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IT’S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID! – Jamyang Norbu

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I think everyone is agreed on this one fact that the only accredited foreign journalist in Lhasa when the uprising began was James Miles,
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The Jackpot Olympics: the Torch in Tibet

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On June 21st, the Blood Torch appeared in Lhasa. It was a predictably grim propaganda exercise, with dancing maidens, grinning nomads and unctuous PRC officials waving for the cameras. The select
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Becoming a Bald Tibetan Lay Woman

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Sitting on a cold steel chair, I gazed at the faces of people gathered and felt a wave of sadness in my heart. One by one, those of us who had volunteered to shave our heads in solidarity
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The long march to Tibet

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For the last 90 days, 300 Tibetans have been walking through the green fields, valleys, mountains and busy streets of India. Braving the heat, we have covered 1,300 km to walk back to
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THE LONG MARCH HOME – Jamyang Norbu

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I think this is how the Rangzen Marchers must be feeling right now, feet(s) tired but hearts at rest, when they glimpse the snow capped peaks in the distance and know they are
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BEIJING WELCOMES THE WORLD, SORT OF…

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As Beijing gears up for the world’s premiere sports and entertainment extravaganza, the Summer Olympic Games, lavish pageants
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BAREFOOT EXPERTS – Jamyang Norbu

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Among the many half-cocked (and often disastrous) schemes dreamed up during the Cultural Revolution, the institution of “barefoot doctors” (Chin:chijiao yisheng; Tib: amchi kangjema)
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Democracy thwarted

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The External Affairs Minister of the largest democracy in the world will arrive in Beijing on June 4 for a four-day visit to China on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre
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FINDING THE LOST HORIZON: Update from the March to Tibet

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He dipped his face in the river at Baanspatan, and joked that monks don't need to use soap because they have renounced vanity. A couple of hours later, Ven. Woeber was arrested
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KARMAPA AND THE CRANES – Jamyang Norbu

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After his dramatic escape from Tibet in December 1999, the young Gyalwa Karmapa became an immediate celebrity in the exile community – in a reverential Tibetan sort of way,
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