Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/10
By: Central News Agency
Taipei, March 10 (CNA) Over 100 people, including dozens of Tibetans, took part in a
Over 100 people marched in Taipei Saturday to support freedom for Tibet. (By Central News Agency)
march in Taipei on Saturday to mark the 59th anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day, calling for more religious freedom and cultural preservation in Tibet.
Holding placards that read “Tibet belongs to Tibetans” and chanting “The Dalai Lama wants to return home. We want to return home,” participants marched from Exit 2 of the Taipei Metro Zhongxiao Fuxing Station to Xinyi Plaza near the Taipei 101 skyscraper.
They made a stop at National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, where several participants prostrated themselves on the ground — a Tibetan praying technique — to remind the world that more than 150 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 to protest Chinese repression.
“We want religious freedom. We want cultural freedom. We want the freedom to protect our environment. This is the main purpose of our march today,” Tenzin Namdak, secretary-general of the Taiwan Tibetan Welfare Association, said before the march. Tashi Tsering, head of the association and chairperson of the Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan, told CNA that exiled Tibetans have never given up hope of returning to their homeland and of seeing the return of the Dalai Lama. [FULL STORY]