Tokyo: The Tibetan community in Japan along with other repressed communities protested against the Chinese government’s human rights violations and territorial aggression during a peace march demonstration held to commemorate human rights day in Tokyo on Saturday. The peace march was jointly organized by SFT, Japan, Southern Mongolians, Uighurs, Hong Kong and Taiwanese community.
Addressing the gathering, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Representative Dr. Arya Tsewang Gyalpo said China, despite a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which ensures everyone equal right and freedom, has been violating it by committing repression of human rights and freedom in Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Uyghur, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Representative Dr. Arya said China’s claim of bringing development and paradise in Tibet is mere propaganda, as it refuses free access to UN independent missions, foreign diplomats and journalists to ascertain the truth in Tibet.
He said we are protesting against the repressive and wrong policies of the government of the Chinese communist party and not China itself and the Chinese people who have rich history and culture.
He urged the Chinese government to end its policies of repression and intrusion into territories of neighbouring countries, and instead undertake peaceful and just approach.
Representative Dr. Arya called the Tibetans, Mongolians, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese community to forge unity in the quest for restoring freedom and justice.
In his speech, Mr. Tsering Dorjee, President of the Students for a Free Tibet, said Tibetans, Mongolians, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese are suffering under the Chinese government’s repressive policies. He called for the need to unite their power to reclaim freedom and dignity.
The representative of southern Mongolia, Mr. Olhund Daichin, expressed grave concern over the Chinese government’s recent policy to replace the Mongolian language with Chinese in the schools in its vicious attempt to exterminate the Mongolian language. He said the Chinese government has turned the schools in Southern Mongolian into internment camps.
In his address, Mr. Uda Kerimu, president of Japan Uyghur Association, appealed to the international community to urge the Chinese government to shut down concentration camps where over a million Uyghurs have been forcibly undergoing political indoctrination.
The protesters, holding flags and banners, marched through Asakusa city famous for Sensoji temple, raising slogans calling for an end to China’s repression and restore freedom and human rights in Tibet, Southern Mongolia, East Turkestan and Hong Kong.
More than 150 people took part in the peace-march.
-Filed by Office of Tibet, Japan