By Tenam
Paris, December 9 – On a wet, cold day, Tibetans joined hundreds of people from Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Falung Gong practitioners, dissident Chinese, and French organisation COBOP (which stands for boycotting Beijing Olympics) to commemorate the 60th World Human Rights Day here in Paris today. The rally was organised by Comité d’organisation de la journée des Droits de l’Homme (COJODH) or the Steering Committee for Human Rights Day.
The Asian communities came together to spread awareness about “the atrocities and the massive and systematic violations of the humans rights by dictatorial autocrats in Asia, under the instigation or with the support of the Communist Party of China”.
“People’s Republic of China has illegally occupied Tibet, leading to more than a million deaths. In Burma, China supports the junta by providing weapons to repress its people. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been murdered in the past eight years. The Chinese authorities, together with the Vietnam Communist Party have suppressed its people for more than half a century”, said the organisation in its press release.
The Organisation called on the international community about its responsibilities in the process of democratization of all these Asian countries terrorised by dictatorial regimes.
The day also saw cultural presentation by various communities and ended with short video presentation and a candle light vigil.
There will be a panel discussion and debate on the subject next Sunday.
Tenam can be contacted at tenam@tibetwrites.org
