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Responding to the call for March 6 global campaign by the Tibetan Youth Congress, Tibetans carried out demonstrations, vigils, and petitioning campaigns in solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet.

The 13 Tibetan school students who have been in a Kathmandu jail for nearly two weeks for raising slogans outside the United Nations office in the Nepali capital, were released yesterday after paying heavy bail.

Hundreds of Tibetan and American students gathered at the Tibetan College for Higher Studies, Sarah to commemorate the 12th anniversary of Emory University and Institute of Buddhist Dialectics’ Exchange Programme.

Tibetan Buddhist monks debating in front of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people during the Great Prayer Festival (Tib: Monlam Chenmo) at Tsug-la-khang courtyard, the main temple in Dharamshala, India. March 6, 2012. (Phayul photo/Norbu Wangyal)

Taking voluntary initiative in the face of growing sacrifices in Tibet calling for freedom and the Dalai Lama’s return, a Tibetan exile family has decided to heed to their calls and make the journey back to Tibet.

Tibetans and supporters in the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala carried out a candle light vigil yesterday evening in solidarity with the Tibetans who self-immolated over the past days in Tibet.

In alarming news coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan died today after setting himself on fire protesting China’s occupation of Tibet. This is the third self-immolation in as many days.

A teenaged Tibetan school girl torched her body in an apparent protest against the Chinese occupation of Tibet in a busy market in eastern Tibet on March 3. Tsering Kyi, 19, studying at a local middle school set herself on fire

Rigzin Dorje, 19, who set his body on fire raising slogans against the Chinese government on February 8 in Ngaba town, passed away in a Chinese military hospital on February 12. Eyewitnesses had said he was “on the verge of death” following his self-immolation

In confirmed reports coming out of Tibet, a Tibetan mother of four passed away after setting her body on fire demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet.