Tibetan Youth Congress
held a press conference after launching
"Indefinite Fast for Tibet - Without Food and Water" at Jantar
Mantar, New Delhi on Monday and declared that the "TYC will launch the
second phase of the 'Tibetan People's Mass
Movement' on 7th August 2008 in Delhi, during which many direct action
campaigns against the Chinese rule in Tibet will be organized." said
Tsewang Rigzin, President of TYC. To represent the plight of six million
Tibetans, six-person, started an indefinite fast.
To support their courage and
determination, around 150 monks from Sera, Drepung and Gaden have arrived in
Delhi from South India. "With a hope that all the truth cherishing people
will look after the plight of Tibetans living under the repressive Chinese
rule, I joined the indefinite fast." says Ven. Sonam Dakpa from Sera Je
and asked why he wants to join the movement. The press statement contains five-point demands and four-point appeals. The five-point demand says that to immediately stop the brutal suppression of Tibetans inside Tibet and unconditional release of all the
Tibetan political prisoners and so on. And appeals to all the world leaders and athletes to show their solidarity with the Tibetans and protest the holding of Olympics in Beijing.
