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Under Secretary Zeya’s Remarks at the CECC Hearing, “Preserving Tibet: Cultural Erasure, Forced Assimilation, & Coercion of Tibetans in the U.S.”
-U.S. Department of States Good morning. Thank you, Representative Smith, Senator Merkley, and my fellow distinguished commissioners for the opportunity to speak today on this timely and important topic. And I would also like to welcome our distinguished guests – Sikyong Tsering, Mr. Gere, Ms. Tethong, and Mr. Dorjee – read more →
Tibet dying a ‘slow death’ under Chinese rule, says exiled leader
Aljazeera News. 30 March 2023. Head of Tibet’s government in exile addresses US Congress for the first time, says Tibetan language, culture and religion facing ‘unprecedented threat of eradication’. Exiled Tibetan leaders and officials in the United States have condemned China’s “cruel” policies in Tibet, accusing Beijing of separating families read more →
Worst in Recent Years: 2022 Annual Report on Human Rights Situation in Tibet
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy, 28 March 2023. Dharamsala, India – The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reported in its newly released annual report that the human rights situation in Tibet in 2022 has been one of the worst in recent years, with Chinese authorities read more →
Sister of Imprisoned Tibetan Businessman Detained and Beaten Overnight
Gonpo Kyi had come to prison to appeal for release of brother serving life sentence. -By Sangyal Kunchok and Lhuboom Tashi for RFA Tibetan, 23 March 2023 As she had done several times before, Gonpo Kyi went to the prison in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa on Monday to appeal for read more →
New Chinese Leadership and Tibet
-by International Campaign for Tibet This year’s annual meetings of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—popularly called the “Two Sessions” (Chinese: Lianghui)—saw a markedly lower level of focus on Tibet than in recent years. The “Two Sessions,” held from March 4 to 13, read more →
U.S. Companies Must Stop Enabling Mass DNA Collection in Tibet
By Josh Rogin, The Washington Post. March 19, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDT The Chinese government is so innovative in applying advanced technology for repression, sometimes it is hard to keep track. Beijing’s latest, horrible abuse of the Tibetan people is to forcibly collect their DNA, their last remaining vestige of read more →
Belgium to become second EU country to recognise Buddhism
There are currently six worship services officially recognised in Belgium: the Roman Catholic, the Orthodox, the Israelite, the Anglican, the Protestant Evangelical and the Islamic March 17, 2023 02:03 pm | Updated 02:03 pm IST – BRUSSELS REUTERS Belgium is expected to officially recognise Buddhism after the federal government approves read more →
China’s Plan to Assimilate Tibet
Tibet has been an effective police state for more than a decade, under the authority of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, observers say. They told Newsweek that Beijing’s targets is long-term control over the younger generation, with the goal of indoctrinating them with Communist Party ideology. Activists argue it has come read more →
China is Preparing the Dalai Lama’s Succession
-By Claude Arpi for Indian Defence Review, 14 March 2023 China is at it again: “Recognition of new Dalai Lama must be conducted in China”, asserted an article in The Global Times on February 22. The mouthpiece of the Communist Party explained that the China Central Television has already given a detailed read more →
Tibetan Writer Confirmed Serving 4-Year Prison Sentence
Zangkar Jamyang criticized China’s move to drop teaching Tibetan in schools By Lobe Socktsang for RFA Tibetan 2023.03.13 A Tibetan writer arrested by Chinese police nearly three years ago has been confirmed serving four years in prison for “splittism and spreading rumors in internet chat groups,” according to Tibetans with read more →
Dalai Lama Invited to Buddhavanam
March 13, 2023 07:03 pm | Updated 07:09 pm IST – HYDERABAD THE HINDU BUREAU Special Officer-Buddhavanam Mallepalli Laxmaiah met the Dalai Lama at his office in Dharamshala on Monday and extended an invitation to the Tibetan spiritual leader to visit the Buddhist heritage theme park developed by the Telangana read more →
New Hopes Emerging for the People of Tibet in the Changing World
Nervous Communist Regime, growing spirit of resistance in China and changing international mood give new hope to the colonised people of Tibet. An international webinar discuss “hopes and possibilities for a free Tibet in the present International Scenario?” -By Vijay Kranti (CHASE) NEW DELHI-PARIS-LONDON-BERLIN-DHARAMSHALA, 9 March Tibet experts from a read more →
Taipei march shows support for Tibet, Xinjiang and HK
Taipei Times, March 6, 2023. A march was held in Taipei yesterday commemorating the 1959 Tibetan uprising against China, showing solidarity with Tibetans and others who protest Chinese oppression. The rally, held annually in Taipei every March since 2004, was originally intended to commemorate those who died during the Tibetan read more →
Czech Foreign Minister Lipavsky Discusses China, Tibet and Mutual Trade On Visit To India
BRNO Daily, March 2, 2023. Lipavsky met representatives of Tibetans in exile, and gave a speech stressing the trade potential of India and the Czech Republic. Photo credit: Jan Lipavský – ministr zahraničí ČR, via Facebook. Delhi, Feb 28 (CTK) – Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky met representatives of the read more →
The Dalai Lama on the Gratitude He Feels Looking Back at His Escape From Tibet (20 April 1959)
BY DALAI LAMA FEBRUARY 28, 2023 7:00 AM EST/ TIME.COM A single image can certainly evoke strong memories. This 1959 TIME cover photo and the accompanying story of my escape from Tibet brings movingly back to me the tragedy of my land and of my people. I will soon be 88. This cover read more →