Tibetan Demonstrators Protest Against Ueno Exhibition

[Mulboyne]

Tibet Custom: Japanese and Tibetans Protest Against China's "Tibet Exhibition"
About hundred Japanese and Tibetans gathered at Tokyo Ueno Takecho Park to demonstrate against the Chinese exhibition "Tibet – Treasures from the Roof of the World" at Ueno Royal Museum. The Museum and certain Japanese media and commercial bodies in collaboration with Chinese government had organised the exhibition. The Japanese supporters and Tibetans point of view is that the exhibition is staged by Chinese government to mislead the Japanese public and the world into believing that they are not the destroyers but the real guardian of Tibetan religious culture...On reaching Tokyo Ueno Park, the participants raised slogan of "Free Tibet". This was followed by a seminar on Tibet at Tokyo Exhibition Hall in the Park...Some Japanese said they are really sorry to the Tibetans that this kind of things is happening in Japan, which is suppose to be a free country...The exhibition is said to last till next January, the participants and the representatives of various Tibet Support group announced that some kind of demonstrations would be carried throughout the exhibition...more...