A national holiday in China was created in Beijing to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Tibet. It is known as the "Serf Liberation / Emancipation Day". Security has been tight across the Mainland, and so far there has been no reporting of any demonstrations in Tibet. The BBC acknowledged the difficulty in getting international reporters and human rights workers anywhere near Tibet at the moment.
To mark the occasion, wacky Londoners are organising a “Smurf Emancipation” celebration. Happy smurfs are due to descend on the Chinese embassy in London to demonstrate about the very real suffering of Tibetans inside Tibet. It is unfortunate that it is at the same time as the G20 demonstration.
The occasion was marked in McLeod Ganj with another candlelight march and demonstration down Jogiwara Road, Temple Road and into the Main temple.
About two thousand residents were present. This was followed by a public screening of “China´s Brutality in Tibet Exposed,” a short documentary on Chinese oppression of Tibetans. It included the now “famous” assault by Chinese police on demonstrators in Lhasa, the paramilitary build-up to this year´s Losar and the brutal attack and subsequent death of Tendar, whose only crime was to try and protect a Buddhist monk. Tendar was shot, beaten, burned with cigarette butts and had nails driven into his body.
Some more photos can be found here.
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