( from a post on June 20 on Social media)
Today and 24/7
I am thinking of my dear friends who live in exile away from their homelands, as well as fellow humans who are ‘refugees’, in resistence, within their own countries against dictatorship.
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I admire your resilience, courage and compassion.
May we also have courage to stand in solidarity with them and for injustice.
May we have abilities to reach out.
My strong wishes that illicit actions, conflicts and oppression will be eliminated so as you can live in or go back to your homelands without fear, violence and starvation.
I share my activist friend Tenzin Tsundue’s caption below. I could not write well as he did for what I have been feeling.
ps His most recent book ‘ Nowhere to Calll Home ‘ can be purchased at below link.
You can also see many other publications written by Tibetans in exile.
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20 June
WORLD REFUGEE DAY
Internet says there are 120 million refugees around the world as we speak.
There are three live wars going on, and many battles still raging, making more and more people leave their homes and become refugees.
As a refugee myself, my sense of identity comes from the freedom struggle I am a part of. The day you stop fighting and resign to fear and fate, that's the end. We become someone else our ancestors won't recognize.
Today, most governments are corporate run. Dictators are hardened by populist demands that are divisive and push the moinorities to the margins.
Today's citizens are tomorrow's refugees. Your country may have amassed wealth and weapons, but Climate Change levels all the differences. We are the same human beings on this single earth.
- Tenzin Tsundue
#worlrefugeeday #refugees #resistance #resilience #CeaseFireNow
These drawings are of my late Tibetan grandmother and Iranian brother, they both lived and live in exile.
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