"1997 March for Tibet's Independence", organized by the International Tibet Independence Movement started from Toronto , Canada three month ago and on June 14, 1997 ended in New York city at the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza by the UN .
The Inner Mongolian People's Party ( IMPP) participated the final day march to show our support to the Tibetan Independence .
The first group of the IMPP supporters joined the march at 9:00 am at the Jay Wood Wright Park ( 175th street and Washington Ave.) in Manhattan next to the George Washington Bridge. The supporters was carrying the flags of the IMPP and a sign of " the Inner Mongolians will always be with you". they shouted " Independence for Tibet", " Independence for Inner Mongolia", " Independence for Eastern Turkestan" , " boycott made in China", " human rights in Tibet", " Human rights in Inner Mongolia" all way down to the 47th street. After a 6 hour walk, the 13 marchers from Toronto, headed by Prof. Thubten J. Norbo from Indiana University ( Prof. Norbo is the elder brother of Dalai Lama) and their supporters, about 600 hundred people gathered in the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the 47th street next to the United nations at 3:00pm. A second group of the supporters from IMPP also joined the demonstration at the Plaza.
About 5:00pm, a five-star red flag of the PRC was brought at the
front of the stage and the announcer announced that the true meaning of the four small
stars on the flag stand for the Mongols , the Manchus, the Tibetans and the Uighurs and
the flag try to show the sovereignty over those four nations. The announcer announced ,
representatives from Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and Manchuria will cut off
each of the small stars to show their resolution to be independent and the flag without
the four stars will be sent to the Consulate office of the PRC and the four small stars
along with the true flags of these nations will be sent to the United Nations. After Prof.
Norbo cut off a star, representative from the Inner Mongolia, vice-chairman of the IMPP
Mr. Erkh Temtsel made a emotional speech and cut off the small star which stands
for Inner Mongolia. ( a the full copy of the speech by Erkh and a
copy of an open letter to the United Nations
Human Rights Commission were attached) After the representatives from the four
oppressed nations ( since there is no Manchurian opposition groups there, the people from
Taiwan who fighting for their independence cut off the star stands for Manchuria) the
representatives went to the UN and the Chinese Consulate to hand over the stars and flag.
The whole event ended at 7:00pm.