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October has been a stressful month. First there was the news of His Holiness being taken to Ganga Ram hospital. I overheard it when my mother-in-law was listening to Radio Free Asia

A 'Special Meeting' of incumbent and ex-Kalons (ministers), the current and former members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPIE), government officials, representatives of the

You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's admission last week that he is losing hopes for a negotiated settlement with the People's Republic of China underlines the fact that even a learned religious practitioner's patience, no matter how profound, has its limits. Ongoing Sino-

Nights have been rough during these past few weeks. I have been having nightmares – a man in elaborate headgear on a black horse sends his arrows whistling towards me. “He wants to kill me! He wants to kill me!” I shouted in my sleep. No one

On the eve of the special meeting of the Tibetan people in Dharamsala, it seems a timely occasion to present to you some ideas about the future course of the Tibetan struggle. The task that lies ahead of us in the coming weeks until

It wasn't really surprising that the Dalai Lama finally announced this weekend that he's given up on talks with China. But it's pretty sad nonetheless. And it means that unless there's a fundamental change in the PRC's attitude toward

Tibet has slipped away from the world's headlines. But even though no foreign journalists are allowed into the region to report on it, Tibetans have continued to protest China's repressive policies in ways that boggle the mind

For the first time, over a hundred Tibetans representing 15 European nations gathered this weekend in Basel, Switzerland, with a stated purpose of reinvigorating the Tibetan movement at European level. Also on agenda

On October 10th, 2008, rights networks around the globe had press releases ready in expectation that the 2008 Peace Prize would be rightly granted to Hu Jia or Gao Zhisheng, to condemn