Webinar on ‘Tibet Was Never a Part of China’ urges global communities to support their movement
February 18, 2022The Print New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): An international webinar “Tibet Was Never a Part of China”, organized on February 14 to mark the 109th anniversary of ‘Proclamation of Independence of Tibet’ on 13th February 1913, urged the global community to support Tibet’s independence from China’s illegal rule. Unchallenged read more →
Chinese surveillance unit operating inside Tibetan Buddhist monastery
February 18, 2022-Radio Free Asia Police inside keep an eye on monks day and night, says a source. A Chinese police surveillance unit is operating, apparently for the first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a renewed crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist religious institutions, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation read more →
Beijing Has Dimmed Spotlight on Tibetan Oppression Since 2008 Olympics
February 17, 2022The New York Sun-By Jeremy Furchtgott Leading American politicians are calling the 2022 Beijing Olympics the “Genocide Games” in highlighting China’s oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. This year’s concerns echo those about Tibetans in the leadup to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Remember, Tibetan protests and the Chinese government’s response back read more →
Massive Arrests of Tibetan Buddhists in Sichuan After Statue Protests
February 17, 2022HE YUYAN for Bitter Winter In December 2021, Bitter Winter reported that a 30-meter (99-feet) tall statue of the Buddha had been destroyed by the authorities in Drakgo (Ch. Luhuo). Drakgo is under the administration of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is part of Kham, one of the regions of historical Tibet, now incorporated into read more →
Tibetan nomads sent to labor camps for politically sensitive material on cell phones
February 16, 2022-Radio Free Asia The detentions come amid increased surveillance of Tibetans in and around Drago county. Authorities in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region are detaining more nomadic Tibetans in Drago county and sending them to labor camps for having content deemed politically inappropriate on their cell phones, people with knowledge of read more →
As the Olympics heat up, China clamps down on dissent
February 15, 2022Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Sandi Sidhu for CNN Beijing (CNN)As Winter Olympians vie for gold in Beijing, global attention has turned to events in the extensive Olympic “bubble” — a zone sealing off visiting athletes, media and participants from the rest of the host city to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But in a read more →
Delegation of Tibetan parliament-in-exile meets RJD MP, discusses issues of worsening human rights situation
February 15, 2022-The Print New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): A delegation of Tibetan parliament-in-exile has met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Amarendra Dhari Singh who raised the Tibetians issue in Parliament, and discussed the worsening human rights situation in the country by China. “Chinese have really crackdown not just on the read more →
This Week in History: Tibet’s ‘Declaration of Independence’
February 15, 2022On Nightlife with Indira Naidoo for ABC News As the concept of the nation-state emerged in the early 20th century, Tibet’s leader, the Dalai Lama proclaimed in 1913 that his country was, and had been an independent country for well over 1000 years. Today China claims Tibet, and Tibetans argue read more →
Buddhist scholar Rinpoche slams China for destroying Buddhism and identity of Tibetans
February 13, 2022Anurag Roushan for The Republic World LLing Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher, chastised China for undermining Buddhism to destroy Tibetan identity. Addressing a press conference in Sri Lanka, he claimed that China has been perpetrating inhumane and bestial atrocities against Tibetans for decades. He further lambasted China for destroying read more →
China tightens controls in Tibetan areas during Beijing Olympics
February 12, 2022-Radio Free Asia Tibetans who previously traveled to India are especially closely watched. Authorities have ramped up security controls in Tibetan areas of western China during the Beijing Winter Olympics, with police monitoring residents closely to block communications with Tibetans living in exile, sources in the region say. Restrictions are read more →