No Torch in Tibet! Please
contact your country's National Olympic Committee (NOC) to ask them to
directly appeal to the IOC. Your NOC speaks not only for your country's
athletes but for your nation as well.
• Click here for a sample letter to send to your
National Olympic Committee
• Click
here for contact information for your country's National Olympic
Committee
• Click
here for contact information for IOC Executive Members
More detailed information
about Tibet and the propaganda of China's Olympic Torch Relay can be
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1. Since China invaded Tibet
in 1950, more than 1.2 million Tibetans have died as a direct result of
the occupation, more than 6,000 monasteries have been destroyed, and
thousands of Tibetans have been imprisoned and tortured for their
political or religious beliefs.
2. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's
political and spiritual leader, was forced to flee Tibet in 1959. He
escaped to India along with more than 120,000 other Tibetans, and
established the Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala, India.
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and Congressional Gold Medal for his
commitment to nonviolence and human rights, the Dalai Lama continues to
be vilified by the Chinese Government.
Last November, Tibetan nomad Runggye Adak was sentenced to 8 years in
prison for simply calling for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet.
Click here for more facts
about Tibet. |
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