Tibetan Women Commemorate Uprising Day
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Dharamsala, 12 March: Tibetan women today took a procession from Mcloed Ganj to Kotwali Bazaar to mark forty-five years of Tibetan women’s uprising on 12 March 1959. The March organised by the central and regional Tibetan Women’s Association began at 9 this morning from the local bus station.
Tibetan nuns, school children, lay women and foreigners walked with banners, placards and posters.
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In a statement issued on the occasion by the Tibetan Women’s Association, Mrs. B. Tsering called upon the Tibetan women world over to pay homage to those brave women who sacrificed their lives for Tibet.
“We must mobilise all possible support internationally to pressurise Beijing for an unconditional dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, for it is also in the interest of Beijing”, the statement further added.
Two days after the 10 March uprising in Lhasa, thousands of Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to revolt against the illegal occupation of Tibet by Communist China for the first time in Tibet’s history.
Tibetan Women’s Association has been commemorating this day as the Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day after its formation in exile on 10 September 1984 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s blessings.