In my last post I mentioned an instance of how Communist China was flexing its economic muscle to disseminate its propaganda in the USA, essentially through paying for pages of the China Daily to be inserted within the august recesses of America’s newspaper of record, the New York Times. One reader emailed me that the …
Make It a Burning Issue
Seventy Tibetans have, one after the other, in relentless and purposeful succession, set themselves on fire for the cause of their people’s freedom. If anything so heroic, selfless, spontaneous, non-instigated, and entirely non-violent* had happened anywhere else in the world, especially in the West or in places important to Western interests, like the Middle East …
Tibetans In Nepal: the Lost Sanctuary
This is an incisive, comprehensive and very disturbing analysis of what is happening to Tibetans in Nepal.
Maps of Crisis Areas in Tibet
. To all activists and supporters. Check out this very useful resource on www.rangzen.net/resources/maps/, created and regularly updated by our Rangzen chowkidar. It is a series of professional quality maps which provide accurate and thorough information on self-immolations, protests and other crucial events. If you are a teacher developing an assignment for your classroom on …
I Will Burn Myself Again And Again
Quite a few of us have written on these tragic events in Tibet and have tried to explain, or at least guess at the underlying motives of those men and women who gave up their lives in such a totally courageous and compassionate fashion. But I think this one poem does a better job of providing the deeper emotional and cultural meaning of the protests than the writings of experts…
Rangzen Roundtable NYC, March 11 & 12, 2012
DISCUSSING SCENARIOS, STRATEGIES & STRUCTURES FOR TIBET’S INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE . On March 11 & 12 in New York City, the Rangzen Alliance convened a Roundtable to initiate a discussion on the possible scenarios the Tibetan issue might encounter in the near future; and also the structures that must be created and the strategies that must …
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“Tibetans Never Had a Country” Dr. Lobsang Sangay
Kalon Tripa Dr. Lobsang Sangay needs to explain the statement he made on video to stol.it, the South Tyrol Online journal on March 02. 2012. Replying to a question “What is it like being a prime minster without a country?. Dr. Lobsang Sangay answered clearly and deliberately ” Well… I can’t say for sure because, …
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Report From Lhasa
Someone I know who has just returned from Lhasa sent this to me. It is deeply troubling. . Report from Lhasa: February 18, 2012 I have just returned from Lhasa. Tibetans are disappearing; everyone is terrified about the bloodshed which seems inevitable. Lhasa consists of approximately 1.2 million Chinese and approximately 200,000 Tibetans. The majority …
Resistance Not Despair
This piece by our trusty web-chowkidar provides a whole new and illuminating perspective on the 17 self-immolations in Tibet. Check it out on this link: http://www.rangzen.net/2012/01/28/beacons-of-resistance-not-desperate-acts/
Dr. Pemba la – In Memoriam
For a traumatized and disoriented refugee community, just having a role model like Dr. Pemba la, who scored first in the Royal College of Surgeons exams in London, was a comforting reassurance that we would be able to cope with and even succeed in an alien and modern world.
