Tibetan exiles around the world and their supporters plan to use YouTube to commemorate "global uprising day" this Saturday, March 10.
Videos already uploaded include pilgrims, rap songs, statements from monks, rants from young Tibetan exiles in the United States, and words from ama-la (grandmas). Looks like the revolution(s) will be televised after all. Link. (Thanks, Nathan Freitas / Students For a Free Tibet)
History: On March, 10, 1959, an uprising took place in Tibet against the Chinese occupation. In Lhasa on that day, 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the palace that housed the Dalai Lama, in order to protect him from anticipated abduction or assassination. China's military response in the days that followed left thousands dead. Link. More than 1.2 million Tibetans have since died as a result of the occupation, according to the Tibetan Government in Exile.
Image above: at left, screengrab from a statement by a man identified as a Tibetan pilgrim. At right, Ama Adhe (Adhe Tapontsang), one of Tibet's longest-serving political prisoners. Here's an Amazon link to her autobiography.
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