Dear Friends and Supporters of Tibet,
My name is Yingsel. I am a Tibetan antelope. I was one of the mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But I’ve defected from the Olympic team because I can no longer stand being used as a puppet to cover up China’s destruction of my homeland.
We are facing extinction. Before the Chinese came to Tibet there were a million antelopes; now there are barely 75,000! Poachers kill us for our soft wool, used to make shawls. We’re an endangered species — but Beijing doesn’t do enough to protect us.
I am busily working underground - organizing and networking to use the Olympics to turn the tables on China.
If you need to reach me, please contact the staff at Students for a Free Tibet HQ. They have been helping me plan my struggle. They will be distributing flyers and stickers with my messages, designing children’s books to tell my story, and doing my public relations work too.
Please make a donation to SFT today and help me in my quest for justice and freedom.
Bhod Rangzen! Free Tibet
Yinsel
Tibetan antelope and former mascot of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
