Prayers for Tibetan martyrs

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, March 8

The Department of Religion and Culture, CTA, held the annual prayer service today in memory of the Tibetan martyrs, who protested China’s occupation of Tibet on March 8, 1989.

The hour-long programme was presided over by CTA president Sikyong Lobsang Sangay, chief guest Frantisek Kopriva, vice-chairperson of the committee for European affairs of the Chamber of Deputiesa and founding member and co-chairperson of Czech Parliamentary Group for Tibet, and special guest Dana Balcarova, the chairwoman of the committee of the environment of the chamber of deputies and founding member of the Czech Parliamentary group for Tibet, and members of the Tibetan Parliament.