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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

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), a pressure group, today renewed its demand for the immediate release of the 11-year-old boy-monk Gedhum Choekyi Nyima.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, today urged China to address the issue of autonomy for his nation, warning that the problem could soon become insoluble. The Dalai Lama made his appeal on the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan national uprising against Beijing's annexation of the once independent Himalayan country.

Tibetans, living in exile in India, shout anti-China slogans while carrying a picture of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, during a protest in Chandigarh March 10, 2003. The rally was organized on the last day of a ten-day long march from Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama lives, to create awareness among the Indian masses about Tibetan problems and China's policy towards Tibet. REUTERS/Ajay Verma

In a subdued speech, the Dalai Lama criticized China's human rights policy but praised Beijing for some positive developments as his supporters staged protests to mark the anniversary of Tibetans' failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule.

On the occasion of March 10, Today the members of the Regional Tibet Youth Congress (RTYC) and Regional Tibetan Freedom Movement (RTFM) organized a peace March from Punjab University, which finally concluded at Sector 17 Plaza

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