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A Public Notice From Amdo Banning Photos of the Dalai Lama
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a public notice of September 17, 2012, as seen in Rongwo Township, in Rebkong County, Amdo, that has been circulating widely among Tibetan netizens over the last few days.
With the combination of ongoing self-immolations in Tibet and the forthcoming 18th Party Congress next month, security in Tibet is high. What’s interesting to note is that the political message of the Public Notice is couched in the language of social concerns about online gaming. Not only does the public notice draw attention to matters “splitting the country”, the notice also warns of sudden death as a result of exhaustion after spending too much time on the internet, something that was debated online in China over the summer.
Public Notice
In order to create a harmonious and stable social and cultural environment for ensuring the successful convening of the 18th Party Congress, we have decided to carry out the special campaign to sort out and regulate the cultural marketplace in Rongwo region, in accordance with No. 2 official document about cracking down on pornography and striking against illegal activities issued by Malho Prefecture in 2012 and No. 88 official document issued by Rebgong County Office. Thus, we hereby notify you about the following issues:
1. The various cultural enterprises and operating units in the cultural marketplace are strictly forbidden to sell the photos of the Dalai Lama, or videos, pictures, books, writings, hangings and other objects inciting to split the country, publicising Tibetan independence or spreading obscene, pornographic and vulgar messages. In particular, they are forbidden to print the aforementioned photos and writings without authorisation.
2. The various internet café owners must strictly abide by the regulations concerning the management of the internet café, forbidding under-aged children to enter the internet café and verifying the identification card of people who use the internet at the café. They must stop providing a common card or an identification card for their customers. Nor are they allowed to open their café beyond business hours or close their windows and doors while in business. They should also strengthen their sense of security, remind their customers about the time they have spent using the internet and strictly prevent customers from sudden death that results from exhaustion.
3. The various recreational and entertainment enterprises, including dance halls, must not receive under-aged children on days other than holidays designated by the state. Nor should they install games or entertainments which include violence or gambling. They should also attach great importance to safety, and eliminate potential safety hazards.
Recently the law enforcement personnel of the Rebgong County Cultural marketplace will inspect the enterprises, and all the owners should whole-heartedly support the inspection, listen to the suggestions and advice so as to reorganise and reform the operation of the enterprises. Meanwhile, in this campaign if we find any owner who operates illegally or who refuses to make changes in his operation, we will co-ordinate with people from the Department of Industry and Commerce and Department of Public Security, and strike hard against them. Those who have broken the law will be handed over to the judicature to be punished severely.
Hereby it is pronounced.
The Office of the Leadership Team in Charge of the Cultural Marketplace of Rebkong County
September 17, 2012
Tibet : Monks Held Over Protest
Redazione - Gio, 18/10/2012 - 07:15
Chinese authorities have detained four Tibetan monks from a monastery in Tsoe county, the scene of two self-immolation deaths within a week in protest against Chinese rule.Three of the monks were picked up on Wednesday from Dokar monastery, which had come under scrutiny after a 27-year-old father of two, Sangay Gyatso, burned himself to death at the institution's compound on Oct.6.A huge contingent of armed police arrived at the monastery and detained Jigme Gyatso, the cashier, Kalsang Gyatso, the accountant, and another monk called Kunchok Gyatso.The four were detained for their involvement in taking care of the body of Sangay Gyatso, and taking photos of the body.
After the death of Sangay Gyatso, a huge contingent of Chinese armed police was deployed in the area and imposed strict surveillance on the monastery. Police came to the monastery and interrogated each and every monk.
Chinese officials had approached Sangay Gyatso's family and offered one million yuan if they confess and sign a document stating that he died over a family dispute and not in protest against Chinese rule.
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Venerable Yeshe, thank you ever so much for keeping us updated. 
This Chinese public notice doesn’t make any sense at all: how can supporting Tibetan independence spread “obscene, pornographic and vulgar messages”? Can the Chinese government really be so confused about pornography? It also sounds like they think freedom is obscene and vulgar… Well, then they shouldn’t do business with such vulgar and obscene states like the European Union ones or the USA!
In paragraph 2, they sound so concerned about Tibetan people’s health and seem to worry if they spend too many hours on the internet because they could “suddenly die of exhaustion” (never heard of this type of death before!
), but in the last paragraph they openly admit that they will “strike hard against them” and “hand them over to the judicature to be punished severely”, which will REALLY cause them to die (I ardently hope not).
And they call this a “harmonious and stable social and cultural environment”… How dare they talk of harmony?
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Tibet : Tibetan burns to death in protest against China
Redazione - Sab, 20/10/2012 - 15:47
Another Tibetan has set himself on fire today in protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet in Bora, Sangchu region of Amdo.Lhamo Kyab, 27, today set himself on fire near the Bora Monastery at around 2 pm (local time).He succumbed to his burn injuries at the site of his protest.Engulfed in flames, Lhamo Kyab raised slogans calling for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet and then fell to the ground after walking a few steps.Following the self-immolation, a scuffle broke out at the site of the protest between Chinese security personnel and Tibetans, who succeeded in carrying Lhamo Kyab’s body inside the Monastery’s main prayer hall.
The monks began to offer prayers for the deceased, even as a large number of Tibetans started to arrive at the Monastery upon hearing about the protest.
As of latest information received, monks and local Tibetans have carried Lhamo Kyab’s body to his home.
On March 20 earlier this year, more than 100 monks from the Bora Monastery had marched towards the township-level government buildings carrying Tibetan flags and pictures of the Dalai Lama calling for freedom in Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama.
The next day, Chinese security officers entered the Monastery and arrested 40 monks, prompting a gathering of a large number of monks calling for the immediate release of fellow monks.
Bora monastery has faced heavy restrictions since the 2008 uprisings in Tibet. The restrictions were tightened after Losar, Tibetan New Year this year when monks in the monastery displayed a picture of the Dalai Lama.
Dharamsala, 22 ottobre 2012. Un altro tibetano si è immolato con il fuoco nel Tibet orientale. Lhamo Kyab, 27 anni, padre di due bimbe piccole, si è dato fuoco il 20 ottobre a Bora, distretto di Sangchu, nella regione dell’Amdo, attorno alle 14.00, ora locale. Ha portato a compimento il suo atto di ribellione contro l’occupazione cinese del Tibet in una strada nelle vicinanze del locale monastero.
Come gli altri eroi tibetani, Lhamo Kyab, ormai avvolto dalle fiamme, prima di stramazzare a terra ha avuto la forza di invocare il ritorno del Dalai Lama e di compiere qualche passo. E’ deceduto sul posto. I tibetani del luogo sono riusciti a portare il suo corpo carbonizzato nella sala di preghiera all’interno del monastero di Bora dove i monaci hanno officiato il rito funebre.
Con la morte di Lhamo Kyab sale a quattro il numero dei tibetani che si sono auto immolati nel solo mese do ottobre 2012. Prima di lui, si sono dati la morte con il fuoco Gudrup (43 anni), Sangay Gyatso (27 anni) e Tamdin Dorjee (52 anni). Il 27 maggio 2012, Dorjee Tseten, nativo di Bora, si era dato fuoco a Lhasa, di fronte al Tempio del Jokhang, assieme a Dhargey, un suo compagno di lavoro.
Il 23 marzo scorso le forze di sicurezza cinesi avevano fatto irruzione nel monastero di Bora prelevando quattro monaci: Sangyal Gyatso, 30 anni; Kelsang Lodoe, 23 anni; Sonam, 20 anni e Tashi Gyatso, 22 anni. Lo scorso 20 marzo avevano partecipato assieme a un centinaio di monaci a una grande manifestazione: portando bandiere tibetane e ritratti del Dalai Lama, avevano chiesto il ritorno del loro leader spirituale, il diritto alla libertà religiosa e all'insegnamento della lingua tibetana. Poco dopo le proteste, gli agenti avevano fermato oltre 40 persone che erano state rilasciate il giorno seguente grazie alla mediazione di Gyal Khenpo, ex abate del monastero di Labrang Tashikyil (prefettura di Kanlho, Gansu).
Fonte: Phayul
22 ottobre 2012
Nuova immolazione pro Tibet, seconda in 48 ore. E siamo arrivati a 57
Seconda immolazione in meno di 48 ore contro quella che i tibetani ritengono l’occupazione cinese del loro paese, con il numero di questi gesti estremi che raggiunge i 57 dal febbraio 2009. Secondo quanto riferiscono organizzazioni che si battono per i diritti dei tibetani, Dhondup, un tibetano anche conosciuto come Hor Khagya si e’ dato fuoco stamattina intorno alle 9.47 locali nella strada principale nei pressi del Monastero di Labrang nella contea di Sangchu. Secondo quanto riferito da alcuni testimoni oculari e monaci presenti sul posto, un gruppo di persone ha circondato il corpo in fiamme dell’anziano cercando di impedire che venisse preso dalle autorita’ cinesi. Poco dopo Dhondup e’ stato portato in ospedale dove e’ stato dichiarato morto. Solo due giorni fa, sabato, si era dato fuoco un altro tibetano, Lhamo Kyab, anche lui morto a causa delle gravi ustioni. Nel solo mese di ottobre sono morte cinque persone immolandosi per la causa tibetana. L’amministrazione centrale tibetana ha ripetutamente fatto appello affinche’ si risolva la crisi. ”Questi tragici episodi di auto immolazione – ha fatto sapere Kalon Dicki Chhoyang, del dipartimento per l’informazione e le relazioni internazionali dell’amministrazione centrale tibetana – avranno fine solo quando il governo cinese trovera’ una soluzione alla crisi tibetana attraverso il dialogo”.
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TIBET – CINA
Due nuove auto-immolazioni in Tibet, il mondo “ha scelto di non vedere”
Lhamo Kyeb, 27enne sposato con due figli piccoli, si è dato fuoco a Bhora per chiedere la fine della repressione cinese e il ritorno del Dalai Lama. Poco prima aveva compiuto lo stesso gesto anche Dhondhup, 50 anni. Le auto-immolazioni nella regione arrivano a 57, nonostante gli appelli del Dalai Lama e del governo in esilio a favore della vita. Il direttore di Free Tibet: “La Primavera tibetana non finirà anche se i governi internazionali scelgono di ignorarla."
Dharamsala (AsiaNews) - Nonostante la repressione del regime comunista, non accenna a fermarsi la scia di auto-immolazioni in Tibet. Lhamo Kyeb, 27 anni, si è dato fuoco alle 2 del pomeriggio (ora locale) per protestare contro l'occupazione cinese della regione e chiedere il ritorno del Dalai Lama a casa.
Si tratta del 57esimo tibetano che sceglie questa estrema forma di protesta: sia il leader spirituale del buddismo tibetano che il governo in esilio hanno chiesto agli abitanti della regione di "rispettare a tutti i costi la propria vita" ma hanno riconosciuto le "terribili situazioni" in cui versano i tibetani.
Poche ore prima ha scelto di darsi fuoco anche un uomo di 50 anni, Dhondup, che ha deciso di uccidersi nei pressi del monastero Labrang, molto noto nel Tibet orientale per la propria opposizione alle politiche cinesi. I monaci di Labrang sono noti per aver messo in atto una protesta anti-Pechino nel 2008, durante la visita di alcuni giornalisti occidentali, ma quella di Dhondup è la prima auto-immolazione ad avvenire in quel luogo.
L'auto-immolazione di Lhamo è avvenuta invece nel villaggio di Bhora, nella contea di Sangchu, nella Prefettura tibetana di Kanlho: lascia una moglie e due figli, di 10 e 7 anni. Secondo alcuni testimoni oculari, si è dato fuoco e ha iniziato a correre verso il monastero buddista del villaggio: gli agenti delle forze di sicurezza hanno cercato di bloccarlo per spegnere le fiamme, ma l'uomo si è opposto fino a che non è caduto a terra morto.
Prima di morire, ha urlato slogan per chiedere il ritorno del Dalai Lama in Tibet. Dal 1959 il leader religioso è in esilio a Dharamsala, in India, dove ha sede anche il governo tibetano in esilio. Secondo le autorità comunista, sono proprio il Dalai Lama e i suoi ministri a fomentare questi suicidi: nel corso di un grande summit pan-tibetano, invece, la diaspora ha chiesto ai propri concittadini di scegliere forme pacifiche di protesta.
Dopo la morte di Lhamo, gli abitanti del villaggio e i monaci locali ne hanno portato il corpo nel monastero di Bhora, dove hanno tenuto diverse funzioni per la sua anima. I tibetani dei villaggi vicini si sono recati nel luogo di culto, hanno preso il corpo del defunto e lo hanno riportato a casa nel suo villaggio natale, Dokabma.
Stephanie Brigden, direttore del Free Tibet (che ha dato la notizia dell'auto-immolazione) dice: "Le proteste contro la brutale soppressione cinese dell'identità e della cultura tibetana hanno ormai raggiunto un punto che richiede l'intervento della comunità internazionale. La Primavera tibetana non riuscirà ad avere successo soltanto perché i governi mondiali hanno scelto di ignorarla".
Tibet : Chinese authorities arrested 11 monks of Wonpo Monastery
Redazione - Lun, 22/10/2012 - 14:58
Chinese authorities in Wonpo ,Eastern Tibet ,have arrested 11 monks of Wonpo Monastery.Chinese authorities arrested six monks on Saturday and five monks today.The five taken into custody today were from Ngaba Kirti Monastery.The six monks of Wonpo monastery were identified as Thapmey, Phagdrol, Sherab, Dawa, Gonpo and Kyapo. However, there is no additional information on the five monks of Kirti Monastery.Following the arrests, the Chinese authorities raided the personal quarters of the monks and confiscated 60,000 Chinese Yuan.
Nine others tibetans were reportedly arrested and taken to an undisclosed location by the Chinese authorities.
It is also reported that three of the monks detained earlier last week from Wonpo have been taken to Sershul County.
The situation in the Wonpo region is being described as “very tense” and under “strict surveillance.”
In just a week, 33 Tibetans were arrested in Wonpo region.
Self-immolation protests rock Sangchu County, one more immolates
Dharamshala, October 23: Amidst reports of two self-immolations over the last three days in Sangchu County in eastern Tibet, a Tibetan man today set himself on flame in the area bringing the total count of the fire protest to 58 now.
The Tibetan, identified as Dorje Rinchen, 57, set himself on fire around 4:30 p.m (local time) and died in alleged protest against China’s harsh rule near a local police station in Sangchu County in Kanlho Tibet Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Tibet, according to a report in Tibet Times.
The report chttp://tibettimes.net/news.php?showfooter=1&id=6792iting an unnamed source said Tibetans gathered at the site of the fiery protest and a minor scuffle broke out between the local Tibetans and police forces when the latter tried to take away charred body of the protester. However, Tibetans took the possession of Richen and said prayers for him, it said.
The report also said many Tibetans are heading to Sayu Township in Sangchu where large security personnel have already been deployed. Communication channels around the area have been cut off following the protest rendering it difficult to get more details about the protest.
“Police check-points have been set up at roads leading to the protest site to prevent Tibetans from travelling to the area,” it said.
Exile groups say 58 Tibetans have resorted to this fiery protest since 2009 to demand what they say is “freedom in Tibet and the return of their exile spiritual leader Dalai Lama back to Tibet.”
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Dorje Rinchen Self-Immolated Outside A Chinese Security HQ
Dorje Rinchen Sacrificed His Life
For Tibet On October 23, 2012
Treachery Of Tibet’s True Cause http://tibettruth.com/
During consecutive days when Tibetans have offered up their lives for the cause of Tibet’s national freedom in the comfort of exile Mr Lobsang Sangay, recently renamed as Tibetan ‘Political Leader’, was offering his thoughts on Tibet to a gathering In Prague. His words could not have been any more at odds with ongoing resistance inside Tibet, indeed his remarks were a breath-taking betrayal of the very goal sought by the brave Tibetan people, whose protests, collective and individual have repeatedly demanded Tibet’s rightful independence.
Tragically Lobsang Sangay and his Administration are seeking a very different solution to that of his compatriots, as indicated by his comments to a Czech news agency.
“We seek genuine autonomy within China and within the framework of the Chinese constitution, that is what we call middle-way policy…..So we don´t seek independence or separation from China, and we do not challenge China´s sovereignty or territorial integrity,”
Unlike the courageous Tibetans who daily face China’s brutal oppression, yet still demand Tibetan national freedom, his objective is that ‘Tibetan people should have a fair share in the administration, economy, education, environment and other issues’. It is a great sadness that while Tibetans offer up their lives in fiery sacrifice demanding an independent Tibet, or face Chinese torture and bullets to raise the Tibetan national flag Lobsang Sangay is serving up words of appeasement and treachery!
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China Sends In Its Paramilitary Thugs To Enforce Crackdown In Labrang 
Following yesterday’s self-immolation by Dorje Rinchen China’s regime dispatched its paramilitary thugs onto the streets of Labrang in Amdo region of east Tibet, enforcing a brutal crackdown, cutting off communication to the area and terrorizing Tibetans
Tibet : Chinese police issued a notice saying that the string of recent immolations in the community had "seriously impacted social stability and harmony as well as people's ability to live and work." It said that in order to crack down on the demonstrations, people who tip off police about immolation plans will be rewarded 50,000 yuan ($7,700). The notice said that people who provide information on the "black hands" who organized four recent self-immolations would be rewarded up to 200,000 yuan ($30,000).
The notice promised to keep the identity of informers confidential for their protection.http://www.tibetexpress.net/en/news/exile/9495-2012-10-25-07-22-17
www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/rewards-10242012141110.html
"Tibet and Xinjiang are two important regions needing special care during the Congress period, when those separatist forces or religious extremists, overseas or inside China, will not miss their big chance to draw the central government's and the world's attention,"
Wang Sixin, an expert from the Communication University of Chinahttp://www.tibetexpress.net/en/news/exile/9488-2012-10-24-11-59-23
Are the Speaker and Kalon Tripa stifling free speech?
By The Tibetan Political Review
Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012
http://www.rangzen.net/2012/09/25/are-the-...ng-free-speech/
http://tibet.net/2012/10/25/your-support-i...leader-in-rome/
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Il comportamento di Lobsang Sangay è inaccettabile e riprovevole! Con quelle parole, è come se tutti noi e tutta l’umanità, incluso Lobsang Sangay stesso, avessimo sacrificato la nostra vita bruciando vivi in vano!!!
Non abbiamo nemmeno la più pallida idea di cosa significhi bruciare vivi, di quale dolore e sofferenza atroce si possano provare autoimmolandosi con il fuoco. Il minimo che si può e che si deve fare è portare avanti la causa dei martiri tibetani e del loro popolo. La politica della via di mezzo non ha funzionato. Com’è possibile ora fidarsi ancora della Cina e credere che un domani lascerà davvero che i Tibetani partecipino in maniera significativa alla vita politica e prendano decisioni riguardanti l’amministrazione, l’economia, l’educazione e la salvaguardia dell’ambiente in Tibet? L’unica via di uscita è l’indipendenza!!! Dovremmo ricordare i martiri Tibetani con affetto e devozione e far rivivere i loro sforzi attraverso i nostri, perorando la loro causa e non dimenticando mai il Dalai Lama, il suo popolo e la sua lotta.
Io non conosco il tibetano, ma questa canzone bellissima potrà aiutarci a non dimenticare mai il Tibet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_2MNYOMdI...ture=plpp_video
Forse qualcuno potrebbe tradurla? Sarebbe bellissimo!
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Cio' che è capitato al tibet è orribile e mi auguro che nessun essere senziente sperimenti mai le atroci sofferenze inflitte dai cinesi al popolo tibetano.
Tuttavia il karma non è acqua e forse chi si da fuoco in tibet dovrebbe capire una buona volta che non ha nessuna speranza che il Tibet sia un giorno libero ed indipendente. Certo i martiri appaiono nobili ed eroici, ma alla fine sono vite bruciate e perse in modo del tutto inutile. Vite sprecate rispetto alle reali possibilità del cambiamento da loro auspicato. Ovviamente non tutta la responsabilità è loro, ma è anche frutto dei falsi miti del ritorno del dalai lama in tibet che qualcuno ancora alimenta in modo insensato.
[QUOTE][Lhamo Kyeb, 27 anni, si è dato fuoco alle 2 del pomeriggio (ora locale) per protestare contro l'occupazione cinese della regione e chiedere il ritorno del Dalai Lama a casa./QUOTE]
Il Dalai lama dovrebbe dire chiaramente che non tornerà mai in Tibet, che questo non è nelle sue intenzioni e che non lo è mai stato.
I tibetani in seguito a tali chiare affermazioni da parte del Dalai lama dovrebbero comprendere che l'unica libertà per i tibetani è una vita all'estero, fuori dal tibet. Tentare altre strade è una causa persa perchè nei prossimi 50 anni non avremmo il crollo dei regimi autoritari, e la nascita dell'indipendenza nei loro stati, ma piuttosto il contrario.
. A volte la verità è dura e fa male, ma quando non c'è rimasta alcuna speranza oggettiva, almeno dire la verità potrebbe aiutare a non avere altre vittime inutili, perdite di vita senza senso come quelle a cui abbiamo assistito, basate sul fatto che il Dalai lama lascia ancora indirettamente nutrire false speranza sul suo ritorno in tibet o sul fatto che ci sono ancora illusi che non capiscono che lui non tornerà mai in tibet. Il Dalai Lama dovrebbe avere il coraggio di dirlo forte e chiaro. -
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5th self immolation in Sangchu County in a week
Phayul[Friday, October 26, 2012 18:54]
By Phuntsok Yangchen
DHARAMSHALA, October 25: According to reports coming in, two Tibetans have set themselves ablaze in two separate incidents of self-immolation in Sangchu County, which has already seen 5 Tibetans immolate themselves.
Lhamo Tseten, 24, set himself afire near the Amchok Township Court at 2:30 PM (local time) in Sangchu County in Amdo, Eastern Tibet. He succumbed to his injuries at the protest site.
Ajam Amchok, a Tibetan living in South India with close contacts in the region, said, “Lhamo Tseten repeatedly raised the slogan calling for the ‘return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.”
Lhamo is survived by his wife Tsering Lhamo and a two year old daughter Nyingmo Kyi. He was son of father Namchuk Tsering, 49 and mother Sungdue Kyi.
Ajam cited witnesses saying Chinese Security and Armed Forces immediately arrived at the protest site but the local Tibetans gathered around the body to prevent the Chinese forces from taking the body.
His charred body is currently with his family member.
“Following the self immolation, a large number of Chinese Armed Forces and Chinese Security Police are deployed in an area and the situation in Amchok is described as tense and under strict surveillance,” Ajam said.
Another Tibetan, Tsephag Kyab, 21, set himself on fire at 8PM (local time) in Labrang region in Sangchu County, Eastern Tibet. Tsephag Kyab’s charred body is in the hands of his family members. He was son of father Lumo Jam.
The deepening crisis inside Tibet has witnessed large scale anti-China protests and a series of self-immolations that has now seen 60 Tibetans set themselves on fire, since 2009, demanding freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile.
Four self immolation in Tibet in 2 days
Phayul[Saturday, October 27, 2012 18:31]
By Phuntsok Yangchen
DHARAMSHALA, October 27: Four Tibetans have immolated themselves in just two days in three different regions of Tibet.
Tsephag Kyab, 21, set himself on fire yesterday around 7 PM (local time) in Labrang Sangkho in Sangchu. He succumbed to his injuries at the protest site.
Tsephag is survived by his wife Dorjee Dolma, 18, mother Lumo Jam and an elder brother named Tashi Dhondup.
Thupten, a Tibetan living in South India with a close contact in a region said, “A large number of local Tibetans gathered in a region and prevent the Chinese forces from taking Tsephag’s body.”
His charred body is currently in the hand of his family members.
Thupten cited witnesses saying Tsephag raised the slogans demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Tibet and Release of Panchen Rinpoche Gedun Choekyi Nyima and other Political prisoners.
“Following the self immolation, a large number of Chinese Armed Forces and Chinese Security forces are deployed in the area and the situation is described as tense and under strict surveillance.
Earlier the same day, Lhamo Tseten, 24, set himself on fire near the Amchok Township Court at 2:30 PM (local time) in Sangchu County in Amdo, Eastern Tibet. He succumbed to his injuries at the protest site.
On October 25, Two Tibetans set themselves ablaze in Nagro Phampa township in Driru County, Kham.
Tsepo, 20 and Tenzin, 25 set themselves on fire near a school in Nagro Phampa region. Tsepo is believed to be dead while there is no information on Tenzin's condition and his whereabouts.
They raised slogans demanding return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet.
Tenzin was a former student of TCV Suja where he had studied for around six months.
Since 2009, 62 Tibetans have set themselves on fire demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Tibet and Freedom in Tibet.
TIBET: UNA SETTIMANA DI FIAMME E MORTE
29 ottobre 2012. Quattro auto immolazioni nell’arco di due giorni, sette dal 20 al 26 ottobre: questo il doloroso bilancio della settimana che si è appena conclusa. Sabato 20 ottobre si è immolato Lhamo Kyab; il 22 ottobre Dhpndup; il 23 è giunta notizia del supremo sacrificio di Dorjee Rinchen seguita da quella della morte di Lhamo Tseten, immolatosi venerdì 26 ottobre. In una sconcertante e drammatica sequenza, si sono immolati altri tre tibetani, Tsewang Kyab (lo stesso 26 ottobre) e due cugini, Tsepo e Tenzin, del cui atto di estrema protesta, avvenuto il 25 ottobre, siamo venuti a conoscenza solo due giorni dopo. Quattro casi di autoimmolazione in due giorni, sette dal 20 al 26 ottobre.
Tsewang Kyab, ventuno anni, si è dato fuoco il 26 ottobre a Labrang, contea di Sangchu. E’ deceduto sul luogo della protesta. Prima di cadere a terra, ha gridato slogan a favore del ritorno del Dalai Lama, della liberazione del Panchen Lama e degli altri prigionieri politici. La sua morte ha preceduto di poche ore quella di Lhamo Tseten, ventiquattro anni, che si era dato fuoco lo stesso giorno nelle adiacenze del tribunale di Amchok.
Due giovani cugini, Tsepo e Tenzin (rispettivamente di venti e venticinque anni), si sono immolati con il fuoco il 25 ottobre nelle vicinanze di un edificio governativo nel villaggio di Nagrog Thampa, Contea di Driru, prefettura di Nagchu, a nord di Lhasa. La notizia del loro gesto è arrivata soltanto due giorni dopo a causa delle intimidazioni, dirette e indirette, cui sono sottoposti i tibetani a Driru. Sembra che Tsepo sia deceduto sul luogo della protesta. Tenzin è nelle mani dei funzionari governativi: non si conosce il luogo in cui è stato portato né sono note le sue condizioni.
I due cugini si sono immolati chiedendo l’indipendenza del Tibet, il ritorno del Dalai Lama ed esortando tutti i compatrioti a restare uniti come fratelli e sorelle. Scrive Stephanie Brigden, direttore di Free Tibet, che in tutto il Tibet la Cina ricorre all’uso della forza e all’intimidazione per soffocare le invocazioni alla libertà dei tibetani e imbavagliare l’informazione e gli appelli alla protesta ponendo in atto, tra l’altro, misure mirate a dividere i tibetani e metterli uno contro l’altro.
Fonti: Free Tibet – Phayul
27/10/2012 10:06
INDIA – TIBET – CINA
Continua la strage tibetana, altri due giovani si sono dati fuoco
di Nirmala Carvalho
In pochi giorni cinque auto-immolazioni. È una delle settimane “peggiori” nella lotta contro quello che definiscono l’imperialismo di Pechino e il genocidio culturale. Denunciando il “fallimento” della politica cinese, Free Tibet lancia un appello alla futura leadership perché risponda alla “richiesta di libertà”.
Delhi (AsiaNews) - Due giovani tibetani della provincia cinese di Gansu si sono dati fuoco e sono morti per le gravi ustioni riportate. Il fatto è avvenuto nel pomeriggio di ieri, in una delle settimane peggiori per la comunità in lotta contro quello che definiscono "l'imperialismo di Pechino" e il "genocidio culturale" della minoranza. In pochi giorni, infatti, ben cinque persone si sono auto-immolate per la causa, portando così a nove le vittime nel solo mese di ottobre e a 60 dal febbraio 2009, quando sono riesplose le proteste contro la Cina per una piena libertà religiosa e per chiedere il ritorno in patria del leader spirituale dei tibetani, il Dalai Lama.
Nel primo caso, a darsi fuoco è stato il 24enne Lhamo Tseten verso le 2.30 del pomeriggio ora locale. Il giovane si è auto-immolato nei pressi di una caserma della People's Armed Police nella cittadina di Amchok, contea di Sangchu, nella Prefettura autonoma tibetana di Kanlho. L'altro episodio è avvenuto sei ore più tardi quando il 21enne Tsepak Kyab - di origini tibetane ma residente da anni in India - è morto per le ustioni riportare nella strada principale della cittadina di Sangkhok, anch'essa a Sangchu.
Lhamo Tseten si è immolato dopo aver pranzato con un gruppo di amici. "È uscito lentamente dal locale - racconta un testimone - e, tra urla della folla, è corso per la strada avvolto dalle fiamme". Egli lanciava slogan per la libertà del Tibet e il ritorno del leader spirituale, il Dalai Lama, poi è caduto a terra e ha unito le mani, continuando a urlare. Il suo cadavere è stato rimosso dalla folla, con la polizia cinese che si è tenuta a debita distanza nel timore di ritorsioni. Al momento di darsi fuoco, anche Tsepak Kyab urlava slogan e frasi contro Pechino e per il rilascio di prigionieri politici tibetani, fra i quali il Panchen Lama (la seconda autorità religiosa in Tibet, sequestrato dalla Cina nel 1995 quando era solo un bambino). Il corpo è stato trasportato nella sua abitazione, per il rito funebre e le preghiere.
Commentando l'ennesima auto-immolazione Stephanie Brigden, direttrice di Free Tibet, gruppo con base a Londra, sottolinea che "la politica cinese in Tibet si è rivelata un fallimento completo". L'attivista si rivolge alla "futura leadership" di Pechino, affinché riconosca che "devono rispondere alla richiesta di libertà che viene rivolta loro dai tibetani". Il gruppo riferisce inoltre che nella zona teatro dei roghi le autorità cinesi hanno sospeso la connessione internet e "un gran numero" di agenti e del personale della sicurezza è stato dislocato nell'area per prevenire altri gesti di protesta estrema.
Per arginare il dramma di monaci e gente comune che decide di darsi fuoco, la comunità tibetana in esilio ha deciso di riunirsi in seduta plenaria a fine settembre, per la prima volta in quattro anni, per proporre una nuova politica che possa fermare questa serie di suicidi. Oltre 400 tibetani da tutto il mondo - delegati eletti nelle varie comunità della diaspora - si sono riuniti a Dharamsala, sede del governo del Dalai Lama sin dalla fuga da Lhasa. Invece di adottare una politica conciliatoria, il Partito comunista cinese in Tibet ha aumentato il livello di repressione. I monasteri della regione sono blindati e guardati a vista dalla polizia speciale, le lezioni di lingua tibetana sono proibite, la pratica religiosa è di fatto impedita. Il Partito è arrivato a proibire le auto-immolazioni "pena una condanna in carcere di 5 anni". Il Dalai Lama, leader spirituale della comunità, ha detto più volte di "comprendere" i motivi che spingono al sacrificio, ma ha chiesto ai suoi fedeli di "non sprecare" le proprie vite.
TCHRD releases report on enforced disappearances in Tibet
Redazione - Mar, 30/10/2012 - 10:04
Imagine a close loved one being taken into custody, held incommunicado for days, weeks, or even years, without any contact or communication with you or other family members.Imagine the mental anguish and torment of not knowing where they are, if they are being tortured or have been killed.In this respect, enforced disappearances have a "doubly paralyzing impact," not only on the victims, but also on their loved ones who live in a constant state of anxiety and fear about the fate of the disappeared person.Today,TCHRD, on the eve of the 98th session of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, releases an introductory report and analysis on enforced disappearances in Tibet.
Enforced disappearance is a serious international crime that violates multiple human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other major international human rights instruments. Yet such disappearances are prevalent and commonplace for Tibetans living under Chinese rule. While there is a growing movement to ban enforced disappearances in any form or justification, the Chinese government has for the past many decades used enforced disappearances as a tool to suppress dissent and criticism, by disappearing and detaining incommunicado persons deemed threats to the PRC’s "unity" and "stability." Security officers in Tibet, particularly the Public Security Bureau and the People’s Armed Police, use enforced disappearance to terrorize and intimidate the disappeared person, his or her family members, as well as the entire community.
In 2008, TCHRD reported a surge in cases of enforced and involuntary disappearances following the outbreak of major protests across the Tibetan plateau. After a violent military crackdown in Tibet, TCHRD reported that at least one thousand Tibetans had disappeared, their whereabouts and well-being unknown to family members and affiliated monasteries at the time. To date, the Chinese government has refused to divulge any information on the exact number of arrests and detentions or how many it has sentenced to extrajudicial forms of detention, such as ‘Re-education Through Labour’ (Ch: Liaojiao).
The report also gives an analysis of a quintessential high-profile 'disappearance'; that of Chadrel Rinpoche who 'disappeared' in May 1995 for allegedly 'giving out the name of the boy who was supposed to be the 11th Panchen Lama before it was approved by the [Chinese] authorities.' Rinpoche has been held in Chinese detention ever since, and in 2011, he was reported to have died under mysterious circumstances. Furthermore, official Chinese claims notwithstanding, the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, has also not been seen since he was secretly removed from his home in May 1995, nor have numerous appeals by the international community for specific information about his welfare and whereabouts been acknowledged.
During the March 2012 annual session, China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), approved proposed amendments to its Criminal Procedure Law. These latest amendments fail to outlaw the persistent use of enforced disappearance as a tool to crack down on critics of official policies. Perhaps the most disturbing revision is embodied in Article 73, which essentially legalises the secret detention of persons charged with perceived political crimes.
Unfortunately, due to the Chinese censorship and oppressive lockdown in Tibet, we have not been able to obtain more information or testimonies in order to write a fuller, more detailed report. However, this report is a much-needed and important step in preserving and honouring the collective history and memory of the 'disappeared' Tibetans as well as the extended Tibetan community. In particular, it is aimed at informing the Tibetan community of the international legal standards on enforced disappearances.
This report considers the international legal standards that prohibit enforced disappearances, in particular the recent International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the relation between these laws and PRC’s practice of using enforced disappearance in Tibet. It concludes with crucial recommendations for the PRC, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the international community to end the practice of enforced disappearance in Tibet. It is essential that the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, who are due to meet tomorrow, make greater efforts to act on our recommendations. The widespread and systematic application of enforced disappearance constitutes a crime against humanity according to international law, and should be dealt with as such.
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For Tibetan, Tenzin Nyinjey (91) 98168-42395
For English, Tsering Tsomo (91) 98168-75856
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Tibet in fiamme
La Tibet Culture House e la Campagna di Solidarietà con il Popolo Tibetano,in collaborazione con il Festival dell'Oriente,organizzano
Domenica 4 Novembre, ore 16,00
Tibet in fiamme
Nell'indifferenza del mondo libero,nel silenzio dei media decine di tibetani si immolano per denunciare la violenza del regime coloniale cinese
Carrarafiere
Via Maestri del Marmo - Marina di Carrara
Sala Michelangelo
Interventi di :
- Christiana Ruggeri,redazione esteri TG2
- Claudio Tecchio,Campagna di Solidarietà con il Popolo Tibetano
Come arrivare :
AUTOSTRADA: Il complesso fieristico “Carrarafiere” si trova a 1 chilometro dall’uscita del casello autostradale di Carrara (sulla Genova-Livorno).L’entrata riservata ai visitatori è quella principale: la numero 5 situata in via Maestri del Marmo.
TRENO: stazione di arrivo AVENZA-CARRARA. Da qui, usciti dalla stazione troverete la fermata dei bus di linea. Tutti i bus che transitano da questa fermata si dirigono a Marina di Carrara nelle vicinanze del Complesso Fieristico “Carrarafiere” che potrete agevolmente raggiungere a piedi.
AEROPORTI: l’aeroporto internazionale di Pisa dista soli 40 chilometri da Massa Carrara.
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27 ottobre 2012
Cinque immolazioni nell’ultima settimana pro Tibet, sale tensione, numeri allarmanti, 47 immolazioni nel 2012, 60 totali
Continua a crescere la tensione in Tibet e i numeri sono impressionanti. Con le due ultime immolazioni di ieri nel Guansu, provincia nord occidentale cinese, il numero di questi atti estremi è salito a 60 dal febbraio 2009. Ma sono 59 gli atti dal marzo del 2011 e, soprattutto, 47 nel 2012, con la media di oltre 4 immolazioni al mese, quest’anno, fino ad oggi. Solo negli ultimi giorni, da sabato scorso, ci sono state cinque immolazioni, tutte nella stessa area del Guansu (l’area tibetana di Amdo), nella contea di Sangchu (Xiahe in cinese), nella prefettura autonoma tibetana di Kanlho (Gannan in cinese). Non sono bastati gli appelli internazionali, né la repressione cinese che si fa sempre più forte in Tibet e nelle altre aree tibetane della Cina, nonostante la gente continui a scendere per strada e protestare contro quella che definiscono ‘l’occupazione cinese del Tibet’. I gesti estremi, accompagnati da slogan che chiedono la libertà in Tibet di poter parlare la propria lingua, seguire le proprie tradizioni, che chiedono di far ritornare il Dalai Lama, che chiedono una genuina autonomia nella cornice della costituzione cinese (come ha ricordato pochi giorni fa all’ANSA il premier tibetano in esilio Lobsang Sangay), non si fermano. “Noi – ha detto nell’intervista il primo ministro del governo tibetano in esilio in India, a Dharamsala – abbiamo condannato le immolazioni e abbiamo chiesto ai nostri compatrioti di smettere, ma non ci ascoltano… sono gesti dettati dalla disperazione. Condanniamo le immolazioni – ha detto Sangay – ma condividiamo le aspirazioni di coloro che hanno scelto questo metodo di protesta”. La disperazione di cui ha parlato Sabgay all’Ansa ha davvero numeri impressionanti: la maggior parte degli immolati sono giovanissimi che non arrivano neanche a 30 anni, 52 sono uomini e 8 le donne. Dei 60 immolati, si sa che 51 hanno perso la vita a seguito della loro protesta. Oltre a questi sessanta, ce ne sarebbero altri due (un importante figura monacale tibetana e sua nipote anch’essa monaca) morti lo scorso 6 aprile nel monastero di Tawu, a causa delle fiamme. Ma alcune fonti li citano come vittime di un incendio scaturito nel monastero. E a questi vanno aggiunti i gesti estremi di cinque tibetani in esilio morti dall’aprile 1998: tre a New Delhi, uno a Mumbai e uno a Kathmandu. Da Pechino nessuna parola, se non le solite accuse contro il Dalai Lama, chiamato il secessionista e dipinto come un lupo vestito da agnello. Secondo Pechino è lui che spinge i giovani ad immolarsi. Neanche i poliziotti cinesi dotati di estintori hanno potuto bloccare le proteste, neanche le offerte di ricche ricompense a coloro che informino le autorità su nuove immolazioni, sono riusciti a fermarle. Non c’é dialogo fra le parti dal 2008, e non ci sarà almeno fino a quando non sarà eletta la nuova nomenclatura cinese a novembre (che si insedierà effettivamente al potere in marzo). Il governo tibetano in esilio, nel chiedere una sincera autonomia, fa appello a Stati Uniti e Unione Europea, mentre i cinesi vedono questo come interferenze esterne e insistono sul fatto che i tibetani vogliono l’indipendenza. Un dialogo tra sordi che non pare portare a nulla, mentre le proteste, anche di piazza, continuano.
28 ottobre 2012
Altri due immolati in Tibet, 62 dal 2009, 49 nl 2012, sette in una settimana
Altre due immolazioni sono riportate da organizzazioni che si battono per i diritti dei tibetani. Con le ultime due, il numero totale di questi atti estremi raggiunge i 62, con sette immolazioni nella socrsa settimana da sabato 20, nella settimana con il maggior numero di immolazioni da quando, nel 2009, sono cominciati questi atti. Secondo le informazioni, due cugini, Tsepo di 20 anni e Tenzin di 25, si sono immoolati giovedi’ scorso, ma la notizia e’ stata data solo ieri sera, davanti ad una scuola nella contea di Driru (Biru in cinese), nella prefettura di Nagchu (Naqu per i cinesi), nella provincia autonoma tibetana. I due si sono dati fuoco inneggiando alla liberta’ nel Tibet, all’allontanamento dei cinesi e al ritorno del Dalai Lama. Tsepo e’ morto sul colpo mentre il corpo di Tenzin e’ stato portato via ancora in vita dalla polizia in un luogo sconosciuto. I due cugini oltre ad essere i settimi immolati nella settimana scorsa (gli altri cinque si erano immolati nella stessa zona di Lanzhou, contea di Sangchu, nella prefettura di Gannan (Kanlho per i tibetani, zona di Amdo), provincia del Gansu, solo anche il sesto e il settimo immolato all’interno del Tibet. Oltre a loro due, in passato e’ stata registrata un’altra immolazione a Driu, due nella capitale provinciale Lhasa, e due nella contea di Chamdo (nele citta’ di Karma e Damshung, appena fuori la capitale). Con le ultime due immolazioni confermate ieri sera, salgono a 62 questi gesti dal febbraio 2009, 49 in quest’anno.
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CINA – TIBET – USA
L’ambasciatore Usa chiede a Pechino di “rivedere” le politiche sul Tibet
Gary Locke, rappresentante di Washington in Cina, ha ammesso di aver visitato i monasteri tibetani da cui sono partite diverse auto-immolazioni: “Imploriamo la Cina di parlare davvero con i tibetani e rivedere quelle decisioni che hanno portato restrizioni e dolore. Nessuno vuole vedere la situazione continuare in questo modo”.
Pechino (AsiaNews/Agenzie) - L'ambasciatore americano in Cina, Gary Locke, ha chiesto al governo di Pechino di "riesaminare le politiche relative al Tibet". Il diplomatico ha ammesso di aver visitato le zone e i monasteri della regione da cui provengono alcuni di coloro che hanno scelto di auto-immolarsi per protestare contro le politiche repressive del governo comunista e chiedere il ritorno a casa del Dalai Lama.
Parlando da Pechino a un forum online in corso negli Stati Uniti, l'ambasciatore ha dichiarato di aver visitato in settembre due monasteri tibetani nella prefettura di Aba (nella provincia cinese del Sichuan), dove si sono verificate la maggior parte delle 55 "auto-immolazioni" di protesta contro la politica cinese nel territorio. Locke si è recato nei monasteri di Songpan e di Kirti "per farsi un'idea di come vivono i tibetani".
Nel corso del suo intervento, Locke ha dichiarato: "Imploriamo i cinesi di incontrarsi davvero con i rappresentanti del popolo tibetano per rispondere alle loro richieste e ri-esaminare alcune delle politiche che hanno portato alle restrizioni, alle violenze e alle auto-immolazioni. Siamo molto preoccupati per questi fattori: nessuno li desidera, troppi morti".
Il governo cinese non ha risposto, ma considera la questione tibetana "un fattore di politica interna" (insieme a Taiwan, la strage di Tiananmen e la situazione della libertà religiosa nel Paese) e reagisce con furia agli stranieri che chiedono conto di quanto accade. In ogni caso, il regime accusa il Dalai Lama di "aver orchestrato" i suicidi nell'area, nonostante il leader buddista abbia più volte chiesto ai suoi fedeli di "salvaguardare a ogni costo la propria vita e quella altrui".
Tibet : Monk detained for allegedly having a cell phone
Redazione - Mar, 30/10/2012 - 19:58
Chinese police have detained a Tibetan monk for allegedly having a cell phone , in Sogdzong county, eastern Tibet according to a source in Tibet on Monday.The news came after carrying out of a massive police raids targeting at local Tibetans' homes to invesgate cell-phones.Tashi Norbu, a 19-year old monk from Chagri monastery , arrested October 23, 2012 by Chinese authorities, accusing him of having we-chat conversations with others on his iPhone.Tashi Norbu originally came from Tsadrok village in Sogdzong , Kham region of eastern Tibet.His whereabouts and condition remain unknown.
Sog county and Driru county in eastern Tibet , have been under a heavy restriction and tight controls, after the wave of tragic self-immolations protesting against Chinese repression have occurred, including in Lhasa, Tibet's capital.
Sources said, the monk was arrested after a serious raid on cell-phones, particularly targeting Iphones has been carried out by the authorities in the county and surrounding areas, as part of crackdowns, amid deepening repression in Tibet.
Every cell-phones of Tibetans in the county are thoroughly investigated, particularly a single message or the entire conversation with we-chat on Iphones are targeted.
The Chinese officials suspicioned that they may have connections with outside Tibet about political issues and current crisis in the region.
Sources also said that the officials on suspicion of Tibetans, sharing information about what's happening in their country, using via mobile phone technology.
Communication, including the Internet, telephone, mobile and SMS in the region has been severely and heavily restricted by Chinese authorities since 2008 and particularly ahead of the leadership transition, the sources said, causing an unknown number of crisis in Tibet, including arbitrary and false arrests, unlawful treatment, harsh conviction, heavy sentence, life imprisonment and other different forms of Chinese oppression
China powerless to prevent rising tide of Tibetan self-immolations.
New Delhi, October 30: As China’s Communist Party prepares for its leadership transition, a wave of self-immolations has spread and accelerated across Tibet, in the most sustained protests against Beijing’s rule there in five decades.
Most of those who have set themselves afire are in their late teens or early 20s, activists said. Exiled Tibetan political leaders and scholars described the actions as an emphatic rejection of the economic development and material gains that China is offering the Tibetan people and an anguished call for independence and the return of the region’s religious leader, the Dalai Lama.
“Almost all of them were born after the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the Cultural Revolution,” Lobsang Sangay, the political leader of the refugee community’s India-based government-in-exile, said of the protesters. “They have grown up in the Chinese system, received Chinese education. They are the primary beneficiaries of whatever the Chinese government gave them. They are saying, ‘This is not what we want.’ ”
Last week alone, seven people doused themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire in eastern Tibet, including two cousins in their 20s who called for “freedom for Tibet” before setting themselves ablaze in front of a government building. At least 62 people have set themselves on fire in Tibet since February 2009, and all but nine are known to have died, the Free Tibet group says.
It is not certain whether the latest acceleration of the protests is timed to send a signal to the Chinese Communist Party Congress, which will meet beginning Nov. 8 to install a new leadership in Beijing.
Nevertheless, the protests appear to have embarrassed the Chinese leadership, which has responded by intensifying its crackdown, activists and scholars say.
China says it rescued the Tibetan people from medieval serfdom under the Dalai Lama’s theocratic rule when it took over in 1950, and in recent years it has poured money into the region for roads, a high-speed railway and projects such as rural electrification.
It blames the self-immolations on what it says are the previous leadership’s attempts to split the country. “This is shameful and should be condemned,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a news conference last week.
But many Tibetans appear to view the protesters as heroes, sometimes trying to prevent the removal of their bodies by Chinese police, laying ceremonial scarves at protest sites or paying tribute to their families.
“Tibetans are responding to China’s repressive policies, to seeing their neighbors, friends and families attacked, harassed, beaten and jailed,” said Lhadon Tethong, director of the Tibet Action Institute. “The self-immolations are a response to escalating repression, which the Chinese meet with more repression, and we are in this vicious cycle.”
In the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Tibet was engulfed in protests and riots that saw hundreds killed and thousands arrested. Since then, China has tightened its grip on the high plateau, in what many Tibetans have described as an attack on their language, religion and culture.
The self-immolations spread from an important monastery in the town of Aba, on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, taking off as a form of protest in March of last year. Most of the initial protesters were monks or former monks, but most of the latest are laypeople, including farmers, students and a writer.
The protests have spread across eastern Tibet and even to Lhasa, the region’s main city, prompting a renewed crackdown there, activists say. Foreign tourists are already banned from visiting Tibet, but now Tibetans from outside the city are unable to travel there without a residence document, in an attempt to stop further incidents, activists say.
In other areas where self-immolations have taken place, Internet access and telephone service have been cut off, sometimes for months, activists say.
Police in one region recently issued fliers offering rewards of nearly $8,000 for tips about planned self-immolations and up to $30,000 for information about the “black hands” who supposedly organized four such acts in the area.
“Local authorities are under pressure from the central government to put an end to this,” said Elliot Sperling, a Tibet expert at Indiana University. “But this is a form of protest that doesn’t need a conspiracy, it just needs a person. These fliers seem to me to be somewhat desperate.”
The protests have spread because the “tactic is resonating,” said Sperling, although some activists said the recent spurt could be linked to the imminent party congress.
One of the men who set himself ablaze last week had called a friend the day before and asked when the congress was taking place, said Kate Saunders of the International Campaign for Tibet, adding that the man had complained that the Chinese government was doing nothing to improve conditions in Tibet.
“This is the first direct evidence we’ve had that Tibetans are factoring this into the decision to self-immolate so close to party congress time,” she said.
While Sangay renewed his appeal for Tibetans not to take such “drastic action,” the Dalai Lama has taken a more neutral line on what he said was a “very, very delicate political issue.”
“Now, the reality is that if I say something positive, then the Chinese immediately blame me,” he told India’s Hindu newspaper in July. “If I say something negative, then the family members of those people feel very sad. They sacrificed their own life. It is not easy. So I do not want to create some kind of impression that this is wrong.”
In September, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke paid a rare visit to Aba, the restive area where many of the self-immolations have taken place, and visited monasteries. He called the incidents “very deplorable.”
“We implore the Chinese to really meet with the representatives of the Tibetan people to address and reexamine some of the policies that have led to some of the restrictions and the violence and the self-immolations,” Locke told an online forum Monday. “We very much believe there should be respect for the culture and religion of the Tibetan people, as well as the language of the Tibetan people.” (AP)
Last Updated ( 31 October 2012 )
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Fiaccola della Verita’ per il Tibet, la tappa di Roma
Pubblicato Domenica, 28 Ottobre 2012
Lunedi 29 ottobre giungerà a Roma la Staffetta della Fiaccola della Verita’ per il Tibet. La Fiaccola, partita il 6 luglio 2012 (compleanno di S.S. il XIV Dalai Lama) sta facendo il giro del mondo divisa in tre diversi gruppi (Americhe, Europa e Asia) con il supporto e sostegno di tutte le comunità tibetane nel mondo, delle Associazioni pro-Tibet italiane ed europee, e degli Interguppi sul Tibet.
La Fiamma della Verità è una campagna per i diritti umani organizzata dal Governo Tibetano in Esilio a Dharamsala (India).
Tra gli obiettivi di questa iniziativa vi sono 3 richieste alle Nazioni Unite:
1) Discutere della questione del Tibet sulla base delle delibere approvate nel 1959, 1961 e 1965 sui diritti umani e farsi valere sulla Cina per renderle effettive
2) Invio di una Delegazione Investigativa Indipendente e Internazionale in loco per appurare ed esporre la continua soppraffazione che ha luogo in Tibet
3) Le Nazioni Unite devono assumersi una particolare responsabilità ed assicurarsi che le apirazioni basilari dei tibetani residenti in Tibet vengano realizzate.
Il 10 dicembre 2012, Giornata Mondiale dei Diritti Umani, si concluderà la campagna e saranno presentate simultaneamente, in tre luoghi, le lettere di appello e le firme raccolte: nella sede centrale delle Nazioni Unite a New York (Stati Uniti-America), al Consiglio dei Diritti Umani a Ginevra (Svizzera-Europa) e all'Ufficio informazioni delle Nazioni Unite di Nuova Delhi (India - Asia).
La tappa di Roma, guidata dal monaco tibetano Thupten Wangchen, Presidente delle Comunità tibetane in Europa, partirà simbolicamente dal Colosseo lunedì 29 ottobre alle ore 12 e giungerà sulla Piazza del Campidoglio alle ore 13, insieme a Nyima Dhondup, Presidente della Comunità tibetana in Italia, con i rappresentanti di tutte le Associazioni pro-Tibet della città di Roma.
All’arrivo in Campidoglio della delegazione, alle ore 13 circa, si svolgerà presso la Sala delle Bandiere, la cerimonia simbolica di consegna della Fiaccola della Verità sul Tibet a Marco Pannella, leader dei Radicali e ad Andrea Di Priamo, Presidente Intergruppo Tibet all'Assemblea Capitolina.
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Tappe Europee della Fiaccola della Verità
La Staffetta Europea ha avuto inizio il 2 Settembre 2012 con partenza da Barcellona (Spagna) e si concluderà il 4 Novembre 2012 a Ginevra (Svizzera): 2-3-4 Settembre Barcellona (Spagna); 8-9-10 Settembre Parigi (Francia); 14-15 Settembre Dublin (Ireland); 16 Settembre London (England); 19-20-21-22 Settembre Brussel (Belgium); 25-26 Settembre Amsterdam (Paesi Bassi); 29-30 Settembre Copenhagen (Danimarca); 1-2 Ottobre Oslo (Norway); 5-6 Ottobre Helsinky (Finland); 13-14-15 Ottobre Warszaba (Poland); 21-22 Ottobre Budapest (Ungheria); 23-24-25 Ottobre; Vienna (Austria); 28-29-30-31 Ottobre Roma e Milano (Italy); 4 Novembre Ginevra (Svizzera)
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UNA PETIZIONE DI STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET.
Chiediamo a Hillary Clinton di coordinare entro il più breve periodo di tempo possibile una risposta collettiva dei presidenti delle varie nazioni del mondo che condanni vigorosamente la politica cinese in Tibet e sia tale da riuscire finalmente a far rispettare l’aspirazione dei tibetani all’autodeterminazione. La petizione è anche a favore del ritorno del Dalai Lama nel suo paese.
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TIBET: 63° CASO DI AUTO IMMOLAZIONE. IL COMMISSARIO ONU: LA CINA RISPETTI I DIRITTI DEI TIBETANI
Dharamsala, 4 novembre 2012. Alcune immagini arrivate da Rebkong, nella regione dell’Amdo mostrano il corpo carbonizzato di un altro tibetano, il sessantatreesimo a darsi fuoco in segno di protesta contro l’occupazione del Tibet. In una fotografia giunta alla redazione del sito di informazione Phayul, si vede il corpo del nuovo eroe tibetano giacere ai piedi di un ritratto del Dalai Lama nelle vicinanze di un monastero, avvolto nelle kata e circondato da monaci e laici (nelle foto). Fonti in esilio riferiscono che il tibetano, di cui al momento non si conosce il nome, è deceduto sul luogo della protesta.
Lo scorso 17 marzo 2012, un agricoltore di 43 anni, Sonam Dhargye, si era immolato con il fuoco nella stessa località, teatro solo pochi giorni prima, il 14 marzo, dell’immolazione di Jamyang Palden, un monaco di trentaquattro anni. Sonam Dhargye era deceduto all’istante. Il giorno prima aveva lasciato il suo villaggio e aveva passato la notte in una locanda in città. La mattina seguente, dopo aver pregato di fronte a una fotografia del Dalai Lama e purificato il suo corpo con un bagno, Sonam aveva bevuto della benzina e si era dato alle fiamme invocando il ritorno dall’esilio del leader spirituale tibetano. In segno di solidarietà, migliaia di tibetani erano confluiti da tutta la città e dai villaggi vicini nel piazzale antistante al monastero di Rongwo, piazza Dolma. Un testimone oculare aveva riferito al gruppo londinese Free Tibet che a Rongwo non si era mai vista una folla così numerosa: 6000 persone, forse 8000, di cui almeno 600 venute dal villaggio natale di Sonam Dhargey, avevano voluto rendere omaggio al nuovo eroe. I reparti della Polizia Armata Paramilitare, arrivati nel piazzale su numerosi mezzi, avevano preferito tenersi in disparte.
Il 2 novembre, a Ginevra, l’Alto Commissario ONU per i Diritti Umani, Navi Pillay, ha chiesto alla Cina di “dare ascolto alle proteste da lungo tempo espresse dai tibetani, proteste che sfociano in atti disperati, incluse le auto immolazioni”. La signora Pillay ha dichiarato di sentirsi turbata nell’apprendere che la Cina ricorre sistematicamente all’uso della violenza ogni qual volta i tibetani tentano di esercitare i loro diritti fondamentali e ha chiesto a Pechino di consentire a delegazioni indipendenti di recarsi in Tibet per verificare la situazione e di permettere ai mezzi di informazione il libero accesso al paese.
“Ho avuto alcuni scambi di vedute con il governo cinese su questi argomenti” – ha reso noto Navi Pillay – ma molto deve essere ancora fatto per proteggere i diritti dei tibetani ed evitare che siano violati”. “Chiedo al governo cinese di rispettare il diritto di espressione e di pacifica protesta dei tibetani e di liberare tutti coloro che sono stati arrestati per avere esercitato questi diritti universalmente riconosciuti”. L’Alto Commissario ha inoltre fatto appello ai tibetani affinché non ricorrano alle auto immolazioni come forma estrema di protesta. “Sono consapevole del loro forte senso di frustrazione” – ha dichiarato – “ma vi sono altri modi per manifestarlo, lo stesso governo cinese deve prenderne atto e permettere ai tibetani di dare voce ai loro sentimenti senza paura di ritorsioni”.
Il 3 novembre, a Dharamsala, l’Amministrazione Centrale Tibetana ha chiesto ai 47 stati membri del Consiglio ONU per i Diritti Umani di indire una speciale sessione di lavoro sul Tibet alla luce del continuo deterioramento della situazione all’interno del paese e dell’inarrestabile ondata di auto immolazioni.
Fonti: Phayul - ITN
www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/blaze-11042012105433.html
http://tibettruth.com/2012/11/02/un-human-...d-tibets-cause/
www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/speaks-11022012141015.html
Tibetan filmmaker Golog Jigme Gyatso rearrested
Phayul[Monday, November 05, 2012 15:29]
DHARAMSHALA, November 5: Tibetan monk Golog Jigme Gyatso, who assisted film maker Dhondup Wangchen in secretly shooting his documentary film “Leaving Fear Behind,” has been rearrested by Chinese authorities.
Fears over his arrest were expressed last September when he disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Speaking to Phayul, Serta Tsultrim Woeser, a Tibetan living in south India, confirmed that Golog Jigme has been rearrested by Chinese security personnel when he was returning back from Lanzhou to Tsoe in Amdo, Tibet on September 20.
Reasons for his rearrest are not known.
Earlier that month, Chinese authorities had ordered Gyatso to vacate his monastery quarters and then razed it to the ground.
“On September 5, local Chinese authorities ordered Gyatso to move out from his monastery quarters in order to carry out renovation work,” Woeser said. “But right after Gyatso left his quarters, Chinese authorities brought heavy machinery and razed his house to the ground.”
Earlier in October, the New York based media rights watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists had expressed concern over a Gyatso’s disappearance.
"We are concerned about the whereabouts of Jigme Gyatso, who has been harassed and detained in the past for making a film," said Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia program coordinator said. "All too often, Tibetan journalists are detained without due process, and Gyatso's disappearance is a reminder that even if they are freed, the fear of re-arrest is constant."
Gyatso was first arrested in March 2008 from Labrang Tashi Khyil and was detained for seven months during which he was brutally tortured and beaten up.
He was again rearrested in March 2009, during which he was kept in custody for about 40 days. Since then, he has been arrested many times.
Gyatso had assisted Dhondup Wangchen in secretly shooting his documentary film “Leaving Fear Behind” that shed light on the lives of Tibetans in China in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The film, featuring a series of interviews with Tibetans talking about how China had destroyed the Tibetan culture, violated religious freedom and their undying reverence for the exiled leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, was smuggled out of Tibet and later released worldwide.
Dhondup Wangchen, who is serving a six-year prison sentence for making the film, has been named as one of the winners of CPJ’s 2012 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting.
Jigme Gyatso was born in 1969 in Golog Serta, in the Kardze region of Kham.
05/11/2012 12:58
TIBET – CINA
In attesa del Congresso, il governo cinese isola il Tibet
di Nirmala Carvalho
Diverse fonti locali denunciano il blocco di ogni forma di comunicazione nelle aree da cui sono partite le auto-immolazioni. Ristretta la vendita di petrolio e di altri liquidi infiammabili persino a Lhasa.
Dharamsala (AsiaNews) - Il governo cinese ha imposto un blocco "quasi totale" dell'informazione nella Prefettura tibetana di Kanlho, dove nell'ottobre del 2012 sette cittadini tibetani hanno deciso di auto-immolarsi con il fuoco per protestare contro le politiche repressive dei comunisti e per chiedere il ritorno a casa del Dalai Lama. Lo denuncia il Tibetan Centre for Human rights and Democracy con sede a Dharamasala.
Secondo il Centro, le autorità locali hanno staccato le linee telefoniche e quelle di internet e hanno imposto un bando sulla vendita di sim card - necessarie per il funzionamento dei telefoni cellulari - a tutti i rivenditori della contea di Sangchu. Secondo una fonte locale, gli internet café sono stati sbarrati e le linee senza fili interrotte. Solo uscendo dall'area di Kanlho si torna a ricevere la linea.
Inoltre, le agenzie di pubblica sicurezza hanno ristretto la vendita di petrolio e di altri liquidi infiammabili in tutta la zona, rendendo molto difficile il normale trasporto su ruota. Gli stessi provvedimenti sono stati presi anche nelle contee che circondano la capitale del Tibet, Lhasa, e persino all'interno di alcune zone della città.
Secondo diverse fonti, questo giro di vite è stato ordinato in previsione del 18mo Congresso del Partito comunista, che si apre il prossimo 8 novembre a Pechino. Il governo teme una nuova ondata di auto-immolazioni - al momento se ne sono verificate circa 60 - in occasione dell'importantissimo summit politico che sancirà la nascita della "Quinta generazione" di leader comunisti.
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TIBET: IN MIGLIAIA ASSISTONO ALLA CREMAZIONE DI DORJEE LHUNDUP MENTRE PECHINO LIMITA LA VENDITA DI LIQUIDI INFIAMMABILI 
5 novembre 2012. Migliaia di tibetani hanno preso parte alla cerimonia di cremazione di Dorjee Lhundup, il 63° eroe tibetano immolatosi domenica 4 novembre. Dorjee Lhundup, 25 anni, si è cosparso di benzina a Rongwo, la capitale della Contea di Rebkong, prefettura autonoma di Malho, nelle adiacenze dell’hotel Sakyil, attorno alle 10.30 (ora locale). E’ morto all’istante. Un gran numero di monaci e laici è subito accorso sul luogo e, in segno di rispetto, ha avvolto nelle khata, le tradizionali sciarpe bianche tibetane, i poveri resti del defunto.
Riferisce Radio Free Asia che, poco più tardi, alcune migliaia di tibetani si sono radunati a Dhongya–la, nelle vicinanze del monastero di Rongwo per assistere alla cerimonia di cremazione di Dorjee (nella foto) effettuata in gran fretta per evitare qualsiasi possibile interferenza da parte delle autorità cinesi. Dalla folla si è levata l’invocazione “Ki Ki”, il tradizionale grido di lotta dei tibetani, assieme a slogan di protesta che i famigliari di Dorjee Lhundup, temendo per la propria sicurezza, hanno cercato di placare dicendo che Dorjee, con il suo gesto, voleva “proteggere l’interesse del Tibet” e chiedere il ritorno del Dalai Lama.
Le forze di sicurezza, giunte immediatamente sul posto, non hanno effettuato arresti ma hanno ordinato ai tibetani di non diffondere la notizia della nuova immolazione. A questo fine, sono state interrotte tutte le comunicazioni telefoniche e i collegamenti internet: bloccata la vendita delle SIM card, chiusi gli internet Café, debole o inesistente il segnale per il funzionamento dei telefoni mobili. Le strade della città sono pattugliate e, dopo la cerimonia di cremazione, la gente, impaurita, si è chiusa in casa.
Di fronte al susseguirsi dei casi di auto immolazione, le autorità cinesi hanno reagito non solo bloccando i mezzi di comunicazione ma, in molte aree tibetane, hanno imposto limitazioni alla vendita di liquidi infiammabili. Il Centro Tibetano per i Diritti Umani e la Democrazia ha reso noto che nelle città e nei villaggi della prefettura di Malho è stato ordinato ai negozianti di limitare la vendita della benzina e di altri liquidi infiammabili, provvedimento che crea problemi ai quei tibetani che si spostano in auto o moto. Nelle ultime settimane la limitazione alla vendita di liquidi infiammabili è stata imposta anche a Lhasa e nelle aree limitrofe.
Fonti: Radio Free Asia – Phayul
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La Cina contro le dichiarazioni sul Tibet dell’alto commissariato Onu sper i rifugiati
La Cina si oppone fortemente alle critiche avanzate dall’alto commissario per i rifugiati delle Nazioni Unite sulla situazione dei diritti in Tibet. Lo ha detto il portavoce del ministero degli esteri di Pechino, Hong Lei, in conferenza stampa. Venerdi’ scorso Navi Pillay aveva chiesto alle autorita’ cinesi di fare di piu’ sulla stuazione dei diritti umani in Tibet, esortando anche i tibetani ad astenersi dalle immolazioni, arrivate a 63 dal 2009. ”Siamo molto insoddisfatti e ci opponiamo fortemente al comunicato dell’alto commissario”, ha detto Hong Lei. Il portavoce ha detto che il popolo tibetano sta godendo della crescita economica e stabilita’ sociale, e che i diritti religiosi, politici, economici e culturali sono garantiti. Il portavoce della diplomazia cinese ha ribadito l’idea di Pechino secondo la quale le immolazioni vengono fomentate dalla cricca del Dalai Lama, atteggiamenti che ”vanno contro la legge, la morale e la dottrina religiosa in Cina”. Hong Lei, che ha parlato di interferenze straniere negli affari cinesi alle quali Pechino si oppone fermamente, ha concluso sperando che la Pillay possa cessare di emettere comunicati che interferiscono negli affari interni della Cina e che voglia invece impegnarsi in oggettivi, neutrali e chiari commenti.
Jamyang Norbu : MAKE IT A BURNING ISSUE
Redazione - Mar, 06/11/2012 - 07:47
Seventy Tibetans have, one after the other, in relentless and purposeful succession, set themselves on fire for the cause of their people’s freedom.If anything so heroic, selfless, spontaneous, non-instigated, and entirely non-violent* had happened anywhere else in the world, especially in the West or in places important to Western interests, like the Middle East or North Africa, these self-immolations would not only have become headline news but would have been discussed to death (if you will forgive the expression) in TV news-shows, chat-rooms, newspaper op-eds, editorials, blog-rooms, think-tank forums and so on. The issue could even have come up in the American presidential elections, and Tibetan TV viewers watching the foreign policy debate might have been amused by the vision of Mitt Romney scolding president Obama for ignoring the immolations in Tibet and “apologizing” to China – or its equivalent in this alternate reality.
But, of course, nothing of the kind has happened in our space-time continuum. Far from being the subject of international discussion the world media has given the Tibetan immolations the absolutely minimum attention it is possible to give to a major news story, without actually opening itself to the charge of deliberately and cynically ignoring the issue altogether.
All I’ve seen in the last couple of years in the New York Times, America’s proclaimed “newspaper of record” are a few bare-bones reports and the mandatory two-sentence synopses in its international news briefs. Recently a longer story appeared on Kirti monastery, with passing mention of the immolations, but one got the impression that the story was written largely because American ambassador Gary Locke paid a visit there. Tibetans everywhere are angry and frustrated, but not, I think, completely puzzled by this craven attitude of the world media and world political leadership. It doesn’t require great political sophistication to realize that China’s economic power has compromised many individuals, institutions, even nations in the free world. At the same time I am not sure that everyone is aware of how deeply the rot has set in.
For about a year now, every once a month or so, in the center of it front section, the New York Times has published a full double-page spread from the China Daily, the state-owned English-language newspaper of China, called “China Watch.” One issue of this was devoted to the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute, featuring possibly the largest ever photograph of these tiny Islands ever published. Of course the coverage was straight-up Beijing propaganda. It should be noted that the Times does, once in a while, publish full-page issue-based statements from individuals and organizations, but these, are clearly paid-for advertisements and are indicated as such, and also evident in their lay-outs.
But for America’s “newspaper of record” to near regularly reprint a center-fold color spread from the official Chinese Communist propaganda organ, was bizarre enough that the New York Observer came out with a report on this oddity on August 26 last year, where it remarked on the misleading lay-out of China Watch in the New York Times. “It is marked as an advertisement (the gray blur in upper right and left corners), but otherwise resembles a newspaper layout.” The Observer also noted that “It even has an ad-within-the-ad that says that China Daily is launching a US weekly September 2.”
But of course no matter how craven (or money-grubbing) one feels the New York Times is being here, it is still, of course, not the People’s Daily or the old Pravda. The Times just came out with a major story on corruption within Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s family, though I wondered why they did it just a month before Wen would be out of power, and not earlier? Wen Jiabao had been in office since 2003 and the stories of corruption in his family were not really new. But perhaps I am nitpicking.
I must make it clear that I am not saying that the New York Times, the BBC or CNN have not reported the immolations. Clearly they have all done so, though only to the minimally acceptable extent – CNN being the worst offender. Even the tone of the published reports have been uniformly clinical and impersonal as weather reports. But the big evasion in these reports is the lack of discussion on the fundamental cause for which these Tibetans burnt themselves.
And on this matter we cannot just assign blame on the international press and political leadership. The entire Tibetan exile leadership and many individual exiles and groups are also complicit in this knee jerk prevarication – this beating around the bush, whenever another immolation is reported. Of course, the Dharamshala administration through the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has regularly distributed reports on the immolations, and everyone down the line has made the appropriate remarks on how deplorable it all is. Prayer services, candle-light vigils and demonstrations are held. The Tibetan Parliament launched a major project, the “Flame of Truth” relay, modeled after the Olympic torch relay, to draw public attention to the immolations. The torch is, incidentally, a traditional butter-lamp (choe-gung) with a metal handle stuck at the bottom and a fake plastic flame rising from the top.
But on the issue of why people in Tibet are burning themselves everyone in Dharamshala invariably and skillfully skirts the issue with non specifics. In one instance the immolations were described as “… acts of protest against China’s policies in Tibet”. Which is so incredibly vague as to be ultimately meaningless.
What the Tibetan immolators have been calling for is the freedom and independence of Tibet, a message that was clearly put forward in the very recent immolations of two cousins Tsepo and Tenzin, in front of a government building in their village in Biru county north of Lhasa. All reports noted that they “called for independence for Tibet as they set themselves ablaze”. The call for Tibetan independence has also been made on other occasions in earlier immolation though more general calls for freedom (rangwang) have also been made. But most of the calls made have been for “The return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet.” This last slogan has allowed the immolations to be interpreted as essentially an issue of religious freedom which could be settled if China conducted negotiations with the Dalai Lama and allowed him to return.
In fact during a lecture I gave at McLeod Ganj this summer, a young monk in the audience, a Middle Way supporter, politely asked me this question: that since many of the immolators in Tibet had called for “the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet”, wasn’t it more important for Tibetans to seek a way for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet, than to keep up the struggle for Rangzen? It was a legitimate question. I had been thinking on this issue for quite sometime and I was glad for that opportunity to voice my conclusions in public.
All the immolators, indeed all Tibetans everywhere, absolutely want His Holiness to return to Tibet. But right now? With unprecedented security and military clampdowns throughout Tibet – and with troop strength, organizational capability, resources and technology many hundreds even thousands of time more than the PLA ever had in 1959, what would happen if the Dalai Lama returned to Lhasa and something went wrong. His chances of escaping would be absolutely nil. Furthermore there would be no armed resistance force like the 4 Rivers 6 Ranges that we had in ’59, nor the remnant of the old Tibetan army that spearheaded the Lhasa uprising and kept the Chinese forces in Lhasa pinned down for the few crucial days that allowed the Dalai Lama to escape. World opinion? What about international support for the Dalai Lama? Don’t count on it. Remember the obscene haste with which everyone rushed back to do business with China after the Tienanmen massacre.
No. I have too much respect for the intelligence and integrity of the immolators to think they were actually asking that the Dalai Lama return to Tibet right now. I think these people are using a kind of religio-historical metaphor, to personalize a broad political ideal and make it more immediate and meaningful to the common Tibetan. We should remember that Andrugtsang Gompo Tashi successfully used his project of building a golden throne for the Dalai Lama as a means of uniting various groups of Tibetans to ultimately form a resistance movement to fight for Tibet’s independence.
Political movements often use symbols and symbolic language . A relevant example from recent history would be the resounding slogan of the anti-apartheid movement in the eighties and nineties – “Free Nelson Mandela!” Nearly all the dramatic posters of that period had the graphic “Free Nelson Mandela, with a secondary message “Abolish Apartheid. or “Free South Africa”. A number of famous African signers and songwriters Johnny Clegg, Hugh Masekela, Brenda Fassie, Majek Fashek came out with songs with this message “Bring Him Back Home” and “Free Mandela” etc. The British musician and songwriter Jerry Dammers wrote “Free Nelson Mandela” which reaching No.9 in the British charts and became very popular in Africa.
Of course the ANC and the leaders of the anti-apartheid Movement were not saying that if Nelson Mandela were released then the problem of South African freedom was solved. What they were doing with the slogan “Free Mandela” was taking one of all too many political (and humanitarian) causes in Africa and the world, and giving it a unique and accessible brand; providing a distinctive human face, the face of a charismatic leader whose incarceration could symbolize the injustice and brutality that millions of blacks in South Africa were suffering under white rule.
It is vital for all Tibetans, supporters and the exile administration to appreciate the slogan “the Dalai Lama must return to Tibet” in this larger visionary spirit, and let the world know that Tibetans in Tibet are calling for a nothing less than the return of their sovereign ruler to his independent homeland. And that call is clearly not just a rhetorical one. The unbelievable courage, resolve and selfless sacrifice of the seventy self-immolators have so fundamentally changed the political dynamics in Tibet and so exponentially altered the revolutionary climate, that although His Holiness is now quite old at seventy-seven and has retired from office, it might be a good idea for his official biographer to hold off writing the final chapter on the Dalai Lama’s political legacy, at least least for the next five years.
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* Gandhi told his American biographer, Louis Fischer, that German Jews ought to commit collective suicide, which “would have aroused the world and the people of Germany to Hitler’s violence.” After the war he justified himself: the Jews had been killed anyway, and might as well have died significantly. In 1942, he urged non-violent resistance against a Japanese invasion, he was ready to admit that it might cost several million deaths. We also know that Mahatma Gandhi was absolutely prepared to die when he undertook his hunger strikes.
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Breaking: Tibet burns on eve of crucial China meet
Phayul[Wednesday, November 07, 2012 19:05]
DHARAMSHALA, November 7: In confirmed reports coming out of Tibet, a Tibetan woman set herself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s occupation, on the eve of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress.
Tamding Tso, a 23-year-old mother of one, passed away in her self-immolation protest in Rebkong region of Amdo, eastern Tibet.
In unconfirmed reports, Phayul is hearing of two to three more self-immolation protests today in Rebkong and Ngaba regions of Tibet. As of now, Phayul cannot independently confirm these reports.
Sources have told Phayul that Tamding Tso of Dro Rongwo set herself on fire near the Ghe Mar thang (a ground) at around 5.30 pm today. She is survived by her six year-old son.
According to eyewitnesses, Tamding Tso shouted, “His Holiness the Dalai Lama must come to Tibet,” before setting herself on fire.
Following the self-immolation protest, monks of the Dowa Monastery carried her charred body to her home. At the filing of this report, over two thousands Tibetans are reportedly gathered in the region, raising slogans for the return of the Dalai Lama from exile and offering prayers.
64 known Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 in Tibet, protesting China’s continued occupation and demanding freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
Last week, Dorjee Lhundup, 25, father of a four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, passed away in his self-immolation protest in Rebkong calling for freedom in Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
Thousands of Tibetans gathered to pay their last respects to Dorjee Lhundup later that day.
Speaking to reporters in Japan earlier this week, the Dalai Lama said that Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over the reins from Hu Jintao at the Party Congress beginning tomorrow, will have no choice but to embark on political reforms.
"Now Hu Jintao's era (is the) past, now Xi Jinping is coming as president. I think there's no alternative except some political change, so political reform. Economy reform (is) already there," reporters quoted the Dalai Lama as saying.
Breaking: Three teenagers in triple self-immolation protest in Tibet
Phayul[Wednesday, November 07, 2012 22:07]
Phayul[Wednesday, November 07, 2012 22:07]
DHARAMSHALA, November 7: In more alarming reports coming out of Tibet three teenaged Tibetan monks set themselves on fire today in a triple self-immolation protest outside a Chinese police station in Ngaba, eastern Tibet.
The three monks have been identified as Dorjee, 15-year-old, Samdup, 16-year-old, and Dorjee Kyab, 16-year-old. All three were monks of the Ngoshul Monastery, located at around 12 kms west of Ngaba district.
The three monks set themselves on fire in front of the local Chinese police station at around 3 pm (local time). Dorjee, 15, is believed to have passed away, while the two others have reportedly been taken to a hospital by Chinese security personnel.
“The three Tibetan martyrs raised slogans calling for freedom in Tibet and that His Holiness the Dalai Lama should be allowed to return to Tibet, before setting themselves on fire,” Kanyag Tsering, an exiled monk with close contacts in the region said.
“15-year-old Dorjee succumbed to his injuries at the site of the protest, while Samdup and Dorjee Kyab have reportedly been taken to the Ngaba district hospital by Chinese security personnel.”
Following the protests, the entire Ngaba district is currently under increased surveillance with restrictions placed on the movement of local Tibetans.
“Ngoshul Monastery is under severe restrictions and further communications to the region failed,” Tsering added.
The three monks are the youngest Tibetans to have set themselves on fire since the fiery wave of protests began in 2009.
The self-immolation protests by the three monks in Ngaba and one Tibetan woman, Tamding Tso in Rebkong today comes on the eve of Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress in Beijing.
The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile today urged China’s new leadership under Xi Jinping to “desist from the existing policy of avoidance or the false notion of not accepting the existence of a Tibetan Issue” and instead “revive the channels of meaningful contacts to resolve the longstanding issue of Tibet.”
Tibetan lawmakers also urged the 18th Congress to “seriously deliberate on the continuing spate of self- immolations in Tibet, conduct a thorough investigation into the underlying causes and develop corrective policies and measures that meets the aspiration of the Tibetan people.”
With the four self-immolations today in Tibet, 67 Tibetans have now set themselves on fire since 2009 demanding freedom in Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile.
PROSEGUE LA DRAMMATICA SEQUENZA DELLE IMMOLAZIONI: QUATTRO NUOVI CASI NELLA SOLA GIORNATA DI OGGI
7 novembre 2012. Tamdin Tso, una nomade ventitreenne, madre di un bimbo di soli cinque anni, e tre giovanissimi monaci del monastero di Ngoshul, nel distretto di Ngaba, si sono dati fuoco oggi, vigilia del Congresso del Partito Comunista. Tamdin Tso si è data fuoco ed è morta nelle vicinanze di Rongwo, contea di Rebkong (Amdo). Tamdin ha prelevato la benzina da una motocicletta, l’ha cosparsa sulle sue vesti e si è data alle fiamme invocando il ritorno del Dalai Lama in Tibet.
Tamdin Tso
è morta a Dro Rongwo, nei pressi del pascolo dove svernava con la sua famiglia, attorno alle 17.30, ora locale. I monaci del vicino monastero di Dowa hanno restituito ai parenti i resti carbonizzati del suo corpo. Appena saputa la notizia, oltre duemila tibetani si sono radunati chiedendo a gran voce il ritorno del Dalai Lama in Tibet e recitando preghiere.
Erano tre teenager i monaci del monastero di Ngoshul, situato a 12 chilometri dal distretto di Ngaba, di cui è giunta conferma dell’auto immolazione. Sono stati identificati come Dorjee (quindici anni), Samdup (sedici anni) e Dorjee Kyab (sedici anni). Si sono dati fuoco di fronte alla locale stazione di polizia. Sembra che Dorjee sia deceduto. Samdup e Dorjee Kyab sono stati ricoverati all’ospedale di Ngaba dal personale di sicurezza cinese.
Dall’esilio indiano, un monaco in contatto con i connazionali all’interno del Tibet ha fatto sapere che, prima di darsi fuoco i tre martiri tibetani hanno gridato slogan a favore della libertà del Tibet e del ritorno del Dalai Lama. L’intero distretto di Ngaba è ora strettamente presidiato dal personale di sicurezza e sono state imposte severe limitazioni alla libertà di movimento della popolazione locale.
I tre monaci sono i più giovani tibetani che hanno cercato la morte come atto estremo di protesta contro l’occupazione del Tibet. Con le quattro immolazioni odierne sale a 67 il numero dei martiri tibetani che hanno sacrificato le loro vite all’interno del paese e la spirale delle immolazioni sembra non avere fine. Inascoltati gli appelli a non sacrificare le loro vite lanciati dall’Amministrazione Tibetana e dallo stesso Dalai Lama che dal Giappone, dove si trova in questi giorni, ha dichiarato che Xi Jinping, che il XII Congresso del Partito designerà alla carica di nuovo presidente cinese, non avrà altra scelta se non quella di operare riforme politiche. Ma Pechino sembra non ascoltare gli appelli, da qualsiasi parte provengano. In risposta alle richieste avanzate la scorsa settimana dall’Alto Commissario ONU per i diritti umani, Navi Pillay, un portavoce del ministero degli esteri cinesi ha ribadito che le immolazioni vengono fomentate dalla cricca del Dalai Lama e ha parlato di interferenze straniere negli affari cinesi alle quali Pechino si oppone fermamente.
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Breaking: Another self-immolation today, Six Tibetans burn in two days
Phayul[Thursday, November 08, 2012 15:21]
DHARAMSHALA, November 8: In more heartbreaking news coming out of Tibet, yet another Tibetan set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s occupation of Tibet.
18-year-old nomad, Kalsang Jinpa, set himself on fire at the Dolma Square in front of the Rongwo Monastery in Rebkong, eastern Tibet. The former monk of the Rongwo Monastery raised a white banner with slogans calling for the Dalai Lama’s return and the rights of the Tibetan people before setting himself ablaze. He passed away in his fiery protest.
Sources tell Phayul that thousands of Tibetans have gathered at the Dolma Sqaure to pay their last respects to Kalsang Jinpa. Situation there is being described as tense with the crowd raising slogans for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet.
Further details are awaited at the filing of this report.
Yesterday, Tamding Tso, a 23-year-old mother of one, passed away in her self-immolation protest in the same region. In another instance yesterday, three teenaged monks of the Ngoshul Monastery in Ngaba region set themselves on fire in a triple self-immolation protest. Dorjee, 15 passed away in his protest, while the condition of Samdup, 16, and Dorjee Kyab, 16, is not yet known.
Confirming today’s self-immolation protest in Rebkong, the Dharamshala based Central Tibetan Administration also confirmed a fifth self-immolation protest that took place yesterday, November 7, in Driru region of Nagchu, central Tibet.
In two days, Tibet has witnessed an alarming escalation in the fiery protests with six confirmed self-immolations. These protests coincide with the Chinese Communist Party’s week-long 18th National Congress, which began today in Beijing. China's heir apparent Xi Jinping will be taking over the mantle of leadership, along with a new team, by the end of the meeting.
The deepening crisis inside Tibet has witnessed large scale anti-China protests and a series of self-immolations that has now seen 69 Tibetans set themselves on fire, since 2009, demanding freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile.
TIBET: ANCORA UNA SETTIMANA DI FIAMME E MORTE. SEI IMMOLAZIONI IN DUE GIORNI. MIGLIAIA DI TIBETANI PROTESTANO A REBKONG
Dharamsala, 8 novembre 2012. Non cessa l’ondata di auto immolazioni che in un vertiginoso crescendo stanno infiammando il Tibet. Appena pubblicata la notizia delle quattro immolazioni di ieri, 7 novembre (Tamdin Tso e i tre giovanissimi monaci del monastero di Ngoshul), è giunta in serata la conferma di un nuovo caso, il quinto nella stessa giornata, verificatosi a Bekhar, nella contea di Driru, nel Tibet centrale. E ancora, oggi, un altro tibetano si è dato la morte con il fuoco: Kalsang Jinpa, un ragazzo nomade di 18 anni. Sei nuovi eroi in soli due giorni portano a 69 il numero dei casi di auto immolazione all’interno del Tibet. E purtroppo nulla fa sperare che questi eroici atti di resistenza possano cessare.
Non si conosce il nome e l’età del tibetano che si è immolato ieri sera a Bekhar. Citando contatti all’interno del Tibet, un monaco residente nell’India del sud ha dichiarato di essere venuto a conoscenza del nuovo caso attorno alle 20.00 (ora dell’India), proprio mentre era al telefono con un connazionale in Tibet. “Travolti dalla commozione i tibetani gridavano mentre le forze di polizia arrivavano immediatamente sul posto”.
Kalsang Jinpa, un ragazzo nomade di soli 18 anni, ex monaco del monastero di Rongwo, si è dato fuoco nel pomeriggio di oggi, attorno alle 16 (ora locale), in piazza Dolma, di fronte al monastero di Rongwo, a Rebkong. Prima di portare a compimento il suo atto estremo, ha alzato un cartello in cui erano scritte le sue richieste: il ritorno del Dalai Lama e il rispetto dei diritti dei tibetani. E’ deceduto sul luogo della protesta. I monaci del monastero di Rongwo lo hanno avvolto nelle khata, le sciarpe segno di omaggio e rispetto, e deposto sotto una grande fotografia del Dalai Lama.
Riferisce il sito tibetano Phayul che migliaia di tibetani, 6000 o addirittura 10.000, si sono radunati a piazza Dolma, chiedendo il ritorno del Dalai Lama e pregando per la sua lunga vita. Altri tibetani, portando ritratti del Dalai Lama, sono arrivati dai villaggi vicini. Sembra che, nella vicina città di Dowa, di cui erano originari sia Tamdin Tso sia Kalsang Jinpa, giovanissimi studenti abbiano ammainato la bandiera cinese dagli uffici governativi e dalle scuole ed issato al suo posto la bandiera tibetana. In marcia verso Rongwo, gridavano slogan contro il governo cinese. Oggi, in tutta l’area, la situazione era estremamente tesa. La contea di Rebkong è presidiata da personale paramilitare con l’ordine di impedire alla popolazione di Dowa di raggiungere la folla dei dimostranti a Rongwo. La televisione ha annunciato che chiunque minacci la stabilità della regione sarà severamente punito.
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Sikyong Dr Sangay: Blame and solution for self-immolations lie with Beijing
Phayul[Friday, November 09, 2012 03:14]
DHARAMSHALA, November 9: The exile Tibetan administration has condemned China’s allegations that the Tibetan leadership is behind the ongoing wave of self-immolation protests in Tibet.
“The blame and solution for the present tragedy in Tibet lies entirely with Beijing,” Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the elected head of the Tibetan people, said Thursday. “We welcome representatives of the Chinese government as well as that of any independent international body to investigate these allegations by visiting our offices in Dharamshala, India.”
“We firmly believe that an end to repression will effectively end the cycle self-immolation,” Dr Sangay added.
China has repeatedly blamed the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the exile Tibetan administration for “inciting” the self-immolation protests in Tibet.
China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters last month that “the Dalai clique has incited some people to self-immolate in order to realise their goals.”
However, the Chinese government hasn’t till date offered any evidence linking the two.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi earlier this month, the Dalai Lama dismissed Chinese government’s accusations and invited a delegation to come to his exile hometown of Dharamshala and examine his conversations with the visitors.
"I am a free spokesman for the Tibet issue. I take orders from fellow Tibetans and do not direct them to any action," the Tibetan spiritual leader said.
The Dalai Lama further stated that China’s repressive policies and the unbearable situation in Tibet are forcing Tibetans to set themselves of fire in Tibet.
"The unbearable situation in Tibet is the cause for these unfortunate events. I am very sad about the turn of events. These are symptoms of fear, hard line suppressive policy practiced by China in Tibet. The time has come for China to think more realistically," reporters quoted the 77-year-old world leader as saying.
The Central Tibetan Administration, in the release, affirmed that the reasons for the self-immolations are self-evident: political repression, economic marginalisation, environmental destruction, and cultural assimilation.
“Chinese leaders selected during the 18th Party Congress must recognise that China’s hardline policies in Tibet have utterly failed and only through dialogue can a peaceful and lasting solution be found,” CTA said.
In the last two days, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire across Tibet, taking the total number of self-immolations to 69 in Tibet since 2009.
The CTA has appealed to the 47-member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to convene a Special Session on Tibet in view of the “desperate and unprecedented spate of self-immolations by Tibetans due to China’s repressive policies and the continued intransigence of the Chinese leadership to the relentless efforts of UNHRC.”
The appeal came a day after the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged China to “promptly address the longstanding grievances that have led to an alarming escalation in desperate forms of protest, including self-immolations, in Tibetan areas.”
Pillay said she was disturbed by "continuing allegations of violence against Tibetans seeking to exercise their fundamental human rights," and urged China to allow independent and impartial monitors to visit and assess the actual conditions on the ground, and to lift restrictions on media access to the region, as a confidence-building measure.
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Teenage Tibetan in self-immolation protest: Xinhua
Phayul[Saturday, November 10, 2012 23:39]
DHARAMSHALA, November 10: A teenaged Tibetan man passed away in his self-immolation protest in eastern Tibet on Saturday, AFP said citing China’s state news agency Xinhua.
The 18-year-old became the seventh Tibetan to set himself on fire in the last four days, making this the deadliest week since the wave of self-immolation protests began in 2009.
Now, 70 Tibetans have set themselves ablaze, protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet and demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet.
According to Xinhua, Chinese provincial government officials have identified the man as Gonpo Tsering.
AFP quoted Xinhua as saying that Gonpo Tsering carried out his fiery protest at 2:00 pm (local time) in the city of Tsoe (Ch: Hezuo) in Kanlho region of eastern Tibet. The report added that the “case was being investigated.”
It must be noted that Tibetan sources in exile have not reported on today’s protest. Usually, Tibetans in exile are the first to provide details on incidents inside Tibet.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an exile Tibetan with strong links in Tibet told Phayul that communication lines in Tibet are either not working or have been severely restricted.
“Phone lines in many areas that I have tried to contact are down or are being received by other people,” the exile Tibetan said. “People fear that all their conversations are being listened.”
Off late, several Tibetans have been disappeared, arrested, and sentenced to lengthy jail terms on charges of sending information on the self-immolation protests and contacting outsiders.
The alarming escalation in self-immolations this week coincides with the Chinese Communist Party’s weeklong 18th National Congress, which began Thursday in Beijing. The meeting is expected to end with the transfer of power to Vice President Xi Jinping, who will govern the country for a decade.
On Thursday, Tamding Tso, a 23-year-old mother of one, passed away in her self-immolation protest in Rebkong. The same day, three teenaged monks of the Ngoshul Monastery in Ngaba region set themselves on fire in a triple self-immolation protest. Dorjee, 15 passed away in his protest, while the condition of Samdup, 16, and Dorjee Kyab, 16, remains unknown. Also on that day, an unidentified Tibetan man passed away in his self-immolation protest in Driru.
On Friday, 18-year-old nomad, Kalsang Jinpa, set himself on fire at the Dolma Square in front of the Rongwo Monastery in Rebkong, after raising a white banner with slogans calling for the Dalai Lama’s return and the rights of the Tibetan people before setting himself ablaze. He passed away in his fiery protest.
Thousands of Tibetans, including school students, took part in massive rallies and led protests against the Chinese government in Rebkong following the self-immolations.
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Breaking: Tibet continues to burn, Another Tibetan self-immolates
Phayul[Monday, November 12, 2012 14:03]
DHARAMSHALA, November 12: In confirmed reports and photos coming out of Tibet, another Tibetan has set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet.
In one of the photos received by Phayul, a Tibetan man can be seen engulfed in flames, lying down on the ground.
Sources have identified the Tibetan as Nyingkar Tashi,24 years of age. The self-immolation is being reported from Rebkong region of eastern Tibet, the same region which witnessed two self-immolations and massive protests involving thousands of Tibetans and students last week
alone.
"I am getting confirmed reports of a self-immolation protest by a Tibetan man Nyiga, 24 in Rebkong this afternoon at around 3.30 pm(local time)," Ajam Amchok, an exile Tibetan with close contacts in the region told Phayul. "There is too much of a chaos right now in the area making it difficult to get more information."
Details on Nyingkar Tashi's condition is still awaited at the time of filing this report.
In less than week, beginning from the eve of Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress in Beijing, eight Tibetans have set themselves on fire demanding freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Chinese government officials from Tibet last week reiterated the government’s view that the self-immolations were being instigated by external separatist groups.
“External Tibetan separatist forces and the Dalai clique are sacrificing the lives of others to achieve ulterior political motives,” Lobsang Gyaltsen, the TAR Deputy Governor, was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Qiangba Puncog, the head of the TAR government’s People’s Congress, ruled out allowing foreign observers into Tibetan areas, as recommended recently by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
Speaking to reporters in Tokyo earlier today, the Dalai Lama said the Chinese government is not 'seriously' probing the cause of a spate of self-immolations.
"The Chinese government should investigate the cause (of the incidents). China does not look into it seriously and tries to end (the incidents) only by criticising me," Kyodo News reported in Japanese.
71 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since the wave of self-immolations began in 2009. A number of mass protests involving thousands of people have also erupted across the Tibetan plateau over the last several months.
Breaking: Second self-immolation today takes toll to 72, Heavy deployment of armed forces in Rebkong region
Phayul[Monday, November 12, 2012 18:22]
DHARAMSHALA, November 12: In more heartbreaking news coming out of Tibetan, a second Tibetan set himself on fire today in the Rebkong region of eastern Tibet.
Sources are confirming with Phayul that the Tibetan identified as Nyingchag Bum, 20, passed away in his protest in Dowa region of Rebkong.
“Nyingchag Bum from Yonlag Dewa set himself on fire on the main street of Dowa town,” Geshe Rongwo Lobsang Nyendak, a Tibetan member of parliament told Phayul. “Monks from the nearby Dowa Monastery carried his charred body inside the Monastery premises.”
Further details are awaited at the time of filing this report.
In confirmed reports coming in, Nyingkar Tashi, 24, who set himself on fire this afternoon in Dro Rongwo has passed away in his fiery protest.
Various sources are telling Phayul that the situation around Rebkong region is “very tense” following the five self-immolations in the region this month alone, including two today.
A heavy deployment of Chinese armed forces is also being reported in the region.
Thousands of Tibetans, including school students last week carried out massive demonstrations and protest rallies in Rongwo calling for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet.
School students also pulled down Chinese flags from their school building and government offices in Dro Rongwo, the place where Tamdin Tso set herself on fire protesting Chinese rule last week.
The self-immolation toll has now risen to 72 inside Tibet since 2009 with nine fiery protests this month alone.
The alarming escalation in the protests coincide with the ongoing Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Congress in Beijing, which will this week see the transfer of power from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping.
Earlier this month, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged China to “promptly address the longstanding grievances that have led to an alarming escalation in desperate forms of protest, including self-immolations, in Tibetan areas.”
Pillay said she was disturbed by "continuing allegations of violence against Tibetans seeking to exercise their fundamental human rights," and urged China to allow independent and impartial monitors to visit and assess the actual conditions on the ground, and to lift restrictions on media access to the region, as a confidence-building measure.
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Breaking: Young Tibetan burns self to death
Phayul[Thursday, November 15, 2012 19:08]
DHARAMSHALA, November 15: In confirmed reports, another Tibetan set himself on fire today in the Rebkong region of eastern Tibet in an apparent protest against China’s occupation of Tibet.
Khabum Gyal, 18, self-immolated near Rongwo town at around 11 am (local time). He passed away in his fiery protest.
“Monks from the Rebkong Tsagya Monastery and a large number of local Tibetans are carrying out the last rites of martyr Khabum Gyal right now,” Sonam, a Tibetan living in exile with close contacts in the region told Phayul.
Khabum Gyal is survived by his parents, Tamding Gyal and Dolkar Tso and six siblings.
“Details on the self-immolation protest are scanty and no photos have yet come out,” Sonam added.
This is sixth self-immolation in Rebkong region in the month of November alone. Earlier reports had indicated that Chinese authorities have deployed a large number of addition security forces in the Rebkong region and cut off power supply and communication channels.
73 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 demanding freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
The Dharamshala based exile Tibetan administration has said that it will observe a Global Solidarity Day on the occasion of the Human Rights Day on December 10 following the continuing wave of self-immolations.
The Central Tibetan Administration noted that the escalation in self-immolations “clearly reflect the gravity of Tibet’s current situation,” while urging Tibetans and supporters to “light a candle or lamp, observe a minute’s silence, and a say a prayer for all those who have died for the cause of Tibet, and locally organise vigils and rallies.”
“Despite our repeated appeals not to take drastic actions, self-immolations continue in Tibet,” Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the elected head of the Tibetan people said. “Therefore, I appeal to the international community and governments to stand for justice by answering the universal aspirations of Tibetans in Tibet: the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet and freedom for Tibetans.”
Breaking: Tibetan woman self-immolates, Two fiery deaths in a day
Phayul[Thursday, November 15, 2012 20:09]
DHARAMSHALA, November 15: Adding to the alarming escalation in self-immolation protests inside Tibet, a second Tibetan set herself on fire today in an apparent protest against China’s occupation of Tibet.
Tangzin Dolma, 23, set herself ablaze at around 12 pm (local time) today in Tsemo region of Rebkong, eastern Tibet.
Exile sources are saying that Tibetans from around the region started gathering in Tsemo upon hearing news of the self-immolation protest.
As of now a grand funeral for Tangzin Dolma has been planned for later tonight and the large gathering of Tibetans are awaiting the arrival of monks from the Rongwo Monastery.
She is survived by her parents, Bhulo and Tashi Dolma.
Further details on the self-immolation protest are awaited at the time of filing this report.
This is the second self-immolation that took place in Tibet today. Kharbum Gyal, a teenaged Tibetan set himself on fire in the same region earlier today and passed away in his protest.
As many as 12 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the month of November alone, taking the toll since the fiery wave began in 2009 to 74.
Self-immolators have demanded freedom for Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
Today’s twin self-immolation protests comes on the day when China unveiled its new Politburo Standing Committee members, the group of politicians who rule the country.
Tibetans and supporters in exile have asserted that the seven men, led by Xi Jinping, are facing “an immediate crisis,” with the alarming escalation in the wave of self-immolations and growing protests by Tibetans, including last week’s massive protests in Rebkong, against Beijing’s rule.
Vocal demands have been made for China's 5th generation leaders to acknowledge policy failures and seek resolution to the crisis in Tibet.
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