MountEverest.net is an amazing site that aggregates all the climbing news of the Himalaya region. With one of the many olympic torches at the Northside (Tibetan side that is!) basecamp, the site is abuzz with updates and news from the area… well, at least what news can get out, due to a basically complete blackout […]
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that around 70 monks of Ramoche Temple in Lhasa were detained in a night-time raid on April 7th. People’s Armed Police (PAP) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials raided the monks’ residences and took them away to an unknown location.
At present only a few […]
XIAHE, China (Reuters) - Fifteen Tibetan Buddhist monks interrupted a state-sponsored media tour of a restive region of western China on Wednesday, demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and yelling that they had no human rights.
In the second such incident in as many months, the monks, carrying a banned Tibetan flag, burst […]
Times Online
April 7, 2008
Ten people were wounded when Chinese paramilitary police opened fire on a crowd of Tibetans protesting against limits on a prayer ceremony and demanding the return of the Dalai Lama, witnesses said.
The violence was in a remote town in western Sichuan province on Saturday, where monks at the […]
Times Online
April 4, 2008
Jane Macartney in Beijing
Chinese paramilitary police have killed eight people after opening fire on several hundred Tibetan monks and villagers in bloody violence that will fuel human rights protests as London prepares to host its leg of the Olympic torch relay this weekend.
Witnesses said the clash – in which dozens were wounded […]
New protests in Tibet are calling into question the Chinese government’s claim that everything is back to “normal” in Tibet. What is “normal” in Tibet anyway: military occupation and simmering resentment ready to explode?
From the BBC:
New violence has broken out in a Tibetan area of western China, leaving at least one government official seriously injured, […]
The latest episode of BoingBoingTV is up, focusing on the aftermath of the protests in Amdo, and the brave monks who helped get the news and images out to the world:
In this BBtv vlog episode, Xeni speaks with Tibetan human rights worker Lhakpa Kyizom about reported abuses against so-called “wired monks” in Tibet, by […]
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy released photos yesterday of hundreds of Tibetans holding a solidarity march in Holkha Township, Tsigorthang County (Ch: Xinghai Xian), Tsolho TAP, Qinghai Province on March 25. The march and prayer session were held for those who lost their lives in the recent series of protests in Tibet.
According to monks at Kirti Monastery in Dharamsala, Chinese security forces raided 6 monasteries in North-Eastern Tibet on March 28th. The monasteries included Ngaba Kirti Monastery, Ngatue Amdu Monastery, Gomang Monastery, Dongri Monastery, and Tsennyi Monastery, all in Amdo Ngawa county (Ch: Aba Xian), and Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery in Dzoege county, Ngaba TAP, Sichuan […]
Breaking News:
As foreign diplomats are being guided around Lhasa by the Chinese government, many Tibetans have protested again in the capital today, marching from Ramoche Monastery to the Bharkor.
More details to come.
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