300 Miles in 45 Days

March 10 - April 25, 1996

From the PRC Embassy in WASHINGTON, D.C.,

To the United Nations in NEW YORK

LED BY: THUBTEN JIGME NORBU

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's older brother, known as Takster Rinpoche, is a 74-year-old Tibetan refugee who has served as a Tibetan Government-in-Exile Representative to Japan and North America. He is a retired professor of Tibetan studies at Indiana University and founder of the International Tibet Independence Movement. Since leaving Tibet, Takster Rinpoche has continued to be a loud, strong, steady and outspoken voice for Tibet's independence.

AND: PALDEN GYASTO

A 64-year-old Buddhist monk who spent over 30 years in Chinese prisons and labour camps as a political prisoner in Chinese occupied Tibet. He escaped in 1992; in 1995 he testified before the United Nations and the U.S. Congress about the human rights abuses he had suffered. He has been on tour, giving speeches and displaying instruments of torture, giving witness to the inhuman atrocities committed against prisoners inside Tibet.

ON APRIL 25, 1996, THE MARCH FOR TIBET'S INDEPENDENCE WILL ARRIVE IN NEW YORK CITY

PLEASE JOIN US:

GREET THE MARCHERS AT BATTERY PARK BY THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY, 9:30am

then MARCH TO THE UNITED NATIONS FOR A RALLY, 1:30pm