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Renowned exiled Tibetan author and poet Jamyang Norbu has one of the most thoughtful analysis of 2011′s epidemic of self-immolations by young Tibetan monks and nuns inside of Tibet – you can read it on his blog Shadow Tibet. His analysis looks at historic instances of self-immolation as a political act by practitioners of Buddhism [...]

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Paul Kane must have been wearing a pair of bad idea jeans when he penned his op-ed in the New York Times calling for the US to trade Taiwan to China for $1.14 trillion in debt forgiveness by the Chinese government. Kane thinks that the US’s commitment to defend Taiwan in the event of an [...]

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Time Magazine’s Hannah Beech has a first hand account from inside Tibet of the epidemic of self-immolations and other bold acts by Tibetans calling for freedom and a return of the Dalai Lama. It’s rare to get this sort of reporting from Tibet and the piece is illuminating for both the recent phenomenon of Tibetan’s [...]

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Nana Rolland has a piece in the Wall Street Journal which does a good job of contextualizing the political hopelessness Tibetans inside of Tibet are feeling, as evidenced by the nine self-immolations committed by young Tibetans since this spring. Self-immolations can be seen as the tragic and desperate acts of people who do not know [...]

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A Tibetan monk in Tawu, Kardze, Tibet self-immolated yesterday while calling for Tibetan independence and the Dalai Lama’s return. The monk’s name was Tsewang Norbu. Since Tsewang Norbu’s death, there has been a massive influx of police and military forces into the town in Kardze where Norbu’s monastery is and surrounded it. Over 10,000 Tibetans [...]

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Financial Times reports on a disturbing trend in China: homeowners being evicted by the Chinese government to make way for development are fighting back with violent tactics. In China, the transfer of wealth from working class people to elites is abetted by the government in an even more dramatic way than here in the US, [...]

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My colleague Tenzin Dorjee, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet, has a great quote in the New York Times explaining the meaning of the self-immolation by a young Tibetan monk named Phuntsog in Ngaba, Tibet: “China’s violent rule in Tibet has escalated since 2008 to a point where Tibetans feel compelled to take [...]

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Early Kate Saunders of International Campaign for Tibet tweeted: @katesictibet A young Tibetan monk set himself on fire at Kirti in Tibet; protests that followed were violently suppressed, news just emerging Now Phayul is reporting the story with more details: A Tibetan monk of Kirti monastery in Amdo Ngaba is reportedly dead after he set [...]

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Sign up today and help us reach our goal of 100 new members by Monday, March 21. Here are the Top Ten Reasons to Support SFT: Reason 10: SFT is youth Our base of young Tibetans and supporters know change is possible. Young people have the passion, commitment, and inexhaustible energy to work for what [...]

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