Tibetan protesters

Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 43 days ago
Meant to deter unrest as protesters are sentenced, action comes amid calls for secession Chinese paramilitary police with riot shields and batons abruptly took up posts yesterday on the main street of this Tibetan town, disrupting the bustle of Buddhist pilgrims in a reminder of China's determined control of the region. ...

Source: primebuzz.kcstar.com --- 53 days ago
  WASHINGTON | Former President Bill Clinton's globe-trotting business deals and fundraising for his foundation sometimes put his activities abroad at odds with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and could cause complications if President-elect Barack Obama picks her to be secretary of state. During her own White House campaign, the New York senator criticized China for its crackdown on protesters in Tibet and urged President George W. Bush to skip the Olympics in Beijing. Her campaign was embarrassed by reports that her husband's foundation had raised money from a Chinese Internet company that posted an online government "Most Wanted" notice seeking information on Tibetan human-rights activists that may have been involved in the demonstrations. read more ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 53 days ago
Former President Bill Clinton's globe-trotting business deals and fundraising for his foundation sometimes put his activities abroad at odds with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and it could cause complications for her if President-elect Barack Obama picks her to be secretary of state. During her own presidential campaign, the New York senator criticized China for its crackdown on protesters in Tibet and urged President George W. Bush to skip the Olympics in Beijing. Her campaign was embarrassed by reports that her husband's foundation had raised money from a Chinese Internet company that posted an online government "Most Wanted" notice seeking information on Tibetan human-rights activists that may have been involved in the demonstrations. Hillary Clinton has campaigned as a champion of workers' rights. Earlier this year, Brazilian labor inspectors found what they called "degrading" living conditions for sugar cane workers employed by an ethanol company in which Bill Clinton invested. In the Senate, Clinton was an outspoken critic of a proposed deal under which a Dubai company planned to buy a British business that helped run six major U.S. ports. Meanwhile, the company, named DP World, privately sought Bill Clinton's advice about how to respond to the controversy in Washington over the port plan, which the company later abandoned. Obama met quietly with Hillary Clinton on Thursday at his headquarters in Chicago, and some Democrats ...

Source: www.inboxrobot.com --- 80 days ago
... of two monks attempting suicide were broadcast by Radio Free Asia, a US-funded and CIA-originated station broadcasting propaganda to communist countries since the Cold War. Meanwhile, Tibetan protesters on ... ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 15 days ago
A court official in Dhartsedo confirmed the ongoing sentencing of Tibetan protesters. Only “serious cases” were being brought to the Dhartsedo court, while “other cases are tried in their respective counties of ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 62 days ago
In this file photo, a Tibetan man shouts anti-China slogans as scores of Tibetans sit in for an indefinite hunger strike to protest against China's clamp down operations on Tibetan protesters in Lhasa... ...

Source: www.moonofalabama.org --- 47 days ago
There is currently a meeting of Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala, India, to discuss the future of their movement. In March several Han Chinese were killed by violent Tibetan protesters in Lhasa. As the 'western' media misrepresented the issue, I wrote... ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 62 days ago
Jigme, who provided a rare first-hand account of China's crackdown on Tibetan protesters to foreign media has been arbitrarily arrested by Sangchu County Public Security Bureau this afternoon from one of the Tibetan homes in Labrang ...

Source: www.tibetoffice.com.au --- 42 days ago
Geneva: A United Nations (UN) watchdog investigating torture has ordered a thorough and independent inquiry into China’s excessive use of force against peaceful Tibetan protesters particularly monks in Kardze county, Ngaba county, and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The Chinese government violent clampdown on peaceful Tibetan protesters since 10 March this year in Tibet, left 218 [...] ...

Source: viewsfromtheleftcoast.blogspot.com --- 67 days ago
Troubling news from India is that the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who has long campaigned for autonomy from the Chinese government, has given up hope for a peaceful settlement. "Because of lack of response from the Chinese, we have to be realistic -- there is no hope," Tenzin Taklha, an aide to the Dalai Lama, told the Reuters international news service on Sunday. The statement was somewhat of a surprise since another round of talks between Tibetan and Chinese officials was expected by the end of October. The two sides have been negotiating since China expressed fears that pro-autonomy protesters would try to disrupt last summer's Beijing Olympics. But the Chinese government also accused the Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising, of treason after rioting broke out in Tibet in March. The Dalai Lama has called for a special meeting of Tibetan exiles in November to discuss the future of the Tibetan movement. "His holiness does not want to become a hindrance to the Tibetan issue, and therefore has sent a letter to the parliament regarding what options he has," Taklha told Reuters. The Dalai Lama advocated a conciliatory approach to negotiations with the Chinese, a philosophy opposed by many exiled Tibetans and by the young, Reuters said. "We are not against the middle way approach of his Holiness; the fact is that China is not sincere and has never been sincere in talking about the middle way," said Tsew ...

Source: www.potalatimes.com --- 34 days ago
Dharamsala, Dec 03 – The government of Nepal has reiterated assurances to visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that it would not allow anti-China protests on its soil. The Maoist government which came under criticism from right groups for its handling of Tibetan protesters is said to have pleased China more than the earlier government [...] ...

Source: taiwanmatters.blogspot.com --- 61 days ago
Ma will bring peace? Get the fuck outta here! Let me say it up front, and let me say it loudly: THE PEOPLE OF TAIWAN DO NOT WANT A POLICE STATE ! TAIWAN IS NOT PART OF CHINA ! I can also say without much doubt that they're already pretty fucking tired of Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration. The blue and red elephants in the room As I mentioned earlier, martial law is being reintroduced to Taiwan, and the philistine police response to protesters as well as to people simply expressing their feelings is a clear indication of this situation. People walking in unrestricted spaces have been grabbed by police for merely carrying ROC flags or video cameras . A music store (Sunrise Records [上揚唱片]) playing patriotic Taiwanese music was shut down by police, injuring at least one person inside and damaging store property. Two women peacefully carrying ROC and Tibetan flags were arrested , at least one being injured by police in the process. The police didn't cite any laws in these cases. DPP politicians Chuang Ruei-hsiung (莊瑞雄), Huang Hsiang-chun (黃向群), Wang Hsiao-wei (王孝維), and Liu Yao-ren (劉耀仁) were walking near the Grand Hotel (圓山大飯店). One of them was clearly pushed to the ground by police, despite the non-violent behavior of the entire group. When four DPP city councilors from Taichung unfurled two banners from the window of a room they had booked in the Grand Hotel before the arrival of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARAT ...

Source: mitalisaran.blogspot.com --- 9 days ago
Most people I talk to seem to agree that 2008 has been a ratty, perfidious, thoroughly avoidable year, and many of them have sworn never to repeat it. It’s been particularly frustrating because much as I’d like to quietly strangle the thing, hide the body, and move on, I can’t, because some really nice things were interspersed among the many really godawful things. Petrol breached the $100 per barrel barrier, but mobile phones got cheaper and better. Sarah Palin came perilously close to the Presidency of the United States, but Barack Obama actually got it. The Chinese government cracked down on Tibetan protesters, but democracy came to Nepal and Bhutan. Over 400 sq kms of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica melted into oblivion, but Sariska National Park’s tiger population is looking a bit better. The global economy felt a bit queasy and then suddenly had to be taken to the ER, but we all became just a little more invested in the health of the planet. I lost a grandmother, but gained a nephew, whose facial structure I look forward to discovering whenever it fights its way out of his cheeks. So there it is: A year I’d rather forget, but must grudgingly admire. All this wouldn’t be so aggravating if it weren’t for my mother’s voice echoing in my head, telling me how everything and everyone is a mix of good and bad, and nothing and nobody is perfect, and that I’d better learn to take the good with the bad, and not throw the baby out with ...

Source: leightoncookie.blogspot.com --- 57 days ago
In the Quiet Land, no one can hear what is silenced by murder and covered up with fear. But, despite what is forced, freedom's a sound that liars can't fake and no shouting can drown. - Aung San Suu Kyi The following figures briefly describe the mode of death of the 1.2 million Tibetans who have died following the Chinese occupation; Tortured in prison : 173,221 Executed : 156,758 Killed in fighting : 432,705 Starved to death : 342,970 "Suicide" : 9,002 "Struggled" to death thamzing : 92,731 14 nuns sang the following song, inside Drapchi Prison, the largest prison in Tibet; "..We sing this song of independence Yesterday's land of Dharma Today turned into barbarity Though prisoner today We will never be disheartened How sad The barbarians are triumphant Discard the blue prison uniform Stand up prisoners of Drapchi." This post is dedicated to the memory of Jampa Tenzin, who ran into the flames with his charred flesh hanging like rags off his limbs, in order to save the lives of his fellow Tibetans. Jampa Tenzin, a monk, was hoisted by his fellow protesters as he continued to demonstrate. He was arrested the same day, in October 1, 1987 in Lhasa. Jampa became the emblem of the Tibetan independence movement around the world, his picture being displayed on almost every Free Tibet website. In March 1988, a few months after his release, Jampa was found dead with a rope tied around his neck. International Campaign for Tibet Next time you see ...

Source: chinhdangvu.blogspot.com --- 46 days ago
Pro-democracy student protesters GENEVA (AFP) — A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses. The United Nations Committee Against Torture, meeting in Geneva, also revisited the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, urging the government to grant reparations and investigate the crackdown. "The committee remains deeply concerned about the continued allegations, corroborated by numerous Chinese legal sources, of routine and widespread use of torture and ill treatment of suspects in police custody, especially to extract confessions or information to be used in criminal proceedings," it said in a report released Friday. It hit out at "continued reliance on confessions as a common form of evidence for prosecution, thus creating conditions that may facilitate the use of torture and ill-treatment of suspects," quoting the case of dissident and human rights militant Yang Chunlin. The committee also criticised China's handling of its relations with the Tibetan Autonomous Region, noting there had been "longstanding reports of torture, beatings, shackling and other abusive treatment, in particular of Tibetan monks and nuns." No inquiry had been carried out into the arrests, firing on crowds of peaceful demonstrators, torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment during the recent repression in Tibet, the experts noted. Regarding the Tiananmen Square pro ...

Source: rightthinking123.blogspot.com --- 46 days ago
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Source: dontgetshanghaied.blogspot.com --- 92 days ago
Tomorrow morning I leave for a 10 day tour through Tibet. I'll fly into Lhasa, travel westward across the Tibetan Plateau to Mt. Everest before crossing into Nepal, from where I will return home out of Kathmandu. If the altitude sickness doesn't get me, maybe the cumulative 24+ hours I'm going to spend in a jeep will, but none of that matters if the scenery is what I'm hoping for. So tomorrow I fly to Lhasa, and you know what they say about flying into Lhasa? It's the only airport in the world where you fly up to land. My students have had very mixed reactions when I say I'm going to Tibet. Some of them become jealous and excited, wanting to travel there themselves. Most remain quiet, reactionless, either unsure of where I'm going (in Chinese it's called XiZang), or tellingly silent about their concerns, which are vocalized by the final group. These students are concerned, telling me to be safe, warning me that people might try to shoot me. At first I was baffled, thinking there isn't much crime in Tibet. But then I realized they meant the protesters and the riots which happened last spring. In the interest of diplomacy I didn't tell them I'm more worried about the Chinese Government than the Buddist monks, that one of the most dangerous thing I could do would be to take a simple picture of a protester - and this on a trip where I'll be passing through the worlds largest mountains. So I simply thanked the students for their cares and a ...

Source: tibettalk.wordpress.com --- 95 days ago
Nepali Government Should Stop Doing Beijing’s Bidding Human Rights Watch (New York, March 20, 2008) – The government of Nepal should cease arbitrary arrests and detentions, harassment, and the use of excessive force to silence Tibetan protesters, activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Nepal’s government, which came to power after protests against the rule [...] ...

Source: eupolitics.einnews.com --- 35 days ago
... relay was disrupted in Paris by pro-Tibetan protesters. Then, protesters rallied against French company Carrefour, one of China's largest retailers. At the time, Sarkozy said he might not attend ... ...