By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA 24 Feb: President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday fired 1,600 staff in the US at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and placed all USAID direct hire personnel on administrative leave globally.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 19, Feb: After being released from a Chinese prison, an exiled Tibetan activist and former political prisoner, Namkyi, faced an impossible choice: either continue staying in occupied Tibet under perpetual repression and round-the-clock Chinese surveillance or flee her homeland to expose the plight of other Tibetan political prisoners in occupied Tibet under Chinese rule.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 18 Feb: “Silence would only prolong the suffering of Tibetan political prisoners,” former political prisoner Namkyi said as she testified at a Tibetan advocacy program hosted by Tibetan Initiative Deutschland, risking potential threats against her family in occupied Tibet.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 17, Feb: Heavy state surveillance coupled with China’s authoritarian rule have effectively eradicated every space for dissent in occupied Tibet, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) said in its latest report asserting that China has transformed occupied Tibet into a “panopticon”, where individuals are constantly conscious of being monitored, regardless of whether an actual observer is present.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 14, Feb: India has upgraded the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s security to Z-category following intelligence threats assessments according to multiple news reports.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 13 Feb: A panel of leaders issued a joint statement today condemning China’s use of the colonial term “Xizang” for Tibet, calling on the international community to reject this nomenclature and take immediate action against attempts to erase Tibet’s distinct identity from global discourse on the 112th anniversary of the proclamation of Tibetan independence by the 13th Dalai Lama.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 11 Feb: More than 2,50,000 people have signed a petition urging UN High Commissioner Volker Turk to break his silence on China’s colonial boarding schools in occupied Tibet, which aim to assimilate an entire generation of Tibetan children into the dominant Han culture, risking the permanent discontinuation of the generational transmission of distinct Tibetan language and culture.
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DHARAMSALA, 10 Feb: Tibetans are mourning the demise of Kalon Trisur Gyalo Thondup, the older brother of the Dalai Lama and a key figure in Tibetan politics. He passed away at the age of 97 on 8 February at his home in Kalimpong, West Bengal.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 7 Feb: Some major forest fires have ravaged various parts of occupied Tibet in the last two weeks, with the Kamda forest fire in Dzamthang County in Ngaba in the traditional Tibetan Province of Amdo being the most recent one. Notably, the fire breakouts have largely gone unreported by Chinese state-owned media.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 5 Feb: Various Indian news agencies have mistakenly reported on the eligibility of Tibetans born after 1987 to exercise their voting rights in Indian elections, citing statements made by Kuldeep Singh Pathaniam, the Himachal Pradesh Assembly Speaker, during a meeting in Shimla with a Tibetan parliamentary delegation on Monday.