On Friday, 9 June 2023, at the 16th annual Roll Call of Nations Wreath Laying Ceremony in Washington DC, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation formally awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom to Bhuchung K. Tsering from the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) for his lifelong dedication to promoting freedom …
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Chinese Liaison Officer Tsultrim Gyatso Highlights Sinicization of Tibetan Identity
The Chinese Liaison Officer of the Washington-based Office of Tibet, Tsultrim Gyatso highlighted the deteriorating colonial sinicization policies implemented in Tibet at an event commemorating the Tiananmen Massacre at Liberty Sculpture Park where the sculpture of a chained woman was erected to signify the Chinese woman who was detained, chained …
Read More »Memorial Exhibition Honouring 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement Established in New York
New York: A memorial exhibition dedicated to China’s 1989 suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square was opened in New York on Friday, 2 June 2023 ahead of the 34th anniversary of the clampdown. On the inaugural occasion, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to the organisers extending them …
Read More »Representative Namgyal Choedup Seeks Tibetans Support in Enacting Tibet Bill During Visit to Minnesota
Washington DC: Representative Dr Namgyal Choedup and Tibetan Liaison Officer Kunga Tashi from the Office of Tibet (OoT), Washington DC, made a four-day maiden official visit to the Tibetan community in Minnesota recently to meet and interact with the Tibetan residents there. The two addressed the gathering at Tibetan Cultural …
Read More »Joint Press Conference on Bicameral & Bipartisan Tibet Bill Held on Tibet Lobby Day
Washington DC: A joint press conference on the bipartisan and bicameral Tibet bill: Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Conflict was organised at the US Capitol House Triangle following the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) hearing on Tibet, Preserving Tibet: Cultural Erasure, Forced Assimilation and Transnational Repression, on 28 March …
Read More »SEE Learning Workshop for Tibetan Weekend School Teachers Concludes
Representative Dr Namgyal Choedup of the Office of Tibet – Washington DC addressing the gathering. Washington: The recently held SEE Learning workshop for Tibetan weekend school teachers in San Francisco, North California, convoked participating teachers to strategise pedagogy to improve students’ Tibetan language proficiency. Around 80 teachers from 18 Tibetan language and …
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