Autonomy Statement To Trample Over Tibetan Hopes

As we await the closing statement from the Sino-Tibetan Conference, which one inside source described as looking like a manifesto of dangerous compromise,  the scholarly Chinese participants who were asked by the Dalai Lama for “…your advice and frank opinions on what steps to take in future to solve the Tibetan problem”, will no doubt [...]

Polish Parallels

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Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, during his visit to Poland compared (July 28) the plight of Tibetans to the sufferings  experienced by Poles during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, during which Polish insurgents defied the tyranny of Nazi Germany.
‘Since 1956 in many parts of Tibet there is a similar situation. Even the Chinese, communist military sometimes [...]

Dirty Games Dont Fool Tibet’s Khambas

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According to a report by Voice of Tibet communist Chinese officials in the town of Ganzi (in Kham, East Tibet) have supposedly lifted the prohibition against Tibetans’ possessing and worshiping images of the Dalai Lama. However, the radical change of policy has generated widespread suspicions amongst local Tibetans who question the motivation behind this move. A [...]

Dalai Lama Offers Prayers For Urumchi Victims

In a statement issued via the official Tibetan website   http://www.tibet.net/en/index.php?tab=1&id=1004&articletype=flash&rmenuid=morenews#TabbedPanels1   His Holiness the Dalai Lama said: “I am deeply saddened and concerned with the worsening situation in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), especially with the tragic loss of lives.”
“I earnestly urge the Chinese authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with the situation in a spirit of understanding and [...]

All Smoke and No Fire

With all the annoying predictability of a creaking door communist China through its propaganda machine Xinhua today condemned the decision of the Paris city authorities to award the Dalai Lama honorary citizenship. Waving the same cudgel of intimidation it always uses, China’s Foreign Ministry (more for domestic consumption one imagines) claimed the award  presented “a grave [...]

Next Stop Paris

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The Dalai Lama, arrived in Paris today, amidst some concern the visit may unsettle recently restored relations between France and communist China. The Tibetan political leader is in France to accept an honorary citizenship of the French capital. He declared that the visit is not political;
“Once more I’m very happy to come to France. The main [...]

Tibetan Leader Invites International Scrutiny

 
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Tibet’s political leader, called upon the international community to undertake an independent assessment of the situation in his country and pressurize communist  China to end the “oppression”.

“Please, international community, judge whether there is a problem or not. Go there and investigate.” he told Dutch parliamentarians on Friday June 5 .
“In the case the majority of people genuinely [...]

Pelosi Embarks on Mission Impossible

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Ms. Nancy Pelosi will depart shortly for China, returning on May 31, could a less publicized part of her climate and trade mission, involve an attempt to try and revitalize negotiations between the communist Chinese authorities and the exiled Tibetan government? The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is close to the exiled Tibetan [...]

Dalai Lama Now Seeking ‘Minimal’ Autonomy!

On March 13 Tibet’s Exiled Prime Minister, Samdhong Rinpoche gave a televised interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRJFe-e-txI to Asia News Network that caused outrage and dismay for many Tibetans, when he asserted that Tibet was an internal issue of China. He also claimed that “As far as the Tibet issue is concerned, we have nothing to do with [...]

Dalai Lama’s Reservations On Tibetan Sentences

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Tibet’s political head, en route to Los Angeles, took time at Tokyo’s Narita airport (Wednesday April 22) to condemn recent sentences given to Tibetans for their alleged involvement in arson attacks during the Uprisings for Tibetan  independence. The Dalai Lama charged communist China of concealing evidence in the trial, and demanded China conduct [...]