Toronto, September 30: Tibetans and their supporters in Toronto gathered in front of the Chinese consulate to mark one year anniversary of the brutal shooting on the innocent Tibetans by the Chinese border forces.
In protest to the ill-treatment by Chinese Communist government, a political theater was performed and a candle light vigil was staged with prayers for the fallen ones.
On September 30, 2006, 75 Tibetan refugees were making a secret trek across the border into Nepal, moving in a single file across Nangpa La Pass, when Chinese border forces indiscriminately opened fire on them.
In the gruesome incident, Kalsang Namtso, a 17-year-old Buddhist nun was instantly left shot dead while another sustained severe injury and several others were detained. Of the 75, only 43 managed to reach safely in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile led by the Dalai Lama.
Every year hundreds of Tibetans continue to flee Tibet in an attempt to seek better treatment under the welfare of their government in exile, but risk facing similar fate on the way.
The video footage of the tragic Nangpa la Pass incident captured by a western mountaineer, for the very first time summoned into full public glare on the worsening human rights situation in Tibet.
Sunday’s protest demonstration was jointly organised by Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Toronto, Students for a Free Tibet, Toronto and Tibetan Women’s Association of Ontario.
Based on report filed by TYC, Toronto
