Exile

DHARAMSALA, 18 March: The 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile(TPIE) today unanimously passed a resolution of gratitude to the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi for her continued and constant support for the Tibetan issue over the last three decades.

DHARAMSALA, March 14: The Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel said that China’s harsh and repressive policies in Tibet are aimed at exterminating the Tibetan culture and religion as he flagged off the budget session for the financial year 2023-2024 of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile earlier today.

DHARAMSALA, 15 March: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama reaffirmed to live for several more decades as he attended a long-life prayer (tenshug) offered to him today by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on behalf of all Tibetans inside and outside Tibet.

DHARAMSALA, 13 March:  Tibetan women from every walk of life took part in the Tibetan Women’s Association’s (TWA) commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day and marched from Mcleod Ganj to Dharamsala on Sunday.

DHARAMSALA, 10 March: “The Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) is hoping to find a mutually-agreeable way forward to discuss Tibet’s future status based on the Middle-Way Policy,” the President of the CTA said before Tibetans and supporters gathered at the courtyard of Tsug-lag-Khang, the main temple in Mcleod Ganj, here today to observe the 64th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising day.

DHARAMSALA, 10 March:  Over 70 activists from the Tibetan Youth Congress(TYC), were detained by Delhi police for protesting at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on the 64th Tibetan National Uprising Day in New Delhi.

DHARAMSALA, 10 March: Nepal has yet again denied permission for Tibetans to commemorate the Tibetan National Uprising Day.

Today is the sixty-fourth anniversary of the Tibetan People’s Uprising against the occupation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1959, the thirty-fourth anniversary of the PRC`s imposition of the first martial law in Tibet in 1989 after three successive annual mass protests in Tibet’s capital Lhasa and the fifteenth anniversary of the peaceful protests that erupted across the three traditional provinces of Tibet in 2008. On this solemn occasion, we remember and honour our compatriots and martyrs who have given their lives for the cause of Tibet. We stand in solidarity with their family members and with those who are still suffering under the oppression of the PRC`s occupation. 

Today we mark the day in 1959 when the communist Chinese government carried out a brutal armed suppression in Tibet’s capital Lhasa. It was a part of an elaborate series of machinations by China which even included a plot on the very life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a situation impossible for the Tibetan people to endure. It was therefore inevitable that tens of thousands of Tibetan people from all the three provinces of the country, both lay and clerical, rose in a spontaneous upsurge of protests in Lhasa with the singularity of a common thought on the wellbeing of their nation in their minds. And today, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of that momentous, historic occasion. Today is also our Martyr’s Day, when we remember the patriotic valour of the men and women of our nationhood. And so, on behalf of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, I offer my tribute and obeisance to the patriotic men and women of Tibet who have sacrificed their all, including their very lives, for the sake of the religious, political, and ethnic identity of the nation with indomitable courage and deeds. At the same time, I also offer my sense of empathy and solidarity with the men and women in Tibet who continue to be subjected to this day to untold suffering under the oppressive rule of the government of China.

By: VIJAY KRANTI

NEW DELHI-PARIS-LONDON-BERLIN-DHARAMSHALA, 9 March Tibet experts from a cross section of countries see signs of hope for the colonized people of Tibet and other countries, occupied by China, in the ever increasing nationalist rhetoric by the Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who are now struggling to keep their hold over China’s ruling system. In an international webinar, held on the eve of 64 th anniversary of Tibetan people’s uprising against Chinese colonial rule over Tibet, they saw a big hope in the continuing expression of resistance against Chinese rule among the Tibetan population living under the Chinese rule.