Submitted by Tsoltim N. Shakabpa, Mar 11, 2008 11:19

Thank you, Mr. Sarlin, for your article.

I want to also thank Mr. Tony Avela for speaking out on behalf of all living and dead Tibetan people.

I am a Tibetan poet living in California. I have appropriately written hereunder a poem entitled DEAD PEOPLE TALKING, which I would appreciate you kindly publish in your respected newspaper.

Cordially yours,

Tsoltim N. Shakabpa

DEAD PEOPLE TALKING
By Tsoltim N. Shakabpa

You can tell we were shot to death
By the holes in the back of our heads
You can tell we were buried alive
By the mud in our noses and mouths
You can tell we were bludgeoned to death
By the cracks on our skulls and bones
You can tell we were hung to death
By the marks on our bare necks
You can tell we were electrocuted to death
By the burns on our naked bodies
You can tell we were drowned to death
By the fluid in our collapsed lungs
You can tell we were starved to death
By the stomachs devoid of food
You can tell we were tortured to death
By the torture instruments lying in the prisons
You can tell we cry out for justice
By the voices of our living brethren

By the thousands we have been killed
By the thousands in death we speak out
So you can bear witness to the atrocities
Committed by the murderous Chinese
Against the innocent Tibetan people

Copyright: Tsoltim N. Shakabpa - 2008

TAGLINE: Tsoltim N. Shakabpa, the son of the late Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa, the eminent and well-known Tibetan historian, educator, freedom fighter and former Finance Minister of independent Tibet, is a retired senior American international banker turned poet with 5 acclaimed books of poems to his name.

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