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PRESS RELEASES & STATEMENTS
Press Release
Source: Tibetan Solidarity Committee, 2 April, 2008

The slogans raised by the Tibetan people throughout the whole of Tibet are "Tibet needs Freedom", "His Holiness the Dalai Lama should return to Tibet", and "the three provinces of Tibet should be re-unified". In the last fifty odd years Tibetans have suffered intolerable repression and suffering for seeking these three demands.
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TWA's Statement on the 49th Commemoration of the National Tibetan Women's Uprising Day
Source: TWA,12 March, 2008

Today, on the 49th anniversary of the National Tibetan Women’s Uprising day, TWA calls upon our fellow sisters around the world to pay our deep homage to those brave Tibetan women who created history on March 12th, 1959 by staging the first ever mass protest of women in Lhasa against the illegal occupation of Tibet by Communist China.
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Scores of Tibetans arrested for peaceful protest in Lhasa
Source: www.tchrd.org,11 March, 2008

Scores of Tibetans led by monks from Drepung and Sera Monastery were known to have been arrested for staging peaceful pro-Tibet protests in the Tibetan Capital, Lhasa, yesterday coinciding with the 49th anniversary of the 1959 People's Uprising against Chinese occupation of Tibet, according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
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The Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Source: ,10 March, 2008

On the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising in Lhasa on 10 March 1959, I offer my prayers and pay tribute to those brave men and women of Tibet who have endured untold hardships and sacrificed their lives for the cause of the Tibetan people and express my solidarity with those Tibetans presently undergoing repression and ill-treatment.-I also extend my-greetings to Tibetans in and outside Tibet, supporters of the Tibetan cause and-all who cherish justice.
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The Statement of the Kashag on the Forty-Ninth Anniversary
Source: www.tibet.net,10 March, 2008

Today, 10 March 2008, is the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising for their freedom. On this occasion, the Kashag pays its tribute to those heroic men and women of Tibet who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of the Tibetan people, as well as express our solidarity with those Tibetans who are presently suffering under Chinese repression. The Kashag also extends its greetings to all the Tibetans in and outside Tibet

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