Tibetan Self-Immolations Just One Sign of Tensions
According to records kept by the International Campaign for Tibet, 142 Tibetans have...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 25, 2015
According to records kept by the International Campaign for Tibet, 142 Tibetans have...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 17, 2015
According to U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan father of seven in his mid-forties...
by Cindy | Feb 24, 2015
The Tibetan Review reports that thousands of Tibetans in the province of Sichuan defied government...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 23, 2014
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports that a 20-year-old Tibetan woman died Monday after...
by Josh Rudolph | May 28, 2014
Radio Free Asia reports that a Tibetan singer was arrested last weekend after a concert in Aba...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 16, 2014
On the sixth anniversary of protests in Tibetan regions, and a subsequent crackdown, two Tibetans...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 6, 2013
The New Republic’s Christopher Beam describes life offline in Aba (Ngaba) county in Sichuan,...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 28, 2013
Radio Free Asia reports the first Tibetan self-immolation in ten weeks: Shichung, 41,...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 16, 2013
A Sichuan court sentenced 32-year-old Drolma Gya to death and deprivation of political rights on...
by Melissa M. Chan | Mar 17, 2013
The Associated Press reports Lobsang Thokmey, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, set himself on fire at Kirti monastery on Saturday, one of two self-immolations in the past week. This self-immolation marks the fifth anniversary of the...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 26, 2013
Three Tibetan self-immolations have taken place in recent days, according to exile media, amid vigorous discussion of the protests and a continued crackdown by Chinese authorities. From Dharamsala-based Phayul.com: Tsezung Kyab,...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 13, 2013
After a Tibetan man set himself on fire in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Wednesday, exile and activist groups reported that the 100th self-immolation protest within Tibet had taken place in Ngaba on February 3rd. From...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 18, 2013
Voice of America reports that yet another Tibetan has perished after self-immolating in Ngaba county, Sichuan province – a region with a majority population of ethnic Tibetans and long a hotbed for protest against Chinese...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 4, 2012
Dharamsala-based Phayul.com reports that a 92nd self-immolation protest took place on Monday evening. Lobsang Gendun, a 29-year-old Tibetan monk self-immolated in Golog Pema Dzong at around 7:45 pm (local time). He succumbed to...
by Scott Greene | Oct 18, 2012
America’s ambassador to China has publicly acknowledged a late September visit to China’s western frontier, a region which has seen numerous self-immolations by Tibetans in protest of Chinese rule, according to The...
by Scott Greene | Aug 14, 2012
Radio Free Asia reported Tuesday that police in Sichuan province’s Aba county beat a Tibetan to death while trying to clear the site of two more self-immolations that took place Monday: Lungtok, a monk from the restive...
by Scott Greene | Jun 5, 2012
Edward Wong of The New York Times reports that two senior representatives of the Dalai Lama who took part in nine rounds of negotiations with China have resigned: […]The envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, said in a...
by Scott Greene | May 31, 2012
Security forces in Lhasa have detained or expelled hundreds of residents and pilgrims, according to a local source, after two monks reportedly set themselves on fire outside the Jokhang Temple on Sunday in the most serious...