Tibetans worldwide protest outside Chinese embassies on International Human Rights Day in honor of self-immolation acts against Chinese rule.
Tibetans to Protest Human Rights Day
On Sunday, Tibetans will be protesting outside Chinese embassies around the world for International Human Rights Day. In democratic Taiwan, the Dalai Lama Foundation will exhibit works of calligraphy honoring the Tibetan resistance movement. Ho Tsung-hsun, the calligrapher, stressed the purpose of the exhibit is not to encourage self-immolation but rather to highlight the despair and helplessness felt by those who took that action.
Ho’s exhibit will display 166 records of self-immolation by Tibetans in an ancient calligraphic style that aligns with official records. Each piece will show the person’s name, place of birth, identity, and age of self-immolation. Although each self-immolator was unique, with some as old as 80 and other as young as 16, the exhibit gives them all equal weighting.
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