Yogin's Quest

May all beings have happiness and its causes. May all beings be spared suffering and its causes. May all beings abide in the state of joy that knows no sorrow. May all beings trascend attachment to friends and aversion to enemies. And live beleiving in the equality of all that lives.

Friday, October 27, 2006

GENOCIDE IN TIBET

It is with a heavy heart, and watery eyes that I write this Blogg update, the recent Chinese atrocities had left me almost speechless, how can somebody do such a thing, how can a human being soldier or not, shoot nuns and children while they are trying to escape an oppressive government???, I don’t understand it, its beyond my comprehension!!!!!.










On September 30th, Chinese forces opened fire on a group of escaping Tibetans, they were about 70 Tibetans trying to escape by foot to Nepal, through the Cho Oyu advanced Everest base camp, Chinese border guards opened fire, at a line of defenseless Tibetans, which attempted to dodge the bullets by running uphill through deep snow at 19.000 feet.









At least two Tibetans are confirmed killed, a young boy and a nun, at least nine children part of the group were captured by the Chinese soldiers at gunpoint, their whereabouts remains a mystery, unfortunately for the Chinese, the whole incident was filmed by a group of mountaineers, so now the whole world can see how the Chinese murder innocents, I ask myself, “if their government was so great why would people try to escape”.










On October the 24th, we had a march and a candle light vigil here in Dharamsala, to protest such actions, it was extremely well attended by all, nuns, young monks, (just like the ones being killed) Tibetans and the international multitude of tourist, students and residents of this Himalayan town, we marched in the morning to the Tibetan government in exile buildings, and at night we marched downtown, then to the main temple, were a quiet protest was held, including the showing of the video (which address I include so all can witness the murders), yes I cried several times during this sad sad day, it was impossible not too, the Tibetans have lost all, and they continue to be killed while trying to escape and the world does nothing, is this the way of the future, that innocents get killed and the world just watches and does nothing???, if so, I am a shame of being part of this crazy world.
The pictures here are from the protests we did on October 24th, here in Dharamsala Northern India.