Tibetans Launch Historic Movement Ahead of Beijing Olympics

Posted by editor on Jan 4, 2008 in Global Contributors, SFT Global | 0 comments

For Immediate Release
January 4, 2008

TIBETANS LAUNCH HISTORIC MOVEMENT AHEAD OF BEIJING OLYMPICS
Global Uprising to Include Exiles’ March to Tibet

New Delhi – Five leading Tibetan organizations announced today the launch of the “Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement”, a new coordinated Tibetan resistance effort in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Games will take place only months before the 50^th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising against China’s invasion of Tibet. The movement’s organizers are calling on Tibetans worldwide to join protests during the Beijing Olympics and support a return march of exile Tibetans to their homeland. (more…)