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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.

DHARAMSALA, 9 March: Revealing a “propitious prescient” indicated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his recent audience with the Dalai Lama, the President of the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) Penpa Tsering has said that the Tibetan spiritual leader’s enduring wish to visit Tibet and China could happen this year.

DHARAMSALA, 7 March: On the occasion of the Chodul Monlam Chenmo also known as The Great Prayer Festival, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a short teaching on the Jataka Tales followed by the Ceremony for Generating Bodhichitta (semkye) today at Tsug-lag-Khang, the main temple here in McLeod Ganj.

DHARAMSALA, 6 March: Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Taiwan declaring “oppression continues, resistance persists” to show their solidarity with Tibetans and other minority groups facing oppression in China ahead of the 64th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising day on Sunday.

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.