The International Campaign for Tibet has posted new photos from Lhasa and Labrang, showing Tibetans thronging to offer incense and light fireworks to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s Congressional Gold Medal.
This despite intense warnings and intimidation from Chinese authorities, who are revealing themselves to be increasingly powerless to stop concerted actions by the Tibetan people.
The Tibetan […]
Information on the crackdown in Lhasa continues to trickle out. After clashes following Tibetans’ celebration of the Congressional Gold Medal being awarded to the Dalai Lama, Chinese security forces are “mopping up.”
Radio Free Asia reports:
Chinese authorities in Tibet have detained three monks and are questioning more than a dozen others after the monks tried […]
Tibetans in Tibet continue to defy the Chinese government as they celebrate the Congressional Gold Medal being awarded to their beloved leader, the Dalai Lama. The Chinese government, predictably, reacted with repression.
The BBC reports:
Thousands of police were deployed at monasteries in Lhasa, and scores of monks are said to have been arrested…. […]
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From the AFP Exiles say clashes in Tibet after US award to Dalai Lama
DHARAMSALA, India (AFP) — Chinese police used force to suppress Buddhist monks’ celebrations in Tibet’s capital of a hugely controversial US award for the Dalai Lama, exile groups in India said.
They said police arrested scores of monks and Tibetan activists, over […]
“…whatever happens, what I see is a future of complete uncertainty in China and in such a situation Tibetans must never - it would be absolutely irresponsibly foolish to - give up the struggle for Tibetan independence. It is out of such conditions that Tibet has been independent.” - Jamyang Norbu
This is the third […]