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Claude Arpi: Stop China from erasing ‘the heart of the world’
-Sourced by Deccan Chronicle Have you heard of the “Hidden Land of Pemako”? It is the area where China is planning to build mega hydropower stations in the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) during its forthcoming 14th Five Year Plan. This project, three times the size of the read more →
Tibetan Sikyong Penpa Tsering calls for closer relations
Taipei Times – 10 October 2021 Central Tibetan Administration leader Penpa Tsering on Monday expressed hope that Taiwan and Tibet can strengthen mutual ties. “There are many aspects in which we can work together,” said Penpa Tsering, who in May took office as sikyong of the Tibetan government-in-exile. “We still read more →
China’s Communist Party Formally Embraces Assimilationist Approach to Ethnic Minorities
The Wall Street Journal – 8 October 2021 SINGAPORE—After launching experiments aimed at more forcefully assimilating ethnic minorities in remote regions, China’s Communist Party has moved subtly but decisively to make cultural assimilation the central tenet of its policy for managing minority populations nationwide. An updated blueprint for childhood development read more →
Chinese Government Officially Confirms the Detention of Two Tibetans
-Sourced by Free Tibet The Chinese government has responded to a letter by United Nations experts, confirming the imprisonment of Rinchen Tsultrim and the detention of Go Sherab Gyatso. The Chinese government has confirmed that two Tibetan men are in its custody and that one of them has already been read more →
Tibetan Teenagers in Central Tibet Start School Year With Military Training
-From Free Tibet A newly opened camp in Nagchu City held a six-day training on national defence education. Chinese authorities in the central Tibetan province of U-Tsang have announced the opening ceremony of its third military training summer camp for teenage schoolchildren in Nagchu City. On 13 September, the propaganda read more →
China shifts top Tibet official to Beijing ahead of next year’s CPC leadership reshuffle
PTI – 6 October 2021 The New Indian Express BEIJING: Qizhala, an ethnic Tibetan and Chairman of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, has been shifted to Beijing by the ruling Communist Party for a higher position in the national legislature ahead of the top leadership reshuffle next year and a possible read more →
Over 100 Tibetan Detainees Released in Dza Wonpo after Month-long Torture and Interrogation
-Sourced by Free Tibet Three still remain in detention while a stone memorial honouring resistance to the 1959 invasion found to be destroyed Tibet Watch reported that around 117 Tibetans from Dza Wonpo Township detained en masse were released one by one from 23 September onwards. The detainees, who had been held read more →
China Pushes New Plan For Tibetan Buddhist Study in Chinese Only
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and study centers must begin to translate classroom texts from Tibetan into Mandarin Chinese, China’s “common language,” according to instructions given at a conference held last month in Qinghai, read more →
Tibetan Government-in-exile President Meets Taiwan Ambassador To Discuss ‘mutual Issues’
Kamal Joshi for Republic World Penpa Tsering, the president or Sikyong of the Himachal Pradesh-based Tibetan government-in-exile, on Monday, October 4, called upon Taiwanese Ambassador H.E. Baushuan Ger. The two discussed issues of mutual concern and interest. “Sikyong Penpa Tsering called upon Taiwanese Ambassador H.E. Baushuan Ger at his office read more →
Middle way approach ‘only solution’ to Tibet conflict
Tribune, 1 October 2021 The middle way approach proposed by the Dalai Lama is the only viable solution to the Tibet problem, said president of Tibetan government in-exile Penpa Tsering here. “Having considered the varying degree of repressions in Tibet, which is always followed by a series of claims and read more →
China bans Tibetan Party members and cadres from engaging in religious activities in Golok
Reported by Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. A strict ban on religious activities has been imposed recently on all former and current Party members and cadres in Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. In Darlag (Ch: Dari) County in Golok, read more →
Tibet Lobby Day builds support across United States
By International Campaign for Tibet. Tibet Lobby Day 2021 was a cross-country event this week, as participants all over the United States met virtually with their Congressional offices to build crucial support for Tibet. Tibetan Americans and other supporters of Tibet from more than 20 states took part in the Lobby read more →
Survivors of earthquake under surveillance and uncertainty
Sourced by Free Tibet. Tibetan homes torn down for reconstruction and 1216 children relocated to distant boarding schools. Tibet Watch received reports that in early September this year, Chinese authorities in Matoe county (Ch:Maduo, Tib:རྨ་སྟོད་རྫོང་།) of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the eastern Tibetan province of Amdo started demolishing Lungkya read more →
From Tibetan resistance to international tensions, China’s obstacles in TAR
Hindustan Times Chinese nervousness about the situation in Tibet has been especially noticeable during this period of enhanced military tension between India and China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stepped up activities in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to achieve President Xi Jinping’s directive of “one people, one culture, read more →
Tibet Lobby Day to push Congress on Tibet
International Campaign for Tibet Tibetan Americans and Tibet supporters will meet with members of Congress and/or their staff this week to push for action on China’s misguided policies in Tibet during the annual Tibet Lobby Day. Tibet, a country with a two thousand year history that China has brutally occupied read more →