Call to Action: Support Lhamo Tso & Dhondup Wangchen

Protest in support of Dhondup Wangchen; Photos: SFTHQ

Every sunrise during 1 AM, Lhamo Tso bakes bread alone.

In a early hours of a morning, she will sell this bread upon a main square of a Indian locale of McLeod Ganj. This small locale is important all over a universe for being a chateau of a Tibetan supervision in exile as well as of a Tibetan communitys most well known as well as respected member, His Holiness a 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

It is a full of color village made of displacement. Travelers abound, mixing with a Tibetan as well as Indian populations. If we demeanour closely enough, youll see signs of protest everywhere: a entire I Love Tibet bags, organizations such as Students for a Free Tibet, as well as a Tibet Hope Centre. Recently, Lhamo Tso, a subject of this article, spoke during a organization, Learning as well as Ideas for Tibet.

Dhondup Wangchen; Photo: SFTHQ

Lhamo Tsos story is a microcosm of what lies behind a smiling faces of most of a Tibetan people travelers encounter in McLeod Ganj. Lhamo Tsos husband, Dhondup Wangchen, was arrested by Chinese authorities in March 2008 for making a documentary movie about Tibetans opinions of a 2008 Beijing Olympics.

He spent a little time upon a dangerous journey by Tibet, as well as was arrested along with his supporter shortly after they successfully managed to smuggle a tapes of a endless interviews he had conducted out of a country. He was charged with inciting seperatism as well as given his detain his family have had no event to see him or promulgate with him. You can find out some-more about Dhondups exceptional movie here.

Lhamo Tso is a conspicuous woman, who exclusively supports Dhondup Wangchens parents, a 4 young kids she has with him, a! s well a s a niece. She speaks clearly, with conviction, as well as in cold blood about her husbands arrest, citing which he has committed no crime in documenting peoples opinions. She recounts which he has been denied medical diagnosis as well as authorised illustration by a Chinese authorities.

Dhondup Wangchen was kept in apprehension for two years, as well as eventually condemned to six years of imprisonment in Jan 2010. Two opposite Chinese tellurian rights lawyers offering to represent him, following which both were in jeopardy with a suspension of their licenses. Dhondup has been beaten, tortured, as well as has contracted Hepatitis B in prison, as well as has been eliminated to a hard labour camp. Lhamo is fearful which he will not tarry a ordeal, especially considering a fact which he is denied medical treatment.

The Tibetan Womens Association has made a documentary about Lhamo Tsos life, called Lhamo Tso: Behind a Sea, which we can watch here. Lhamo Tso as well as other women who have lost partners as well as family members need support. You can assistance to minister to an international movement petitioning for a recover of Tibetan domestic prisoners during Free Tibetan Heroes International vigour has been well known to reduce a sentence of domestic prisoners, as well as your voice can have a difference. If we have a blog or a Facebook profile, we can assistance have a disproportion in Lhamo Tsos hold up as well as in a lives of most women similar to her. Your voice counts, as well as people similar to Dhondup Wangchen as well as Lhamo Tso need we to verbalise out for them.

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Want to learn some-more about Lhamo Tso as well as Dhondup Wangchen? Visit a Reporters without Borders website.


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