FUENTE: EFE | GINEBRA, SWISS | MARZO 10, 2018
The demonstration took place without incident, according to the cantonal police (EFE)
Some 3.500 Tibetans and sympathizers from several cities in central Europe participated this Saturday, at a demonstration, in charge of the headquarters of the United Nations Organization (HIM), in Geneva, Swiss, to commemorate the uprising of 10 March 1959 against China and demand that human rights be respected in Tibet.
The demonstration took place without incident, according to the cantonal police.
Several speakers addressed the participants in favor of a Tibet independent of China and calling on the international community to take measures to ensure that human rights are respected..
Does 59 years, The Tibetan resistance staged a national uprising against the Chinese in Lhasa, the capital of the region, which was violently repressed by the Chinese Army.
It was a few days after that event that the Dalai Lama fled to the mountainous region of neighboring India..
The Tibetan community in Switzerland recently launched a campaign calling on the Federal Government to engage more actively in protecting human rights in Tibet..
Switzerland hosts the largest Tibetan community outside of Asia as it was one of the first countries to accept them as refugees almost sixty years ago..
With EFE information
