Today is the one year anniversary of the shooting of the Tibetan refugees [09/30/06] who were crossing the Himalayas. As we have known, an actual footage of this event was documented by foreign mountain climbers, who were able to take the video. This video shows a clear fact of how the Chinese authorities treat the Tibetan people (before and presently) and their official response to the incident.
A video presentation was done last night in Seattle and was sponsored by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), and by the following Seattle chapters of ... Students for Free Tibet (SFT), Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Tibetan Association of Washington (TAW).
Personally this incident last year transformed me from a passive to an active Tibet supporter. Before I used to contribute small amounts here and there to ICT and that was it. After this Nangpa-la incident I have been active as I can on the Tibet issue (thats with a full time job and a family). I was able to help setup the first ever Tibet support in the Philippines (see link below) and have joined a lot of Tibet support activity here in Greater Seattle where I currently live.
The video is very touching and nicely presented and was even able to meet personally the young producer; Rabyoung Thonden Gyalkhang. After the show copies in DVD format were given, free-of-charge since Mr Gyalkhang had earlier stated that this DVD was done in order to show the current brutality the Tibetan people are still going thru todate and since this was the first time ever was captured in video and by foreign nationalities who were not Tibetans nor Chinese.
I hope people will be expose to the current Tibetan issues thru this DVD and hopefully this group could do its share in spreading this info.
Try to check on the SFT or ICT web sites for more info on how to acquire a free copy of this video.
My well wishes.
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