By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 30 Aug: China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has released a new edition of the map on Monday that includes India’s state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin region as part of its territory, arousing strong protest and responses from Indian ministers and army veterans.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 Aug: Enforced disappearance, a reprehensible practice in violation of human rights, has cast a shadow over the lives of Tibetans living under Chinese occupation, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has said while condemning China for weaponising enforced disappearance to suppress dissent and opposition within Tibet.
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New Delhi, Paris, New York & Dharamshala – 28 August 2023 Many international experts on
China and Tibet are of the opinion that President Xi Jinping’s obsession with security and to present
himself as the new Mao Zedong is resulting into cultural genocide and total annihilation of the national
personality of China’s colonies like Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang) and Southern Mongolia. Analyzing the
causes and impact of dividing occupied Tibet in 1965 into many pieces at an international webinar titled
“China’s Cartographic Colonialism in Tibet” experts from USA, Europe, Tibet and India expressed
concern that China’s Communist Party (CCP) and its leaders are religiously focused at washing out
Tibet’s history by rewriting and propagating a manufactured version that suits Chinese expansionism.
DHARAMSALA, 25 Aug: Highlighting the ongoing struggle for justice in Chinese-occupied Tibet, Gonpo Kyi, the sister of the imprisoned Tibetan philanthropist and businessman Dorjee Tashi, has reportedly been beaten by Chinese police once again.
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DHARAMSALA, 25 Aug: US Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, Ms Uzra Zeya, has said that “climate change and infrastructure development, among other issues, continue to threaten the Tibetan plateau.”
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DHARAMSALA, 25 Aug: KHADHOK, a collective of Tibetan artists, inaugurated its inaugural Art Exhibition today to honour the life and art of Jigme Choedak, also known as JC (1997-2023).
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DHARAMSALA, 24 Aug: A former Tibetan political prisoner Sonam Gyalpo has passed away last Wednesday. According to multiple reports, the veteran Tibetan political prisoner in his 70s who spent over 16 years in Chinese prison breathed his last on 16 August 2023.
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DHARAMSALA, 24 Aug: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Thursday congratulated India on the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 lander module on the moon.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 24th Aug: The US on Tuesday announced that it will impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in CCP’s “forced assimilation” policy, where over a million Tibetan children have been put into government-run boarding schools.
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DHARAMSALA, 23 Aug: Subjected to constantan surveillance, Tibetan language advocate and former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk has been brutally thrashed by a group of unidentified, masked men at a hotel in Golok in eastern Tibet, while the apathy of the authorities-police and doctor- has forced him to spend a night on a stool in the hospital on Saturday.
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