05.16.08
Parallel Olympics
Let the 2008 Tibetan Olympics begin
Phayul[Friday, May 16, 2008 20:47]
By Phurbu Thinley
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05.15.08
Nothing to hide in Tibet?
If there is nothing to hide in Tibet, why is it sealed off from the rest of the world? How come no independent journalist is allowed? Why have all tourists been asked to leave? If something as little as possessing a photo of the Dalai Lama can land one in jail — how is there any freedom in Tibet?
The Terrified Monks
The Terrified Monks
Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times
More than 200 monks at Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province were arrested and beaten, the monks there said. By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 15, 2008
XIAHE, China
05.14.08
The Case For Tibet
The Case For Tibet
By Bill Weinberg, AlterNet. Posted May 14, 2008.
Indigenous people around the world see in the struggle for Tibet their own struggles for recovery of land and autonomy. We must not remain silent. Read the rest of this entry »
05.13.08
Dalai Lama urges international media presence in Tibet
Dalai Lama urges international media presence in Tibet
WARSAW (AFP) — The Dalai Lama urged China and the international community to facilitate an international media presence in Tibet, in an interview with Polish television Monday.
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05.12.08
Spiegel: Dalai Lama
‘I Pray for China’s Leadership’
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people, discusses the uprising in his native Tibet, why he doesn’t support protests against the Olympic torch relay and his proposals for a compromise with Beijing.
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Tibet protests: Nepal
Nepal Tibetan exiles vow to continue daily protests
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Tibetan exiles in Nepal who protest daily at the Chinese embassy said Monday their demonstrations will continue, despite the government signalling it is fast running out of patience.
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05.11.08
Tibet protest
Tibet rally in Paris calls for pressure on China
PARIS (AFP) — Several hundred demonstrators rallied Saturday in Paris in the name of Tibet with a call on the international community to step up pressure on China.
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Suppressing dissent
Chinese student in US targeted after Tibet protest The build-up to this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing has been disrupted by protests over China’s treatment of the Tibetan people.
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05.10.08
Holder of the White Lotus
Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama by Alexander Norman
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
The Dalai Lama is the most influential person in the world, according to Time magazine. He draws crowds that no other spiritual leader or politician could hope to match, and sits there laughing, exuding an infectious joy, despite the suffering that he and the Tibetan people have known. Unique, celibate, idealistic, compassionate, exotic - he seems to look at life in a different way to everyone else. What is his secret? According to these two books, it lies in the fact that his mind was trained from an early age in an abstruse religious tradition that makes no distinction between the spiritual and temporal worlds.
The dark side
The economy is booming but behind the successes lurk some uncomfortable questions – about poverty, pollution, censorship and a catalogue of human rights abuses. How the government answers them may define China’s image for decades to come
U.S. senators urge Bush to visit Tibet
U.S. senators urge Bush to visit Tibet during Games
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of senior U.S. senators urged President George W. Bush on Friday to visit Tibet when he travels to China in August to attend the Beijing Olympics.
In their letter to Bush, the senators also urged the president to make it his priority to set up a U.S. consulate in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa, and push China to reopen Tibet to outside media and non-governmental organizations following its closure in the wake of unrest there in March.
Visiting Tibet during the August 8-24 games “would allow you to demonstrate support for American athletes as you also send a strong message of respect for the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people,” the letter said.
05.09.08
China-Dalai Lama talks
Formal China-Dalai Lama talks imminent
By China correspondent Stephen McDonell
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/08/2239516.htm?section=world
Posted Thu May 8, 2008 8:13pm AEST
Last weekend’s informal meeting between representatives of the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama appear to have paved the way for formal talks.
According to a statement from the Dalai Lama’s envoy, Lodi Gyari, a date will be set soon for a seventh round of official negotiations.
“Despite major differences on important issues, each side made concrete proposals which can be part of the future agenda,” the statement said.
Exile groups say 203 Tibetans have been killed in the recent crackdown there.
The Chinese Government says Tibetan rioters killed 21 people.
Tibet: economic deprivation
Tibet: a case of cultural and religious oppression or economic deprivation?
Billy I Ahmed
THE media and various protest groups have almost universally treated the unrest in Tibet as a case of cultural and religious oppression and ignored the underlying economic processes.
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05.08.08
NYRB: Thunder from Tibet
Thunder from Tibet
By Robert Barnett
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer
Knopf, 275 pp., $24.00
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Japanese criticism of China on Tibet
Japan’s criticism on China’s Tibet crackdown hits close to home
By Howard W. French
SHANGHAI: The view has taken hold in recent weeks in China that unrest in Tibet has been trumped up to be used as a cudgel to beat up this country by false friends and outright antagonists in the West.
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China slanders of Dalai Lama
A lama in sheep’s clothing?
Revered by Tibetans, reviled by China
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05.07.08
Tranished symbolism
Everest’s spirit torched by China
By Bill Stall
The tarnished symbolism of the Olympic torch relays in London, Paris and San Francisco might seem tame beside the potential fallout of the Chinese plan to carry the torch to the world’s highest peak, 29,035-foot Mount Everest, on the border of Tibet and Nepal. The climb is expected any day now.
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China nixes conference
China nixes major academic conference ahead of Olympic Games
BEIJING – China is on the lookout for protesters seeking to disrupt the Beijing Olympics in the name of Tibet, press freedom, or religious rights. Read the rest of this entry »
Radiohead Tibet protest
Radiohead stage Tibet protest
07/05/2008 - 12:24:51 PM
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05.06.08
Hundreds protest…
Hundreds protest as Chinese president arrives in Japan
TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Hundreds of pro-Tibet demonstrators protested in Tokyo on Tuesday as Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived for the first state visit by a Chinese president in nearly a decade.
Afoul of party line
Chinese editor fired over Tibet commentaries
BEIJING (Reuters) - A renowned Chinese columnist has lost his job at a magazine over commentaries on unrest in Tibet which did not conform with the official line, a watchdog group and a source with knowledge of the dismissal said on Tuesday.
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Athletes: no free speech
There’s No Place Like Home: Refocusing Olympic Protest
May 06, 2008 By Dave Zirin
“THIS ‘SHUT up and play’? That’s not OK. That’s not the Olympics.” So wrote Sports Illustrated’s Aditi Kinkhabwala, joining a rising chorus of sportswriters criticizing the pre-emptive repression of speech of Olympic athletes. It’s no doubt worthy of their ire. The British Olympic Association told their teams in writing that they are forbidden to speak out “on any politically sensitive issues.” Other countries have done the same.
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05.05.08
China’s ‘nationalisms’
China’s competing nationalisms
WASHINGTON: Which of the competing Chinese nationalisms will show up at the Olympics in August? An aggrieved, defensive nationalism, or a confident and proud nationalism?
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Second round of talks
Second round of China-Tibet talks planned
By WILLIAM FOREMAN – 19 hours ago
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — China’s official Xinhua News Agency is reporting that the Dalai Lama’s envoys and Chinese officials plan a second round of talks at an unannounced date.
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