Tibetans In Exile Feeling Their Homeland’s Pain

Written by Lobsang Sangay, research associate at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, from International Herald Tribune:

During the height of the recent protests in Tibet, a 49-year-old Tibetan American living in Massachusetts called his mother in Tibet.

“How are you?” he asked,

She said, “Not good.”

Why?

“Two of your siblings have been taken to the hospital.”

“Was this because of an old disease or a new disease?”

“An old disease,” the mother said, But the doctor said the prognosis is not good.”

Then she said, “Son, don’t call me for a while.” And she hung up.

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