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Days passed, then weeks and a month now. I am frightened by this date (26th) the Republic day, which reminds me of the furious wave. The house shook and I fell down, the sea started coming towards me like a monster and I started running for my life.

Two Canadian mining firms, one from Vancouver and the other from Toronto, have been singled out by the Dalai Lama as having plans that could irreversibly damage the ecology of the Tibetan plateau.

Relatives of a jailed Tibetan monk whose death sentence was commuted this week insisted Thursday that Tenzin Delek Rinpoche is innocent and called for more international pressure on Beijing to release him.

The Nepalese government should allow the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office to reopen and continue assisting thousands of Tibetan refugees in Nepal, Human Rights Watch said today.

Nepal has closed two offices in Kathmandu associated with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Tibetan and foreign ministry sources said Thursday.

A controversial Tibetan lama - to China he's a subversive and a terrorist and to many Tibetans a saint and patriot - has been spared execution, a bullet to the back of the head.

Confirming statements made by the Chinese authorities to foreign governments, the official Chinese press agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday 26 January 2005 the commutation of the death penalty given to Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche into a sentence of life imprisonment.

The Chinese government has commuted the death sentence on Trulku Tenzin Delek to life imprisonment. "The Higher People's Court in Sichuan province, in Southwestern China

The latest announcement of Tulku Tenzin Delek's execution sentence being commuted to life imprisonment by the Higher People's Court of Sichuan Province, is indeed a matter of slight relieve and a fruition of a kind for the Tibetans

The morning of the 26th January, saw the TYC organized ALL INDIA RELAY HUNGER STRIKE culminate with a brief function in Dharamsala, the headquarter of Tibetan Exile Govt.