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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

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday appealed to the world community to "please help" resolve the crisis in his homeland that has been rocked by deadly anti-Chinese protests

A Chinese government policy of "demographic aggression" is threatening Tibetan culture as increasing numbers of non-Tibetan Chinese move into the region, the Dalai Lama said Saturday

More than 2,000 police will be deployed in Athens this weekend to secure the handover of the Beijing Olympic flame to Chinese organizers after pro-Tibetan demonstrators disrupted the torch

Nearly 500 Tibetan women from the Tibetan settlements of Bylakuppe, Hunsur and Kollegal

China's Tibet problem got a human face this week in images of crying, red-robed monks,