The European Parliament strongly condemned China for the murder of shooting of Tibetan refugees at Nangpa Pass. No response yet from international pariah China. The German Bundestag has already called for the implementation of this EP resolution by the European Union council. The EP resolution passed unanimously, sixty-six to zero with no abstentions.
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On Thursday I was interviewed by blogger and podcaster Joh Padgett for the MonticelloCast. We spoke about Students for a Free Tibet’s work for Tibetan independence, our recent Action Camp in India, and what campaigns SFT is working on now.
The interview can be heard below. Please stop by Monticello and check out Joh’s other […]
Human Rights Watch calls for accountability and sanity in China following the murder of two Tibetan refugees by China’s People’s Armed Police (their paramilitary border soldiers).
The Chinese government should immediately permit an independent inquiry into an attack by a police unit on a string of Tibetan refugees that resulted in the killing of at least […]
According to Radio Free Asia China is enforcing a crackdown inside Lhasa following the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese soldiers at Nangpa Pass last month. Additionally, Chinese police have detained two Tibetans and a Nepali for helping Tibetan refugees escape to Nepal.
First, on the detentions:
Chinese authorities in Lhasa have detained two Tibetans and one […]
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This video includes footage from the candle light vigil in Dharamsala this week, as well as part of the news broadcast from Pro TV of the Nangpa Pass shooting and interviews with students from TCV school in Dharamsala who themselves fled Tibet through Nangpa Pass. It’s a strong reminder that the refugees who […]
The forty-one Tibetan refugees who made it safely into Nepal following being illegally shot at by Chinese border soldiers have now arrived in India. The story of their ordeal is now coming out and any doubt that could have conceivably still remained about the facts of this horrendous shooting by the Chinese must now be […]
As graphic images and photos of the shootings at Nangpa Pass continue to surface, Tibetans and their supporters continue protesting at Chinese consulates and embassies around the world. On Friday October 20th, over 200 Tibetans and their supporters from New York, Boston, and the DC area converged in Washington to make sure the message of […]
With over one hundred western mountaineers and sherpas at the Cho Oyu advance Everest base camp, it’s not surprising that witnesses continue to come forward and testify to what they saw: Chinese soldiers shooting and killing Tibetan refugees. Two Norwegian climbers have gone on the record with Norwegian TV 2. Thus far Norwegians, British, Romanian, […]
A Reuters article on the Nangpa Pass shooting is comprehensive in its rejection of China’s provably false assertions that their border forces opened fire on a group of seventy Tibetan refugees after the Tibetans attacked the troops.
But [China] defended the shooting, saying the group was trying to cross the border illegally and attacked the […]
Simon Denyer of Reuters has written a fantastic article about SFT’s Free Tibet! Action Camp VIII that just concluded in Dharamsala, India. The article extensively quotes Lhadon Tethong, SFT’s executive director and Han Shan, SFT’s former development director.
This is a training exercise for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, but these students will not be competing. […]
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