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stairs to enter the cave and meditated for about 20 minutes in remembrance of Nagarjuna - a Buddhist philosopher - whom His Holiness considers as his teacher, or Guru.

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His Holiness tells National Nagarjuna Philosophy Seminar to promote Indian culture in universities

By Kathryn Middel-Katzenmeyer: 15 January 2014

Raipur, Chattisgarh, India: - On 14 January, the spiritual leader His Holiness the 114th Dalai Lama of Tibet attended the national seminar on the philosophy of Nagarjuna at the PanditRavishankarShukla University.In his opening remarks, he said “In universities of countries like Japan and China, students have better knowledge of the culture than the monks who keep worshiping. I would like to promote knowledge of Indian culture in the universities here,” His Holiness said.He continued, “Love and compassion are the only things that a human being should develop to become a good individual. The ultimate source of happiness is inner strength and self-confidence…knowledge in the brain and experience in the heart should come together.” Speaking on the occasion, chief minister Raman Singh said, “Nagarjuna is remembered for the Ayurveda and as a Medicinal Buddha. We are lucky that Chhattisgarh has the remains of Nagarjuna.” Vice-chancellor of Central University for Tibetan studies NgawangSamten and vice-chancellor of Ravishankar Shukla University, SK Pandey, also spoke during the philosophy seminar.Tibetan spiritual leader also visited the ancient Buddhist site of Sirpur and meditated at the historic ‘Chaanda Devi’ caves where Ancient Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna is supposed to have meditated centuries ago. Located at the sprawling Singhadhruva terrain, Chaanda Devi caves is about 25 km away from Sirpur town in Mahasamund district, on the banks of the Mahanadi River.“This place is full of natural beauty. My guru Nagarjuna

meditated here and I felt his presence here today. It was very peaceful,” his Holiness told reporters in Sirpur.The 78-year-old Nobel Peace laureate climbed about 100

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Tibetan held over His Holiness’ photos

His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the National Seminar on the Philosophy of Nagarjuna at Pt. Ravishankar Shulkla University in Raipur, Chattisgarh on January 14, 2014. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

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US envoy calls for dialogue on Tibet

Dharamshala: - Max Baucus, Nominee as US Envoy to Beijing calls for dialogue between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet or his representatives, without precondition.US senator Max Baucus, nominated as Washington’s next ambassador to China, said he would counsel the Chinese leadership to restart dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama without any preconditions to reduce the growing instability in Tibet.In his testimony before the senate foreign relations committee on 28 January 2014, he said “I will call on Chinese authorities to allow an independent civil society to play a role in resolving societal challenges; take steps to reduce tensions and promote long – term stability in Tibet and Xinjiang; and restart substantive talks with the Dalai Lama or his representatives, without precondition.”

By Yeshe Choesang: 30 January 2014

China completes nomad project in TibetBy Jake Thomas: 30 January 2014.

Dharamshala, Januanry 26, 2014 – China has moved 2.3 million nomads in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) into fixed urban settlement homes, completing a highly controversial project it launched in 2006.A report by voanews on 24 January said that the government website, while reporting the completion of the TAR project, added that under Qinghai province’s five-year plan, 90 percent of the nomads living there would have been relocated similarly by the end of this year.In their tightly spaced urban settlements, China is encouraging the former nomadic herders to join livestock “cooperatives”, the report added, Jan 24, citing the official Tibet TV website. These cooperatives are said to be run by the government which would not allow Tibetans to use their land for grazing purposes.The report cited Chinese environmental activist and journalist Wang Yongchen as saying her group, Green Earth Volunteers, was going to raise concerns over the forced resettlement of Tibet’s nomads with government officials in Beijing, as well as express its belief that Tibetan nomads’ traditional lifestyle helps preserve the environment. Green Earth Volunteers have been researching environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau and had found that nomadic culture had sustained the area’s environment, not destroyed it as claimed by the Chinese government.

Wildfire Threatens Tibetan Town in Nyagchukha

By Jake Thomas, 28 January 2014

Dharamshala: - A forest fire burning out of control near Ngagchukha County eastern Tibet appears set to spread to a monastery and the main town of a Tibetan-populated county, following the near-total destruction of the center of another Tibetan town in a neighboring province two weeks ago, sources say.

China detains Hundreds of Tibetans in Chamdho County, Eastern Tibet

By Jake Thomas, 26 January 2014

Dharamshala: - Chinese authorities have cracked down on a grassroots Tibetan unity campaign in Chamdho county of eastern Tibet, arresting hundreds of local Tibetans found wearing special armbands or carrying photos of a senior religious figure backed by exiled spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, sources said.The crackdown further tightens controls over local Tibetans in Chamdho County (Chinese: Changdu prefecture, the Tibet Autonomous Region) where the Chinese authorities have launched what some sources call an intrusive campaign to identify and monitor the political views of villagers.The detentions were triggered when police stopped three Tibetan truck drivers transporting firewood at about 2:00 a.m. on January 2 in Chamdho’s Karma town, a local source told RFA this week.“The three were found to be wearing ‘unity’ armbands and in possession of photos of the Panchen Lama, and were detained,” Tsewang currently living in exile said, citing sources in the region.

Wildefire in Orongshi town, Nyagchukha County. Photo: TPI

Chamdho: Villages and Monasteries are Covered in Five-Starred Red Flags: Photo” TPI/Woeser

List of self-immolation protests in Tibet

China jails Human Rightsactivist outspoken

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Senator Max Baucus, nominated as the next US ambassador to China. Photo: Media File

Two days later, about 50 Chinese police officers in 13 vehicles arrived in Chamdho’s Dhamthok and Tsala villages, he added.“They searched the local residents and detained about 480 Tibetans who were wearing unity armbands and took them to the Karma town center, where they have been held in extremely harsh conditions.”No further information has been received on the condition of those being held, and it is unclear whether any have yet been released.Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser said that Tibetan Villages and Monasteries in Chamdho County of eastern Tibet are covered in Five-Starred Red Flags.Chinese authorities, who routinely suppress public assertions of Tibetan national or cultural identity, have also now banned the “unity” armband, a second Tibetan source further said.“But the Tibetans argue that expressions of ethnic unity are not a crime and are protected by China’s constitution,” source said, adding: “Authorities in Chamdho’s Pashoe county have forbidden monks at a local monastery from using WeChat, a popular application on mobile phones.”

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Dharamshala: - His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Dharamsala today for Guwahati and Shillong in India’s north-eastern states of Assam and Meghalaya respectively. His Holiness will be in Guwahati from 1 – 2 February and Shillong from 3 – 5 February.His Holiness will participate in an inter-faith conclave at Rabindra Bhawan organized by the LBS Publications House on 1 February and will deliver the first LBS Founders’ Commemorative Lecture on ‘A Human Approach to Peace and the Individual’ at Nehru Stadium on 2 February.His Holiness the Dalai Lama will also inaugurate the 5-Day Festival of Tibetan Art & Culture at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra in the afternoon of 2 February.In Shillong, His Holiness will address the 6th Convocation of the Martin Luther Christian University on 3 February.His Holiness will give a one-day teaching to the Buddhist community in Shillong including local Tibetans at the Polo Grounds on 4 February.His Holiness will participate in an inter-faith event at the State Central Library on the final day of his visit to Shillong.

His Holiness leaves for Guwahati and Shillong

By Tibet Net: 30 January 2014

His Holiness the Dalai Lama en route to Gaggal airport from his official residence in Mcleod Ganj, 30 January 2014. Photo: CTA/DIIR

Dharamshala: - Chinese police have detained a young Tibetan man and tortured him in custody after finding photos and audio recordings of speeches by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his mobile phone, according to sources.Norgyay, a day laborer from Dingri county in the Tibet’s Shigatse was seized in the region’s capital Lhasa on January 14 during a random police check on the stored content of mobile phones carried by Tibetans, RFA reported.“Police found audio teachings and pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his mobile handset, and he was detained,” the source said, adding that “the audio was of teachings given recently by His Holiness in South India.”Norgyay, who had shared his photos and recording with others, then vanished until Jan. 22, when it was learned he was being held at a detention center near Lhasa’s Ramoche neighborhood, where he had been taken into custody, the source said. He was tortured in detention, another source said, also citing local sources. “Chinese police warned him to sever all connections with outside contacts.”

By Jane Cook, 29 January 2014

Chinese security forces in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Photo: Medi File

TPI NEWS The Tibet Post International2 31 January 2014 OPINION

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Dharamshala: - Should the United Nations and the international human rights watch community stand idle and allow China to kidnap children? Without reaction and pressure from the international community, China has done just that. At 6 years old, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, was kidnapped, becoming the world’s youngest political prisoner and remaining in their custody to this day. As the Panchen Lama will turns 25 this year, having lived 19 years imprisoned, international human rights officials remain silent and complicit. China’s persistent human rights violations would not be possible without the complicity or support of the international community, despite for which the United Nations claims to stand. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” Surely children kidnapped and held as political prisoners throughout their youth fall within such a category as “members of the human family.”As a result of China’s occupation and colonization of Tibet, the Tibetan people have faced systematic discrimination and increased violations of their right to life, their right to housing and property, their right not to be subjected to torture or cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, their right to free movement, their right to return to their homeland, and their right to an effective judicial remedy--all rights constituted by Chinese constitutional law. As long as China is granted the ability to act as a state above international law and the UDHR, human rights violations will continue for not just Tibetans but also for anyone within China and Chinese-occupied regions. Also remaining unacknowledged by the interantional human rights community is the series of devestating fires at historical and cultural

Tibetan sites, including the main prayer hall of the Lithang monastery, the ancient Tibetan town of Gyalthang, and the Larung Gar Buddhist institute. The profound historic and cultural loss felt by Tibetans in the wake of these fires has been ignored and the questions as to who is responsible left unanswered; these tragedies demand the close inspection of an international and independent human rights investigation. That the recent fires occurred without authorities taking all facts into account has caused Tibetans to feel more suspicious, distrustful, and concerned for the wellbeing of their culture and identity, especially taking into account similar reports of an “urban renewal drive by the Chinese government, which saw dozens of old structures dismantled through fake accidents.”This year, International Human Rights Day widely claimed that its focus on non-discrimination, a right enshrined in, most prominently, Article 1 of the UDHR: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” However, 61 years after the adoption of the UDHR, China continues to pursue discriminatory policies and practices, and the violation of Tibetans’ human rights have escalated.According to recent reports, many of the 2.3 million Tibetan nomads are forced into resettlement camps due to extensive and ecologically exploitative mining operations. Merely because they are Tibetans, they are treated like cattle, captured, taken prisoner, and tortured in their own homeland. Their children are forced to grow up in strange lands, the objects of contempt and hostility as the most distinguished characteristics of Tibetan culture and national identity are attacked in Chinese media. The series of self-immolation protests are proof of the sufferings of the people in Tibet. Families still await their loved ones’ appeals to be heard by peace-loving governments and people around the world so that we can stop oppression in Tibet. Your voice restores the faith, inner strength, and courage of Tibetan people.China’s goal is to make Tibet disappear from the world; the worl--in its complicity and its silence--is helping them to reach it. The international community must make tangible efforts to combat impunity to and uphold victims’ rights, this includes effective implementation of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s reports.International pressure must also be put on China to respect the integrity of the Tibetan nationality, to end Han colonization in Tibet, to dismantle forced resettlements, and to provide reparations to Tibetan victims. Ultimately, China’s failed policies in Tibet, the root cause of China’s human rights violations, must cease as demanded by international law.

People of Tibet remember 25thanniversary of 10th Panchen Lama’s Death

31 January 2013

By Thubten Samphel, the Huffington Post: 30 January 2014

On 28 January, 25 years ago, the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet died at the age of 51. Popular Tibetan opinion commonly refers to the 14th Dalai Lama and the 10th Panchen Lama as the “sun and moon” of the Tibetan Buddhist firmament. They are the center of Tibet’s Buddhist civilization which draws in its sphere millions of non-Tibetans. The importance of the 10th Panchen Lama to the Tibetan people was that his short life encapsulated the political tragedy and spiritual triumph of Tibet. The challenge Tibetan spiritual leaders grapple with even today is how Tibetan Buddhism can co-exist with a system that brooks no rival in its desire for total dominance.On his part, the Panchen Lama while working within the Chinese communist establishment chose to be its most vocal critic. How he did it is a story of courage, personal tragedy and how Tibet in his view could productively co-exist with modern China without losing its Buddhist soul.For many years after the failed 1959 uprising that forced the Dalai Lama and about 87,000 Tibetans to flee to India, Tibetans took a dim view of the Panchen Lama. In this exodus, almost the entire Tibetan Buddhist church, the Tibetan equivalent of the pope, cardinals, bishops and the clergy relocated in India. The dim view the Tibetans had then of the Panchen Lama was based on the fact that he was the lama who ‘stayed back in Tibet’, implying that he had sided with the Chinese Communist Party.But unknown to the Tibetans outside or those in Tibet, in 1962 the Panchen Lama, 24 years old, presented to

the top Chinese leaders, including Mao Zedong, his 70,000-character petition, a document that constitutes the most detailed and comprehensive Tibetan critique of the nature of Chinese rule in Tibet. Jasper Becker in his book, Hungry Ghosts: China’s Secret Famine, says in this report, “Tibet’s second highest religious leader came close to accusing the Chinese Communist Party of attempted genocide.”In his petition, the Panchen Lama documented the unprecedented famine and starvation that devastated Tibet. He documented the arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of thousands of Tibetans on the slightest suspicion of involvement in the armed uprising. In his report, the Panchen Lama said Tibetan Buddhism, which constituted the foundation of Tibetan culture, was on the verge of extinction because of the irreparable damage done to the monastic education system that continuously refreshed and sustained Tibet’s Buddhist civilization. The Tibetan population was decimated. The Panchen Lama said the Tibetan language struggled to survive or stay relevant within a Chinese-language dominated education system.Mao Zedong called the Panchen Lama’s petition “a poisoned arrow” shot at the Chinese Communist Party by “Tibet’s feudal lords.” The Great Helmsman condemned the Tibetan spiritual leader as “a class enemy.” The young lama was publicly denounced, subjected to severe struggle sessions. He spent 14 years in prison.But the Tibetan leader wasn’t done as yet. During 14 years of his disappearance, many in Tibet did not know whether he was alive or dead. This doubt was cleared up when on 26 February 1978, Xinhua, the official news agency, announced his presence at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. In 1980, the Panchen Lama was reinstated as Vice-Chairman of the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament.The years of public humiliation and solitary confinement had not dimmed his trenchant views on China’s Tibet policy or sapped his energy. Given the new relative freedom and his political rehabilitation, the Panchen Lama bounced back in the fray. Speaking to a gathering of Tibetans during the Monlam Festival (the Great Prayer Festival) in Lhasa in 1985, the Panchen Lama said, “His Holiness the Dalai Lama and I are spiritual friends. There are no difference between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and me. Some people are trying to create discord between us. This will not succeed.”On 9 January 1989 the Panchen Lama visited Shigatse, Tibet’s second largest town and the traditional parish of the Panchen Lamas, to consecrate the newly-renovated mausoleums from the Fifth to the Ninth Panchen Lamas at his main monastery of Tashi Lhunpo. On 24 January in his address to the monks of his monastery and the people of Shigatse, the Panchen Lama said that the Chinese rule in Tibet had brought more destruction than benefit to the

Thubten Samphel is the director of Tibet Policy Institute, a research centre of the Central Tibetan Administration based in

Dharamsala, India.

Tibet’s Panchen Lama: 25 Years After Tibetan people.The Panchen Lama survived his 70,000 character petition. But this his last judgment on Chinese rule in Tibet cost the Panchen Lama his life. On 28 January, five days after delivering this blistering criticism of Chinese rule, the Panchen Lama was found dead at his monastery. His death followed the drama of two Panchen Lamas, one recognised by the Dalai Lama and another appointed by Beijing. This story is told in riveting detail in Isabel Hilton’s The Search for the Panchen Lama.In May 1995, the Dalai Lama recognised a six-year- old boy in Tibet, Gedun Chokyi Nyima, as the authentic reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama. China bundled off the boy and his family to Beijing. Till now no one knows where Tibet’s real Panchen Lama is, the state of his mental and physical health or that of his education. In November that year, Beijing appointed Gyaltsen Norbu, another six-year-old boy as its Panchen Lama. He too lives in Beijing because the monks of his monastery, Tashi Lhunpo, are too hostile to Beijing’s candidate to allow him to reside and study within the compound of his own monastery. Beijing’s grooming of its Panchen Lama is aimed at snatching the ultimate prize: controlling the recognition of the 15th Dalai Lama. Whether Gyaltsen Norbu will allow himself as a pawn in such a blatant manipulation of his spiritual weight will test his character and loyalty to his spiritual heritage in the years to come.But the greatest legacy of the 10th Panchen Lama could be the piece of advice he gave Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, a charismatic Buddhist leader, who was keen to revive Tibetan Buddhism in the relative freedom and liberalisation of Deng’s China. He wanted to establish a monastery in Tibet which taught the spiritual teachings of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Panchen Lama encouraged Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok in this initiative, but the Panchen said to circumvent the party’s ban on new monasteries, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok should call his school a “hermitage.”Khenpo Jigme Phuntso set up the Serthar Buddhist Academy in 1980 in Larung Valley in the predominantly ethnic Tibetan area of Kandze in Sichuan province. Soon the academy attracted students not only from all over Tibet but from Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the mainland itself. By 2001, when a nervous provincial authorities in Chengdu, forced the demolition of residences of monks and nuns and expulsion of all who did not belong locally, the academy had attracted 10,000 students, about 1000 of them from mainland Chinese.Serthar Buddhist Academy survived the destruction. Now it has a greater number of student body and more mainland Chinese students. This perhaps is the late Panchen Lama’s legacy and a triumph of sorts of spiritual Tibet over material China.

The 11th Panchen Gendun Choekyi Nyima, Tibetan boy kidnapped by China at age 6 will turns 25 this year, the world remains silent!

“Real politik” (Epoch of forbearance)Dharamshala: - The history of Tibet, broiled in tumultuous times of usurpation, coup after coup. The glory of Ubuntu, with Utopian principles would have never been called, if we didn’t came into refuge in India. The Shangri-La was never there in past, but seeing a Tibetan everywhere in corner of the land, it will provide some shadow of what Shangri-La means to us, as being born a refugee, Shangri-La to me is not a land, where lamas walks with their feet inch above ground but Tibetan-shepherds sauntering freely in wild pastures, singing their folklore’s. On 18th April 1959,Soon after His Holiness 14th Dalai lama arrival at Tezpur, India, he declared the 17-point agreement was signed in duress, would be considered null and void. Since from that day, he had strived for the restoration of Tibet’s independence. Tibet became open to the world, and it’s Diaspora become a global geo-political discourse among the intellectuals and observers alike. One may, find good base of foreign supporters towards the Tibet and the displaced Tibetan people around the world, but to point out a one core reason over their sympathy to the cause is very divergent, as are the views of the contending claims by the PRC and Tibetan counter parts. More than 50 years of struggle, issue has been equally debated and written about it, but it all turn out to be a “waiting game”. To which His Holiness, marks his words “I believe that we must focus talks with China on the future. We each have our own interpretations of history. We should not force our interpretations on others. We should leave history to historians, not to the politicians.’’ Now with the advent of ramifications, of the aftermath of His holiness 14th Dalai Lama, Renunciation of the temporal political authority to Sikyong and emergence of the new leadership at Communist Party of china, thus marks a new political imbroglio. Particularly in 1979, Den Xiaoping proposal “except independence, all other issues can be resolved through negotiations” until then, the central Tibetan administration and the Tibetan adopted a policy of seeking

independence for Tibet. A official resolution is adopted unanimously by the 4th session of the 12th Assembly of Tibetan people’s deputies on 18th September 1997, “Whatever decisions His Holiness the Dalai lama takes, from time to time by using his wisdom, will be regarded by all the Tibetan people as no different from having the force of a decision made through referendum.” A series of negotiations and discussions held with PRC counterparts, four fact finding delegation from the exile Tibetan government left for Tibet in between 1979 to 2008. March 2007, at a house of foreign affairs committee hearing, Mr. Gyari focused on the status of the dialogue stating that “the difference in view points are numerous” but that “each now have a clearer grasp of one another’s divergent perspectives.” he further went on to a point saying that “our dialogue reached the stage where if there is a political will on the both sides, we have an opportunity to finally resolve this issue.” May 2008, then Chinese president and party Secretary Hu Jintao went on to a point saying that “our attitude towards contacts and consultation with the dalai lama is serious.” One would wonder, what could be the solution for the Tibet is. One would wonder what went wrong and who would be the one to restore the freedom in Tibet. Death of Mao would entail liberation for the Tibet, but what happened was not even in his hand too. why has the Dalai lama ignored for 50 years, what about united nations among the numerous resolution being passed but yet most governments do not bother to raise the issue of Tibet at the UN, since 1972, when the PRC took over the seat the UN. We don’t want to be optimist, we want to be realist. And thus what we need is not hope but ‘real politik’. History is witness to the failure of look west policy, more than 50 yrs of struggle is answer to that. Because in the end of the day it doesn’t matter’s how many Tibet sympathizers we have, because they are too small to make any difference in once country’s foreign policy, what matter’s to us are support from the movers and the shakers of this world and unity of our Tibetan

By Londen Phuntsok, 30 January 2014

people. As his holiness says solution lies in the problem. Problem came from China, thus answer should come from them. Now, is the time to look east.Bottom line, yes non-action is not logical conclusion to any problem, but actions which serve no good for us, we don’t want it. what we need is not the archaic principles but need of hour is to formulate ‘’real Politik’’, resumption of peaceful negotiations talks, and as i said PRC looks no different at CTA or any TSG’s, to them they are all elements of Dalai clique. Thus it is imperative for us each and everyone to stay united and work in sync with one goal towards resumption of negotiations with Chinese counterparts.Londen Phuntsok is a poet, blogger, a bohemian & Author of book “The Gossamer of Love” which is a collections of poems and free verses. A third generation Tibetan living in India. Apart from writing & reading literary fictions & poems, loves hiking, travelling, cycling, taking pictures of tawny sunset, swimming. He believes in stronger footing of younger generation to lead the Tibetan diaspora.

Londen PhuntsokThree week Forecast 02 February-01 March: Dharmshala, India Weather Sources: The AccuWeatherSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

The 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, one of the most important spiritual leaders of Tibet. Photo: Media Fiel

TPI NEWSThe Tibet Post International 331 January 2014Exile News

Dharamshala: - The Central Tibetan Administration on Thursday, January 23, 2014 honoured 86-year-old Takna Jigme Sangpo, Tibet’s longest-serving politcal prisoner, describing as the “shining example of Tibetan freedom fighter.”“Personally, having read about the sacrifices made by him with unwavering determination in the Tibetan freedom struggle, I applaud his contribution to the just cause of Tibet. He is a shining example of Tibetan freedom fighter. Through him, I pay my respect to all the former political prisoners and those who are suffering under the Chinese occupation of Tibet,” Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay told Tibetan civil servants on 23 Jauary during a gathering in Dharamshala.The poli t ical leader of the Tibet, Dr Lobsang Sangay Friday launched new book- biography of Takna Jigme Sangpo, written by Ven. Thubten Yarphel and Lachap Jimpa, members of Gu-Chu-Sum movement of Tibet, an NGO of former Tibetan political prisoners based in Dharamshala.“I feel honoured to launch the biography of Takna Jigme Sangpo. Since my time as an activist during my college years in Delhi, I have heard of Takna Jigme Sangpo’s incarceration in Drapchi Prison and drawn inspiration from his heroic activism,” Dr Sangay said at the book release function.“Even from within the prison, Takna Jigme Sangpo has undertaken various political activities. One significant protest was during the visit of Swiss human rights

Dharamshala: Kesang Tenzin Bhutia, serving as the Principal of CST Kalimpong, passed away on January 13, 2014. He was 58. Born on May 5, 1955 in Sakya, Tibet, KesangTenzin Bhutia did his primary schooling from CST Darjeeling and later joined Dr. Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong from where he completed his class XII.According to CTA, he joined St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University in 1972 and obtained his BA and MA degrees in History. Later he also did his B.Ed from Government College of Education, Punjab University, Chandigarh. He started his career in 1982 as a Post Graduate Teacher in History at Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok, Sikkim where he served until 1985. From 1986 to 1992, he served his alma mater, Dr. Graham’s Homes as a History teacher.He jo ined Cent ra l Tibe tan Schools Administration in August 1992 and served as a Principal in CST Mundgod, CST Kalimpong, CST Darjeeling and CST Mussoorie. For his tireless dedication and outstanding contribution towards the education of children, he was honored with the National Award to Teachers for the year 2010.He is survived by his wife Mrs Chungla, and three children Mr. Jigme Dorjee, Dr. Sonam Gyatso and Ms.Tenzin Zompa. The Department of Education, CTA expresses its deep sadness and condolences at the passing of Kesang Tenzin Bhutia.

Sikyong of Tibet launches Takna Jigme Sangpo’s biography

Obituary: Kesang Tenzin Bhutia

By Yeshe Choesang: 24 January 2014

By Jake Thomas: 23 January 2014

officials to Drapchi in 1992, when Takna Jigme Sangpo raised slogans of Tibetan f reedom, before he was subdued by Chinese officials,” Sikyong said.“Takna Jigme Sangpo, the longest serving Tibetan political prisoner, is an enduring example of Tibetan freedom fighter. Through him, I pay my respect to all the former political prisoners and those suffering under the Chinese occupation of Tibet,” Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay said.S i k y o n g D r L o b s a n g S a n g a y a l s o recommended that this book be translated to English and other languages as well, to make Takna Jigme’s sacrifices more relevant to the younger generations.Takna Jigme Sangpo, in his address, spoke about three reasons for releasing his biography. He noted that one of the most significant reasons was His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s speech on the 28th anniversary of Tibetan uprising day.“In that speech, His Holiness has urged older generation of Tibetans to put their experiences in writing. If you don’t record the sacrifices and sufferings, there is a chance that your sacrifices might gradually fade into oblivion,” Takna Jigme Sangpo recalled His Holiness The Dalai Lama as saying in that speech.The political prisoner also noted former Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche and Kalon Dongchung Ngodup for their encouragement to release his biography.“A project in which we have proposed for writing 23 biographies of former political prisoners and today’s biography is the 21st of them. We have exceptional role models like Takna Jigme Sangpo who served his 32-years of horrendous and heartrending imprisonment in distinct prisons with deprivation of civil and political rights and five years in arduous Reform through Labour camps,” said Mr Pasang Tsering, President of Gu-Chu-Sum movement of Tibet.Mr Tsering said that “the charge against him was; “spreading and inciting counter-revolutionary propaganda”, which means a simple thing, demand of freedom and forthright expression of one’s loyalty towards His Holiness the Dalai lama. He is enlisted as the longest serving political prisoner of Tibet and South-East Asia in addition to the title of third longest serving political prisoner of the world.”“He is a man who has seen the invasion, lived under the regime, and studied it closely; and accordingly chose to stand with heavy fist against it. He was drilled with unimaginable pain to break his spirit, his love for a free Tibet yet here he is; standing so strong, holding the same if not more passion for this nation,” he added.The book launch function also attended by Kalon Dongchung Ngodup of the Department of Security, Mr. Jamyang Soepa, member of Tibetan Parliament and members of the Tibetan media in exile.Takna was released from prison in March 2002 after serving 20 years of a 28 year sentence. He had spent the majority of the previous 40 years in prison for political ac t iv i t i es and peacefu l p ro tes t . His sentence was extended after he shouted s logans cal l ing for Tibetan f reedom during a visit to his prison by a Swiss delegation in 1991. His release followed a long international campaign by Tibet organisations and human rights groups. Takna is now 86-year old and is currently living in Switzerland.

AR programs. “The WHO’s recent ‘One Health’ guidelines recommend an integrated approach to human health and animal health. This approach is particularly relevant in rural areas such as Bodhgaya where humans and animals live in close proximity and where animals constitute an important economic asset. Animal wellbeing is, therefore, important for rural households and human health,” it added.Karmapa Office said that “the Kagyupa International Monlam charitable trust was established in 2004 to support annual prayer gatherings for world peace, and to engage in other charitable activities. Over the years, the prayer gathering has grown both in size and scope, with over 10,000 people now traveling to Bodhgaya annually to engage in prayers for world peace. The trust also organizes medical camps and distributes food and blankets annually to the

Rights groups slam China for human rights violations in Tibet

Takna Jigme Sangpo speaks during a press conference at the exhibition hall of Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet, on January 23, 2014 in Dharamshala, India. Photo: TPI/Choneyi Sangpo

By Jame Cook: 20 January 2014

Dharamshala: - The Dharamshala, India based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) on 20 January has released its 2013 Annual Report on the human rights situation in Tibet and ‘Gulags of Tibet’, a special report on Re-education Through Labour (Ch: laojiao) system in the region.According to the report, there are total 896 political prisoners in Tibet and as many as 119 Tibetans who are still being detained, arrested or sentenced in 2013 alone.The Tibetan group said its ‘2013 Annual Report’ focuses on Civil and Political Rights, Religious Repression, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Religious Repression, the China’s development strategy, and self-immolation protests. ‘The theme of the report is the continued implementation of nomad resettlement and relocation policy. Tibetan nomads have been forced from their ancestral lands and resettled/relocated in urban areas, mostly against their wishes and without adequate compensation,’ it added.The newly built urban areas where they are forced to resettle cannot sustain their centuries-old way of life, and compared to Chinese migrant workers, nomads receive less state support in terms of finding employment and other sources of livelihood. It was widely estimated that 90% of all Tibetan nomads in Qinghai Province would be resettled at the end of 2013.“Despite claims to the contrary, the primary reason for the forced relocation of the nomads is to exploit rich mineral resources from the nomadic lands. State-owned mining companies have already begun the massive extraction of precious minerals such as lithium, copper, chrome, gold and oil,” TCHRD said.The report also includes research papers produced in collaboration with human rights s tudents a t the Universi ty of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.“The 2013 Annual Report includes fresh data from Tibet”, the rights group said, adding “this data consists of exclusive interviews and photographs of Tibetans living in Tibet. The interviews are of Tibetans from Amchok (Ch: Amuqu), Labrang (Ch: Xiahe), Rebkong (Ch: Tongren), Chentsa (Ch: Jianzha), Machen (Ch: Dawu), Mangra (Ch: Guinan), and Golok (Ch: Guoluo) concerning self-immolation protests, nomad resettlement, censorship, language rights and land rights.”

TCHRD’s special report, ‘Gulags of Tibet’ examines the history and evolution of RTL, analyzes the current RTL laws, in addition to examining how RTL violates the international prohibitions of arbitrary detention, forced labor, and torture. The group said that the report features interviews with Tibetan RTL survivors who tell their personal stories of being locked up in forced labour camps.’The exiled rights group said that “in late December 2013, China announced the abolition of RTL, a form of arbitrary detention used by the Chinese government for over 50 years to imprison political dissidents and other opponents. The failure of previous reform measures to address the human rights abuses that define RTL creates skepticism as to what the abolition of RTL will actually entail.”For the abolition of RTL to be meaningful it must fully abolish RTL in name and function. ‘Since the Third Plenum various organizations have alleged that the reform will be cosmetic—simply renaming RTL facilities and expanding other forms of arbitrary detention—rather than substantive,’ it added.The PRC has attempted to refute these claims,16 but until transparent action is taken that abolishes RTL skepticism will remain. Abolishing RTL in all its forms requires stopping the human rights abuses, such as arbitrary detention, forced labor, and torture, that are inherent in RTL and affect everyone in the PRC.‘Eight of the 47 countries that hold seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council

imprisoned people in 2013 under laws that restrict religious freedom,’ the Human Rights Without Frontiers International, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Belgium said in a new report released earlier this month.According to the report’s findings from 2013:In China, Protestants, Catholics, Buddhists, Muslims and Falun Gong adherents were arrested for proselytizing, holding illegal gatherings, providing religious education classes and publicizing their persecution.The report designates China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea and South Korea as countries of particular concern for the highest number of religious freedom prisoners. The U.S. State Department’s latest International Religious Freedom Report includes Saudi Arabia on its list of worst offenders.“Human Rights Without Frontiers is alarmed by the evolution of the U.N. Human Rights Council which accepts as members an increasing number of countries perpetrating egregious violations of human rights and, in particular, of religious freedom,” the Human Rights Without Frontiers said in a statement.“Human Rights Without Frontiers is alarmed by the evolution of the U.N. Human Rights Council which accepts as members an increasing number of countries perpetrating egregious violations of human rights and, in particular, of religious freedom,” the group said in a statement.The UNHRC replaced the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in 2006, in part “to redress (the Commission’s) shortcoming,” which included granting membership to countries with poor human rights records. The resolution establishing the revamped UNHRC declares that member states “shall uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights. But that’s not happening,” said Willy Fautre, director of HRWF.Articles 18 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the U.N. General Assembly adopted in 1948, explicitly protect freedom of thought, conscience, religion, opinion and expression.The U.N. General Assembly has the power to suspend the rights of UNHRC members that commit serious human rights violations. Libya became the first and only country to be suspended from the council in 2011 amid the Gaddafi regime’s brutal suppression of protesters.Download the reports by clicking here: 2013 Annual Report on Tibet and Special Report on Re-education Through Labor.

underprivileged.”The press release also stated that “the animal health project will be formally inaugurated on 24th January 2014, at 11 a.m. at the Kagyu Monlam Pavilion, at Tergar Monastery in Bodhgaya. His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorjee, will grace the event along with Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, who heads the ‘People for Animals’ organization that she established in 1992 and which is the largest animal welfare organization in India. “The Kagyupa International Monlam Trust’s medical camp for animals will take place from 22nd January 2013 to 2nd February 2014 with funding support from Brigitte Bardot Foundation and technical support from Sikkim Anti-Rabies Animal Health Division, Government of Sikkim and Tibet Charity Animal Care Centre and Dharamshala Animal Rescue organization.

Bodhgaya, 22 January, 2014: - The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorjee has launched Animal Health Care Programme with Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi as Chief Guest, in Bodhgaya, Bihar State of India.“For Buddhists, especially Mahayana practitioners, one of our greatest aims is to actually benefit sentient beings. It is important for us to serve and benefit all sentient beings of all groups without bias, without discriminating against who needs help on the basis of whether they are Buddhist or not, whether they are human or not, whether they are the same nationality or not, and so forth,” Karmapa Rinpoche said.For that reason, the Karmapa said, he “hopes and pray that in the future the Kagyu Monlam will do more programs to help the public.”“Following its successful medical camp for the needy held in Bodhgaya, Bihar, the Kagyupa International Monlam Trust is now opening an animal medical camp, as part of the health support offered to the local community,” Karmapa Office of Administration said in press statement released on Friday, adding: “The Karmapa Rinpoche will formally inaugurate the animal camp on 24th January 2014, with Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi as chief guest. Member of Parliament Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi is well-known for her deep commitment to animal rights and animal protection.”“Inspired by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, the Kagyupa International Monlam Trust has committed to a multi-year animal health-care project, involving annual camps for treatment of all animals, sterilization of dogs and anti-rabies vaccination. With a nationwide street dog population estimated at 35 million dogs and 20,000 human deaths per year from rabies transmitted by dog bites, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommends dog Animal Birth Control and Anti Rabies programs (ABC-AR) to control rabies in people,” the Karmapa Office of Administration told The Tibet Post International.According to the press release, the animal health camp is being initiated this year in support of the Government of India’s active promotion of ABC-

The 17th Karmapa inaugurates Medical Camp for animals in Bodhgaya By Yeshe Choesang: 24 January 2014

The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Inaugurating a medical camp at Siddhartha Vihara, Bodhgaya, Bihar State of India, on January 6, 2014. Photo: TPI

TCHRD annual report 2013, Human Rights situation in Tibet.

Mr K.T Bhutia (1955 – 2014). Photo: CTA/DIIR

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Dharamshala: - Beginning on 28 January the Intergovernmental Expert Group on the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners will meet for four days in Brasilia, Brazil. The United Nations General Assembly created the Expert Group to update the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR), which was drafted in the 1950s. The SMR is a set of rules that outline good principles and practices for the treatment of prisoners and management of prison facilities, although it allows for variation depending on legal, social, economic, and geographic conditions. The document is not legally binding but it has been widely accepted and helped shaped many States’ national legislation, including those of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).The original SMR prohibited the use of physical punishments and all forms of cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. At the meeting in Brazil, the Expert Group will consider proposed changes

to the SMR that will increase transparency in prisons. The proposed revisions require any prisoner deaths during detention or soon thereafter to be investigated by an impartial body in an effort to ensure that the deaths were not caused by prison officials.In the People’s Republic of China, reports often surface of prisoners subjected to physical punishments, torture, and other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. When Geshe Sonam Phuntsok was sent to prison for initiating a life-long prayer offering for the Dalai Lama, he was a healthy 48 year-old monk. Unfortunately, when his family visited him in prison, the monk had lost weight, was semiconscious, and was unable to move properly. He was immediately hospitalized upon his release five years later. Mr Phuntsok’s treatment in prison left his body broken and he died less than three and a half years after regaining his freedom.Indeed, the PRC has adopted of ten this practice of releasing prisoners so they do not die in prison. In 2008, Dawa, a 31 year-old

UN body must consider deaths caused by detention in Tibet

By Cameron Hickert: 27 January 2014

A 2001 photo of Geshe Ngawang Jamyang who died in police custody less than a month after his arrest in December 2013. Photo: TCHRD

farmer from Dedrong Village, was severely tortured during his 12 days in detention. He was released in critical condition and immediately hospitalized. After four days, Dawa died. The PRC responded to his death by fining his family 1,000 yuan (US$125).Despite these incidents, the PRC’s conduct has not changed noticeably in recent years. Ngawang Jamyang died after less than a month in detention. Like Mr Phuntsok and Dawa, Mr Jamyang was strong and healthy when he was arrested. When his body was returned to his family it was clear he was beaten to death. Rather than investigate the death, the police threatened the deceased’s family that they would “meet the same fate” if they spoke about their lost member.The proposed new revision to the SMR would require an impartial investigation to determine whether the deaths during or shortly after detention were a result of mistreatment in detention. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that 87 prisoners were tortured and died either in detention or shortly after their release between 1987 and early 2005. As the case of Dawa illustrates, the PRC has attempted to prevent deaths in prisons not by following the guidance of the SMR and improving the treatment of prisoners, but by releasing prisoners so they can die outside of the prison.The PRC opposes to requiring investigations of deaths that occur shortly after a prisoner is released. Including such a requirement would require the PRC to explicitly refuse to follow the rules or require the PRC to investigate the widespread mistreatment of prisoners that it refuses to acknowledge and attempts to hide from the world.TCHRD has commended the Expert Group for proposing rules that recognize and address attempts by prison officials to avoid responsibility for killing prisoners. TCHRD said it urges the Expert Group to adopt the proposed rule, requiring the investigation of deaths in prison or shortly following a prisoner’s release, unchanged.

Dharamshala: - Preserving our history has long been a priority for the Tibetan community, but the experiences of newcomers starting life over in India is one story largely untold until now. Drawing from a blend of personal observations, lively conversations, and research, Pauline MacDonald’s new book Dharamsala Days/Dharamsala Nights breaks the silence by providing a voice for elements of Tibetan society that are often ignored. At times entertaining, at times heartbreaking, Dharamsala Days/Dharamsala Nights offers a much needed fresh perspective on contemporary Tibetan culture.The notorious Salai Gyals, long-haired young men known for escorting white women around McLeod Ganj, are at the center of much of the action. MacDonald (the author’s name and the names of others have been changed for privacy) describes the harsh existence of Salai Gyals as seen from the life she shared with her son, a Tibetan boyfriend and two roommates in difficult conditions, “I bathed from a bucket in the malodorous and filthy toilet, which was visited by enormous spiders and home to strange insects...I washed dishes and did laundry outside in glacial tap water sometimes

Dharamshala: - The Central Tibetan Administration Sunday greeted India on the celebration of its 65th Republic day. Kalon Pema Chhinjor, the stand-in Sikyong, hoisted the Indian National flag at a brief ceremony held today at the Kashag (cabinet) secretariat.According to a report by the CTA offical media, Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay is currently on a visit to Tibetan settlements in north-east India.“I feel proud to celebrate the 65th Republic day of this glorious nation of India. India has been under the British Raj for over 200 years and has achieved independence through the non-violent efforts of its leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel,” Kalon Pema Chhinjor said.“The non-violent struggle of India has been a great inspiration for freedom and democracy all over the world. The Tibetan people too are highly motivated by India’s non-violent resistance to the British rule,” he said.Kalon Pema Chhinjor conveyed his heartfelt gratitude to the government and people of India for hosting the Tibetan exile community for the last more than fifty years. “We are deeply grateful to the generous hospitality and kindness extended to the Tibetan people and our spiritual and most revered leader, His

in winter rain and snow. When it was very cold, my hands would turn red and burn like fire then turn numb. We were the wealthiest among our friends.” She bears witness to the difficult choices and compromises made to sustain daily life, emphasizing not the lurid details of physical encounters, but the deeper encounters with desperation beneath carefully maintained appearances. By telling their stories, she opens a window on the broader experiences shared by many newcomers.Although the depiction of settler Tibetans as unwelcoming and quick to condemn newcomers will be controversial to some, the claims in the book are well supported with research. As a newcomer, many key points hit home with my own experiences. It’s true we are looked down on for not speaking Tibetan language (meaning we speak our native dialects, rather than the exile dialect) and not following Tibetan culture (meaning we follow the cultures we grew up with in our regions of Tibet, rather than the exile culture), and it is true that we are sometimes treated as an inferior second class. The joke when I was in school was that newcomers were easy to spot in summer because our feet, thick from walking, supposed bulged from our sandals.MacDonald’s book is an important contribution to literature about Tibet because it reminds us that, as we fight to preserve Tibetan culture, our culture is also diverse. There is more to Tibetan history and identity than the familiar cliches. We need to remember the whole story, the ugly struggles for survival as well as the inspiring triumphs of spirit. Sometimes, as Dharamsala Days/Dharamsala Nights illustrates, it is exactly in the ugly struggles that the most beautiful moments come through.

Holiness the Dalai Lama, for the last over five decades,” Kalon Pema Chhinjor said.Kalon Dolma Gyari, senior officials of the Central Tibetan Tibetan Administration and staff of Kashag secretariat attended the brief ceremony today to mark India’s 65th Republic Day.India celebrates 26 January as the republic day as the constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950. The Constitution was passed by the Constituent Assembly of India on 26 November 1949 but was adopted on 26 January 1950 with a democratic government system, completing the country’s transition toward becoming an independent republic. India achieved Independence from British rule on 15 August 1947.

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Dharamshala: - A Beijing court on Sunday sentenced a legal scholar and founder of a social movement to four years in jail for disrupting order in public places.Xu Zhiyong also known as one of China’s most prominent human rights activists who openly speak on the issue of Tibet, including self-immolation protest. Chinese authorities accused him of “organising, masterminding and implementing” at least seven protests last year.Amid tight security, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court handed down the verdict against Xu, founder of the loosely knit New Citizens movement, in a blow to the movement and China’s rights activism.Xu and his lawyer, Zhang Qingfang, chose to remain silent throughout most of the trial. At the end, Xu began to read a final statement entitled “In the name of freedom, justice and love,” but the judge cut him short after five minutes. Zhang had planned to call 68 defence witnesses but the court did not allow any of them to testify.Xu told “the court that the last shred of dignity of China’s rule of law was destroyed today,” lawyer Zhang Qingfang said before he was escorted away by police and shoved into a police van.In 2012, Xu travelled to north-east Tibetan town of Barma to investigate the spiralling number of self-immolators in Tibet. A young Tibetan named Nangdrol had set himself on fire near Zamthang monastery earlier that year. Upon returning, he wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled ‘Tibet is Burning’.“I am sorry we Han Chinese have been silent as Nangdrol and his fellow Tibetans are dying for freedom. We are victims ourselves, living in estrangement, infighting, hatred and destruction. We share this land. It’s our shared home, our shared responsibility, our shared dream — and it will be our shared deliverance”, he wrote in the article.Paraphrasing the note left by Nangdrol, Xu calls the current situation in Tibet “scarless torture.” He writes about his fellow passengers on his ride to Nangdrol’s hometown:“Pardon me, but do you hate the Hans?” I asked them because Nangdrol had used the term “Han devils” in his suicide note. ‘They’d heard about Nangdrol. When I told them I was there to visit Nangdrol’s parents to express my sadness, they told me more,’ Xu said.They said they’d been to the site, as hundreds of Tibetans had. People had set up white tents at the intersection where he died. “He is our hero,” one said.It was dark when we arrived in Barma. At a lamppost, one of my fellow passengers asked a man for directions but was waved off. At a crossroads, he asked two men

on motorcycles and an argument broke out. A monk came to the window to examine me.“We are Tibetans,” he said all of a sudden as we left Barma in silence to spend the night in a nearby town. “We are Buddhists, but we can’t go to Lhasa without a permit.” Years ago, you could see many Tibetans on their pilgrimage to Lhasa, but not anymore.“Are you Buddhist followers?” I asked them. One of them showed me a pendant portrait of the Dalai Lama that he pulled out from his chest. “He is our true Holiness,” he said.Xu has been under house arrest since 2009, detained and finally arrested formally on 22 August 2013 on the charges of “assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.”The trials of other members of the New Citizens Movement that Xu founded – Ding Jiaxi, Li Wei, Zhang Baocheng and Yuan Dong – have begun since end of Xu’s trial.As part of the current crackdown and wave of censorship, the well-known blogger and dissident Hu Jia was arrested at his Beijing home on 26 January and was held for several hours on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”“The New Citizens Movement is not going to disappear because of the crackdown,” Hu told Reporters Without Borders. “We are going to continue demonstrating to get Communist Party officials to declare their assets and to obtain the release of our members who have been arrested.”Hu added: “The arrests of members of the New Citizens Movement by the party’s political police constitute violations of civil liberties. Xu Zhiyong and the others are innocent. It is the members of the Communist Party’s judicial apparatus who are guilty.”Earlier this month, the authorities took away Ilham Tohti, a Uighur scholar and outspoken critic of China’s ethnic policies. A police statement accused the university professor of separatism, inciting ethnic hatred and advocating violence to oppose China’s rule over the far west region of Xinjiang, home to the ethnic

Beijing regime sentences legal activist to 4 years in jail By Yeshe Chosang: 29 January 2014

Xu Zhiyong in 2011: One of China’s most prominent human rights activ-ists was taken into custody by police on Tuesday at his home, where he

spent the last three months under house arrest. Photo: Media File

Kalon Pema Chhinjor hoisting the Indian national flag on behalf of Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay at the Kashag secretariat, 26 January 2014.

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minority of Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs.Xu’s verdict drew widespread criticism, with U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki saying in a statement that the U.S. was “deeply disappointed” and that Beijing should release Xu.“We condemn both the harshness of the sentence and the way the trial was conducted,” said Benjamin Ismail, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Asia-Pacific desk.“The judicial authorities flouted many procedural regulations, including those governing the right of defence. This legal farce was deplorable and confirms that the government has no time for international conventions. We call for Xu’s immediate release,” the Reporters Without Borders added.Amnesty International called the imprisonment a travesty and Human Rights Watch said convicting Xu “makes a mockery” of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s crusade against corruption.The International Tibet Network, a global coalition of about 190 Tibet campaign groups, on Jan 21 expressed serious concern about Xu’s trial. “Xu Zhiyong is a compassionate, courageous human rights defender, who has the respect and appreciation of Tibetans and supporters for his writings on Tibet,” said Tenzin Jigdal, the coalition’s International Coordinator.European diplomats also called on Chinese authorities to release Xu immediately. Raphael Droszewski, first secretary of the European Union delegation to China, said the case has “heightened our concern at the situation being faced by a number of Chinese human rights defenders who have been prosecuted in relation to peaceful action against corruption and public advocacy of the law, transparency and social justice.”Xu Zhiyong, 40, a lawyer and human rights advocate, is a founder of Gongmeng, the Open Constitution Initiative founded in May 2012 to push for social equality and a fair legal system.The nonprofit campaigned for migrants’ children, homeowners forced from their residences, and death-row inmates, and sought legal redress for parents whose babies had been poisoned by melamine-tainted milk. The nonprofit also produced an independent assessment of the cause of mass protests in Tibet in 2008.In 2009, the organisation published a 22 page report suggested that a new aristocracy has seized control in the Tibetan region and these rulers in Tibet are funded by Beijing in return for absolute loyalty. To cover their shortcomings, and retain their total authority, they had spread propaganda blaming His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The report said that the failed Chinese government policies in Tibet was the cause of the mass protests in Lhasa and other Tibetan regions in 2008. The Chinese authority had blamed His Holiness the Dalai Lama for instigating the protests.

TPI NEWS 531 January 2014The Tibet Post International SELF-IMMOLATION

Since 2009, a verified total of 124 Tibetans self-immolated in Tibet to protest against China’s repressive policy, of them 107 of them reportedly passed-away due to burn injuries

Since 1998, seven Tibetans self-immolated in exile, India and Nepal to protest against Beijing’s repressive policy, four of them passed-away

Since February 2009, 124 Tibetans in Tibet, including 1 in 2009, 12 in 2011, 86 in 2012 and 26 in 2013 are verified to have set themselves on fire inside Tibet in protest against the repressive Chinese failed policies and occupation of Tibet.

The self-immolation protests underline that the current crisis in Tibet represents a fundamental rejection of China’s failed policy and rule in Tibet.

All self-immolators have called for freedom for Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In spite of China’s use of violence, torture, executions, arrests and disappearances, Tibetan struggle has remained staunchly nonviolent.

Self-immolation protests in Tibet

Dharamshala, 22, Jan 2014: Tibetan singer and songwriter Techung is releasing his newest music video: Shiwai Gangseng - Snow Lion of Peace. The video is a collaboration with Tibetan and international video artists and musicians. It was shot in Dharamshala, India, and is now available online.Techung’s well-known song is a tribute to all the great spiritual masters of Tibet and their message of peace and non-violence. The song conveys a sense of pride and hope in the Tibetans’ ongoing freedom struggle; the video reflects the stunning beauty of Dharamshala’s majestic landscapes.The music video was shot and produced during Techung’s current visit to Dharamshala, where he participated in the Banned expressions Human Rights Day concert, alongside famous Indian rock band Parikrama and local Tibetan musicians.Shiwai Gangseng - Snow Lion of Peace is featured on Techung’s album Yarlung - Tibetan

By Jake Thomas, 26 January 2014

Tibetan singer/songwriter Techung. Photo: TPI

Songs of Love and Freedom. He has performed it on numerous occasions, internationally, throughout North America, in Russia, Malaysia, Costa Rica, etc.Trained at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Techung later moved to the USA and continued his musical career. While preserving traditional Tibetan music, he has, throughout different projects, also explored contemporary music, in a unique fusion of world music.Techung has participated in all the Tibetan Freedom Concert series, alongside Beastie Boys, U2, REM and others. Techung and his band regularly appear with Philip Glass, Patti Smith and others at the annual Tibetan New Year concerts at Carnegie Hall.Techung grew up in Dharamshala, India, where his family and tens of thousands of other Tibetans resettled from their native Tibet. At the age of 9 he was enrolled in the newly formed Tibetan Dance and Drama School now known as the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA).In his 17 years of residency at the Institute, he studied all aspects of the Tibetan performing

arts folk, court, and opera - through the oral teaching tradition used by the venerated Tibetan elders with whom he was honored to study. He toured with TIPA in its first international tour as a leading child actor in 1975-76 and for many years afterwards. After emigrating to the U.S., he co-founded the San Francisco-based Chaksampa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company in 1989.From 1995-97 Techung worked for the Milarepa Fund in San Francisco who organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts world wide.

Tibetan Singer releases new music video: Snow Lion of PeaceHealth Kalon visits Delhi, Sonepat, Noida, Gujurat and Udaipur

Dharamshala: - Health Kalon Dr Tsering Wangchuk is currently on a visit to Delhi, Sonepat, Noida, Gujurat and Udaipur from 25 January to 5 February 2014 to boost awareness and enrollment for the Tibetan Medicare System.He launched a campaign to create more awareness about the Tibetan Medicare System (TMS) in Sonepat and Noida on 27 January. He also met the president of the Tibetan Relief Fund on 28 January.From 29 to 30 January, he will be in Delhi and Ahmedabad for the TMS awareness and enrollment

campaign. He will meet Dr. Nishant Jain, Deputy Programme Director in Delhi to discuss the Tibetan Medicare program.From 31 January to 2 February, Kalon Tsering Wangchuk will visit Anand, Baroda and Udaipur. He will talk about the Tibetan Medicare System and HIV/AIDS. He will also interact with Tibetan college students in Baroda.From 3 – 5 February, Health Kalon will visit Dholanji Tibetan settlement. This is his first official visit to Dholanji settlement. He will raise awareness about the Tibetan Medicare System(TMS) and talk to the local Tibetan people about HIV/AIDS and other health risks.

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Inter-Faith Conclave in Guwahati, Assam, India on February 1: His Holiness will participate in an inter-faith conclave in the afternoon at Rabindra Bhawan organized by the LBS Publications House.Public Talk in Guwahati, Assam, India on February 2: His Holiness will deliver the First LBS Founders’ Commemorative Lecture on A Human Approach to Peace and the Individual at Nehru Stadium in the morning. Contact Email: [email protected] in Guwahati, Assam, India on February 2: His Holiness will inaugurate the 5-Day Festival of Tibetan Art & Culture in the afternoon at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra.Address in Shillong, Meghalaya, India on February 3: His Holiness will address the 6th Convocation of the Martin Luther Christian University in the afternoon.Teaching in Shillong, Meghalaya, India on February 4: His Holiness will give a one day teaching to the Buddhist community on the grounds next to the Tibetan Monastery.Inter-Faith Event in Shillong, Meghalaya, India on February 5: His Holiness will participate in an inter-faith event in the afternoon at the State Central Library.Public Talk in San Francisco, California, USA on February 22: His Holiness will give a public talk in the afternoon at Davies Symphony Hall. Contact Website: www.himalayan-foundation.orgPublic Talk in Berkeley, California, USA on February 23: His Holiness will give a public talk on How To Achieve Happiness in the morning at the Berkeley Community Theater. Contact Website: www.tanc.orgDialogue in Santa Clara, California, USA on February 24: His Holiness will participate in a dialogue on the theme of Compassion and Business at Santa Clara University organized by CCARE and Santa Clara University. Public Talk in Los Angeles, California, USA on February 25: His Holiness will give a public talk on Non-Violence and the Effects of Compassion in the 21st Century in the afternoon at Staples Center organized by The Lourdes Foundation.

ARIES(Mar. 21- April 20)Be careful disclosing information. Strength will come from your ability to overtake just about any one. Get friends to help you with the preparations. You have to know what your boss wants if you expect to do your job correctly.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday.

TAURUS(Apr. 21- may 21)Finish off old projects before starting something new. Don’t let emotional upset force you into the poorhouse. Children may be demanding, and entertainment could cost a lot more than you can really afford. There could be disappointment regarding investments.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

GEMINI(May 22-June 21)Reevaluate your position and make decisions about your future goals. Your suggestions for fund raising events will be well received. When the work is done, they may serve you for a change. Seminars will provide you with knowledge and amusement.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

CANCER(June 22-July 22)You may have a problem keeping secrets. Your dynamic, determined approach will win favors as well as a helping hand. Include the whole family or those you love. Some of the best opportunities will crop up if you keep an open mind.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

LEO(July 23-Aug 22)Problems with colleagues are likely. Relatives may play an important role in your personal life. Family trips or projects should be on your mind. Spend some time with the one you love. Pleasure trips will be satisfying.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

VIRGO(Aug. 23 -Sept. 23)Channel your energy into projects that will enhance your home. Pleasure trips will be most enjoyable and should lead to new and lasting friendships. Social evenings at your place will be highly successful. Curb the impulse to make lavish purchases and maybe spend some time with good friends.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday.

LIBRA(Sept. 24 -Oct. 23)You must not let others talk you into doing things that will probably limit you financially at a later date. You can come into money; however, perhaps not under the best circumstances. Don’t get depressed, get busy. You can accomplish a lot if you’re willing to put in a little extra time. Don’t let your partner start any arguments. Passion should be redirected positively.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.

SCORPIO(Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)Put your efforts into job advancement. Put your efforts into job advancement. Be prepared to take advantage of your good fortune. Take a close look at any contracts you’ve signed in order to be sure exactly where you stand.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 23 -Dec. 21)Look after financial transactions this month. Stay away from social unpleasantness. Make any decisions you have to in order to avoid feeling unsettled. Don’t let your partner start any arguments. Passion should be redirected positively.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

CAPRICORN(Dec 22.- Jan. 20)Try not to be overly generous. You’d be wise to control your spending so your debts don’t get out of hand. Tone down and put some of that hard earned cash into a safe, long-term investment. Seminars will provide you with knowledge and amusement.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

AQUARIUS(Jan. 21 -Feb. 19)Problems with your boss co0.uld lead to unemployment. You must not allow them to force you to rush. Your lover may disappoint you in such a way that estrangement will follow. Go out shopping this month.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.

PISCES(Feb. 20-Mar. 20)Your diplomatic approach and rather outgoing nature will enhance your reputation and bring you the support you need. Try to spend time with those having similar interests. Find out more, if you want to start your own business. Emotional relationships will be plentiful if you attend group activities.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

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TPI NEWSThe Tibet Post International 7International 31 January 2014

Tibet Film “Leaving Fear Behind’ screened at the EP in Brussels

Brussels: - Lithuanian MEP Mr. Leonidas Donskis organized an event in the European Parliament to screen Dhondup Wangchen’s documentary film ‘Leaving Fear Behind’ on 21 January.The screening was attended by MEPs, assistants to MEPs, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Brussels, representatives from NGOs, representatives of ICT and executive members of the Tibetan community in Belgium.At the screening, Kate Saunders, Tibetan activist, former political prisoner Ms. Gyaltsen Dolkar and a couple of local Tibetan residents belonging to Driru county were invited to speak.Mr. Donskis, in his opening remarks, welcomed the speakers and the invitees to the film screening. He remarked that the purpose of organizing the event was to draw attention of the European Union to the plight of the Tibetan people and to reiterate his and his fellow MEPs commitment to continuously work for the cause

of Tibet’s freedom and dignity of its people.According to the Office Of Tibet, Brussels, he urged the European Union not to compromise on its fundamental ideals of freedom, democracy, justice and equality in the face of its strategic partnership with China.After screening of the film, Ms. Kate Saunders spoke on the background of the film and how Mr. Wangchen took great risk in showing the true aspirations and sufferings of the Tibetan people inside Tibet.Ms. Gyaltsen Dolkar shared her ordeal of 12 years in a Chinese prison for raising her voice for the freedom of Tibet and its people.Mr. Kalsang Chodak, a Belgium based Tibetan from Driru county, gave a brief update on the situation in Driru county and its adjoining areas. He also distributed documents updating recent incidents of arrests, beatings and deaths of Tibetans in captivity in Driru county.Mr. Donskis thanked the participants for their participation and expressed his satisfaction in successfully organizing the event.

By Yeshe Choesang: 23 January 2014

‘Leaving Fear Behind’ being screened at the European Parliament, 21 January 2014. Photo: Office of Tibet, Brussels

By Jane Cook: 30 January 2014

Wildfire in Nyagchukha......continued from Front-Page......

The cause of the fire, which began on Jan. 25 in a hilly area of Nyagchukha (Chinese: Yajiang county in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, western China’s Sichuan province), is still unknown, a sources told TPI News on 26 January.“But the fire was still burning on Jan. 26,” Ven Apen, a monk living in exile said, citing sources in the region.“If the fire is not brought under control soon, it may spread to the Nyagchukha county seat and to a small monastery located on the side of a mountain called Phakmo Hill,” he added.Nyagchukha, one of 18 counties under Karze prefecture, is famous as the home of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a popular and well-respected Tibetan religious leader jailed by China since 2002 on bombing charges widely believed to have been contrived.

By Yeshe Choesang: 23 January 2014

Dharamshala: - A new world report released by the York-based Human Rights Watch raises strong concern about the human rights situation in Tibet and China, accused the regime of failing to embark upon political reforms which meet the people’s demands for real change.The Chinese government systematically suppresses Tibetan political, cultural, religious and socio-economic rights in the name of combating what it sees as separatist sentiment including non-violent advocacy for Tibetan independence, the Dalai Lama’s return, or opposition to government policy, the report said.“The Chinese Communist Party reinforced its monopoly on power in 2013 through tough new measures and hardline rhetoric, dashing hopes that the country’s new leadership would engage in deep systemic reforms to improve human rights and strengthen the rule of law,” this year’s Report says.“Arbitrary arrest and imprisonment remains common, and torture and ill-treatment in detention is endemic. Fair trials are precluded by politicised judiciary overtly tasked with suppressing separatism,” it said.“The Chinese government carries out involuntary population relocation and rehousing on a massive scale, and enforces highly repressive policies in ethnic minority areas in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia,” Human Rights Watch said in its report.The report condemned the Chinese police firing on unarmed Tibetans who had gathered to celebrate the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 6 July in Nyitso, Dawu Prefecture. Two people were reported to have died and several others injured in the firing.“In an apparent effort to prevent a repetition of the popular protests of 2008, the government in 2013 maintained many of the measures it introduced during its brutal crackdown on the protest movement—a massive security presence composed largely of armed police forces, sharp restrictions on the movements of Tibetans within the Tibetan plateau, increased controls on monasteries, and a ban on foreign journalists in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) unless part of a government-organised tour,’ the annual report says.China comes in for heavy condemnation even though it announced the abolition of the “abusive administration detention system,” known as re-education through labor, relaxed the one-child policy and vowed to improve the delivery of justice.

The regime “also took significant steps to implement a plan to station 20,000 new officials and Party cadres in the TAR, including in every village, to monitor the political views of all residents,” the report said.“The new leadership of [President] Xi Jinping and [Premier] Li Keqiang has yet to embark on fundamental reforms that adequately respond to the public’s increased demands for justice and accountability,” the report says.“The leadership has also embarked on a harsh crackdown on critics, while using hardline rhetoric to make clear they have no intention of liberalizing the political system,” Human Rights Watch Asia director Brad Adams said.According to the report, Beijing censors the press, the Internet, print publications and academic research, and justifies human rights abuses as necessary to preserve social stability.“It carries out involuntary population relocation and rehousing on a massive scale and enforces highly repressive policies in Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia,” the report says.At the same time, citizens are increasingly prepared to challenge authorities with official and academic statistics suggesting there are 300 to 500 protests each day in China.“China’s human rights activists often face imprisonment,

detention, torture, commitment to psychiatric facilities, house arrest and intimidation,” the report says. “Use of torture to extract confessions is prevalent and miscarriages of justice are frequent due to weak courts and tight limits on the rights of defense.”The exact number remains a state secret, but experts estimate it has decreased progressively from about 10,000 per year a decade ago to about 4,000 in recent years.‘Freedom of expression deteriorated last year, especially after the government launched a concerted effort to rein in micro-blogging,’ the group said.“The government and the [Chinese Communist] Party maintain multiple layers of control over all media and publications,” the report says.Against the backdrop of all the deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet, China once again was elected to the UN Human Rights Council during its 17th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last year.It added that international pressure on China over its human rights situation was “inconsistent” last year, saying that some countries like France and Britain had toned down criticism in summits with China.In the 667-page report — its 24th edition — Human Rights Watch reviews more than 90 countries. China also continues to lead the world in the number of executions of prisoners.

World Report 2014: New York based Human Rights Watch

HRW world report highlights rights abuses in Tibet and China

Mr. Baucus said he considered human rights, including the treatment of minorities, “extremely important”, adding that he pressed the then Chinese president Jiang Zemin, on an earlier trip to China, to release a Tibetan activist. The Tibetan activist was freed weeks later, he said.Mr. Baucus, 72, is a democrat from Montana and one of the longest-serving senators in the US senate. He announced last year that he would not seek re-election to the senate.If confirmed as ambassador — a committee vote is set for next week — he will succeed Gary F. Locke, the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing who resigned in November last year.Baucus was an original cosponsor of the 2006 resolution to grant the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal. In August 1993, he visited Lhasa as part of a trip to China.“My visit to Lhasa contrasted with the

Yes, I am Kicking Boundaries: Irshal Ishu

US Envoy calls for dialogue on Tibet...... continued from Front-Page......

New Delhi: - Today Tibet is mostly known to the majority of nations around the globe as a synonym to his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Buddhism or as a part of China. Everyone seems to only be talking about Tibet’s political or religious affairs. Each year many photographers and filmmakers take Tibet up as their subject highlighting the same common issues and problems. But, one filmmaker is trying to break the mold of this outdated mindset by showcasing the often-unexplored side of the Tibetan youth. Irshal Ishu, a young, Delhi-based filmmaker has decided to use his art for the development and upliftment of the youth, while also promoting the culture of Tibet. One of his most exciting projects to date is the upcoming documentary film called “Kicking Boundaries” which showcases the Tibetan, women’s football team. An initiative by Art for Cause and I-imagine Production, this documentary will create an intimate experience between the viewer and the players. Step into their lives, experience their struggles and hopes, and watch them work towards fulfilling their dreams to

one day make their international debut as Team Tibet! “Kicking Boundaries” rings of these young women’s peaceful revolution to represent themselves and their country while living in exile in India. The film is also distinct in that half of its expenses have been raised entirely through crowd funding. Further, everyone associated with this project is working as a volunteer without any self-interest. In addition, it will be the first documentary of its kind with its own global fusion, music album. Entitled “We Are United,” it features a compilation of 11 songs and the work of talented artists from around the world such as the United States, Finland, Denmark, India, Tibet, Nepal, and the United Kingdom. Produced by Sing Along Music Recording Studio in Delhi, this vibrant, unique album is expected to be released at the end of March. An extra special treat to the album is the enthusiastic and soulful contribution of three, young Tibetan school girls, Tenzin Norzom (Nori Ma), Tenzin Yangzom, and Lhamo Choekyi (the latter two are also the football players on the main team), who sing the title track of the film.The overall objective of “Kicking Boundaries” is to facilitate change in the lives of the young players by

encouraging FIFA recognition and additional financial support from around the world. Ishu, also the film’s Director, will donate 60 percent of the total profits earned for the future development of Tibetan, young women football players and the remaining 40 percent will go towards future projects. Ishu says, “Yes, I am kicking boundaries by trying to break the walls created by us, the human species! In terms of the music album, as a representation of artists from the four corners of the globe, it unites us as one. It’s really been great seeing individuals from different cultures joining hand-in-hand to work for such a noble cause and a real blessing to be a part of it.”“Kicking Boundaries” is currently in the production stage, the bulk of which has been shot throughout various regions of Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. The film’s international premier will be this coming June. You don’t want to miss it! You, too, will be as touched as everyone else has who’s been a part of this worthwhile project. Prior to this film, Ishu completed another documentary entitled “Beyond Education” illustrating the unique Tibetan schooling system in exile. Even with his busy schedule, he still finds the time to provide free classes on filmmaking and photography in many of the Tibetan schools. It’s obvious from his dedication that he is 150 percent committed to the Tibetan cause.

Photo 1: After the shoot with Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay. Photo 2: Crew with the players at TCV Chauntra at the selection camp. Photo 3: Shooting escape scene at Ladakh and Photo 4: Irshal Ishu (Director) with little monk during the shoot at Ladakh. Photo Credits: Bhavesh Bhati & Art for Cause

Tibetans in Australia monitored by China: Says CTA official

Canberra: - Tibetans living in Australia -- most of them now Australian citizens -- face intimidation from Chinese representatives here when they seek visas to visit relatives.Dicki Choyyang, Kalon or Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration, yesterday made the allegation after holding meetings with members of the Tibetan and Chinese communities in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne during her visit, ROWAN CALLICK has reported for The Australian.“This is a development to which the Australian government and people have to be alerted,” Ms Choyyang said.She said people of Tibetan background -- of whom there are about 1000 in Australia -- had to travel to Canberra to apply in person for visas. The Chinese authorities, she said, “monitor the Tibetan community here closely”.People from Tibet were routinely asked whether

they were members of the Australian Tibetan Association, whether they had participated in any demonstrations while in Australia, and whether they had made contributions to the Central Tibetan Administration based at Dharamsala in northern India.“They are free as Australian citizens to participate in any lawful, peaceful activities,” Ms Choyyang said. “This is a blatant infringement of Australia’s sovereignty. For people involved, this is emotional blackmail.”Michael Danby, the Labor MP for Melbourne Ports and chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet, said: “The intimidation of Australian citizens is very concerning, and should not be put up with. I’ll be writing to the Minister for Foreign Affairs to investigate these reports.”The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Chinese embassy declined to comment.In an interview with the Australian News Network’s Jim Middleton on Tuesday, she has appealed to Australians to help it engage with the Chinese Government, saying it wants Tibetan autonomy but not independence.“We are not seeking independence, we are seeking a resolution to the issue of Tibet, through genuine autonomy or the ‘middle way’ approach, within the framework of China’s constitution, without challenging the political and territorial integrity of China,” she added.

By Choneyi Sangpo: 29 January 2014

Kalon Dicki Chhoyang with Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters in Canberra during the the Festival of Tibet. Photo: Media File

other stops in almost every way. First, local authorities were plainly not eager to meet with me... Second, my hosts tried hard (and generally successfully) to control my movements and limit my freedom to speak informally with ordinary people,” he said.“Despite this, I noted many troubling signs. There is a large military presence in and around Lhasa. At least two plainly obvious video cameras are mounted on buildings in the Barkhor area. When I was taken to visit the JokhangTemple in central Lhasa, the market square in front of the temple was filled with plainclothes police,” he added. Baucus had said that Tibetan Deputy Party Secretary Raidi gave him “a much more hard-line view of Tibetan policy than did President Jiang Zemin, appearing to rule out not only independence for Tibet, but any modest move toward genuine autonomy for Tibet. All in all, it was an unsettling visit.”

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Tawang, Jan 25: - The Sikyong of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Dr. Lobsang Sangay was given a warm welcome by Minister Tourism and RWD, Pema Khandu with traditional garlanding of ‘Khatak’ (scarps) on his arrival at Urgen Sangpo Helipad, Tawang.According to a report by Arunachal Times, the Deputy Commissioner Tawang Abhishek Dev, ZPC Jambey Tsering and SP Tawang along with other host of public leaders received Dr. Lobsang and his entourage at the Civil Helipad.En-route to the district head quarter, the Sikyong made a pilgrimage visited to Jamyang Choekhorling Monastery and the birth place of the 6th Dalai Lama – Tsangyang Gyatso at Urgelling in Tawang.On arrival at Galden Namgey Lhatse the Dr. Lobsang along with Pema offered their prayers and paid reverence to the 27ft high Golden Buddha.Later in the day, a private meeting between the Sikyong and the Tibetans was held at Zomkhang hall which was roughly attended by about 200 Tibetans settled in Tawang.The state guest extended his heartfelt gratitude to the Chief Minister Nabum Tuki, Pema Khandu and in general the people of the State for the love and support rendered to the Tibetan community in Arunachal

Pradesh. “I had never imagined that I would be in a position to visit Arunachal in such a brief time, I couldn’t have made the visit possible if it was not for the effort taken by Pema”, said the Sikong of CTA.Dr. Lobsang is on a weeklong tour to Arunachal Pradesh will be visiting various Tibetan settlements in Arunachal Pradesh viz. Tenzingang, Miao and Tezu on 27th, 29th and 30th January respectively. He is also scheduled to visit Bomdila, Khalaktang and Tuting.After the Sikyong’s tour in Arunachal Pradesh, he will also attend the Tibet Festival in Guwahati starting Feb 2. Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama is will also attend the festival, who will be accompanied by Tourism and RWD Minister Pema Khandu, who is also the chairman of the festival organising committee.

By Yeshe Choesang: 27 January 2014

Dharamshala: - The replacement of the Tibetan language with Mandarin in schools in Tibet is absolutely unacceptable for Tibetan people, said a Tibetan minister who is on a two-week official visit to Australia.Dicki Chhoyang, a minister for the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala, India, is in Australia for the annual Festival of Tibet in Brisbane. but she’s also embarked on a campaign of public outreach, to meet with not just the Tibetan community, but also the Chinese diaspora.She was interviewed by Sen Lam, a presenter of the ABC Radio while she was in Melbourne, the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, Australia.“We have been very active in reaching out to the Chinese community for several years, and Australia has an important Chinese community, so of course we think it’s very important to meet people who believe in social justice and want to learn more about the issue of Tibet. And our message to them, is very simple,” Dicki Chhoyang said.“We are not seeking independence, that we’re seeking a resolution to the issue of Tibet, through what we call genuine autonomy or the ‘middle way’ approach, within the framework of China’s constitution, without challenging its political and territorial integrity,” she told Radio Australia.“You know, I think that gradually, people or individuals who’re independent thinkers, are more open to hearing a version of what’s going on inside Tibet and the policies that have been implemented inside Tibet, that are leading to the unrest we’ve been

witnessing over the last half a century - a different version than the version that they (Chinese diaspora) grew up with, in the People’s Republic of China,” said Chhoyang in response to a question asked by Sen Lam from the Radio Australia, “How do you read the mood of the Chinese diaspora - are they, if not supportive, at least empathetic?.”“So we hope that that message spreads - so hopefully, just like there’s an entire generation in China that has absolutely no clue about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, hopefully, they will make the connection and say, “Well, we weren’t told about Tiananmen Square, perhaps there’re other events, where we haven’t been given the accurate information,” she added.“China is an emerging global power - economically and consequentially as well, politically. But what firmly believe in, is the fact that we have truth on our side and that internationally, as China does pressure governments to not broach the subject of Tibet, the issue of Tibet is much more than just about Tibetans. It’s about peaceful conflict resolution, about sending a message to other marginalised groups and other political movements, who may not be as committed as we are to non-violence. That it does pay to stick to non-violence,” the Tibetan minister said, when asked if she finds it an unequal struggle - a David and Goliath battle - given China’s growing economic clout and indeed, using that wealth at its disposal, to perhaps influence global political agenda.“For over fifty years, we have without any exception, steadfastly stuck to non-violence, and we are committed to do so. Right now, the autonomy we’re asking for, is for the Chinese government to implement the regional autonomy laws that it has in its own constitution. Right now, it’s all in writing, but in actual practice, it has not been implemented. Where all the decisions are taken in Beijing and at the local level, people are left to execute decisions that were made in Beijing,” she added.In response to the migration of Han Chinese into Tibet, she said the “terms of regional autonomy, if one goes to autonomous Tibetan regions, and neighbouring Chinese provinces, most of the high officials are all Han Chinese and on top of that, very few speak the local language,”She was asked if the newcomer Chinese interacting with the local Tibetans? She answered that how

By Yeshe Choesang: 22 January 2014

Language policy in Tibet absolutely unacceptable: Top Official can you say you enjoy genuine autonomy when the local culture and language is not respected and also the local people do not have a say in mining projects, or economically marginalised, and also, very importantly, the language of instruction, with Tibetan being replaced with Mandarin, and this is a development over the last few years, which is absolutely unacceptable for local Tibetans.Asked whether doesn’t that make assimilation a little bit easier, that local Tibetans can now speak Mandarin- the language of rule, she denied such policy saying that ‘Tibetans, when they say they want to preserve their cultural identity, it’s about including Tibetan culture and heritage, not about excluding Chinese culture. Of course Tibetans should learn how to speak Mandarin. Mandarin is a very practical language, it’s our neighbours’ language.’‘So what they’re saying is, we do not want to learn Mandarin at the expense of our language - we want a choice - whether we can send our children to Tibetan medium (schools) or Chinese medium,’ she added.To a question about the current situation in Tibet and if the younger generation of Tibetans are learning to deal with Chinese rule now, she replied that “the wave of self-immolation, you’ll that’s now numbering 124 since 2009, it’s very clear that Tibetans inside Tibet are sending a clear signal to both the authorities in Beijing, as well as to the international community, that their policies in Tibet have failed, and that no matter how powerful China becomes globally, the issue of Tibet is not going to go away.”“It’s very clear from the signal that we get from inside Tibet, as well as in exile, where we have inter-generational leadership transfer and we have a new emerging younger generation that is rooted in both tradition values and modern education, that are also deeply committed to making sure that their voices are heard,” she further said.“We see a genuine of cultural risk of cultural assimilation, while the international community is increasingly appreciating the messages of individuals like His Holiness, the Dalai Lama,” she said, adding: “We need to make the connection that what he represents, his message, is representative of the cultural heritage, that is now in danger of disappearing.”She concluded by saying “His Holiness is a by-product of Tibetan culture and the culture doesn’t live through books and museums, but through people.”

Kalon Dicki Chhoyang’s meeting with including Australian Senator Lee Rhiannon and members of TSGs & Tibetan groups

in Sydney, Tuesday, 21 January 2014. Photo: TPI

Dharamshala: - Bagdro held a news conference to speak about the life, achievements, and the death of the late Panchen Lama. The former Tibetan political prisoner has accused Chinese leaders of masterminding the death of the 10th Panchen Lama who passed away in January 1989 at the age of 51. “Panchen Lama had died of poisoning. Hu Jintao and and former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao were the culprit behind the plot to murder Panchen Lama,” Ven Bagdro, said a press conference held in McLeod Ganj, India, on 28 January 2014.The following statement was issued by Ven Bagdro to mark the 25th death anniversary of the 10th Panchen Lama Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen. Communist China started invasion of Tibet in 1949. No sooner did they gain some footing in Tibet that they started implementing a series of brutal policies of torture, plundering, destruction and killing of everything that was Tibetan. Consequently Tibetans all across Tibet, consists of the whole area of the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region and a good chunk of Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan, were forced to go through unimaginable hardships and experience hard vicissitudes that had no historical precedents. Panchen Rinpoche was a witness to the series of calamities that befell on the heads of his own people, and the feelings of Tibetans being subjected to injustice weighed heavily in his heart. Therefore, starting from 1961year-end Panchen Rinpoche embarked on a mission to record all the tragedies that Tibetans were forced into under various Chinese policies, shouldering his due responsibility toward the welfare of his people and brushing aside

the risk to his own life. Later his Tibetan record were translated into Chinese and the Seventy Thousand Character Petition was born. It consisted of eight chapters. The Petition was submitted to Zhou Enlai, the then Prime Minister of PRC, on 18th May 1962. Somehow the Petition found it’s way in the hands of Mao Zedong. No sooner Mao perused the Petition he was enraged. In derogatory words Mao exclaimed, “I think Panchen does nor have what it takes to be a leader of People.” he said of Panchen Rinpoche further, ‘Now Panchen is positioning his tail up as high as it were to reach the planes in the sky!’ As a result of the Petition Panchen Rinpoche found himself in a quagmire of troubles. On many occasions he expressed his wish to meet up with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and clear the air. But they refused to meet him. Instead they encouraged thousand of “serfs” to beat drums and raise banners in denouncing Panchen Rinpoche. Consequently Panchen Rinpoche was subjected to a lot of torture for having committed political crimes of countering the Party, the people and the socialist system. One night in the month of August 1966 a group of Chinese soldiers tied Panchen Rinpoche’s limbs with iron wires. Thus immovable , they tortured him extensively. On another occasion Panchen Rinpoche was made to go through a denunciation session before a gathering of thousand students in Beijing Nationalities University. Later he was kept captive by Security Bureau of China. In their hands Panchen Rinpoche experienced continuous brutalities. Much later Chinese authorities made an announcement that declared he was anti-motherland and an enemy of all nationalities. thereafter he served nine year eight month prison term, during which he had to go through hell difficult experiences.One he was set free, Panchen Rinpoche fearlessly worked hard for the preservation of Tibetan culture, to fight for Tibetan People’s right, and to fight against harsh policies of China toward Tibetans. His deeds pos-prison term were cent per cent in line with the essence of his Seventy Thousand Character Petition , the very document because of which he was made to experience hell on earth by the Chinese authorities. Because of Panchen Rinpoche’s open defiance Chinese leadership became disenchanted with him, and grew very anxious about the path he taking. To

Ven Bagdro remembers Panchen Lama’s ‘7000 Character Petition’

By Cameron Hickert: 31 December 2013

Ven Bagdro speaks during a press conference to mark the 25th death anniversary of the 10th Panchen Lama, in McLeod Ganj, India, on 28

January 2014. Photo: TPI/Choneyi Sangpo

remove the impediment on their way to rule Tibet according their whimsical way Chinese authorities plotted to eliminate him.The Seventy Thousand Character Petition is a very valuable document contemporary Tibetan history. The Chinese authorities have been keeping the document confidential, but London based Tibet information Network received a copy of it in 1996 and the same was published in book form in 1997 by Research and Analyses Centre. This year is being commemorated as the twenty fifth death anniversary of the tenth Panchen Rinpoche.Factual Account to Prove Chinese Authorities Murdered the Tenth Panchen RinpocheIn November 1987 a ‘’meeting to decided on elimination of the Panchen’ was convened in the reception hall of Deng Xiaoping’s residence. Participants of the meeting included Deng Xiaoping, Chenyun, Li Xiannian, Bo Yibo and Songping. In that meeting the senior leader of the Communist China appointed two persons to execute a so-called ‘’Special Decision on Panchen’’ undertaking. The two persons were Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao. To come up with a plan to eliminate Panchen Rinpoche Wen Jiabao Proposed the name of physician for senior political leaders, Wang Minqin and Hu Chonghua’s name. In 1988 under the arrangement of Hu-Wen, Wang Minqin and Hu Chonghua held a meeting according to the proposal Wang Minqin also proposed to assign the task of preparing the poison to another physician for senior political leaders, Zhu Mindin.On 27th January 1989 night under the direction of Hu Jingtao and Wen Jiabao, Mon Hongwei and Hu Chonghua saw off Zhu Minqin on the journey to poison Panchen Rinpoche. The Chinese government successfully executed the plan to poison Panchen Rinpoche, and he passed away in Tashi Lhunpo monastery on 28th morning. The killing of the Tenth Panchen Rinpoche by elite leaders of the Communist China not only symbolises the taking away of freedom of thought of Chinese citizens and of Tibetan people, but also, it is a crime intended to eradicate Tibetan Buddhism. This piece of historical account is quoted from “Murdering a Buddha” authored by Yuan Hongbing and Nam Loyak, Published by Asia Pacific Political Philosophy Culture Publishing house in 2013.

Kalon Dicki Chhoyang’s meeting with including Australian Senator Lee Rhiannon and members of TSGs & Tibetan groups

in Sydney, Tuesday, 21 January 2014. Photo: TPI

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