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India Must ‘Liberate’ Its Tibet Policy, Raise Human Rights Violations On The ‘Roof of the World’
Rahul Kashyap, ABP. 14 September, 2021. In 1951, a tragedy was played out on the Roof of the World, on the most peaceful people on Earth. Irony died in shame as Tibet’s annexation by brute force, by one of the most ruthless regimes in the history of the planet, was read more →
China Closes Tibetan School in Qinghai, Leaving Many Students Adrift
Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Authorities in a Tibetan-populated county of northwestern China’s Qinghai province have shut down a Tibetan-run private school, forcing some students to enroll in government schools but leaving others who have no families to fend read more →
UN experts raise cases of detained and “disappeared” Tibetans
International Campaign for Tibet-September 14, 2021 Four independent UN human rights experts and bodies have raised the cases of the detained Tibetans Rinchen Tsultrim and Go Sherab Gyatso in a communication to the Chinese government that became public today. In the communication, the UN Working Group on Involuntary and Enforced read more →
Xi Jinping praises ‘model’ PLA battalion in Tibet
Reported by Sutirtho Patranobis and edited by Amit Chanda for The Hindustan Times President Xi Jinping has paid glowing tributes to a border battalion of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) deployed in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), which shares a long and disputed boundary with India. Responding to a letter read more →
The Importance of Tibet – ‘Ethnic Work’ in Progress
Claude Arpi for The Weekend Leader Why are Members of the politburo of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee so attracted by Tibet these days? During the last two months, ten out of the twenty-five members of the politburo travelled to the Roof of the World. One remembers read more →
China’s genetic profiling research faces pushback from academic journals over ethics concerns
Linda Lew, South China Morning Post. Some of the world’s biggest academic publishers are investigating research papers containing genetic or facial information on minorities amid allegations of ethical violations in the gathering of the data. Much of the research in question stems from China. Concern about such profiling of marginalised groups read more →
Chinese military commanders conduct exercise in Inner Mongolia
WION Web Team Beijing Published: Sep 12, 2021, 05:18 PM(IST) According to reports, Chinese military commanders conducted an exercise in Zhurihe training base. The commanders reportedly belonged to military units linked to Beijing, Tibet and Xinjiang as they conducted a three-day exercise in Zhurihe in Inner Mongolia. Last month, the People’s Liberation Army‘s (PLA) Tibet military read more →
Chinese institutes infiltrate Indian educational institutions
The Statesman – 9 September 2021 A Law and Society Alliance report, through meticulous research and data collection, has managed to show that China has made significant inroads into numerous Indian sectors in the past few years. China has been using subtle tactics to spread its influence and propaganda on read more →
How China Weaponized the Press
The Atlantic – 9 September 2021 Early one morning a couple of years ago, at the height of Hong Kong’s prodemocracy protest movement, Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese-government-owned newspaper based in Hong Kong, published what it claimed was a major scoop. An American diplomat had met with a group of read more →
Under Xi Jinping, the private life of Chinese citizens isn’t so private anymore
CNN – 8 September 2021 Analysis by Nectar Gan and Steve George Even for a powerful authoritarian state, the speed and extent to which the Communist Party is expanding its reach into private lives in China has caught many off guard. Since celebrating its centennial with great fanfare in July, the party has read more →
Xi Jinping and Pomegranate Seeds
Claude Arpi for Rediff News On June 8, China’s Core Leader Xi Jinping visited the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. Meeting a group of Tibetan villagers relocated in one of the Xiaogang villages (‘moderately well-off’ villages, looking more like ghettos), the general secretary of the Chinese Communist party read more →
Tibetans in Nepal Observe ‘Democracy Day’ Under Close Watch by Police
Reported by Lhuboom for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibetans living in Nepal observed Tibet’s Democracy Day under close watch by local police who kept Tibetan gatherings out of the public eye for fear of offending Nepal’s powerful northern neighbor China, an read more →
Oppressed Tibetans are warning to Taiwan: Tibetan representative
Focus Taiwan – 3 September 2021 Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) The decades-long Chinese oppression of Tibetans should serve as a warning to Taiwanese, Kelsang Gyaltsen Bawa, representative of the Tibetan government-in-exile to Taiwan, said Thursday during a book launch event at the Legislative Yuan. Over the years, intellectuals from Tibet read more →
Tibetan President calls to end deadlock in Parliament-in-exile
Hindustan Times – 3 September 2021 Penpa Tsering, Sikyong (president) of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday called to end the impasse in Parliament-in-exile, which arose after the 22 newly elected MPs refused to take oath, stating that it may lead to the collapse of the Tibetan administration. The Sikyong read more →
Tibetans, Uyghurs Remember Those Who ‘Disappeared’ at China’s Hands
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service and by the Uyghur Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Rights groups called on the world on Monday to remember the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and members of other groups who have been forcibly “disappeared” at the hands of read more →