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Victims of the Genocide in Tibet will Testify in Spain's High Court as the Olympic Games Approach

Source: TIBET/CHINA NEWS / TIBETAN TIMES NEWS/ FREE TIBET NEWS

May 18, 2008

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After more than fifty years’ impunity regarding the genocide of the Tibetan people, victims will finally testify about their sufferings on 19th May 2008 at 9:30 in Court nº 2 of Spain’s Audiencia Nacional. Foremost among the voices to be heard is that of Palden Gyatso. A monk from Drepung monastery (where the first protests arose in this latest repression) and author of the book “Fire under the snow”, Palden was arrested in 1959 for organizing demonstrations by a group of monks, and spent 33 years in prison. During his imprisonment he witnessed the deaths of many Tibetan prisoners as a result of torture in prison and forced labour in veritable extermination camps. Hearing he was to travel to Madrid, the Tibetan monk declared: “After more than fifty years’ genocide against my people, in which more than a million Tibetans have died as a result of the military occupation, a court of justice is at last going to listen to our suffering. A few years ago when I was being tortured in prison in Tibet, my dream was that one day a law court would hear about the horrors ...Read the full article

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