After refusing to stay tuned to the Chinese order to give up 60% of land, and get rid of 54% of animals within this year, Chinese authorities in Qinghai province of Tibet forcibly confiscated the land from the Tibetan nomads to give to the Chinese migrants.
Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile has withdrawn support to the exile Tibetan family, who are on a march to Tibet carrying a Chinese flag, calling their act a “blotch in exile history.”
One of the exile community’s most popular annual events, the Miss Tibet contest has been cancelled in the wake of the “very grim” circumstances in Tibet. In a short notice, Lobsang Wangyal, director of the Miss Tibet pageant made the announcement
Led by H.E. the 11th Kirti Rinpoche, Tibetans here in the exile headquarters of Dharamshala held a mass prayer service for the 36 Tibetans who have set their bodies on fire in the ongoing wave of self-immolations in Tibet.
Woeser, the path-breaking Tibetan writer’s blog “Invisible Tibet,” has been voted the public’s choice in a recent poll conducted by the Best Of Blog’s competition organised by the German radio station Deutsche Welle.
Following the ongoing wave of self-immolations and mass protests in Tibet, China is continuing to implement policies aimed at striking the social and cultural backbone of the Tibetan people.
The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa along with Indresh Kumar, a prominent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha leader and Gyari Dolma, Home Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration attended a daylong programme on “Indian and Tibetan Buddhists”
After marching for nearly two months and covering over 1300 kms, the Tibetan exile family on a peace march to Tibet is now about to reach the Indo-Nepal border town of Gorakhpur.
China continues to tighten the noose on Tibetans who had taken part in the peaceful protests in Drango, eastern Tibet, earlier this year. Chinese courts in eastern Tibet has sentenced 16 Tibetans to varying prison terms
A group of international parliamentarians has offered to work with members of the Chinese National People’s Congress in finding out the real causes of continued protests in Tibet, heralded off late by the wave of self-immolations.
