Author: Tibet Express Newsdesk

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, March 18: The Election Commission (EC) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on Wednesday announced the shortlisted MP candidates for the final phase of the 2026 Tibetan General Election. The announcement was made at a press conference held at Lhakpa Tsering Hall in the Department of Information and International Relations.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 17 March: The second day of the budget session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile saw Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) President (Sikyong) Penpa Tsering, who also serves as the Finance Minister, respond to questions raised by MPs on the first day regarding foreign aid, expenditure patterns, and financial stability.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 16 March: The final session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile(TPiE) began today, with lawmakers set to debate and finalise the Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) proposed consolidated budget of ₹3,407.42 million for the 2026–2027 fiscal year.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 13 March: The 8th All India Tibet Support Group’s Conference concluded its meeting in Dharamsala on Friday, with a declaration reaffirming solidarity with the Tibetan people and calling for the resumption of dialogue between Tibet and China.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 10 March: Hundreds of Tibetan refugees took to the streets of Dharamsala on Monday, raising the Tibetan national flag and chanting slogans of “Azadi” to mark the 67th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising Day against China’s colonial occupation of Tibet. The march, which flowed through the Himalayan town home to the Tibetan government-in-exile, was both a remembrance of the uprising and an act of defiance, as Tibetans in exile continue to denounce what they describe as decades of colonial domination by Beijing.

Throughout the course of its historical evolvement since the very beginning of human society, the management and control of the Tibetan nation with regard to its political matters, governance, and legal system have been carried out by its own people without any sort of external dominion authority. This was because Tibet was a free and fully independent country. Its status as such was fully in keeping with today’s universally defined conditions for the recognition of a sovereign, independent country and for the recognition of the nationality by which such a nationhood is constituted. Besides, Tibet’s history of independence has been more robust and much longer than that of many other sovereign independent countries of today. Notwithstanding this fact, however, the People’s Republic of China launched an armed invasion of the country in 1949. The development culminated on the 10th of March in 1959, when people from all the three provinces of Tibet – monastics as well as the lay public – staged a massive uprising in capital Lhasa in a spontaneous outburst of united protest against the occupying communist Chinese power due the policies they implemented and the military domination they imposed in the country. We are today commemorating the 67th anniversary of that event. It is a day impossible for any Tibetan person to ever forget. It is not only a day of immense importance to all the Tibetan people, for it is also our Martyr’s Day to commemorate the men and women who have sacrificed their all, including their very lives, for the religion, polity, and people of Tibet. And so, for all those who have thus far sacrificed their everything, including their precious lives, for the cause of the people of the Tibetan nation and their freedom, and those who continue to be subjected to limitless inhuman hardship, persecuted by the communist Chinese government under all manners of false pretexts even today, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile commend the martyrs for their resoluteness, valour, and selfless patriotism. Along with it, we offer ardent prayers that the heartfelt wishes of the Tibetan people, the living as well as the dead, for the victorious revival of the freedom of Tibet may be realized with utmost certainty, and that they be embraced with the protective compassion of the patron-deity Avalokiteshvara of Tibet for all lifetimes to come.

Today marks the 67th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising, when Tibetans from all three provinces, monastics and laypeople alike, rose in unison with indomitable courage in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, to protest the illegal invasion by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and to safeguard the person of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama from imminent threat. On this solemn occasion, the Kashag pays its deepest tribute to all the martyrs who made the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of Tibet, its faith, and its people, and stands in unwavering solidarity with our brothers and sisters inside Tibet, whose resolve to preserve our distinct national identity remains as unyielding as Mount Meru, even in the face of relentless oppression by the government of the PRC. We also express our sincere gratitude to all our distinguished guests present here today for their powerful demonstration of solidarity with the Tibetan people, and to all nations, organizations, and individuals around the world who continue to support the cause of Tibet.