On the fifth day of the Tibetan new year, February 26, a young Tibetan reportedly torched himself to death, calling for the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
WHILE leaving the United States after a five-day tour, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping stated that his visit was a ‘full success’. After the official calls on the US President and other dignitaries, the visit ended in a relaxed way in Hollywood. Further, Xi termed his meetings with President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden as ‘fruitful’.
Reporters Without Borders has expressed “alarm” at the total media blackout imposed by Chinese authorities in Tibet, preventing all media coverage of the ongoing wave of self-immolations and mass demonstrations
A group of young Tibetans took out a street protest outside the United Nations office in Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu Friday appealing for intervention in the ongoing crisis in Tibet.
A provincial Communist Party chief visited the besieged Kirti monastery and the adjoining restive regions of eastern Tibet that have been at the centre of the fiery wave of self-immolations.
The New York Police Department has ordered the removal of the tent hosting the three Tibetan hunger strikers in front of the United Nations headquarters. Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile and organisers
Following the recent self-immolation death of a teenaged Tibetan, Nangdrol and mass protests in Dzamthang, Ngaba, monks of the Samdrupling Jonang monastery in the region are reportedly fleeing the monastery
A former presidential candidate and leader of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, has expressed concerns over the situation in Tibet and called on President Ma Ying-jeou to voice his concerns to Beijing.
Even as Tibet continues to reel under an undeclared martial law, Tibetans in Tibet responded to the exile call for hunger fast and vigils all over the world on February 22 coinciding with the first day of Losar, Tibetan new year.
Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile launched an indefinite fast in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York on February 22, the first day of Losar – Tibetan New Year.
