023.
2) We demand the Chinese government addresses the ever-deteriorating human rights situation under its repressive rule in Tibet and immediately shut down the colonial boarding schools that attack and eliminate the Tibetan culture and identity.
3) We also seek the support of international community in resolving the Sino-Tibet conflict.
Currently the Tibetan Youth Congress volunteers have reached in Alipurduar in West Bengal and entering in the Assam state in two days.
Despite the difficulties of the heat-waves hitting more than 35’C, the volunteers continue to walk under the scorching sun to amplify their voices.
