VOA News 22 June 2012 The U.S. State Department says the spate of self-immolations in Tibetan areas of southwestern China are not the work of outcasts or troublemakers as China contends, but rather the desperate acts of people who are being denied their basic human rights. U.S. Undersecretary (...)
Jonathan Mirsky, The New York Review of Books. “I told President Obama the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party are missing a part of the brain, the part that contains common sense,” the Dalai Lama said to me during our conversation in London Wednesday. But it can be put back in. I am hopeful (...)
GENEVA: The UN Human Rights council is holding 20th session in Geneva from 18 June till 6 July. This council will discuss on number of reports submitted by UN Special Procedure mandate holders on thematic and country visits. In preparation for the above HRC session, Tibet Bureau had met senior (...)
Ananth Krishnan (Hindu) BEIJING: Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in the north-western Chinese province of Qinghai on Wednesday according to state media reports, with the death of a herder in a remote county suggesting that the self-immolation protests in Tibetan areas — at least 40 over the (...)
John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, welcomes His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Houses of Parliament, London, UK. Also seen in the picture is Tibetan Parliament Speaker Penpa Tsering (1st right in second row)/Photo/Ian Cumming / Office of Tibet DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai (...)
Speaking at the University of Westminster where he had been invited to give the CR Parekh Lecture on the Values of Democracy and Tibet, His Holiness said “Look at India and China, both have huge populations, but the difference is that India is a democracy with a functioning judiciary, a country (...)
Press Release 21 June 2012 As the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) was holding a prayer service to mourn the tragic self-immolations in Tibet yesterday, reports came out from Tibet that two more Tibetans have set themselves on fire in Kyegudo (Yushul) region in eastern Tibet. Ngawang (...)
DHARAMSHALA: A group of 14 Indian students from various parts of India were given a brief introduction on Tibet by the Dharamshala chapter of Students for a Free Tibet. Speaking to the students, member of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Mr Karma Yeshi gave a brief talk on the growth of Tibetan (...)
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during an interview in the Houses of Parliament in central London June 20, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Olivia Harris REUTERSBy Mohammed Abbas LONDON: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday resuming talks with China on his (...)
The New York TimesBy EDWARD Wong Two Tibetans set themselves on fire on Wednesday to protest Chinese rule and to call for the return of the exiled Dalai Lama, according to a report by Radio Free Asia. The Tibetans were identified as Tenzin Khedup, 24, a former monk, and Ngawang Norphel, 22. The (...)