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Brussels’ Esplanade du Cinquantenaire became a sea of red, yellow and blue colours on Sunday 9 March when people carrying the Tibetan national flag gathered there to take part in a human Chain for Change in Tibet.

By Lhubum Tashi, RFA

About two thousand Tibetan exiles in Nepal offered prayers at a Buddhist monastery near Kathmandu on Monday to mark the anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan national uprising against Chinese rule, said a Tibetan official.

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, Special Envoy of the Dalai Lama, reads the Dalai Lama's March 10 statement in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC

Forty-four years after fleeing Tibet, the Dalai Lama released his annual March 10 statement from Dharamsala, India, where he resides in exile, today on the anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day.

Exiled Tibetans living in India burn Chinese flags during a protest in New Delhi, March 10, 2003. The rally was organized on the last day of a ten-day long march from Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama, to create awareness about Tibetan problems and China's policy towards Tibetans. Photo by Kamal Kishore

Tibetan leader Dalai Lama reads through his speech during a commemorative function at Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 10, 2003. The Tibetans commemorated the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. (AP Photo/Angus McDonald)

China on Monday defended its environmental record in Tibet, outlining efforts to protect its ecology and denouncing what it called false claims by the Dalai Lama and activists that it has harmed the Himalayan region.

Tibetans in Dharamsala today observed the 44th commemoration of the Tibetan national uprising day. Hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the ground in front of the main Buddhist Cathedral (Tsuk Lhakhang) for the first time without the huge