Global intervention to save Tibetan lives

Between September 26 and October 17, eight young Tibetan monks and one Tibetan nun have set themselves on fire in Ngaba County, eastern Tibet. This brings the total number of known self-immolations in Tibet to nine this year. Five of them died and the fate of the other three remain unknown. The situation remains tense and posters appearing around Ngaba town and Kirti Monastery warn that if the present situation of oppression continues many more people are prepared to give up their lives in protest. Chinese military forces have enclosed Ngaba and surrounding areas, placing it under effective martial law.

China’s systematic repression and tyrannical rule in Tibet — stationing officials in the monasteries, disappearing monks by the hundreds, shutting down phone lines, cutting off the internet, installing surveillance cameras and military checkpoints everywhere — have created a spiraling nation-wide crisis.

Bay Area Tibetans and supporters join a the global campaign “Enough is Enough – Global Intervention to save Tibetan Lives” (www.StandupforTibet.org) to show Tibetans in Ngaba and across Tibet that their deep pain and suffering has not gone unnoticed by the world. Tibet is burning and Tibetans need world leaders to intervene and most immediately – we must pressure China to withdraw its security forces from Ngaba and stop the ongoing harassment and torture of Tibetan monks at Kirti monastery.

We call on our state representatives and county leaders to take the following actions:

(1) Global pressure on China to withdraw its security forces from Ngaba and stop the ongoing harassment and torture of Tibetan monks at Kirti Monastery;

(2) World leaders to issue a coordinated international response to condemn China’s repressive measures in Ngaba and across Tibet and to institute multi-lateral mechanisms to advocate for the Tibetan people.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 2. from 10 a.m. – 6.p.m in San Francisco. Protests are taking place world-wide on this day as Hu Jintao attends the G20 Leaders’ summit in Cannes, South of France. Please respond via Facebook @ http://tinyurl.com/3skquoc

This event is organized by San Francisco Team Tibet, a coalition of Bay Area Tibet organizations dedicated to Tibet’s freedom.
San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Tibetan Association of Northern California, Committee of 100 for Tibet, Bay Area Friends of Tibet, and Students for a Free Tibet.