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1. Slide 1: 1949
2. Slide 2: …when the whole world was sleeping…
3. Slide 3: …and busy fighting battles across the globe…
4. Slide 4: …Tibet… a peaceful, spiritual country…
5. Slide 5: ...and one of the few nations in the world with a long…
6. Slide 6: …history of continued independence…
7. Slide 7: …was overtaken by Chinese military invasion.
8. Slide 8: China’s unprovoked act of aggression on Tibet resulted...
9. Slide 9: ...in the death of more than 10 lakh Tibetans…
10. Slide 10: ...and the complete destruction of more than…
11. Slide 11: ...6,000 ancient libraries and Buddhist universities.
12. Slide 12: In 1959 HH the XIV Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet…
13. Slide 13: …was forced to seek political asylum in India with more than 80,000 ordinary Tibetans.
14. Slide 14: Since then Tibet has never been the same and lives of all Tibetans has changed entirely.
15. Slide 15: Faced with brutal oppression and treated as second-class citizens in their own country…
16. Slide 16: …around 3,000 Tibetans escape their homeland across the Himalayas each year.
17. Slide 17: China’s discrimination and suppression of religion and human rights still continues.
18. Slide 18: A high proportion of political prisoners in Tibet today are nuns and monks.
19. Slide 19: Tibetan language is being replaced with Chinese in all schools in occupied Tibet.
20. Slide 20: Party officials still conduct “Patriotic Re-Education” in monasteries throughout Tibet.
21. Slide 21: In 1996 China banned Dalai Lama’s photographs, films and his speeches.
22. Slide 22: China continues to transfer landless and jobless Chinese to Tibet to outnumber Tibetans...
23. Slide 23: …and continues the dumping of chemical and nuclear waste destroying the fragile ecology.
24. Slide 24: Most of China’s nuclear missiles and nuclear labs are based on the Tibetan plateau.
25. Slide 25: Under China Tibet is being colonised like Afganistan, Iraq, Chechnia and Palestine!
26. Slide 26: Meanwhile the struggle for independence continues inside Tibet and in exile.
27. Slide 27: It is no longer just a question of helping an oppressed people. Today the question of…
28. Slide 28: …Tibetan independence is inseparably linked to India’s long-term future.
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