Tibetan exiles participated in a candlelight demonstration here last evening to mark their National Uprising Day.
Kolkata, Mar 11 : Tibetan exiles participated in a candlelight demonstration here last evening to mark their National Uprising Day.
"We want freedom for Tibet. China should not violate human rights in Tibet. China has promised to International Olympic Committee, that human rights conditions would be better in Tibet before Beijing Olympics. But the promise has not been fulfilled yet, so we want improvement in human rights conditions," said Timud Diye, a Tibetan student.
Volunteers of the 'Students for a Free Tibet', held aloft banners and posters, and also raised slogans decrying what they saw as China's illegal occupation of their homeland.
Earlier this year, Tibetans living in India had urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to raise the Tibetan issue with China.
The Dalai Lama has been campaigning for greater autonomy for Tibet.
The Dalai Lama set up his seat of power in Dharamsala after he and his followers had fled to India in 1959, following a failed uprising against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
Beijing established direct contacts with the Dalai Lama in 1979, but the dialogue was suspended in 1993.
An estimated 13,40,00 Tibetans live in exile, a majority of them in India and Nepal.
ANI