ScandAsia-10 January 2022
The Tibetan documentary filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen is travelling through Europe to create awareness about China as the host nation for the Olympic Games and he recently visited Denmark, DR News reports.
Dhondup Wangchen is a system critic who, ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, made a documentary depicting the suffering of Tibetans during the Chinese regime’s preparations for the Games. According to his own statement, he was kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned by the Chinese government for the film, but has since managed to escape the country.
Now 14 years after the original protest, he is again trying to get his message across. As a Tibetan, ‘he has a responsibility to be loud, he believes. As many as 15 European nations stand as destinations on his journey, which began in November, and meetings with politicians, athletes and diplomats are now part of the daily life of the Tibetan. Meetings he enters with a clear message.
“I would call for a diplomatic boycott. European nations should unite and make a common front against China,” he says to DR News.
“They (China) do not have to be the host at all. In 2008, China was given the opportunity to prove that it respects human rights and individual freedom, but in the months leading up to the Olympics, many people were killed. Also people I know,” he says. Click here to read more.