ChthoniC declaims the Independence of Panda and Tibet

For fifty years, Tibet has been imprisoned by a totalitarian Chinese government. After the Chinese army invaded Tibet and claimed it as part of China, millions of people were killed, torn from their homes and separated from their families. Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans risked their lives climbing through the freezing and dangerously steep Himalayas to Dharmsāla, India.

Freddy Lim, the vocalist of ChthoniC, who put on the "Tibetan Freedom Concert @ Taiwan" in 2003, invited the Beastie Boys and many other artists to Taiwan to join the concert and give their support to Tibet.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, and Freddy went to Dharmsāla to meet with the Dalai Lama.
They both shared the experiences they've had working for freedom in the past year. The Dalai Lama was touched; he gave Freddy much gratitude for what he has done and said: "To support Tibet is to support human rights all over the world."



In this amazing trip, Freddy also visited TCV (Tibetan Children's Village). There are many beautiful young children there, but they have nowhere to go because their parents are still in Tibet. The parents handed their children over to "middlemen" who took them out of the bloody country and away from danger. Some children who make the journey to TCV can't survive the harsh weather of Himalayas or were shot by communist soldiers and died on the way. Those whom Freddy saw in TCV were all lucky survivors. But unfortunately, they'll never ever see their families again.


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Tags:  ChthoniC, Tibet, Panda, China, Freddy Lim

jason    March 19, 2009