Press Release |5 March 2012 DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply concerned and saddened by the latest development in Tibet involving a 32-year-old mother and a student setting themselves on fire to protest against the continuing occupation of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China. Both of them …
Read More »Memorandum on the Call for an EU Special Coordinator for Tibetan Affairs
by Kelsang Gyaltsen, Envoy of H. H. the Dalai Lama, February 2012 The Tibetan struggle: A case of exemplary non-violent struggle for freedom For over five decades, under the leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan freedom struggle has remained strictly non-violent. After the devolution of his political …
Read More »Popular Tibetan Writer Barred from Receiving Award
Voice of America | 01 March 2012 In a Skype interview, Tsering Woeser told VOA Tibetan that the Chinese police barred her from attending a low-key private ceremony where she was to receive the 2011 Prince Claus Fund award, presented annually to individuals, groups and organizations for their outstanding …
Read More »Increased Religious Repression Forces Monks to Flee, Monasteries to Close
Tibetan Center for Human Rights & Democracy February 29, 2012 Beginning October 2011, the ‘work teams’ instituted by the Chinese authorities have launched campaigns such as ‘Nine Must-Haves’ and ‘Harmonious Model Monastery’ inTibet. Monks and nuns are arrested for not complying with the restrictive activities organized by the work …
Read More »Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay to receive Gold Medal
LONDON, 29 February: Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay will receive the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from the College Historical Society (CHS) of Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity College is the most prestigious university in Ireland and regarded as a sister college of Oxford and Cambridge in the …
Read More »Interview: Robert Barnett on Why Tibetans Are Setting Themselves on Fire
Alex Ortolani | Asia Society February 24, 2012 Earlier this week a Tibetan monk became at least the 22nd person in the past year to commit self-immolation in protest at the Chinese government’s rule in Tibet. Robert Barnett, Director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program at Columbia University, says …
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