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March 10, 2009

Pro-Tibetan Protesters Rally Outside White House
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Protests are being held today around the world to commemorate fifty
years of Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule. On Monday, pro-Tibet
activists gathered outside the White House.

Tsering Palden, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress in New York and
New Jersey: “Today fifty years ago, the Tibetans in Tibet have
voluntarily rose up against the Chinese occupation. So that resistance
still continues, and we wanted to keep this force of resistance alive
and be the voice of those Tibetans inside Tibet, because they don’t have
any voice outside, because they closed Tibet from the outside world. No
foreigners are allowed. No journalists are allowed. The whole of Tibet
has been militarized. It has become virtually—Tibet is under virtually
martial law.”

Yangchen Lhamo of Students for a Free Tibet also spoke.

Yangchen Lhamo: “We’re here really with tens of thousands of Tibetans
and supporters around the world today to mark this anniversary by taking
these fifty years of resistance, the spirit of the fifty years of
resistance, to the streets of our cities and our towns and to urge—here
in our nation’s capital, to urge the US government to increase the
pressure on China to meet with the Dalai Lama and engage in meaningful
negotiations and also just to immediately withdraw all of the troops
that have been deployed in Tibet.”



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