Exile

DHARAMSALA, 3 March: China has fumed after the Czech Foreign Minister met with representatives of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan government in exile.

DHARAMSALA, 1 March: Tibetan activists protested in the Indian capital and urged the G20 Nations to protect Tibetan Children and raise the issue of China’s rampant sinicization in Tibet on Wednesday ahead of the Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s scheduled visit to India to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers meet.

By: Tenzing Dhamdul, FNVA Research Associate

On 13th February 1913, His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama Thupten Gyatso came out with a proclamation that reaffirmed Tibetan Independence. Therefore, declaring and ushering Tibet into the era of a modern nation-state, the first of its kind in the high Himalayas as its near neighbour which would eventually occupy it illegally was in a civil and factional power struggle after the dethronement and removal of the Qing Dynasty.

DHARAMSALA, 13 Feb: Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Dharamsala marked the 110th anniversary of the declaration of Tibetan independence with a street showcase “Majestic Walk”.

By: VIJAY KRANTI

NEW DELHI, DHARAMSHALA, NEW YORK, CHICAGO – 12 FEB Amid many painful aspects of the spread of Covid-19 in China, one positive outcome is the new comradeship the people of colonized countries like Tibet, Xinjiang (East Turkistan), Southern Mongolia and the right thinking Chinese citizens have come to establish in these painful days. Experts and thought leaders from all of these four groups who shared a common international webinar platform were of the opinion that to fight the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping, they must join hands. 

DHARAMSALA, 8 Feb: UN experts have expressed grave concern over China’s policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system that has affected around a million Tibetan children.

DHARAMSALA, 8 Feb: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed sadness at the extensive loss of life and many injuries caused by the devastating earthquakes that have struck Turkey and Syria.

DHARAMSALA, 3 Feb: Tibetan NGOs here in the exile headquarters of the Tibetan people called on the US government to investigate into Thermo Fisher Scientific and their ill-gotten gains as they joined over a hundred movement-based organisations and allies for the “Global week of action” to highlight China’s New Attack on Tibet: Stealing Tibetan DNA!

DHARAMSALA, 2 Feb: A specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia has said that Moscow forcing out of the leader of the Buddhist community of Kalmykia had more to do with Moscow’s wanting to show deference to Beijing than his criticism of Putin’s war in Ukraine.

DHARAMSALA, 31 Jan: A group of volunteers held a protest in solidarity with climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who is on a ‘Climate fast’ on Monday.