Prague, March 10 (CTK) – Some 750 town halls across the Czech Republic joined the worldwide Flag for Tibet campaign, commemorating the 1959 uprising against the Chinese occupation of Tibet, on Friday, the Lungta movement has told journalists.
The Tibetan flag was also hoisted by the regional offices in the Liberec, Pardubice, South Moravia, Hradec Kralove, Karlovy Vary and Usti regions.
Like last year, the Tibetan flag was also hoisted by lawmakers for TOP 09 in the Chamber of Deputies building.
On the other hand, similar to past years, some town halls refused to do so.
“This gesture does not only relate to Tibet,” Miroslav Kalousek, leader of the conservative opposition TOP 09, has said.
“This is in support of all the oppressed and occupied, in support of all the people to whom natural human rights and freedoms are denied in other countries,” Kalousek said.
The campaign is the annual commemoration of the anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet in 1959 that claimed the lives of at least 80,000 inhabitants.
The Czech Republic joined the campaign actively for the first time in 1996, when four town halls hoisted the flag of Tibet.
