Jamyang Norbu has an op-ed up on Phayul that says what I’ve been thinking since the national uprising started in mid-March inside Tibet:
No amount of begging, pleading or further negotiating with Beijing will bring any resolution, even a little improvement, to this crisis. I think that Dharamshala has one real option left to deal with […]
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China’s Olympic torch faced a new wave of creative and media catching protests upon it’s arrival in Australia. Overnight the words “Don’t Torch Tibet” were beamed onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a national landmark, and this morning two Tibet activists were arrested for attempting to unfurl a banner on the bridge.
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The Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee are reportedly in crisis talks, after they massively underestimated worldwide ourtage over Beijing’s repressive rule in Tibet. This report is from the Financial Times:
Beijing officials are to hold urgent talks with senior members of the Olympic movement about the torch relay, as concern grows among International Olympic […]
The pronouncement issued by the National Congress of Chinese Canadians(hereafter referred to as “NCCC”) is based on skewed views and information, and anyone who reads it will agree. Where they get their “facts” from is apparent when they regurgitate the Chinese government’s party line.
The following is a point by point refutation/exposé, if you will, of […]
Written by Kidup la, a good friend of SFT.
We didn’t plan a protest yesterday, but my wife and I went there to collect information they were giving out. When we arrived at around 1pm there was only one Tibetan supporter across the street, but she was great, and she had a […]
Details are emerging about fresh protests in Lhasa today. According to Radio Free Asia:
Witnesses in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, say fresh protests erupted there on Saturday afternoon despite a massive Chinese police and paramilitary presence there.
Witnesses told RFA’s Tibetan service that several hundred Tibetans rallied around 2 p.m. on March 29, beginning in the area […]
On the first Sunday of spring, in Toronto where the streets were relatively quiet because of the Easter long-weekend, thousands of Tibetans and Tibetan supporters rallied through the heart of downtown Toronto to protest China’s brutal crackdown on the uprisings inside Tibet, and to call on Canadians everywhere to be aware of and support the […]
[Ottawa - Sunday, March 23, 2008] As people in Ottawa prepared for the long-weekend ahead on a cloudy and chilly Thursday morning, a riveting sight of more than seven hundred people holding the multi-coloured snowlion flags of Tibet enlivened the city and roused the Parliament Hill with chants for freedom and justice like never before.
Tibetans […]
What’s causing the massive uprising (there’s really no other word for it) that’s spreading across Tibet? (Click here for a map of the many protests.) What happens when a people living under foreign occupation for five decades finally snap?
The simmering resentment is, at its heart, a frustration at being Tibetan, living in Tibet, yet being a […]
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