Free Tibet Campaign USA
Tibet is still occupied. We're still here.
Why Tibet?
China invaded Tibet in 1950. What followed was the destruction of a nation's institutions, religion, and people, and it hasn't stopped.
Tibetans killed as a result of the occupation, out of a population of roughly six million.
monasteries, nunneries, and temples destroyed between 1959 and 1961.
of occupation. Three generations of Tibetans have never lived in a free Tibet.
Tibetan children allowed to learn in their own language at state boarding schools, where the majority now live apart from their families.
Thousands of lay people, nuns, and monks have been imprisoned and tortured for peaceful expression, for keeping a photo of the Dalai Lama, or for teaching Tibetan. The Tibetan flag we fly is illegal in Tibet.
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The easiest way to help is to educate the people close to you. Every person who learns Tibet's story widens the circle.
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Ask them to support Tibet legislation and to raise Tibetan political prisoners by name with Beijing.
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