31. Mar 2009
Dalai Lama's envoy calls on Tibetans "to record their suffering"
(ICT) Lodi Gyari, the envoy of the Dalai Lama to the USA, has called on Tibetans, in Tibet and around the world, to record their experiences of suffering over the past 50 years. "It is vitally important, especially as a testament to those Tibetans no longer here, that we record our personal experiences of suffering. We should do this, not to fuel resentments but to help the Chinese people understand our true history and to know that we are justified in our hopes for a future Tibet". Speaking at the opening of an exhibition on prison labour camps in Tibet, Lodi Gyari praised the work of Harry Wu, Chinese political dissident and the founder and director of the Laogai Research Foundation, in documenting the vast network of labour camps in China and Tibet. "Harry Wu's work at the Laogai Museum is done for the same reasons that the Holocaust museum was founded: to remember and to expose these ugly truths so that such things will never happen again", Gyari said.