Tibetans hold hunger strike in Dharamshala to protest Beijing Games

Ground Report | New Delhi: Tibetans protest Beijing Games; A group of Tibetan activists went on a one-day hunger strike here to protest against the Winter Olympics that began in Beijing on Friday. Five prominent Tibetan NGOs Students for Free Tibet (SFT), Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT) and Gu Choo Sum Association of Former Political Prisoners of Tibet have jointly fought hunger strike. strike. As a mark of protest against the "gross violation of human rights of Tibetans in Tibet".

Tenzin Lobsang, an activist for Students for Free Tibet, says, “We are opposing the Beijing Winter Olympics. The whole world is going to see the genocide games that are happening inside China and they do not deserve such a big event. Event. Yesterday we heard that the Indian government is not attending the opening and closing ceremony and this is good news for us. This is good news for all human rights believers and we thank and welcome this decision.

Rinzin, president of Students for a Free Tibet, says, “As we all know this is the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 and from the day China was awarded the prestigious Olympic Games, we made sure the IOC decision was wrong. And we've made that clear to the international community as well.

Since then, we've been organizing a number of campaigns and events and we've been calling for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. We believe China deserves to host It is not a prestigious sport and that's why we are organizing this one-day hunger strike and today a lot of people are joining us."

With inputs from ANI

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