Monday, March 5, 2012
Fire rages on in Tibet: Tibetan school girl dies in self-immolation protest
DHARAMSHALA, March 5: A teenaged Tibetan school girl torched her body in an apparent protest against the Chinese occupation of Tibet in a busy market in eastern Tibet.
Tsering Kyi, 19, studying at a local middle school set herself on fire at a vegetable market in Machu in the traditional Amdo region of Tibet on March 3. She passed away at the scene.
The Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, in a release today said that Chinese security personnel arrived at the scene of the protest and locked down the market.
“All mobile phones were confiscated in an attempt the stop the news of the protest from spreading,” the release said. “People at the scene of the protest were issued strict orders against speaking about the self-immolation.”
The police later visited Tsering Kyi’s house for identification and carried out door to door searches in the neighbourhood. Websites operating from the region have been shut down and heads of the regional government offices reportedly held a meeting following the protest.
Tsering Kyi’s body is in the custody of the local police according to sources.
Reporting on the self-immolation protest, US based RFA said that Chinese market vendors threw stones at the girl's burning body, citing an unidentified Tibetan exile with connections to the community in Machu.
"The Tibetans present in the market were agitated and this almost resulted in a major clash between the Tibetans and Chinese," RFA quoted a source as saying.
This is the first self-immolation protest that has been reported from Machu region.
A day after Tsering Kyi’s self-immolation, a 32 year-old Tibetan mother of four, Rinchen, torched her body in the Ngaba region, which has been at the centre of the recent wave of self-immolations in Tibet.
Since 2009, 25 Tibetans have set themselves ablaze demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet.
Ahead of the ongoing rubber stamp parliament session, Beijing vowed to “smash” all peaceful expressions of protests inside Tibet and increase internet and phone surveillance in the region.
The exile Tibetan leadership and right groups have expressed fears of more self-immolation and further bloodshed in Tibet during the sensitive period of the March 10 Tibetan National Uprising Day.
རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་དུ་རང་ལུས་མེར་བསྲེཊ།
འདོན་སྤེལ།
༢༠༡༢/༠༣/༠༥
གཟའ་
མདོ་
གནས་
ཁ་
Monday, December 20, 2010
ཡུལ་སྐད་འགྲན་བསྡུར།
ཟླ་
ཐེངས་
ཡང་
ད་
Thursday, December 9, 2010
རྒྱ་ནག་གཙོས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་མཛད་སྒོར་ཞུགས་རྒྱུ་མིན་ཟེར།
ཨུ་རུ་སུ་དང་སཱོ་དྷིའི་ཨ་རབ་བྷི་ཡ། པཱ་ཀི་སི་ཐན། ཨི་རག ཨི་རན་སོགས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ཙམ། ཟླ་འདིའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ཉིན་གྱི་ཞི་བདེའི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཀྱི་མཛད་སྒོའི་སྐབས་ཞུགས་རྒྱུ་མིན་པ་དང། དེ་མིན་ཨ་རི་དང་རྒྱ་གར་སོགས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་༤༤ མཛད་སྒོར་དངོས་སུ་ཞུགས་གཏན་ཁེེལ་ཡོད་རུང། རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་འཛམ་གླིང་གི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མང་ཆེ་བས། རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ལངས་ཕྱོགས་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་གྱིས་མཛད་སྒོར་ཞུགས་ཀྱི་མ་རེད་ཅེས་ཁྱབ་བསྒྲགས་བྱས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
ཟླ་འདིའི་ཚེས་༧ ཉིན་བྷི་བྷི་སིའི་དྲ་གནས་སྟེང་གནས་ཚུལ་སྤེལ་བ་ལྟར་ན། ནོར་ཝེ་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཚོགས་པས། སྐུ་ཞབས་ལིའུ་ཞོ་པོ་ནི་རྒྱ་ནག་ནང་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་རྩོད་མཁན་དཔེ་མཚོན་ཅན་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་དང། གཟེངས་རྟགས་འབུལ་བཞེས་ཀྱི་མཛད་སྒོའི་སྐབས་ཨུ་རུ་སུ་དང་ཁཱ་ཙཱག་སི་ཐན། ཀོ་ལུམ་བྷི་ཡ། ཊོ་ནི་ཤི་ཡ། སཱོ་དྷིའི་ཨ་རབ་བྷི་ཡ། པཱ་ཀི་སི་ཐན། སིར་བྷི་ཡ། ཨི་རག ཨི་རན། ཝི་ཊི་ནམ། ཨབ་གྷ་ནི་སི་ཐན། ཝི་ནི་རྫུ་ལཱ། ཧྥི་ལི་པེང། ཨེ་རྗེབ། སུའུ་ཌན། ཡུག་རན། ཁིའུ་བྷ། མཱོ་རཱོག་ཀོ་སོགས་རྒྱུ་མཚན་མང་པོ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་བྱེད་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་མེད་པ་དང། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འགའ་རེ་ལ་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཡོད་རུང་། མང་པོ་ཞིག་ལ་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཡོད་མ་རེད་ཅེས་བརྗོད་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཤྲི་ལངྒ་དང་ཨལ་ཇཱི་རི་ཡ་གཉིས་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་མེད་ད་དུང་ལན་སླེབས་མེད་པ་དང། དེ་མིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་༤༤ འཛུལ་ཞུགས་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པའི་བརྡ་ལན་འབྱོར་སོང་ཞེས་གསུངས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ཕྱི་སྲིད་བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་མགྲིན་ཚབ་པ་ཇིན་ཡུས་ཀྱིས། ནོར་ཝེ་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཚོགས་པས་རྒྱ་ནག་ལ་ངོ་རྒོལ་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་གྱི་ཡོད་པ་དང། ང་ཚོའི་ངོས་ནས་མི་སུ་འདྲ་ཞིག་གིས་ལིའུ་ཞོ་པོའི་གནད་དོན་ལ་ཐེ་གཏོགས་བྱས་པའམ། ཡང་ན་རྒྱ་ནག་ནང་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་དོན་ལས་གཞི་ལ་ཐེ་གཏོགས་བྱས་ན་ངོ་རྒོལ་མཐའ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། འཛམ་གླིང་གི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་༡༠༠ ལྷག་ཙམ་གྱིས་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ལངས་ཕྱོགས་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ཅེས་ཁྱབ་བསྒྲགས་བྱས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།།
Tibetan exiles call for Liu Xiaobo's release ahead of World Human Rights Day
Dharamsala, December 9: On the eve of the international human rights day, prominent Tibetan NGOs have called for the release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and Tibetan political prisoners languishing in Chinese-administered jails inside Tibet.
Tibetan Women's Association, Gu Chu Sum, National Democratic Party of Tibet, Students for a Free Tibet - India today issued a joint statement, titled "Democracy in China: Freedom for Tibet" seeking for their unconditional release.
"On the International Human Rights Day and the 21st anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, people across the globe rejoice the conferring of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo," the statement proclaimed.
The exiled Tibetan leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his peaceful and non-violent approach to free Tibet from Chinese control.
"While the Chinese government has labeled the award “an obscenity”, Tibetans in exile stand in solidarity with Liu Xiaobo and praise his democratic ideals," the statement said.
"On 10th December, when the world witnesses the award ceremony in Oslo, Liu will be not there to accept the award as he will still be behind bars serving his 11 years sentence," it added.
Despite usual protests from Beijing, the Tibetan NGOs said the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's peace prize to Liu was a "highly commendable" one.
“The strong stand taken by the Nobel Committee in presenting this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo has not only undermined the totalitarian Chinese Regime, but has also given enormous hope to people who are oppressed around the world,” said Kirti Dolkar Lhamo, President of Tibetan Women's Association.
“Recognizing Liu Xiaobo as a non-violent advocate and pursuer of democracy gives hope to the Tibetan people whose long-standing struggle for freedom and justice continues," she added.
Liu Xiaobo, a strong advocate of the Tibetan people, has authored many articles commenting on the occupation of Tibet, including “The Crisis in Tibet is the Failure of Materialist Dictatorship” and "Twelve Suggestions for dealing with the Tibetan Situation", which was written in response to the 2008 uprisings in Tibet.
The NGOs also called on the Indian Prime Minister Mr Man Mohan Singh to raise the issue of Tibet during the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India next week.
“We urge the Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh to raise the Issue of Tibet with Wen Jiabao during his India visit and press the Chinese government to implement the political and human rights reform for which thousands of Chinese and Tibetan advocates risk their lives,” said Lukar Jam, a former political prisoner and the Vice President of GuChuSum Movement of Tibet, which is an organisation representing former Tibetan political prisoners.
“We also demand the Chinese government for immediate release of Liu Xiaobo and all the Heroic Tibetan and Chinese human rights defenders suffering in prisons inside Tibet and China," added in the statement.
The groups said there are more than 3,000 Tibetan political prisoners who are suffering in Chinese prisons inside Tibet for exercising their right to free expression.
Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), a leading pro-independence Tibetan organisation also issued a statement here today to mark Wolrd Human Rights Day on Friday.
"As we celebrate the 62nd Anniversary of the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, we would like to draw your attention to the historical fact that around the same time the Declaration was adopted and proclaimed, Tibet was brutally occupied by China," the statement said.
"Torture, involuntary disappearances, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, denial of religious, cultural rights and freedom of expression continue unabated in Tibet today," it added.
Tibetan Women's Association, Gu Chu Sum, National Democratic Party of Tibet, Students for a Free Tibet - India today issued a joint statement, titled "Democracy in China: Freedom for Tibet" seeking for their unconditional release.
"On the International Human Rights Day and the 21st anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, people across the globe rejoice the conferring of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo," the statement proclaimed.
The exiled Tibetan leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his peaceful and non-violent approach to free Tibet from Chinese control.
"While the Chinese government has labeled the award “an obscenity”, Tibetans in exile stand in solidarity with Liu Xiaobo and praise his democratic ideals," the statement said.
"On 10th December, when the world witnesses the award ceremony in Oslo, Liu will be not there to accept the award as he will still be behind bars serving his 11 years sentence," it added.
Despite usual protests from Beijing, the Tibetan NGOs said the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's peace prize to Liu was a "highly commendable" one.
“The strong stand taken by the Nobel Committee in presenting this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo has not only undermined the totalitarian Chinese Regime, but has also given enormous hope to people who are oppressed around the world,” said Kirti Dolkar Lhamo, President of Tibetan Women's Association.
“Recognizing Liu Xiaobo as a non-violent advocate and pursuer of democracy gives hope to the Tibetan people whose long-standing struggle for freedom and justice continues," she added.
Liu Xiaobo, a strong advocate of the Tibetan people, has authored many articles commenting on the occupation of Tibet, including “The Crisis in Tibet is the Failure of Materialist Dictatorship” and "Twelve Suggestions for dealing with the Tibetan Situation", which was written in response to the 2008 uprisings in Tibet.
The NGOs also called on the Indian Prime Minister Mr Man Mohan Singh to raise the issue of Tibet during the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India next week.
“We urge the Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh to raise the Issue of Tibet with Wen Jiabao during his India visit and press the Chinese government to implement the political and human rights reform for which thousands of Chinese and Tibetan advocates risk their lives,” said Lukar Jam, a former political prisoner and the Vice President of GuChuSum Movement of Tibet, which is an organisation representing former Tibetan political prisoners.
“We also demand the Chinese government for immediate release of Liu Xiaobo and all the Heroic Tibetan and Chinese human rights defenders suffering in prisons inside Tibet and China," added in the statement.
The groups said there are more than 3,000 Tibetan political prisoners who are suffering in Chinese prisons inside Tibet for exercising their right to free expression.
Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), a leading pro-independence Tibetan organisation also issued a statement here today to mark Wolrd Human Rights Day on Friday.
"As we celebrate the 62nd Anniversary of the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, we would like to draw your attention to the historical fact that around the same time the Declaration was adopted and proclaimed, Tibet was brutally occupied by China," the statement said.
"Torture, involuntary disappearances, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, denial of religious, cultural rights and freedom of expression continue unabated in Tibet today," it added.
Monday, November 15, 2010
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