By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala, Feb 4 (IANS): Why are Tibetans setting themselves afire in China? Protests against repression or a desperate attempt, as China holds, to get global attention to their cause? The reason is simple: a total failure of China’s policy in more than 60 years of its rule in (...)
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW [The New York Times] 3 February 2013 BEIJING — Since November, when cold winter began in the high Tibetan Plateau, thousands of Tibetan villagers have been gathering daily to pray for the souls of the nearly 100 Tibetans who have burned themselves to death in protest over (...)
By Kim Arora | Feb 3, 2013, 03.54 PM IST [The Times of India] NEW DELHI: Tibetan Prime Minister (Kalon Tripa) in exile Lobsang Sangay on Saturday called for a stronger endorsement of non-violent methods by the international community. Sangay said that the projection of the recent armed (...)
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS): Tibetans across the globe have invested in democracy and non-violence in their 50-year struggle for autonomy but have not got adequate international support, Lobsang Sangay, the elected leader of the Tibetan people, has said. Delivering the first annual lecture by the (...)
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) China’s “hardline policies” in Tibet have failed and the international community ought to do more to press the country to allow a UN delegation there in the wake of rising self-immolations by Tibetans, Tibetan political leader Lobsang Sangay says. The international (...)
By JIM YARDLEY [The New York Times] Published: February 2, 2013 NEW DELHI — A crowd of Tibetans came here to India’s capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet mixture of hope and despair. A grim countdown was under way: The number of Tibetans who have set themselves (...)
By Ashish Yechury | Feb 3, 2013 [The Times of India] Lobsang Sangay, head of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamshala, was in Delhi recently for the Tibetan solidarity campaign. The former Harvard academic spoke to Ashish Yechury about the wave of self-immolations in Tibet which have (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Speaking at a press conference held today (2 February) in New Delhi, Kirti Rinpoche, the head lama of Kirti monasteries, where more than 30 of the 99 self-immolations occurred, spoke out against the recent conviction of eight Tibetans for allegedly inciting self-immolations. The (...)
At the final day event of Tibetan People’s Solidarity Campaign February 2, 2013, Delhi: Mass gathering with Indian Supporters and speeches by Indian Parliamentarians and prominent Indian leaders marked the final day of Tibetan People’s Solidarity Campaign. Over 1500 Indian supporters and 6000 (...)
[Human Rights Watch] Harsh Penalties for Tibetans Charged In Connection With Deaths (New York) – Chinese judicial authorities should immediately release two Tibetans who were found guilty in legal proceedings that relied solely on confessions they gave during five months in detention, Human (...)