By TOM LASSETER | McClatchy Newspapers |Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 ABA (Ngaba), China– The monk reached into the folds of his red robe, pulled out a small notebook, and gently slipped from its pages a tiny photograph. The man in the creased picture was a relative. He used to be a fellow monk at [...]
Radio Free Asia, 04 February 2012 The fiery protests come as Chinese authorities widen crackdown. Three Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the troubled county of Serthar (in Chinese, Seda) in China’s Sichuan province, the latest in a series of self-immolations against Chinese rule, sources said Saturday. News of the self-immolations in a [...]
DHARAMSHALA: Expressing its deep concern over the reports of killing of Tibetans by the Chinese security forces in northeastern Tibet and the lockdown of Tibet, the International Parliamentarians has called for a UN-led fact-finding mission to observe the situation in Tibet. In a statement on 31 January, International Network of Parliamentarians on Tibet (INPaT) [...]
27 JANUARY 2012 Chinese police shot dead another Tibetan protester in the restive Sichuan province, rights groups said Friday, bringing to at least three the number killed in deadly clashes this week. Urgen, a 20-year-old Tibetan, died Thursday inSichuan’s Rangtang county when police fired into a crowd trying to stop them from detaining another [...]
China must avoid using excessive force in response to protests and allow independent monitors into areas of protest, Amnesty International said today after Chinese security forces in Sichuan Province reportedly fired on Tibetan protestors for a second successive day. Chinese authorities have dismissed reports based on eyewitness accounts of deadly clashes between police and Tibetan [...]
In a statement released today by the US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rightrs and US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Maria Otero, the United States Administration expressed grave concerns at the heightened tensions in Tibetan areas and urged Chinese authorities to exercise restraint as well as called to allow access [...]
On January 21st and 22nd this year, Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangay accompanied by Home Department Kalon Dolma Gyari and Additional Secretary, Mr. Dhondup Dorjee, visited Miao Choepheling Settlement in Arunachal Pradesh. During the visit, the Kalon Tripa formerly launched the Canadian Tibetan Resettlement Project at a gathering of over 30 local community leaders from [...]
(TibetanReview.net, Jan24, 2012) – In yet another firing on peaceful Tibetan protesters by Chinese security forces, a 49-year-old layman named Yonten was killed and at least three monks seriously injured on Jan 23 in Draggo (Chinese: Luhuo) County of Karze Prefecture, Sichuan Province, said Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy and several [...]
ANANTH KRISHNAN The Hindu (an Indian national daily) BEIJING, December 25, 2011—On Christmas Eve, some of Beijing’s wealthiest and most well-connected residents headed to a sprawling villa on the city’s outskirts. A faux European-style mansion, which sits on an expansive property hidden from public view by high walls and tight security, on Saturday evening [...]
Dharamsala, India, 18 December 2011 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his deep sadness at learning of the passing away of his dear friend President Václav Havel. In a letter to his wife Mrs. Dagmar Havlova, His Holiness wrote that in his death, the world has lost a great statesman whose steadfast and [...]
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