སློབ་དཔོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་བསྟན་འཛིན།

New York Times, January 28, 2012

By MICHAEL WINES

CHENGDU, China — This regional metropolis is roughly 200 miles from the wave of protest by ethnic Tibetans that is sweeping the towering mountains of western Sichuan Province. But take a stroll through Chengdu’s Tibetan quarter, and the tensions generated by the distant unrest become palpable.

Faced with the largest outbreak of Tibetan unrest since riots in Lhasa and elsewhere in 2008, the government is taking no chances that the turmoil — which has included Chinese forces firing on and killing some demonstrators will spread.

Armed soldiers in dun-colored camouflage trooped up and down Wuhouci Hengjie, a tree-shaded lane that is home to two government offices. Police cars, vans and even tow trucks, their red-and-blue light bars flashing, were stationed every 50 to 100 yards. Bands of police officers patrolled the sidewalks; on one corner, they upbraided an angry Tibetan man as anxious women grabbed his arms, pulling him away. (more…)

28.1.2012

Tibetan Youth Association in Europe based in Zürich, Swiss organized peaceful demonstration in solitary for Tibetans in Tibet. At around 1400hr demonstrators walk through Zurich city and reached Chinese Embassy at 1500hr.  Organized this demonstration in solidarity with those Tibetans who offered their life for the cause of Tibet.  Around 200  Tibetans and supporters are participated for 3 hours demonstration. Organizers appeal to the participants to join forthcoming 10th March, 2012 which likely to organize somewhere in European capital Brussels . Demonstration concluded in front of Chinese Embassy, Zurich with Tibetan Notional Anthem.

26, Jan, 2012

BEIJING—Security forces in a restive Tibetan region of China killed a second person in as many days, according to state-run media, amid intensifying riots and growing international criticism that threatens to cast a shadow over a landmark visit to the U.S. next month by Vice President Xi Jinping.

The state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday that police opened fire on rioters in Seda county in China’s western Sichuan province on Tuesday. The county is in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which has become a hot spot of Tibetan political activism and the site of protests and multiple self-immolations by ethnic Tibetans in recent months.

Xinhua quoted local police on Wednesday as saying rioters attacked a police station with stones, knives and gasoline bottles Tuesday afternoon, and that 14 police were injured. The London-based advocacy group Free Tibet said at least two Tibetans were killed in the incident and others were injured.

The accounts couldn’t be verified with residents in Seda on Wednesday. Officials from the Foreign Ministry in Beijing couldn’t be reached to comment. Government offices were closed for the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday. (more…)

Erlangen, January 16: The German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Markus Löning has called for an end to the repressive political environment in Tibet saying that further repression will fail to reduce the despair of the Tibetan people.

“The Chinese government should work toward creating a political environment that will relax the tensions in the Tibetan region,” Löning said last week.

The German Human Rights Commissioner was speaking to representatives of the Tibet Initiative Deutschland (TID) in Berlin.

Löning said that the recent wave of self-immolations in Tibet “is an expression of the sustained discontent and desperation of the Tibetan people in China.”

In the past 11 months, 16 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire demanding the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet.

The most recent case of self-immolation that occurred on January 14 in the besieged Ngaba region of eastern Tibet, which alone has seen 11 Tibetans set themselves ablaze, sparked an impromptu demonstration by over 700 Tibetans. Chinese security forces fired live ammunition on the crowd killing an elderly Tibetan woman. The casualties are believed to be much higher.

In a release, TID said that representatives of the organisation met with the Human Rights Commissioner Löning to deliver 19,245 signatures demanding the immediate release of political prisoners in Tibet.

“The repression taking place in monasteries and the persecution of intellectuals demonstrate that the Chinese leadership is pursuing the systematic destruction of Tibetan identity,” the Chairman of TID, Wolfgang Grader said.

In 2010, Löning had met with Lhamo Tso, the wife of the imprisoned filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen during her Europe tour to garner support for her husband’s release.

Schaffhausen, January 2: India today summoned the Chinese Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi to lodge a high-level protest over the ill treatment meted out to an Indian diplomat based in Shanghai.

The diplomat, S Balachandran, was injured and hospitalised following an assault by a large group of Chinese traders in a 






































court in the eastern business hub of Yiwu. He was on an official mission to secure the release of two Indian traders who had been held hostage for two weeks by locals, demanding payment of their dues.

“We have taken it up pretty strongly with the Chinese, that this is no way to treat a diplomat, that he should be allowed access to medication,” source at the Indian ministry of external affairs were quoted as saying.

S Balachandran had to spend five hours in the court over prolonged negotiations where he declared that he was diabetic, but was not allowed medication or food.

The 46-year old diplomat had to be rushed to hospital when he fainted after being “manhandled” by the crowd that tried to snatch the two kidnapped Indians who clung to him as he tried to leave the courtroom.

The incident took place on the night on December 31 in the presence of police and the judge.

Riva Ganguly Das, the Indian Consul General in Shanghai, was quoted as saying that Balachandran was “manhandled” while trying to secure the release of the two Indians.

Although local officials reportedly apologised to the Indian diplomat following the incident, India doesn’t seem to be in a mood to tone down its protest.

According to media reports, India will be issuing a demarche to China over the ill treatment of its diplomat in Yiwu.

India’s charge de affaires Rahul Chabbra would make the demarche to the Chinese foreign ministry.

Relations between the two Asian giants hit a rocky patch recently when India cancelled high-level talks with China over the long drawn boundary dispute after Beijing demanded New Delhi scrap a religious gathering where the Dalai Lama was scheduled to speak.