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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Tibetan monk self-immolates calling for freedom
August 16th, 2011 · Comments Off
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Anti-eviction violence in China
June 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off
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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Tendor on Phuntsog’s Self-Immolation
March 18th, 2011 · Comments Off
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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Self-Immolation & Protests in Ngaba, Tibet
March 16th, 2011 · Comments Off
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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Join SFT’s Rangzen Circle Drive
March 15th, 2011 · Comments Off
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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A New Uprising
March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off
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Tibet Action Institute Launches
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off
The Tibet Action Institute has officially launched as a special project of Students for a Free Tibet, on whose Board of Directors I serve. From the email announcing Tibet Action: From Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen to Bahrain, the past six weeks have shown the tremendous power of strategic nonviolent resistance – particularly when combined with [...]
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Civil Resistance in Tibet
January 27th, 2011 · Comments Off
Matteo Pistono has a good piece in the Washington Post about the subtle acts of civil resistance Tibetans inside of Tibet have been taking. Pistono writes: While authorities and security personnel in Lhasa on July 6, and other dates, keep a keen eye open and the detention cells ready for use, a quiet event occurs [...]
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Chinese Govt “Scared to Death” of Nancy Pelosi
November 30th, 2010 · Comments Off
Well, this is kinda fun: China was “scared to death” over a visit by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is outspoken on human rights, and rejected her request to visit to Tibet, according to files leaked Monday. A top diplomat at the US embassy in Beijing said he asked China to consider letting Pelosi go [...]
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Woeser’s Courage in Journalism Award Speech
October 21st, 2010 · Comments Off
The International Women’s Media Foundation recently awarded the Tibetan blogger, poet and dissident Woeser their 2010 Courage in Journalism Award. While Woeser was denied a passport by the Chinese government and unable to attend, she sent an acceptance speech, which High Peaks Pure Earth has posted. She tells the story of her rise to prominence, [...]
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