Monthly Archives: March, 2008

Describing as an "error" the NDA government's decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China, former Defence Minister George Fernandes

AS Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao were reelected to their posts of President and Premier of the People's Republic of China

Witnesses in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, say fresh protests erupted there Saturday afternoon despite

New protests broke out Saturday at two monasteries in the Tibetan capital Lhasa,

The European Union called on Saturday for an end to repression in Tibet and urged China to hold a dialogue on Tibetan cultural and religious rights, ministers said

Britain's GCHQ, the government communications agency that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots in Lhasa since March 14 that have left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured. In this file photo from the 2003 annual TCHRD Report shows Chinese Soldiers equipped with Tibetan Buddhist monk robes to make such tactical moves to justify their violent crackdown by implicating Tibetans as rioters. (Phayul.com)

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser has been reporting daily on the developments in Tibet in her blog. Following are an insider's on-the-spot views of the unrest in Tibet

Evidence is accumulating that the Chinese regime orchestrated violence in Lhasa in order to discredit the peaceful protests of Buddhist monks.

To an appeal launched by Le Nouvel Observateur "A Way between the boycott of Olympics and the silence", around twenty top French athletes called on the Chinese government to fulfil its

Foreign diplomats demanded unfettered access in Lhasa Saturday after authorities allowed them to visit the riot-torn city amid debate in Europe on a possible boycott of the