Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 19:06.
A group of 36 women members representing six regional chapters of Tibetan Youth Congress from Northern India staged an angry protest at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi March 12. Their faces painted with the colors of the Tibetan national flag, they "stormed" the embassy building, chanting anti-China slogans and spraying the embassy walls with "Free Tibet" and other slogans in red paint before security forces regained control. All 36—ranging in age from 16 to 60—were detained by the police, and are now on hunger strike in a Delhi police station. They are refusing bail and demanding unconditional release. Their demands are:
No Olympics in China until Tibet is free.
Stop forced sterilization of Tibetan women and the one-child policy.
Stop human rights violations in Tibet.
Immediate release of Tibetan who were arrested in recent National Uprising day in Lhasa.
March 12 is honored by Tibetans as National Women's Uprising Day, in remembrance of the day in 1959 when hundreds of women took to the streets of Lhasa to confront Chinese troops and scores were killed. (Phayul, March 12)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Tibetan protesters storm Chinese embassy in Delhi
A group of 36 women members representing six regional chapters of Tibetan Youth Congress from Northern India staged an angry protest at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi March 12. Their faces painted with the colors of the Tibetan national flag, they "stormed" the embassy building, chanting anti-China slogans and spraying the embassy walls with "Free Tibet" and other slogans in red paint before security forces regained control. All 36—ranging in age from 16 to 60—were detained by the police, and are now on hunger strike in a Delhi police station. They are refusing bail and demanding unconditional release. Their demands are:
March 12 is honored by Tibetans as National Women's Uprising Day, in remembrance of the day in 1959 when hundreds of women took to the streets of Lhasa to confront Chinese troops and scores were killed. (Phayul, March 12)
See our last post on sterilization abuse.