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If we are to believe communist China’s propaganda machine, Xinhua, the image you are looking at represents the standard of health care available for Tibetans under the tender mercies of the occupying communist regime. According to a report which celebrated International Nurses Day on May 13th a young Tibetan patient is being treated by “Yangzong [...]
Image: Independent Tibet Network
Talking of censorship, what on earth is going on with TrueVision, UK Channel Four Television or Google with respect to the acclaimed 2008 Dispatches film ‘Undercover in Tibet’? Visitors to sites which formerly presented this video may have noticed that as from March 30 it appears to have been removed. It has also seemingly been [...]
During the recent activities to mark International Women’s Day on the 8th March much focus was rightly given to a range of human rights themes. Unfortunately absent from the orchestrated championing of women’s human rights was any prominent exposure concerning communist China’s treatment of women, and in particular its coercive population-control programme. Which as is [...]
Why would communist China be interested in exerting pressure upon the Hong Kong (HK) authorities to ban a low-profile speech by Kate Saunders of the International Campaign For Tibet (ICT)? According to an AFP press release (dated 18th March) Saunders, described as an ‘international activist backing Tibetan self-determination’, was due to give a presentation at [...]
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