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Behind Self-Immolations, a Cultural Genocide?

samedi 23 juin 2012 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

By Emily-Anne Owen (Inter Press Service) BEIJING: The Chinese government must not “eliminate individualism” but instead encourage diversity of religion, culture and language, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, stressed – after yet another Tibetan self-immolated last week in China’s (...)

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US: Tibetan Self-Immolations ‘Desperate Acts’ of Protest

samedi 23 juin 2012 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

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 (...)

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Why the Dalai Lama is Hopeful

vendredi 22 juin 2012 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

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 (...)

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UNHRC Takes Up Discussion on Tibet Issue

vendredi 22 juin 2012 par jamphel — Flash News

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 (...)

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Tibetan herder’s death marks wider spread of protest

vendredi 22 juin 2012 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

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 (...)

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London visit brings memory of Tibet-Britain historical ties

jeudi 21 juin 2012 par jamphel — Flash News

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 (...)

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China belongs to its 1.3 billion people, not to the Communist Party: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

jeudi 21 juin 2012 par jamphel — Flash News

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 (...)

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Tragic Self-immolations Continue, CTA reiterates appeal to China to address grievances

jeudi 21 juin 2012 par jamphel — Flash News

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 (...)

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Introduction on Tibet for Indian Students

jeudi 21 juin 2012 par jamphel — Flash News

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 (...)

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China unrealistic on Tibet, talks futile: Dalai Lama

jeudi 21 juin 2012 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

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 (...)

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