Tibetan Political News
- Lessons Learned: Remembering Lobsang Dhondup, Taking Action to Free Tenzin Delek
By Lhadon Tethong (first published in January 2011) I was attending the World Social Forum in Brazil when the Chinese government executed Lobsang Dhondup and sentenced Tenzin Delek Rinpoche to death. I was checking my email in a small cybercafe in...
- Six Believed Killed in Protests
January 23, 2012 | RFA At least six Tibetans may have been killed and an unknown number injured when security forces fired on protesters in China’s Sichuan province on Monday, Tibetan sources in the region and in exile said. The shooting spar...
- Tibetan Protests Spread
January 17, 2012 | RFA Protests have spread across Tibetan-populated regions of western China amid calls for freedom from Chinese rule and to refrain from celebrating Losar, the traditional Tibetan New Year, next month, according to sources in the...
- Tibetan Villagers Clash With Police
January 10, 2012 | RFA | Security forces use tear gas to contain protests after Tibetans ransack a police station in a northwestern Chinese province. Chinese police have shot and killed a Tibetan man accused of stealing tents from a controvers...
- Thousands Attend Funeral
January 09 | RFA | Tibetans pay their last respects to the most senior monk to have self-immolated so far. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="305" caption="Self-immolation protests in Tibetan areas in China since March 2011. A. Ngaba coun...
- Angry Tibetans Parade Corpse
January 7 | RFA | Protesters in a Chinese province force police to return the remains of a monk who self-immolated and died. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="305" caption="Sopa, a respected monk, died after setting himself on fire in Dar...
