WALK
REPORTS
Day
1, March 6 - Day 2, March 7
Day 3, March 8 - Day
4, March 9 - Day 5, March 10
March
10, 2003
Participants
2003 March for Tibet's Independence
Monument Circle Indianapolis, Indiana
Dear Friends:
On behalf of the World United Formosans for Independence-United States Headquarters (WUFI-U.S.A.), I congratulate you for finishing this 2003 March for Tibet's Independence. Today is a historic date for Tibet because it marks the 44th Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa, Tibet. To the organizers, especially the International Tibet Independence Movement, the Taiwanese people salute you for having successfully completed this highly significant project. We admire your persistence in calling the worldıs attention to Chinaıs illegal occupation of Tibet.
I wish to take this opportunity to express our solidarity with you in your demands that China end its illegal occupation of Tibet; that China release the Panchen Lama Gendhun Choekyi Nyima; that China negotiate without preconditions with the Tibetan government-in-exile; that China stop its annihilation of the Tibetan culture; that China cease its environmental destruction in Tibet; and that China respect the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people.
Tibet and Taiwan may be far apart geographically. However, the peoples of Tibet and Taiwan share the very same important goal. We both wish to be free from Chinese threat and oppression. It is imperative that we join forces in order to turn back China's imperialistic designs on its neighbors.
My Tibetan friends and friends of Tibet, the World United Formosans for Independence supports your cause. We have responded to your call to shun products "Made-in-China" and will continue to boycott Chinese goods. As a token of our solidarity with the International Tibet Independence Movement, I would like to present to Prof. Larry Gerstein a banner advocating "CHINA OUT OF TIBET". (Presentation). My friends, this banner is made in Taiwan. It symbolizes the joining of hands of Tibetan and Taiwanese peoples.
Long Live, Tibet!
Thank you,
Tom
W. Tseng, Representing Bob I. Yang, Chairman
World
United Formosans for Independence-United States of America