[PTI] Washington: The situation in Tibet remains quite tense, the US said on Friday, as the number of deaths in the region due to self-immolation against the oppressive regime has crossed the 100 mark. Terming it as “horrific figures” on the number of Tibetans who have self-immolated and died (...)
By Edward Wong, The New York Times, 14 February 2013 A former Tibetan Buddhist monk protested Chinese rule by killing himself through self-immolation this month, becoming the 100th person to do so inside Chinese-governed Tibet, according to reports on Wednesday by Tibet advocacy groups. The (...)
By Pico Iyer / Cairo Review February 10, 2013 China needs Japan, Japan needs China,” the 14th Dalai Lama declared, with immovable conviction, as I listened to him in a sunlit conference room in Yokohama last November, a great Ferris wheel turning outside and a jungle of high-rising grey (...)
DHARAMSHALA: In confirmed reports coming from Tibet, a 26 year old Tibetan died after setting himself on fire at Amchok around 1 pm (local time) on 13 February. The self-immolator is identified as Drukpa Khar, a father of three children. No further information is available at the moment. Since (...)
By Cheng Li / Cairo Review February 10, 2013 The much-anticipated 18th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November unfolded according to that classic rhythm in the study of Chinese elite politics: predictability giving way to ambiguity, and optimism alternating with (...)
By Vishal Gulati Indo Asian News Service | IANS Dharamsala, Feb 14: As cases of self-immolation to protest Beijing’s “repressive policies” reached 100, the Tibetan administration-in-exile Thursday appealed to the global community to engage China to redress the grievances of the Tibetans. “We (...)
[The Wall Street Journal / 14 February 2012] By BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—A former Buddhist monk who set himself on fire became at least the 100th person inside China to self-immolate since 2009 to protest tight Chinese rule over Tibetan regions, according to activist groups and the Tibetan (...)
[The Times of India | Feb 15, 2013] DHARAMSHALA: As cases of self-immolation to protest against China’s policies in Tibet reached 100, Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Thursday appealed to the world community to redress the grievances of his community in Tibet. “China (...)
LONDON: Friends of British in Tibet, a group of 23 British people with direct family ties to Tibet going back over 200 years, has sent a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday (13 February). The signatories of the letter include Mr Richard John Gould, 90, eldest son of the Late Sir (...)
[The Sydney Morning Herald] Australia’s top diplomat in China has been unable to win Beijing’s permission to visit Tibet after almost a year of trying. Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced in March 2012 that Ambassador Frances Adamson would seek to travel to Tibet to talk to locals and look into (...)