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A new Tibetan political prisoner at a Chinese gulag is asked by his cellmate, “What were you given ten years for?” The new prisoner responds, “For nothing!” “Don’t lie to me now!” says the cellmate, “Everybody knows ‘for nothing’ is three years.” #ccp #stop #racism #free #tibet
BY: Tibet underground Joke Factory
When my countrymen cry with smiling faces, Airing their frustrations most appealingly, Against the authorities that continue to commit atrocities, My heart hurts and pains in great depth. When my countrymen are locked up in quarantine centers, The poorly facilitated and tightly packed with patients, In the most severe and strict policies, they are forced to follow, My heart hurts and pains in great depth. When my countrymen continue to cry in agony From the rooftops and balconies, The only space they can breathe, My heart hurts and pains in great depth When my countrymen are washed by the sanitizing sprays, Kicked and hit by the security guards, Detained and dragged by the authorities, My heart hurts and pains in great depth. By Sonsnow
Rinchen Dhondup along with seven other Tibetans were detained for sharing Covid-related photos and videos and are presently under the so-called Law counselling programme.
Amidst the rise in Covid cases in Tibet, China continue to enforce its Lockdown policies in the Tibet Autonomous Region and other parts of Tibet for the past month. Many Tibetans have been forcefully put into quarantine centres, which were poorly facilitated without proper meals and bedding facilities.
Rinchen Dhondup along with seven other Tibetans from Shantsazong, Lhasa and Chumar Lapzong were arrested for airing and sharing Covid-related information.
According to a source, they were arrested for sharing videos and photos about poorly facilitated quarantine centres where all the Tibetans with or without covid symptoms were put together without providing proper medical facilities and meals.
All of them are unschooled Tibetan nomads. They were detained in a security office at Nagchu for five days and were interrogated about to whom and how they shared the information. later, they were punished with 3000 yuans each and are presently under the so-called Law counselling programme.
With Covid cases rising in recent months, in the name of Covid, Chinese authorities tighten their control over Tibetans and many monks from other regions were evicted from the Yarchen Gar Buddhist monastery.
This Winter
This winter, when we are all free to set our footsteps on the new streets and roam around the old city.
This winter, before the Chinese virus, captured our towns and cities and locked us apart in a social distance.
This winter, when we are all enjoying our daily routines in our own space with no excuses and complaints.
This winter, when we are all free to travel from here to there with no barriers to borders and boundaries.
This winter, before we are all locked up in our rat-sized rooms and peep through the curtains for lively activities.
By – Sonsnow
ངའི་ཕ་ས་ཕ་ཡུལ་དགྲ་ཡིས་བཟུང་།
ངའི་ཕུ་ནུ་མིང་སྲིང་བདུད་ཀྱིས་བཅོམས།
ངའི་རི་ཆུ་ནགས་གསུམ་ཀླུ་ཡིས་བཟུང་།
ངའི་ཡུལ་ལྷ་གཞི་བདག་བསྟན་སྲུང་སོགས།
གནས་འདི་རུ་ཡོད་ན་ལན་གཅིག་གཟིགས།
ཕ་བཟང་བུ་ནས།
Deities and Defenders of the faith!
My land is under enemy’s occupation,
My siblings are subdued by the Demons and Devils,
My Rivers and Ranges are seized by the Serpents,
Glance at Them once if you ever Exist!
By: Sonsnow
I Don’t Want Tibet to Die
I don’t want Tibet to die,
I don’t want Tibet to disappear,
I don’t want Tibet to be destroyed-
No; I don’t want Tibet to die.
I don’t want Tibet to be filled with Chinese,
I don’t want my children to be called Chinese,
I don’t want my children to become Chinese-
No; I don’t want Tibet to die.
While our self-serving leaders indulge in confusion,
And my fellow Tibetans in exile remain timid and ignorant,
I know a few of us alone cannot make Tibet free-
And yet I don’t want Tibet to die.
Because it is not fair and it is not just,
Because Tibetans have the same right to freedom,
Because I want Truth to triumph over evil-
No; I don’t want my dear Tibet to die.
By-Lhasang Tsering
How wonderful it must be,
To have one’s own Country,
A Country that one belongs to,
A Country that belongs to you.
How wonderful it must be,
No longer to be Stateless,
To belong to nap Nation,
A Nation that belongs to you.
How wonderful it must be,
To regain lost Freedom,
To hold one’s head high,
In liberty and in Freedom!
How wonderful it truly is,
Even to dream of a Country,
A Country that belongs to you,
A Country that will belong to you.
Tibet-the only Country I wish to belong to.
Tibet-the only Country that belongs to me.
A reality that is wonderful to dream about.
A dream that will be a wonderful reality.
By- Lhasang Tsering
* Lhasang Tsering is a Tibetan poet, writer, and activist. He was President of the Tibetan Youth Congress and a founding director of Amnye Machen Institute in Dharamshala, India. He is a vociferous and ardent advocate of Tibet’s independence and a passionate lover of literature
Waiting to know if she’ll see her son again,
Waiting to know if her man will ever return,
Waiting to know if she will go back home,
Waiting is what a refugee woman must do.
Waiting to know if it is now her turn,
Waiting to know when her daughter must go,
Waiting to know what the final price will be,
Waiting is what a refugee woman must do.
Waiting to know what more she must do,
Waiting to know if the world will help,
Waiting to know if her country will ever be free,
Waiting is what a refugee woman must do.
Waiting is, therefore, what she will do,
Waiting despite the pain and loneliness,
waiting till the end of her dreary days-
For waiting is what a refugee woman must do.
By Lhasang Tsering
Sanglo-The Next Year
When we made that Great Escape
You said, with great hope
we will return Sanglo-the next year,
And it never came by in sixty years
When we plant trees under the scorching sun
You said, what’s the need
we will return Sanglo- the next year,
And now the trees grew old and aged
When we replaced bamboo by the break walls
You said, what’s the need
we will return Sanglo-the next year,
And now you are eying on buildings
When we cry for our parents on the other side
You said, what’s the need
We will return Sanglo-the next year,
And it never came by in sixty years
By-Sonsnow
I am Tibet The Mountains and Minerals Which the dragon continues to mine and market, I am Tibet The Rivers and Rivulet Which the dragon continues to dilute and pollute, I am Tibet the Monks and Nuns Which the Dragon continues to disrobe I am Tibet The trees and Monasteries Which the Dragon continues to destroy and demolish I am Tibet The Grassland and Grazing ground Which the Dragon continues to Fence Forcefully I am Tibet The lakes and Lagoons Which the Dragon continues to hollow out for Fishes I am Tibet The burning bodies and the Freedom Flames Which the Dragon continues to Cover By Sonsnow