29. Jun 2006
Tibetan activist addresses UK Parliament group
(Phayul) Tibetan activist and writer Tenzin Tsundue addressed MPs and Tibet supporters in the House of Commons, Westminster at a forum on Tibet organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet (APPGT) and the Tibet Society of the UK. During the forum, Tsundue produced diverse documents providing evidence of Tibet’s independence prior to 1959. Holding a coin from independent Tibet, Tsundue said: "These coins are now displayed in museums; if Tibetan people and their supporters don’t fight for independence, next we Tibetans will be in museums". In a letter to the Chair of the APPGT, Harry Cohen MP, a representative from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in London had earlier expressed concern over the "consequences of the Forum".