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Returning Tibetans See a Changing Homeland
By RFA Tibetan and Jim Snyder for RFA Investigative On his first visit back to the Tibetan Plateau in nearly a decade, Sengmo was surprised to hear his youngest nieces and nephews converse in Chinese rather than their native tongue. As a member of the Tibetan diaspora, Sengmo knew about read more →
Tibet Was The Buffer Between India And China, Now It Can Be Bridge: Penpa Tsering, Tibetan President-in-Exile
Nayanima Basu for ABP LIVE Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, believes that Tibet had been for the last many decades considered to be the “buffer state” between India and China, but it can now play the role of a “bridge” between New Delhi and Beijing. Tsering, who is officially read more →
Tibetans want more autonomy, not independence or political separation from China: Dalai Lama
SUHASINI HAIDAR for Hindu Tibetans are asking for more autonomy, but not political separation, asserted Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, and said that while he wishes to revisit Lhasa, he would prefer to live on in Dharamshala. Speaking to journalists at his home in Dharamshala on Monday, ahead of what read more →
ICT Calls for Information on Disappeared Tibetans at UN Human Rights Council
-by International Campaign for Tibet BERLIN—At the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has once again highlighted the worrying pattern of enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests in Tibet. In his statement on Sept. 19, 2023 on behalf of the Helsinki read more →
China Bars Tibetans from Attending Buddhist Kalachakra Sermon
-by Lhuboom Tash for RFA Tibetan, 14 September 2023 Chinese authorities have barred Tibetans from attending a key Buddhist event called the Kalachakra out of fear that the gathering of more than 100,000 people could pose a threat to the government, according to Tibetans in the region. The move to read more →
China’s Nomenclature Aggression, Erasing Tibet from the World Map
-By Arya Tsewang Gyalpo* Abstract: Chinese Communist party leadership has acquired a new vile passion to wipe off Tibet from the people’s memory and the world map. To this effect, in order not to invite the international community’s ire, it used the Chinese and foreign academicians’ shoulders to shoot the gun. read more →
UN Envoys Tour Tibet on China-Organised Trip amid Rights Scrutiny
By Emma Farge and Laurie Chen. GENEVA/BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A group of U.N. ambassadors are touring Tibet on a trip arranged by China, diplomats said, an apparent push by Beijing to counter mounting criticism of its human rights record ahead of a review by the global body in early 2024. Photos read more →
Democratic World Needs to Stop Communist China from Erasing All That is Tibetan
-By N C Bipindra Last Updated:August 28, 2023 17:54:01 IST The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is infamous for its repressive tactics against the people it rules, especially concerning suppressing the minority population. What is glaring is that Tibetans, specifically, seem to be at the receiving end of the CCP stick read more →
In Visit to Gansu, Chinese Security Chief Stresses Stability in and Around Tibet
Tibetans view the comments as part of further clampdown on the ethnic minority. – by Lobe Socktsang for RFA Tibetan China’s security chief emphasized the importance of national security and the need to confront separatist elements during a visit last week to central Gansu province in what some Tibetans see read more →
“Xizang”: China Insists on Depriving Tibet of Its Name
The first act of the new CCP boss in Tibet is to implement plans to refer to the region in English with a different denomination. – by Lobsan Gurung for Bitter Winter On August 22, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the forcible read more →
China wants to erase Tibet. Will Britain stay quiet about this crime?
Simon Tisdall for The Guardian ast week’s US sanctioning of Chinese officials involved in Beijing’s ongoing criminal efforts to erase Tibet as a separate political, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious entity showed America at its best. Few other governments give a hoot. Most cravenly look the other way. Citing a recent UN read more →
China’s Cartographic Manipulation of Tibet is ‘Colonialism of Perception’
Xi Jinping and CCP focused at wiping out Tibet, Xinjiang and Southern Mongolia – by Vijay Kranti for CHASE New Delhi, Paris, New York & Dharamshala – 28 August 2023 Many international experts on China and Tibet are of the opinion that President Xi Jinping’s obsession with security and to read more →
Gonmo Kyi Denied Hospital Treatment After Police Beating
Sister of imprisoned businessman Dorjee Tashi beaten by police authorities outside Lhasa court whilst asking for a retrial in his case – By Tibet Watch Tibet Watch has received more new videos, in which Gonmo Kyi, sister of imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi, is seen lying on the floor of read more →
Tibetan Language Advocate Tashi Wangchuk Attacked
–By Free Tibet The language advocate and former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk was attacked on Saturday 19 August by a group of unidentified, masked men. Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch has established that Tashi Wangchuk travelled to Darlak County in eastern Tibet on the evening of 19 August with read more →
China’s Latest Crackdown on VPNs Software in Tibet
–tibetpolicy.net Inside Tibet, people live in a vigorously designed, managed and curated information bubble that the Chinese government made to subjugate Tibet and its people. China’s Internet censorship system, colloquially known as the “Great Firewall,” has suppressed freedom of expression and strictly monitored the information that could be accessed by read more →