Join us for a Global Commemoration Protest

We gather in grief, solidarity, and protest against China’s continuing destruction of the Tibetan people.

Date: Tuesday 7 July 2026 Time: 9.45 – 14.00 Location: Dam Square, Amsterdam

On 2 July 2026, the Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen (52) set himself on fire outside the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. He died a short time later from his injuries. In a final appeal, he warned that China’s policies threaten the survival of Tibetan identity, language, and culture.

His act is not an isolated incident, but a cry of despair. This is what happens when a people watches its culture and shared identity crumble before its eyes: the language disappearing from classrooms, children separated from their parents in state boarding schools, monasteries placed under state control — and every other path to change dead-ending in international indifference.

China’s new Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress accelerates this erasure. Behind the mellifluous name lies an assimilation programme with a racist core: a legally codified hierarchy of cultures, in which the identity of the Han Chinese majority is the norm to which Tibetans and other peoples must conform.

On Tuesday 7 July, we gather at Dam Square — in grief, in solidarity, and in protest. We commemorate Lobga Rangzen and all those who went before him, and we call on the Dutch government, the European Union, and the United Nations to name the forced assimilation of the Tibetan people for what it is, to hold China to account, and to attach concrete consequences to the continuation of this policy. The answer to the question of where silence becomes complicity is one they give themselves — through what they do now, or fail to do.

Come to the Dam. Stand with the Tibetan community. Show that the Netherlands does not stay silent.

Organised by the Tibetan Community Foundation Netherlands, Students for a Free Tibet The Netherlands, Tibet Support Group Netherlands, and International Campaign for Tibet.