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If I can’t make it to the final round of Sikyong’s election,  will run for parliamentary election: Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok

DHARAMSALA, 30 Dec: The Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile(TPIE ) who is in the run for the soon to be held Sikyong(President) election of the Tibetan-government-in-exile, officially known as Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) has announced on Tuesday that if he fails to make it to the final round of Sikyong’s election, he will run for the 17th parliamentary elections of the Tibetans.

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Opinion: China’s atrocities in Tibet are growing too big to ignore

By Josh Rogin | The Washington Post |  25 December 2020.

The world is finally responding to the Chinese government’s mass atrocities against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang. But now Beijing is replicating some of its worst practices — including rounding up hundreds of thousands of innocent people in military-style reeducation camps — in other parts of China. This year, Beijing built and filled massive camps in Tibet, which had been the original testing ground for cultural genocide, political indoctrination and forced labor. Tibetan leaders are pleading for the world to pay attention.

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