{"id":1777,"date":"2012-02-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queme.org\/all\/all\/detained-vietnamese-monk-supports-tibetan-struggle\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:16:06","slug":"detained-vietnamese-monk-supports-tibetan-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/detained-vietnamese-monk-supports-tibetan-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Radio: Detained Vietnamese monk supports Tibetan struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ABC Radio – 16 February 2012 – Vietnam’s highest-profile religious detainee has sent a letter to the Dalai Lama saying China’s crackdown on Tibetan areas is a challenge to all humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The France-based International Buddhist Information Bureau says activist monk Thich Quang Do who is under house arrest at a monestry in Ho Chi Minh City smuggled out the letter supporting the Tibetan monks who have set themselve on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said there are moments when the ultimate gesture of offering one’s body as “a torch of compassion to dissipate darkness and ignorance, is the only possible recourse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So said he wholly supported the Tibetan people’s courageous struggle for survival, and shares their aspirations for the right to freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Your suffering is our suffering. Your struggle is our struggle,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The self-immolations in Tibet and ethnically Tibetan parts of China pose a potentially destabilising challenge for China’s regional policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beijing has branded those who set themselves alight as terrorists and stepped up security in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 14 Tibetans are believed to have died from injuries due to self immolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do’s letter referred to 21 cases of self-immolation in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exiled Tibetans say they fear a crackdown in the region to coincide with the Tibetan new year on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do said 22 Vietnamese monks, nuns and lay persons had done the same since the Communist takeover of 1975 to appeal for religious freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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