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Newsletter on the campaigns of the Radical Party for the freedom of Tibet and the democracy on China.

"I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of great change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world".

Tenzin GYATSO, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, 1992

Issue #53, March 7, 1997

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MARCH 9-10, FREEDOM FOR TIBET!

SECOND EUROPEAN MANIFESTATION FOR FREEDOM FOR OCCUPIED TIBET.

THE PROGRAM OF THE 2-DAY RALLY.

Geneva-Brussels, March 7, 1997. The campaign for the preparation of the "Satyagraha for freedom for Tibet" - a worldwide nonviolent initiative for freedom for occupied Tibet planned for Spring 1998 - reaches, with the Geneva manifestation, a high moment of international mobilization.

In Geneva, next Sunday and Monday, for the 38th anniversary of the Lhasa upheaval of 1959, thousands of people will gather from all over Europe to ask the beginning of the negotiations between the Tibetan government in exile and the Chinese government. This is the only way to peacefully solve the question of occupied and colonized Tibet and to end the death of the Tibetan people.

The 2-day rally is organized by the European Tibet Communities, the Coordination of the Tibet Support Group, the Intergroup on Tibet at the European Parliament, The Transnational Radical Party.

Other rallies are scheduled in Moscow, Canberra, New York and New Delhi.

The annexed program includes a list of politicians participating in the Geneva manifestation, among which Mr. Kalon Tashi WANGDI, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tibetan government in exile, Ms. WEI Shan Shan, sister of political dissident and Nobel Peace candidate WEI jingsheng, Ms. Emma BONINO, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. James MOORHOUSE, MEP President of the Intergroup on Tibet at EP, Olivier DUPUIS, MEP and General Secretary of Transnational Radical Party.

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Programme for 9-10 March 1997

"Freedom for Tibet 1997"

Geneva, Switzerland

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9 MARCH - SUNDAY

11.00 hours: Play Tibetan music (audio)

12.00 hours: Arrival of participants at Palais des Nations

13.00 hours: Start of programme

Mr. Jampa PORONG: Presentation of the programme in Tibetan

Ms. Tenzin WANGMO: Presentation of the programme in French and German

Ms. Valentina DOLARA: Presentation of the programme in English and Italian

Singing of the Tibetan National Anthem - Tibetan Folklore Association - Switzerland

Speakers:

Kalon Tashi WANGDI, Foreign Minister, Tibetan Government in Exile

Mr. James MOORHOUSE, Chaiman of the Intergroup on Tibet in the European Parliament

Mr. Piero VERNI, European Co-ordinator for Tibet Support Groups

Mr. Tenzin EMCHI, Co-ordinator for Tibetan Communities in Europe

Mayor of Geneva

Mr. Erkin ALPTEKIN, President of Allied Committee of the Peoples of Eastern Turkestan, Inner Mongolia and Tibet and Chairman of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation

Mr. TEMTSILTU, Member of the Governing Body of Allied Committee of the Peoples of Eastern Turkestan, Inner Mongolia and Tibet

Ms. WEI Shan Shan, Chinese Democracy Movement (sister of WEI Jingsheng)

Mrs. Claude LEVENSON, Comité de Soutien au Peuple Tibétain, Switzerland

Olivier DUPUIS, European Parliament Member and Secretary General of Transnational Radical Party

Music and Greetings

a) Tibetan Children Song

b) Greeting from Eastern Europe

c) Religious music from Tibetan monks

d) Greeting form Scandinavia

e) Rangzen Song by Tibetan group, "Nangma"

f) Greeting from Benelux

g) Karmapa Song by Ms. Tenzin Lhamo

h) Greeting from Germany

i) Greeting from France

j) One Song

16.45 hours: Group-Procession from Palais des Nations to Geneva Lake

18.00 hours: Speeches at lake

- Mrs. Emma BONINO, European Commissioner

- Mr. Lobsang GANGSHONTSANG, National Co-ordinator, Switzerland, Vote of thanks

19.00-20.00 hours: Candle Light Vigil (around on section of Geneva Lake)

Programme Ends

10 MARCH - MONDAY

09.30 hours: Forwarding Memorandum to Chinese Mission in Geneva by Mr. Tenzin Emchi and group

10.00 hours: Arrival of Participants at Palais des Nations - 53rd session of the UN Commission of Human Rights opens its first session inside the United Nations

11.00 hours: Start of Programme

- Mr. Jampa PORONG: Presentation of the programme in Tibetan

- Ms. Tenzin WANGMO: Presentation of the programme in French and German

- Ms. Valentina DOLARA: Presentation of the programme in English and Italian

Singing of the Tibetan National Anthem - Tibetan Folklore Association - Switzerland

- Mrs. Chungdak KOREN: Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama Reading of the 10th March Statement of H.H. the Dalai Lama

Distribution of the Statement in Tibetan, English, French, German and Italian languages by Tibet Bureau for UN Affairs, Geneva

Long-Sho, Singing of the Tibetan National Uprising Song - Tibetan Folklore Association

Speakers:

- Mr. Piero VERNI, European Co-ordinator, Associazione Italia-Tibet

- Mr. Luigi COLAJANNI, Member of European Parliament (His message will be read)

- Mr. XIU Haitao, Vice-President, Federation for a Democratic Cina (Germany)

- Mr. Olivier DUPUIS, Member of European Parliament and the Secretary General of Transnational Radical Party

- Mr. Jigme RISUR, President, Tibetan Youth Association in Europe

- Kalon Tashi WANGDI, Concluding Statement from Tibetan Government in Exile

- Mr. Tenzin EMCHI, Vote of thanks

Den-tsig Monlam Prayer in Tibet ("Words of Truth") Tibetan Folklore Association

Programme Ends

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