Tibetans in Delhi protest towards Beijing Winter Olympics

On Friday, a gaggle of Tibetans in Delhi staged protests in entrance of the Chinese embassy towards the Beijing Winter Olympics that begins later in the present day. ‘Boycott, boycott Beijing Olympics’, the protesters cried as they stepped on the Chinese flags with full power and burned them.
The protesters blocked the primary highway resulting in Delhi’s Diplomatic enclave the place the Chinese embassy is situated. The Delhi Police is claimed to have detained the protesters after they broke the perimeter whereas they demanded ‘freedom for all’ and yelled ‘Boycott Beijing Olympics’.
Tibetan protesters burn Chinese flag in Delhi https://t.co/nSM9ewNuEN pic.twitter.com/XI1wA90nrz— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) February 4, 2022
Caught on digicam: 2 Tibetan protesters break perimeter, Delhi police detain them. https://t.co/nSM9ewvlqF pic.twitter.com/XbyqgCN4xN— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) February 4, 2022
This is after round 500 Tibetans marched outdoors the International Olympic Committee headquarters to protest towards Beijing internet hosting the Games. The activists had been seen dragging the Chinese flags on their skis.
According to the experiences, Tibetans throughout the globe are demonstrating protests towards China demanding freedom and are of opinion that the Chinese are mass murderers and dictators. The protesters at IOC HQ additionally raised the slogans of ‘Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics’, ‘Stop human rights violations in Tibet’ and known as Bejing Winter Olympics a ‘Game of shame’.
The demonstrators additionally chanted ‘No rights, no Games’ and ‘Beijing Olympics: genocide Games’ as they climbed up on the roof of IOC entrance learn ‘No Beijing 2022’.
The Tibetan protest in Delhi additionally comes after India boycotted the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing as China selected Qi Fabao as torchbearer, a soldier who fought in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley towards the Indian troops in 2020. MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi regretted that the Chinese facet had chosen to politicize an occasion just like the Olympics.
Big Breaking: MEA says India’s high diplomat in Beijing is not going to attend Beijing Winter Olympics opening/ closing; calls PLA regiment commander Qi Fabao being the torchbearer as regretable https://t.co/cFPEjAyFy2 pic.twitter.com/iOgUdTAoeY— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) February 3, 2022
“India will not be attending the opening nor the closing ceremony of the Beijing 22 Winter Olympics”, he mentioned in a media briefing yesterday. It is pertinent to notice that Qi Fabao is a regiment commander within the PLA who sustained head harm through the preventing. China has picked him up as one of many 1,200 torchbearers within the Games terming him as a ‘hero’.
The United States has additionally asserted that it stands with India towards Chinese aggression for the Beijing Winter Olympics. State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Friday mentioned, “When it comes to the India-China border situation, we continue to support direct dialogue and a peaceful resolution of the disputes”.
On China making PLA soldier concerned in Galwan conflict as Beijing Winter Olympics torchbearer, US State Dept Spox Ned Price: When it involves broader problem of India-China border scenario, we proceed to assist direct dialogue & a peaceable decision of the border disputes.” (1/2) pic.twitter.com/ONxl194GDf— ANI (@ANI) February 4, 2022
“We’ve previously voiced our concerns on Beijing’s pattern of ongoing attempts to intimidate its neighbors. We stand with friends, we stand with partners & allies, to advance our shared prosperity, security, & values in the Indo-Pacific”, he added additional.
The 2022 Games are topic to numerous considerations and controversies in addition to diplomatic boycotts as a result of ongoing Uyghur genocide and human rights abuses in China. Reports point out that the US, UK and Canada have already declared a diplomatic boycott of the Games, together with Australia, Lithuania, Kosovo, Belgium, Denmark and Estonia.