Exhibition in Taipei spotlights ‘genocide’ in TibetBy Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporterAn exhibition on Tibet opened at a bookstore in central Taipei yesterday, highlighting human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party in the region. Tung, who is a member of the Students for a Free Tibet-Taiwan, said that China systematically oppresses Tibetans and denies them access to education about their own language and culture. Tung Ching-jung stands in front of her portrait of the Dalai Lama at the independent bookstore To-uat Books in Taipei yesterday at an exhibition on Tibet that runs until Oct. 9. China’s oppression of Tibetans is based on destroying their culture and closing local schools in which students can learn about their own background, he said. Tibetans have been imprisoned for speaking their language or beaten to death for having a photograph of the Dalai Lama on their mobile phone, he said, calling the measures “genocide.”The exhibition, hosted by the Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan, and Students for a Free Tibet-Taiwan, is to run until Oct. 9.

Source: Taipei Times September 26, 2021 15:56 UTC