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Dalai Lama accuses China of firing on Tibetan protesters
PARIS (AFP) — The Dalai Lama accused Chinese soldiers of firing on Tibetan protesters this week, as China hosted the Olympics, and told a French newspaper in an interview published Thursday there were unconfirmed reports that up to 140 people were killed.
Beijing Olympics: British woman may be jailed over Tibet protest
A British mother of two arrested over a free Tibet protest in Beijing faces the possibility of being jailed as the Chinese authorities get tough on demonstrators.
China detains six US pro-Tibet activists at Olympics
BEIJING (AFP) — China has detained six American pro-Tibet activists, including an artist who planned to project a giant laser beam onto a Beijing building at the Olympics, a group said Wednesday.
Over 40 Olympic Athletes in Beijing Download Tibet Solidarity Album ‘Songs for Tibet’
WASHINGTON, Aug 19, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — In Atmosphere of Fear and Intimidation, Download Initiative Gives Athletes Ability to Protest Chinese Policies in Tibet as Chinese Netizens Denounce Album
‘Songs for Tibet – The Art of Peace,’ a top-selling rock album, has been downloaded by more than 40 Olympic athletes from North America, Europe and even Beijing, as an act of solidarity with Tibet. The album of 20 tracks from Sting, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Moby and others is a celebration of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s philosophy of peace, non-violence and compassion.
China stepping up Tibet repression-activists
Reuters, Monday August 18 2008 BEIJING, Aug 18 (Reuters) – China has stepped up repression in its ethnic Tibetan regions to prevent any protests during the Beijing Olympics, an activist group said on Monday.
Free Tibet, Free the Olympics and Kudos to YouTube
the Free Tibet people made a video with various imagery about freeing Tibet, including atrocities (warning: Video may contain disturbing imaged) and protests. The IOC, in a truly Orwellian and very disturbing moment, tried to take this video off of You Tube. Can you believe that? A protest video regarding a political issue, being forced off YouTube by the International Olympics Committee. Holly crap.
The banned video:
Dalai Lama says China torturing Tibetans
PARIS: The Dalai Lama has accused China of torturing Tibetans, sometimes to death, during the Olympic Games.
1,000 Tibetan protesters arrested in Nepal: police
7 hours ago
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Stick-wielding police in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu arrested at least 1,000 Tibetan exiles as they protested outside a Chinese embassy building, police and witnesses said Thursday.
Dalai Lama says Tibet crackdown goes on despite Olympics
7 hours ago
PARIS (AFP) — The Dalai Lama accused China on Wednesday of pursuing a crackdown in Tibet in spite of the Olympic Games, French lawmakers said following talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
Asked during a private meeting at the Paris Senate whether China was respecting the “Olympic truce”, the Dalai Lama’s “answer was very clear: no,” said former French justice minister Robert Badinter.
The situation in Tibet is getting worse says world famous photographer Michel Comte
Tibet Bureau, Geneva[Monday, August 11, 2008 15:41]
Mr. Kai Diekmann, editor in chief – Bild with Mr. Chhoekyapa, Mr. Choephel Balok of ICT and actor Yangzom.
The Germany’s largest newspaper – Bild with over 17 million readers launched a photo exhibition “Pictures from Tibet†in Berlin on the eve of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The exhibition was organized under its campaign A Heart for Children
China needs to clean up more than its lousy air
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China Lives Up to Low Expectations
By E.J. Dionne — By revoking Olympian Joey Cheek’s visa because he had the nerve to speak out about Darfur and the Chinese government’s support for Sudan’s barbarous regime, Chinese authorities guaranteed that the opening of these games would focus as much on politics as on sports.
Thousands worldwide join China protests as Olympics open3 hours ago
LONDON (AFP) — Thousands of people joined protests around the globe Friday accusing China of relentless human rights abuses as the Beijing Olympics kicked off with a dazzling, three-hour opening ceremony.
Tibetan freedom torch reaches Shimla
6 Aug, 2008, 1448 hrs IST, AGENCIES
SHIMLA/NEW DELHI: After traversing through many countries, the Tibetan freedom torch reached Shimla on Tuesday on the Indian leg of the relay. The so-called ‘Tibetan Freedom Torch’, that had a stopover in 50 cities of the world, will end at the border of Tibet on August 8, the day the Beijing Olympics start.
China’s Quest for Olympic Glory
Posted on Aug 6, 2008
By William Pfaff
The Chinese authorities’ anxiety that the Olympic Games will be a success reflects their need to find international confirmation of their general political and economic policies of the past 20 years. The games are perhaps more likely to provide confirmation of the opinion of those who said China was rash to bid for the Olympics.
Spain to hear Tibetan lawsuit against Chinese leaders
MADRID (AFP) — Spain’s top criminal court agreed Tuesday to hear a lawsuit from Tibetan rights groups that accuses Chinese leaders of genocide in connection with the unrest that erupted in the region in March.
Almost all the people in the world know that the country China has occupied our small country Tibet and we Tibetans are residing in India as a refugee. I was born in India and I don”t know much about our motherland but I heard from my ancestors that it is a very picturesque place to live in. The country Tibet is surrounded with mountains and plateaus and its environments is very clean and cold.
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Tibetans to unveil autonomy plan
ONE of the Dalai Lama’s top envoys says Tibetan negotiators will present Chinese negotiators with a detailed autonomy plan at their next meeting in October.
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Light a Candle for Tibet August 7th at 9 pm in your own time zone
Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 09:56 pm BST
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US presidential hopeful Obama says backs “people of Tibet”5 hours ago
DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) — US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has sent a letter to the Dalai Lama backing the rights of the “people of Tibet,” a spokesman for the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader said.
Daniel Miller: Slavoj Žižek’s newest book may cause readers to conclude that the superstar philosopher has misplaced his marbles.
In early June the Slovenian philosopher, self-proclaimed Stalinist and academic superstar Slavoj Žižek was roundly upbraided in the letters pages of the London Review of Books for the second time in a year. Last November, the provocation was his 1,700-word article declaiming the futility of nonviolent resistance and proclaiming the virtues of ruthless militarism. This time, it was a 1,200-word letter attacking Orientalist fantasies surrounding Tibet and defending the virtues of China’s civilizing mission there. Each occasion was a farce in three acts. In the first the audience was treated to a dive into unfamiliar waters. The second was dominated by Žižek suddenly finding himself out of his depth. And in the culminating third, we all took off our hats to the bathos of a man being carried away on his back, like a turtle with its legs waving in the air.
“I base my claim that Tibet before 1949 was an oppressive and corrupted feudal society,” Žižek would eventually say, “on by far the best and most extensive study of the Tibetan legal system, Rebecca Redwood French’s The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet (1995).” Yet “I am afraid that Professor Slavoj Žižek has misunderstood my book entirely,” Rebecca Redwood French would later tell me via e-mail. “I do not and have not ever represented Tibet pre-1949 as an oppressive and corrupted feudal society. On the contrary, I think that China’s current occupation of Tibet is colonial, oppressive and completely illegal under any national or international legal system.”
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