DHARAMSHALA, November 20: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy today released a new documentary movie based on the life of a former Tibetan political prisoner Lhamo Kyab, who now lives in exile here.
Speaking to mediapersons, Kyab said, “The focus of the film is not just my personal life story; it pays tribute to the incredible determination and courage of the Tibetan people who have been resisting Chinese repression for more than six decades.”
Titled “A Sacrifice”, the twenty six minute documentary is directed by a London based filmmaker Theo Hessing in 2012.
Since 2009, 122 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in Tibet protesting against the Chinese occupation of Tibet and China’s hard line policies.
The movie will be screened as part of a campiagn in various countries.
Lhamo Kyab fled Tibet into exile in 2003 but returned to Tibet in 2006 with a mission to free his homeland from the Chinese occupation. However, he was subsequently arrested, imprisoned and tortured for three years in Chushul prison near Lhasa.
Tsering Tsomo, Executive Director of Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said, “We at TCHRD aim to promote such movies and other material that are based on the lives of former political prisoners, it will help us garner international community’s support for the critical situation inside Tibet.”
The Tibetan rights group also hopes that “this film will create the much needed awareness and support for Tibet’s ongoing non-violent resistance against the Chinese policies that are geared towards what the exile Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama aptly refers to as ‘cultural genocide.’
The synopsis of the movie reads, “A Sacrifice considers the implications of the sacrifices being committed by Tibetans in the name of freedom.”
