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Nepal court frees 3 jailed Tibetans

Nepal's supreme court has freed three Tibetan activists jailed for leading anti-China protests, a court official said Tuesday.

3 Tibetan activists jailed in Nepal

Nepalese authorities jailed three Tibetan activists for three months for leading protests against China's crackdown in Tibet, an official said Saturday.

Nepalese police detain 500 Tibetan protesters

Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles decrying a crackdown in their homeland in a protest near the Chinese Embassy on Thursday, police said.

China Denies Firing at Tibetan Refugees

China denied a report Thursday that its border police fired upon a group of Tibetans trying to cross a mountain pass to exile in Nepal.

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The Uyghurs and the Tibetans -- Struggling Against Chinese Colonialism
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

The news over the past few days that large-scale rioting has taken place in Urumqi is a reminder that the Tibetans are not the only people who are not happy with Chinese rule.  But to understand the situation in either place it is necessary to be clear on a few background facts. …

Monk suicides on the rise in Buddhist Tibet
Source: Buddhist Channel

Religious freedom has been a distant dream for the Tibetan people since the advancement of Communist China in 1949-50.

The Hindu Rate of Wrath
Source: François Gautier

Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the20recent Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign correspondents-a lover of Hindus! A born French …

South Africa Bars Dalai Lama From Peace Conference
Source: The New York Times

South Africa says it has barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference later this week, citing its relationship with China and saying now is not the time for such a high-profile visit. More Articles

Dalai Lama Harshly Condemns China Over Tibet
Source: The New York Times

"Today, the religion, culture, language and identity, which successive generations of Tibetans have considered more precious than their lives, are nearing extinction," said the Dalai Lama, 73, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans. More Articles

China detains 81 people in Tibet crackdown: media on Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

50th anniversary of crushed Tibetan independence.

Will The Next Dalai Lama Be Female ?

With large number of media personnel and TV coverage, Nobel peace Prize Winner Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet speaks on chances of a girl Dalai Lama.

Tibetans Look to Future, Without Dalai Lama
Source: TIME

Hundreds of Tibetan political leaders, activists and individuals from all over the world have begun a meeting in Dharamsala, India, that is unprecedented in its ambition: to bring all Tibetans together to decide their own future, without the direct guidance of the Dalai Lama..... …

Tibetan exiles tackle future China policy
Source: Google

DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) — Tibetan exiles struggled Saturday to come up with a unified strategy to fight Chinese rule of their homeland at the end of a meeting to determine the movement's future.

An Open Letter to the Dalai Lama
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I hope this letter finds you in good health.

Barack Obama President Elect wrote Letter to the Dalai Lama in July 2008

Barack Obama's Letter to the Dalai Lama in July 2008 shows his full support for the Tibetans In Exile. In the Letter to His Holiness The Dalai Lama in JUly 2008 he expresses his concern for the people of Tibet.Respects the His Holiness approach and the Dialogue of Representative  …

UK recognises China's direct rule over Tibet
Source: Telegraph

The British Government has been accused of undermining the Dalai Lama in negotiations with China by recognising Beijing's direct rule over Tibet for the first time.

Dalai Lama has 'given up hope of negotiations with China' over Tibet
Source: Telegraph

The Dalai Lama says he has given up hope of successful negotiations with China over the future of Tibet in an unprecedented escalation of the exile movement's war of words with Beijing.

Tibetan Leader The Dalai Lama back home to Dharamsala after Surgery

Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama arrived here in dharamsala days after undergoing successful surgery to remove gallstones at a Delhi hospital. Hundreds of Tibetans greeted their leader as he passed roads leading out of the airport. Floats were put up and Tibetans showered …

Chinese Olympic Torch delayed on Mount Everest

NEPAL, Namche Bazaar - Hampered in their efforts by an early onset of the south Asian Monsoon, the Chinese Olympic Torch is still stuck on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, delayed by bad weather, according to reports from the Tibetan side.

Exiled Tibetans Face Uncertain Future as China Makes Inroads in Nepal

NEPAL Namche Bazaar - Singing a hypnotic chant, the line of Tibetans led by a Lama, all holding candles, file past into the small bazaar below. It is moving sight.

Olympic Torch Used To Ignite Tibetan Protesters
Source: The Onion

A universally recognized symbol of goodwill, the Olympic torch was used to immolate hundreds of Tibetan protesters during its journey across mainland China last week, in what is being called a stirring display of competitive spirit and Chinese nationalism.

Fears and Tears" Dalai Lama talks to Newsweek (March 20, 2008)
Source: Newsweek

It's interesting to catch the contradictions within the Tibetan community as it relates to the Free Tibet issues. Notice in this interview the apparent contradictions even in the XIV Dalai Lama's own perspective:

Violence in Tibet as Monks Clash With the Police
Source: The New York Times

Violence erupted Friday morning in a busy market area of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans brawled with Chinese security forces in clashes that brought conflicting reports of deaths.

Why Tibetans survive better in high altitudes revealed
Source: dailyindia.com

It's a known fact that Tibetans and Lepchas can survive in high altitudes better than others, but what enables them to do so has remained a mystery till now.

China orders resettlement of thousands of Tibetans
Source: RealCities.com

ZENGSHOL, Tibet - In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth of the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages," ordering them to build new …

Rolling Stone : The End of Tibet
Source: Rolling Stone

As China tortures monks and drives Tibetans into poverty, many young activists are renouncing the Dalai Lama and resorting to violence. Is one of the world's most ancient cultures facing extinction?

Video shows Chinese 'firing on Tibetans'
Source: thewest.com.au

Video footage shot by a Romanian television station appears to show Chinese soldiers firing at a group of Tibetans as they attempt to cross a mountain pass into Nepal, days after China defended the soldiers' action.

China tries to gag climber witnesses
Source: Telegraph

Sadly, no surprises here.... (quote) Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week.

Climbers Witness Chinese Massacre of Tibetan Refugees
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

An Australian mountaineer was among dozens of climbers at a Himalayan base camp who watched in horror as Chinese soldiers shot Tibetan refugees "like rats, dogs [and] rabbits", leaving at least one teenage nun lying dead in the snow.

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