Tibetan Youth Congress to observe Jan 28 as Tibetan Language Day.
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TYC to Observe Tibetan National Language Day
10 August 2018: Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest Tibetan NGO in exile
successfully concluded its 49 th Working Committee Meeting (WCM) in Dekyiling Tibetan
Settlement Dehradun today. The five-day intensive Working Committee Meeting was
attended by 35 Regional Chapters with 150 delegates and discussions on a range of issues
like revisiting the resolutions made during the past WCM, strategies to strengthen TYC
political campaigns, address the injustices happening with Tibetans inside Tibet, lack of
freedom and human rights of the prisoners, Tibet’s Environment and how to preserve and
promote Tibetan Language, culture, religion, and tradition were held.
On the final day of the 49 th WCM, TYC Centrex and executives of Regional Chapters
adopted twenty-four resolutions on the eight agenda topics.
Some of the resolutions adopted this year are:
TYC will observe Jan 28, the death anniversary of HH the 10th Panchen Lama as
Tibetan National Language Day. Every year TYC and its chapters will organize
various events on this day to promote and preserve Tibetan language.
As 2019 marks 60 years since Tibetans came into exile, TYC will organize a mass
campaign to raise awareness and condemn the illegal occupation of Tibet by
communist China.
TYC and its chapters will organize mass awareness raising campaigns in the
international community on Tibet’s Environment and its impact on Asian countries.
Urge the Government of India to review its policy on Tibet and to recognize that Tibet
was historically an independent country and is currently under Chinese occupation.
At the conclusion of the meeting, TYC President Tenzing Jigme, praised the works of the
regional chapters over the past year and urged them to continue the work for Tibet as the
situation inside Tibet remained critical. He stressed that TYC is an organization that is
formed not on the basis of regionalism or religious sects, therefore, TYC members must reflect
those unbiased views. “As we strive towards being a democratic community, there will be
ups and downs. But at the end of the day, we must learn to respect differences in opinions and
understand what is at stake. Being Tibetans in exile, we have a great responsibility and we
must remain united in our struggle for freedom”, said Jigme.
The five-day meeting was organized by the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress chapter of
Dekyiling and presided over by the TYC Central Executive Committee.
TYC 49th Working Committee Meeting Kicks of in Dekyiling
Dehradun Aug 6: Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) inaugurated the 49th Working Committee Meeting in Dekyiling Tibetan Settlement, Dehradun on the 6th of August 2018 and is to be held till 10th August 2018. The meeting is attended by around 35 Regional Tibetan Youth Congress chapters from India and Nepal with 150 delegates. Since its establishment in 1970, TYC has been holding Working Committee Meeting every year.
The opening ceremony was graced by the presence of chief guest, Kasur Gyari Dolma, Ex Kalon, Parliamentarian and former TYC Executive. Other dignitaries from the Tibetan community, representatives of Tibetan NGOs and former TYC CENTREX executive members and former RTYC Executive member of RTYC Dekyiling also attended the same.
The Chief Guest commenced the ceremony by lighting the butter lamp followed by the Tibetan National Anthem and the Indian National Anthem respectively. A minute’
TYC President Tenzing Jigme in his address spoke about the organisation’s aims and goals for the future and urged all members to make sacrifices and take responsibility for themovement. He also spoke on the significance of TYC as it being the organisation that keeps the flames of freedom and independence alive and also introduced some of the campaigns of TYC this year.
Chief Guest Kasur Gyari Dolma addressed on the need for unity in Tibetan society despite having difference in opinion. She also spoke about her days as an executive member of TYC and how TYC is one of the major organisations that works for Tibet as a whole without any regional bias and the only organisation that threatens Communist Party of China. In her speech, she said that, “the Strasbourg Proposal suggested by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in 1988 at the European Parliament has also caused debates regarding the aims and objectives of TYC where issues of reform in TYC’s aims and objectives were brought up but post nullification of the Strasbourg Proposal in 1991, it was made clear that there would be no reform in the aims and objectives of TYC.”
The opening ceremony was concluded with a word of thanks by Vice-President Tamding Hrichoe la. The meeting will end on Aug 10, where resolutions on how to strengthen our struggle, improve the organisation and build unity in the community will be adopted for TYC and its chapters.
Tibetan Youth Congress is the largest Tibetan NGO in exile with around 80 chapters worldwide working towards the freedom and independence of Tibet.
