Update from Tenzin Norsang, Joint Secretary of Tibetan Youth Congress, who is on a 10-day trip to Taiwan organizing the 2nd Preliminary International Rangzen Conference scheduled to be held on the 10-11 November 2012
8 November 2012, Taiwan:
Today I visited and met with two Executive members; Dylan P.C. .Kup, Executive Secretary and Y-Chi-Yang, Campaign Coordinator of Amnesty international, Taiwan at their office. The meeting lasted almost 40 minutes where they informed me of their campaigns for Tibetan human rights situation and their efforts at generating awareness for the cause of Tibet. They assured that they would continue to do more in the future. I thanked them for their relentless work and expressed my views and opinions on the situation inside Tibet and the wave of self-immolations since 2009.
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| Visited Amnesty International Taiwan |
In the evening at 7:30 pm a public talk titled, Tibet: A burning Issue was attended by more than 80 Taiwanese, some Italians and few Tibetans most of whom were RTYC Taiwan members. The talk, which was organised by RTYC Taiwan with coordination with Tashi Tsering founder and former president of RTYC, Taiwan was targeted for the Taiwanese crowd. Lasting more than two and a half hours (interpretation time included) I introduced Tibetan Youth Congress as a movement and spoke about our aims and objectives and our activities and why TYC retains Independence as a goal and why we think Independence is possible. Then I spoke about the self-immolations inside Tibet that has gripped Tibet and paralysed China and what can be achieved through their sacrifices and what the International Community can do to help.
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| There are more than 80 people attended the public hold by TYC adnd RTYC Taiwan |
Some of the interesting questions they asked were; why Tibetans offer traditional Tibetan scarf to the self-immolators? What is the role of a Taiwanese in the Tibetan struggle? They wanted to know about HH the Panchen Rinpoche etc. It was a very enthusiastic crowd and the feedback from the audience was very positive. Many of them commended TYC for its stand for Independence and its non-violent approaches.
You can watch the videos, which were broadcast live by clicking on this link below:
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| Tenzin Norsang and Tashi Tsering |
Tomorrow morning at there will be a press conference for the Taiwanese media at 10 am local time about the Rangzen Conference and the ongoing crisis inside Tibet and in the evening a candle light vigil will be organized at 6 pm at Taipei Liberty Square where al major campaigns are organized. .
For more information please call Tashi Tsering +886 910145117 or Tenzin Chomphel (RTYC Taiwan President) +886 986994158 or visit the blogspot created for this entire TYC programme in Taiwan