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A Tibetan student waves a Tibetan flag while demanding 'Freedom for Tibet,' during a demonstration in Bombay, March 10, 2003. More than 50 Tibetans participated in the demonstration to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan national uprising against Chinese rule. REUTERS/Roy Madhur

“I am Tibetan. But I am not from Tibet. Never been there, yet I dream of dying there”—an excerpt from Tenzin Tsundue’s book of poems, Kora. To mark the occasion of the 44th Tibetan National Uprising Day

About 700 people, Tibetans and their supporters, marched in total silence in the vicinity of Chinese Embassy to observe the 44th Tibetan National Uprising. Led by 10 Gyuto monks who are currrently in town, with banners

Thousands of Tibetans and supporters will rally and demonstrate at the United Nations and the Chinese Mission to the UN, followed by a march across 42nd Street to the Chinese Consulate today, in commemoration of Tibetan National Uprising Day.

A group of about 35 Tibetans and 30 Westerners finished a 60-mile walk Monday from Bloomington to Indianapolis. The walkers began their trek in Bloomington last Thursday and finished their journey Monday at Monument Circle in Indianapolis with a rally in the afternoon.

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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