Mysore, September 28- The Tibetans in South India took out a massive Candle Light March in Mysore city to mark the September 27, 1987 the greatest ever independence demonstration in Tibet since 1959. The Tibetans all over the world observe the Day as ‘Black Day’. The Mysore Candle Light March was organized jointly by the South Indian Chapters of Tibetan Rights and Freedom Restoration Committee, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress and Regional Tibetan Women’s Association of Hunsur, Kollegal and Bylakuppe Settlements. Addressing the marchers, the president of TRFRC, Venerable Lobsang Palden said that there had been many uprisings in Tibet since communist Chinese invasion of Tibet, but the 1987 was unprecedented in scale, intensity and impact it created. “We must not forget the massacre of the Tibetans in Lhasa that Hu Jintao masterminded then”, he reminded. “Today there is even greater need for both the government and Tibetan people to intensify our movement both inside and outside Tibet irrespective of our different approaches and policies and carry forward the movement freely and with open mind so that the whole world takes note of our struggle and the issue of Tibet.”Referring to the exile Tibetan government’s planned Emergency Meeting, to be held in November, Ven. Lobsang stressed that everyone has the responsibility to make this emergency meeting a really meaningful one and that Tibetan movement must be invigorated both in and outside Tibet by making it fully open and transparent to the whole world to see and take note of the situation inside Tibet.The September 27 demonstrations in Lhasa, first led by monks, triggered a revival of uprisings for Independence in Lhasa and eventually led to imposition of Martial law on 9 March 1989, only to be lifted after 14 months amidst fear of US lifting China's most favored-nation trade status. The Chinese troops opened fire on some 380 unarmed protesters on March 6, 1989, earning the then Communist Party Chief of TAR, Mr. Hu Jin Tao, the name ‘the Butcher of Lhasa’. Six months later, Hu Jin Tao used the same merciless method to massacre pro-democracy Chinese students at Tiananmen Square. It is widely believed that the hardliners in the party rewarded him with the Party Chairman’s position for his brutality.

Source : Phayul , Monday, September 29