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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 [...]
A report from Radio Free Asia describes hundreds of Kham-Tibetans opposing gold mining at Ser Ngol Lo in Markham county, Chamdo prefecture, Kham.
According to the account “Chinese mining and Lumbering firm, Zhongkai Co, has been reportedly authorized to excavate the area where peaceful Tibetan protesters are facing armed Chinese security forces at the site”.
The protest [...]
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China has stolen so much from Tibet, its land, water and other natural resources such as gas, minerals and ore. Millions of tons of timber have been removed, reducing once verdant forested mountainsides to a lunar-like landscape. Tibet’s historic freedom and independence and its rich culture have been siezed too, leaving this remakable and ancient [...]
Latest reports from TCHRD document communist Chinese authorities have launched a series of attacks and arrests targetting Khamba farmers who are boycotting demands to till their land.
Accounts have emerged from Drango County, Kardze in Eastern Tibet’s Kham region (so-called “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”-Sichuan Province), noting that:
“The Chinese authorities have arrested and severely beaten a number [...]
A Radio Free Asia broadcast March 25 reports that Tibetan farmers, in the traditional Eastern Tibetan area of Kham, parts of which were forcibly annexed into China’s Sichuan Province) are continuing a farming boycott in protest at ongoing repression which is happening across the region. According to the report:
“Tibetans in the Kardze (within the so-called [...]
Despite the severe crackdown inside Tibet, reports from Tibet’s Eastern region Kham document a number of pro-independence protests. According to one account, Kardze (claimed to be in so-called Sichuan Province) is reportedly under some strain following a large number of pamphlets, demanding Tibet’s independence, having been scattered along the main road of the town. Such leaflets are a [...]
Taking a snap-shot of the shared experiences between Ireland and Tibet, bearing in mind of course that no analogy is ever completely perfect, there exist however common strains, so here goes, with no apologies to academic historians.
Ireland, an independent country complete with its own language, governance, legal system, culture and history was invaded by England [...]
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