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The Central Tibetan Administration expresses its regrets over the confusion and disturbance that took place yesterday at Dharamsala during the peace march undertaken by the Tibetan Youth Congress due to certain misunderstanding and communication gap.

The Tibetan Youth Congress in its 34 years of existence has organized various extensive, conclusive and peaceful activities for the cause of a Free Tibet.

The police today lathicharged a group of Tibetan Youth Congress peace marchers who were on the way to New Delhi to participate in Tibetan Uprising Day, to be celebrated on March 10.

"Tibetans are a naturally a happy people," says Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama. Quite a statement considering that since the Chinese invaded and occupied Tibet in 1950, over 1,2 million Tibetans have been killed and that in 1959 the Dalai Lama

Those who came to hear harmonious chants and prayers of Buddhist monks at the Basilica of St. Adalbert instead found themselves ousted from the sanctuary by a conservative Catholic splinter group bent on disrupting the performance.

In the latest development which turned out to be a triumph for the peace marchers and their supporters, the local police allowed the peace marchers to resume their walk to Delhi.

In a major setback, the march on foot to Delhi of the Tibetan Youth Congress, one of the major Non Governmental Organisations, was stopped by the local police who say they have been directed by the central government.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has extended support to a UN initiative to encourage artists, entertainers, statesmen and stateswomen to publicly support the ideals, vision and mandate of the United Nations as the best organisation to promote peace across the globe, a UN report said.

The EU is considering lifting its ban on weapon sales to China, imposed following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. China has been pushing the EU to drop the arms embargo and has already secured support from two of the EU's largest powers, France and Germany.

Mention Tibet, and in our minds we conjure up thoughts of a country full of mysticism, a unique culture and way of life so unknown to the West. Today, the truth is that 53 years of the illegal occupation and subsequent