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    “Two revolutions and Tibetan resilience”                                                                                                             -Som                               (Culture revolution and Tibetan peace revolution 2008) My grandmother's untold story of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet was shocking, extreme, and unbearable. She narrated her tragic story with tears in her eyes and a pale facial expression. She had experienced a real hell on earth and never saw any ray of hope in her future life at that time. The revolution was generally considered to have begun in China around 1966 by Mao Zedong. However, the faint climate of the Cultural Revolution existed since 1959 when the People's Republic of China completely occupied Tibet and carried out a series of repressions and violent destructions in Tibet. During the ten-year Cultural Revolution in Tibet from 1966 to 1976, in the name of removing four old obstacles, “old thinking, old culture, old tradition
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“The Chinese Blank White Paper Revolution” ' Whoever is going to watch the World Cup or anything that aired worldwide, could you please hold a blank paper to show your support to the Chinese people and help to raise the awareness of what’s going on in China? People are being arrested for the cause of their basic human rights and many went missing. we really need your support and help to convey their true messages that supposed to write on blank white paper  which they can’t. ' T he Chinese blank sheets of white paper revolution is one of the boldest displays of dissent against President Xi and authorities in years after Tiananmen square in China. The display of wordless papers means ‘We are the voiceless and leaders are brutal, but we will never be silent’, protests have broken out all over the China and reaching the largest public dissent to the Chinese Government since the Tiananmen Square massacre. I called it as “ The Chinese blank white paper revolution ”, since the natu

"Life in Exile"

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Exile is all about Courage and Struggle. It is the courage to step up when fall-down many times and struggle for a better tomorrow to go back to our homeland. It’s hard to switch my rented house from time to time when our house owners asked to leave the flat vacant for their own interests. I move like a nomad in Tibet, from building to building, and street to street but I am not a bonafide nomad. I don’t have animals to rear as a livelihood and grassland territory that I grant to myself. Every year I have to renew my blue refugee passport to get permission to stay a little longer in this country. This chronic story keeps on repeating in the last seventy years and I am still left with no permanent home address. It hurts and hurts when I fill out my name, DOB and other details for many of my documents. There was a tiny column, ‘Nationality’. I scrolled through the drop-down and I did not find my country.” At the end of the long list, there was a word, ‘stateless’….It is hard to be a