China’s best known artist and a fierce critic of the authoritarian government in Beijing, Ai Wei Wei has said that he would “feel ashamed” to visit Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, following the ongoing wave of self-immolations by Tibetans. “Already over 40 of them (Tibetans) in the past two years
Things are happening in Tibet today that rip my heart apart. Independencelessness has always been one of them. Back in 1985 at Bodhgaya we were reassured by the Dalai Lama that the dawn of independence had arrived and that the sunrise of independence was a matter of minutes.
A mass prayer service was held today in the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala for the men and women of Tibet who have sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Tibet. Special prayers were offered for Choepa, Lungtok, and Tashi, the three self-immolators who recently passed away
Two more Tibetans have been recently sentenced to varying jail terms by a Chinese court in eastern Tibet in connection with the major protests that engulfed the region in January earlier this year.
Chinese security personnel have shot dead a Tibetan man for taking part in an anti-mining protest in the Markham region of southeast Tibet. The reports come after a tense couple of weeks in Tibet which witnessed five self-immolations
Once every four years we witness the grand sporting spectacular of the Olympics. For me this is a refreshing chance to appreciate coverage of some of the sports outside my usual sporting interests.
Tibetans led by Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay today observed India’s 66th Independence Day in the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala. At a brief ceremony held at the Kashag Secretariat earlier in the day, Dr Sangay unfurled the Indian national tricolour
The death toll in the ongoing wave of Tibetan self-immolations has now risen to 40 with the passing away of Tashi, a former Kirti Monastery monk, on August 14, a day after his fiery protest. Tashi, 21, set himself ablaze along with his former classmate Lungtok, a Kirti Monastery monk
The exile Tibetan administration has expressed concerns over the misuse of photographs showing Tibetans to provoke conflict between the Buddhist and Muslim communities. The recent ethnic clashes in the Indian northeastern state of Assam have raised further tensions.
After yesterday’s self-immolations and protests in Ngaba, fresh public demonstrations are being reported from Rebkong in the tradition Tibetan province of Amdo, north- eastern Tibet.
