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in their fight i know already how the chinese feel about me from comments left on this blog and my youtube and facebook accounts as well as threatening emails and viruses sent to me i don t know maybe i ve got all of this wrong but maybe i m not welcome and i d rather know now monk is shot by chinese after self immolating february 27 2009 in 1959 tibetan national uprising 50th anniversary action for tibet anti chinese protest free tibet human rights news tibet leave a comment chinese police today shot a burning tibetan monk before they put him out the free tibet campaign said the monk had set himself on fire in a protest over tibetan new year rituals in aba county sichuan province the group said the area saw some of the worst unrest during tibetan protests last march free tibet said witnesses saw tabe a monk aged in his 20s walking from kirti monastery into town this afternoon he was carrying a hand drawn tibetan flag with a picture of the dalai lama at its centre he doused himself in petrol the armed police could not get near him because he was burning said matt whitticase a campaign spokesman witnesses heard three gunshots fired the monk fell to the ground and the police managed to put the flames out he was immediately put into a van and taken to an undisclosed location his present condition is unknown the claims could not be confirmed independently but whitticase said the group had indirect accounts from three witnesses tibetans have been heavily punished for passing details of incidents to outsiders free tibet said up to 800 monks had reportedly gone to tabe s home village of trinkin to say prayers believing him to be dead the group said tabe s protest followed an attempt by almost 1 000 monks at kirte to use a prayer hall to observe the monlam festival part of tibetan new year despite being told not to do so they were told to return to their rooms the authorities have been angered by some tibetans deciding to boycott new year celebrations other than religious rituals as a mark of protest against chinese rule last year tibetan exile groups said police shot dead several protestors in aba county the campaigners released graphic photographs of bodies and the names of five alleged victims chinese state media subsequently said that officers shot and wounded rioters in self defence more than 100 monks from the lutsang monastery in qinghai province held a candlelit vigil and protest march on wednesday the us government funded radio free asia reported today i took to the streets and what i want is freedom and rights february 26 2009 in 1959 tibetan national uprising 50th anniversary action for tibet anti chinese protest china free tibet human rights lhadon and tendor losar march 10 march 10th uprising news no losar tibet woeser 1 comment by woeser translated by high peaks pure earth losar is almost upon us and as we all know tibetans have very different feelings towards this year s losar the concerned authorities took notice of this very early on party secretary zhang qingli has repeatedly given the orders saying playing the first move of the chess well and wage a war on one s initiative well various state media have attributed this not celebrating losar to the tibetan government in exile and the tibetan youth congress in reality not celebrating losar was first proposed by tibetans in tibet and originated out of spontaneous wishes nobody organized tibetans not celebrating losar nobody called on tibetans not to celebrate losar no no however the impact is tremendous everyone is aware of this great civil disobedience all over tibet some say that this kind of civil disobedience is only at a low level that it is merely not celebrating and nothing more they maintain that it is a safe action which ends on the individual level is short term and does not entail much great risk in fact this is not true over the past year the military might all over tibet has been so great that all tibetan areas have become prison like in today when you could even be arrested for listening to music not to celebrate losar has been regarded as a serious separatist activity so much so that some tibetans have been accused of spreading not to celebrate losar rumours and been arrested in fact civil disobedience in tibetan areas is even more difficult to carry out than in other places therefore any kind of result obtained is worth paying attention to the way this government treats tibetans is inhuman any kind of tibetan demands have been trampled on contemptuously all tibetan hopes have been shattered contemptuously the dalai lama has not been able to return to his own homeland for fifty years the panchen lama has been missing from the world for thirteen years it has been ten years since the karmapa left his home there is also the wrongly imprisoned tenzin delek rinpoche how many elderly people in kham called out his name as they breathed their last words and they all died with the injustice unaddressed those locals haven t been celebrating any festivals or holidays for the last few years many predictions have become an alarming reality the thirteenth dalai lama once said tibetan people will be stripped of their rights and property and we will become the slaves of the invaders one of my monk friend s 70 year old mother took to the streets last year to protest later a working group went from door to door to investigate why they had participated in protest were they not demanding tibetan independence the old woman said independence or no independence i don t know neither do i understand it but i know very well that we don t have freedom we don t have rights i took to the streets and what i want is freedom and rights and tibetans have never stopped voicing their demands and protesting major episodes of dissent occurred in 1959 1969 1979 1989 1999 and right up until last year when the scale of demonstrations shocked the world of course the inhumanness of the authorities once again became reality its response is still heavily armed military police armoured vehicles and jails it has always been nothing but strike hard campaigns people who live under such state violence usually fear the violence and they have to be silent because of their fear it is a long term silence and a silence in which people are leading a befuddled life it is also a silence in which people are deeply grateful and it is a silence in which they can only prostrate hang up prayer flags and distribute lungtas wind horses this is not something one can not understand but this time it is different a tibetan went back to lhasa from the west and after spending a short time very cautiously he returned to the free world he sent me a letter and said that when he went back before he was always disappointed with what he found he said people only talked about money or having fun but this time when he went back he felt there was hope because it was totally different i also have a tibetan friend who went back to amdo from a chinese area this friend visited cities and towns and villages and he was encouraged by everyone he met everyone from government officials to herdsmen from his hometown so he told me i have been surprised again last year tibetans surprised everyone and this year it s the same this is so great we are of one mind it gives people hope what s striking here is that these two friends independently expressed to me their hope and this struck me as unusual it reminded of a czech intellectual who once commented on the relationship between the citizens and the unjust authorities the more one acts like a slave and a servant and is full of fear the less seriously the authorities will take you only if you have them understand that injustice and despotism can not proceed without obstruction will you have some hope that they will restrain themselves to some extent people must forever keep their dignity not to be scared of threat not to servilely beg others and only to tell the truth in doing so people can create a kind of pressure because all these are acutely set against the actions of the authorities 19th february 2009 beijing a losar gift for rangzen activists jamyang norbu february 25 2009 in free tibet human rights independence jamyang norbu march 10 march 10th uprising news no losar people s republic of china phayul photography rangzen tibet tibetan history tags china government in exile losar gift no losar students for a free tibet tibetan resistance movement 1 comment from phayul inside tibet people have made the decision not to celebrate losar this year it appears to be not just an expression of sorrow for those tibetan shot tortured and imprisoned in last years uprising but also an act of defiance against the chinese government that wants to show the world that tibetans enjoy religious and cultural freedoms under its rule in exile there has been some debate on whether or not to celebrate losar there are valid arguments on both sides but then again the logic of revolution is another thing altogether when the struggle calls we can only obey earlier i had written a cultural essay for losar but then i decided on a a more political gift for rangzen advocates and activists the following piece is actually a pamphlet to be distributed on march 10 and future rallies and meeting but i thought that those who believe in rangzen might enjoying sitting back with a chang koe and reading it on losar day most of us have a general idea of the facts that have been presented before the un and the world to show that tibet was an independent country before the communist invasion treaties the shakabpa passport the flag and so on i have tried to provide details that are probably not that well known but which i hope will edify and perhaps even cheer and encourage i have attempted to be scrupulously honest with the facts and have provided authentic references for nearly every claim or statement made in the pamphlet since the pamphlet had to be kept short all the references additional material related documentation photographs maps illustrations audio clips and bibliography will be on a website http www rangzen net you can access what you want on the section independent tibet some facts and clicking on the reference number the fully laid out and illustrated pamphlet can be downloaded in black white or colour at the website and can be printed at home or at a commercial printer individuals or organization can print and distribute the pamphlet and space is provided on the front cover for the organizations credit line the website will be up in a few days definitely before march 10 independent tibet some facts compiled by jamyang norbu for the rangzen alliance functioning state before the chinese communist invasion of 1950 tibet was a fully functioning and independent state it threatened none of its neighbors fed its population unfailingly year after year with no help from the outside world tibet owed no money to any country or international institutions and maintained basic law and order tibet banned capital punishment in 1913 mentioned by a number of foreign travelers 1 and was one of the first countries in the world to do so there is no record of it persecuting minorities e g muslims 2 or massacring sections of its population from time to time as china and some other countries do remember tiananmen although its frontiers with india nepal and bhutan were completely unguarded very few tibetans fled their country as economic or political refugees there was not a single tibetan immigrant in the usa or europe before the communist invasion read the rest of this entry no losar our nation 11 february 25 2009 in action for tibet buddhism free tibet human rights tibet tags lhadon no losar sft tendor tibetan resistance movement leave a comment scultpure in exchange for tibet and our nation episode 9 february 21 2009 in action for tibet anti chinese protest buddhism free tibet human rights news tibet tags berge saint laurent christies picasso sculpture xinhua yves saint laurent leave a comment paris the former partner of yves saint laurent who is selling the art collection he built up with the late fashion designer said he would hand over two sculptures claimed by china but only if beijing agreed to free tibet pierre berge saint laurent s former business partner and companion is organizing the biggest private auction of art seen in paris for years selling the huge collection built up by the two in a three day auction next week among the works of art are two chinese bronze sculptures of a rabbit and a rat head taken during the opium wars of the 19th century that the beijing government said earlier this month belonged to china and should not be auctioned berge said he was not concerned by a claim due to be heard by paris judges on monday seeking to have the bronzes returned i acquired them and i am completely protected by the law so what the chinese are saying is a bit ridiculous he told reuters television on friday but i am prepared to offer this bronze head to the chinese straight away all they have to do is to declare they are going to apply human rights give the tibetans back their freedom and agree to accept the dalai lama on their territory he said if they do that i would be very happy to go myself and bring these two chinese heads to put them in the summer palace in beijing it s obviously blackmail but i accept that he said chinese troops marched into tibet in 1950 and the region s spiritual leader the dalai lama fled into exile in 1959 after a failed uprising against beijing s rule the official xinhua news agency said earlier this month that the two sculptures estimated to be worth 8 10 million euros 10 12 million each were taken from beijing s imperial summer palace burned down by invading french and british forces in 1860 xinhua said china and france signed a 1995 convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects which stipulated that any cultural object looted or lost because of reasons of war should be returned without any limitation of time span the berge saint laurent collection gathered over decades ranges from the two chinese bronzes to paintings by picasso matisse and degas as well as art deco treasures and ancient roman and baroque sculptures saint laurent whose clothing designs revolutionized women s fashion died at the age of 71 last year and bequeathed his share of the collection to the charitable foundation he set up with berge auctioneers christie s expect the sale to raise up to 300 million euros which berge has said he will donate to aids research clinton ignores human rights february 20 2009 in action for tibet free tibet human rights news tibet tags amnesty international barack obama china hillary clinton secretary of state students for a free tibet us 2 comments i am so angry with hillary clinton obama was the only presidential candidate vocal about the issue of tibet yet his secretary of state is blatantly ignoring the severity of the issue from the associated press paying her first visit t...