Maryland, USA 7 May 2013 Just before landing at Dulles Airport at the end of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s long flight from India yesterday, the pilot warned of heavy cloud cover over the Washington area. Today, the steady rain that fell as His Holiness drove to the Comcast …
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Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy, 10 April 2013 – Snow capped mountain peaks can be seen from the streets of Bolzano, capital city of the autonomous province of South Tyrol. On a bright spring morning today, Dr Klaus Kluther, Cabinet Chief came to escort His Holiness on the short walk …
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by Sophie Richardson How badly does the Chinese government really want to stop Tibetan self-immolations? A campaigner suggests that the rhetoric from Beijing does not match the reality of draconian policy programmes To hear senior Chinese officials speak of “innocents” who died in flames, you might think the government is …
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Pico Iyer The Cairo Review of Global Affairs February 10, 2013 http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/Pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=299 China needs Japan, Japan needs China,” the 14th Dalai Lama declared, with immovable conviction, as I listened to him in a sunlit conference room in Yokohama last November, a great Ferris wheel turning outside and a jungle of high-rising …
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For Immediate Release | February 2, 2013 2:01 pm Contact: Mr. Dhundup Gyalpo Mobile: +91 98057-88175 Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay releases the first publication of the Tibet Policy Institute on the fundamental reasons for the increasing number of self-immolations in Tibet. Dharamsala, 28th January, 2013: This white paper examines the …
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For Immediate Press Release 24 January 2013 Source tibet.net With profound grief, I report that the number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest against repression in Tibet is now reaching 100. In 2012 alone, 83 Tibetans self-immolated, and twenty-eight of these occurred within the single month …
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