Meet Rinchen Dhondup
Rinchin was born during the 50's at the beginning of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Since the age of twelve he hasn’t seen a single member of his family. In the early 60's, Rinchin's parents used their savings to risk smuggling him out of the country. They were offering him an escape from oppression. Refuge from the extermination of their culture and religious tradition.
Rinchin escaped successfully, leading him to an education in India and eventually his current occupation in New Zealand as the resident translator at the Dorje Chang Buddhist Institute.
Rinchin can't go home.
The Chinese occupation of Tibet is one of the greatest civil rights violations since the Holocost. Tibetans are being denied of their rights to freedom of speech, assembly, movement, expression, and travel that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states are entitled inherently to all human beings. And for what? So China can increase its economy and global autonomy?
If you care about matters of human rights, specifically about the independence and preservation of Tibetan culture please visit: http://www.friendsoftibet.org/ or read a bit about it elsewhere.
Chicago specifically:
http://www.tibetan-alliance.org/index.html
More soon...
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