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 …
Read More »Rare visit to remote Chinese region shows depth of Tibetan despair – McClatchy Newspapers
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 …
Read More »Tibetans Burn Selves for Freedom – by Ming Xia
By Ming Xia | The Diplomat | February 7, 2012 News today that three Tibetan herders may have set themselves alight highlights the increasing frequency with which Tibetans (usually monks or nuns) have been turning to self-immolation, bringing to 19 the total that have done so in the past year. …
Read More »Press statement of Chidrel Kalon Dicki Chhoyang regarding the critical situation in Tibet
Press Statement |6 Feb, 2012 The Central Tibetan Administration is deeply concerned and alarmed over the recent news of three more self-immolations in Serthar (Sichuan) onFriday, February 3, 2012. Unconfirmed reports state that three Tibetans were involved, two of them aged in the 60s and 30s respectively. All three …
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