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China has detained two Tibetan businessmen for allegedly leaking information to the foreign media about the closed trial of two other Tibetans, according to Human Rights Watch.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, walks out for a prayer meeting in Dharamsala, India, Tuesday. - AP | Angus McDonald

The Dalai Lama on Tuesday led Tibetans in prayers aimed at minimizing suffering if war comes to Iraq. Speaking in Dharmsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama said a U.S.-led attack was all but inevitable.

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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