Tibet Advocates Commemorative Protest

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Date:

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Time:

9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Event Type:

Protest

Organizer/Author:

Bay Area Friends of Tibet

Address:

2288 Fulton St. #312, Berkeley, CA 94704

Location Details:

Begins at 9AM at Berkeley's City Hall for Tibet flag raising ceremony, then reassembles at Justin Herman plaza at 11AM, reaching the Chinese Consulate located at Laguna & Geary at 3:30PM. 6PM candle light vigil at Union Square.

Exiled Tibetans and their supporters want to bring attention to the events of March 10, 1959, when the Chinese military crushed a mass uprising in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa shortly after China had invaded the Himalayan nation. The small army of Tibet-roughly 8,000 troops armed with ancient weapons, acted more as a police force than a military unit-were overwhelmed by 30,000 heavily armed Chinese troops. Tibetans continue to claim that Tibet is a sovereign nation!

For more information: http://www.phayul.com

Added to the calendar on Wed, Mar 7, 2007 7:20PM

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