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• The Moral Defence Rests

  12 November 2009, by Tenzin Tsundue

  When Manmohan Singh clearly and courageously said last month that there was no question of his government cancelling the Dalai Lama’s Arunachal Pradesh visit, I was proud. As refugees in India, it is painful for us Tibetans to witness Beijing bureaucrats laying down the law to our host government in arrogant, bullying terms. This visit’s historic importance is that it swings back focus on the McMahon Line and therefore Tibet. That’s why China was so impatient to shoot it down. The result of (...)

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• "When the ’Pillars of National Unity’ Turned Into Totems" by Woeser

  8 November 2009, by TW

  In the history of China’s national celebrations since 1949, there has never been such a cutting edge festival manifested in 56 massive and brightly-coloured “pillars of national unity” as recently erected on Tiananmen Square. The reason for the creation of these 56 “pillars of national unity” symbolising the equality, unity and harmony amongst the 56 nationalities is directly related to the “Tibet Incident” of last year and the “Xinjiang Incident” of this year. Tibetans and Uyghurs have become the (...)

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• The Bounty March

  31 March 2009, by Tenzin Tsundue

  The Tibetan activist outlines his people’s crucial history of hope in the half century since the March Uprising As a schoolboy in Class VII, my first serious Tibetan history lesson was one of provocation. I used to listen to Professor Samdhong Rinpoche’s Tibetan history lectures on audio tapes sent by a scholar uncle in Varanasi. In one anecdote, Professor Rinpoche tells of the 1950 fall of the eastern gate of Kham-Chamdo to invading Chinese troops. A messenger in Lhasa ran to deliver the (...)

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• Tibet and China: the past in the present

  28 March 2009, by Tsering Shakya

  The Chinese government proclaimed in January 2009 that for the first time a festival called "Serf Liberation Day" is to be celebrated in Tibet, in commemoration of the events of 1959 when Chinese forces occupied Lhasa and established direct control over the country following the uprising of Tibetans against their encroaching rule. The decision - a response to the widespread protests that engulfed the Tibetan plateau in March-April 2008 - was carefully crafted and presented as if it (...)

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• Who are the real separatists?

  26 March 2009, by Kunga Tsayang

  Kunga Tsayang (pen name: Gangnyi) is a respected writer, intellectual and artist of the new Tibetan generation. He was arrested by the Chinese authorities on 17 March 2009, from Labrang Monastery on alleged charges for writing political essays on Tibet to a website named as "Jottings" (Tib: Zin-dris), in Gansu Province. Information dissemination is the most important tool in carrying out any kind of action or campaign. However, if one’s ways of spreading information crosses the standard (...)

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