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Music celebs turn out for London Tibet benefit 5 June 2000 Producer, actress, and human rights activist (and wife of Sting) Trudie Styler staged the Shi-Wa II (Peace II) benefit for Tibet yesterday at London’s Royal Opera House. Attendees, who each paid £250 (euro430) for the event, included Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jaggar, fashion designer Stella McCartney (Paul’s daughter), and Elton John’s partner David Furnish. Profits from the the Shi-Wa series go to support the Tibetan Peace Garden in Lambeth, opened just over a year ago by the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan people continue to suffer under military occupation and social oppression by the People’s Republic Of China, who overran Tibet in 1950. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, fled in 1959 during a savagely crushed rebellion, establishing a government in exile in India. China has officially considered Tibet a region of itself since 1965. The Dalai Lama will present teachings in Los Angeles starting 25 June when groups of walkers who traveled 525 miles south from San Francisco and 180 miles north from San Diego meet at LA’s Chinese Consulate. | BBC story | | Tibet Online | | Walk For Independence | | top of page | |
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