Tibetan Self-Immolations Just One Sign of Tensions
According to records kept by the International Campaign for Tibet, 142 Tibetans have...
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RFA: Tibetan Man Dies After Self-Immolation in Sichuan
According to U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan father of seven in his mid-forties...
Tibetans Openly Celebrate Dalai Lama’s 80th Year
The Tibetan Review reports that thousands of Tibetans in the province of Sichuan defied government...
Tibetan Woman Dies After Self-Immolation in China
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports that a 20-year-old Tibetan woman died Monday after...
Tibetan Protest Singer Said to be Under Arrest
Radio Free Asia reports that a Tibetan singer was arrested last weekend after a concert in Aba...
Two Monks Self-Immolate in Sichuan and Qinghai
On the sixth anniversary of protests in Tibetan regions, and a subsequent crackdown, two Tibetans...
Aba County: Where China Shut Off the Internet
The New Republic’s Christopher Beam describes life offline in Aba (Ngaba) county in Sichuan,...
Tibetan Father of Two Self-Immolates in Aba
Radio Free Asia reports the first Tibetan self-immolation in ten weeks: Shichung, 41,...
Death Sentence for “Faking” Wife’s Self-Immolation
A Sichuan court sentenced 32-year-old Drolma Gya to death and deprivation of political rights on...
Tibetan Monk and Woman Die in Burning Protest
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...
Three Self-Immolations Amid Crackdown, Debate
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,...
100th Self-Immolation Within Tibet; Another in Nepal
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...
Tibetan Self-Immolates, Others Arrested
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...
92nd Tibetan Self-Immolation Reported
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...
U.S. Ambassador Visited Tibetans in September
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...
Tibetans, Police Clash After Two More Self-Immolations
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...
Tibetan Envoys Resign As Situation Worsens
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...
Hundreds Reportedly Detained in Lhasa Crackdown
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...
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