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La comunidad tibetana en el exilio protestará todos los miércoles en Nueva Deli para pedir que China les conceda la independencia.

Cientos de tibetanos se manifestaron en Nueva Deli durante la primera de una serie de protestas que tendrán lugar todos los miércoles con el fin de atraer la atención sobre la situación de la región en el Himalaya. Uno de los manifestantes se cortó el dedo y escribió en una pancarta con su sangre “Tibet Libre” mientras que en otros letreros se podía leer “El mundo nos apoya”. Al menos 11 personas se han autoinmolado desde el pasado mes de marzo en protesta contra la ocupación china del Tibet. El Dalai Lama ha culpado a la “despiadada política” china por las protestas. China acusa al líder espiritual de empeorar la situación con sus declaraciones y constantes viajes alrededor del mundo defendiendo su causa.

China invadió el Tibet en 1950 para anexionarse el territorio, desde entonces la región viva bajo una forma especial de gobierno chino. En 1959, y después de un levantamiento fallido, el Dalai Lama, que en ese entonces además de líder espiritual también lo era político, se exilió a la India. El gobierno tibetano en el exilio está instalado desde entonces en la ciudad india de Daramsala. El Dalai Lama, que recientemente ha abandonado el liderazgo político en favor de un presidente democráticamente elegido, ha protagonizado nueve rondas de infructíferas conversaciones con el gobierno chino reclamando mayor autonomía para el Tibet, que no la independencia.  

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DALAI LAMA:
The Dalai Lama in Australia
On June 14, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the Parliament in Canberra for a series of meetings with members from all of Australia’s major political parties. His Holiness addressed a parliamentary reception attended by over 80 MPs, Senators, and Advisers. Read More >>

U.S. CONGRESS:
House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Tibet, Burma and North Korea
On June 2, 2011, the U.S. House of Representative’s Foreign Affairs Committee convened a hearing on “Religious Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia: Status of Implementation of the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002, Block Burmese JADE act, and North Korean Human Right Act.” ICT’s Chairman Richard Gere testified on Tibet – his full testimony is available here.


INSIDE TIBET:
ICT Report: Fears for future of Kirti monastery; UN seeks answers
According to new information received by ICT, paramilitary occupation of Kirti monastery continues and monks have been leaving Kirti monastery in recent months due to the climate of fear created by the presence of troops blockading the monastery, the risks of disappearance, torture and detention. Read More >>


ICT Report: Official celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the “Peaceful Liberation of Tibet”: Attendees and Absentees
Reports in China’s official media indicate that no one from the central government attended important celebrations held in Lhasa on May 23 to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the “17-point Agreement,” a key treaty between the Chinese and Tibetan governments routinely cited by the Chinese authorities as the main legal and moral cornerstone of Beijing’s authority in Tibet. Read More >>



New video of Tibet protests
A new video of a group of Tibetan monks carrying out a peaceful protest in eastern Tibet was released by the Central Tibetan Administration on June 8, 2011. The video shows protests that were carried out on May 8, 2010 in Nyagrong, Kham Province, an area that has a huge population of Chinese immigrants. Read More >>



Freedom House includes Tibet among countries suffering worst human rights abuses
Freedom House, an independent U.S.-based watchdog organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world, released “Worst of the Worst 2011: The World’s Most Repressive Societies,” its annual report identifying the world’s most flagrant human rights abusers, at a June 1 press conference during the 17th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Read More >>



ICT Report: Crackdown in Ngaba: monks detained for giving wrong answers in ‘patriotic education’
A climate of fear continues in the Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) area in Sichuan province. Two monks from Kirti living in India said that special police forces are maintaining their blockade of Kirti monastery and holding ‘patriotic education’ meetings where, “they ask lots of questions, and when the monks cannot give the answers that the officials want to hear on many issues, it seems that they are arresting them.” Read More >>


TIBET IN EXILE:
ICT Report: Tibetan exiles set a democratic course as Dalai Lama devolves formal political responsibilities to elected leadership
On May 29, His Holiness the Dalai Lama ratified amendments to the governing Charter presented to him by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile that devolve his political powers to democratically elected leadership headed by a chief minister or Kalon Tripa. Read More >>


An Open Door for Tibet?
In an Op-ed, published in the Wall Street Journal, by ICT President, Mary Beth Markey writes, “Every day, Tibetans risk their lives to speak up for the Dalai Lama’s return and against Chinese policies that constrain their free access to their spiritual leader. But Beijing so far hasn’t budged … So, it’s interesting that a Communist Party official said last week that the door is open for the Dalai Lama to go home anytime he likes subject to certain conditions, of course.” The full article can be read on SaveTibet.org.


NEPAL:
ICT Report: Nepal’s human rights review; concern for Tibetan Refugee Community
On Tuesday June 7, 2011 the 17th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council met in Geneva for the adoption of Nepal’s final report on its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). International delegates raised concerns over Nepal’s treatment of its Tibetan refugee population and the growing influence China has in the matter. Read More >>


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PANCHEN LAMA

Dear Mike, Today, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet's Panchen Lama turns 22 years old. He was abducted by the Chinese government in May 1995, shortly after he was recognized by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of one of Tibet's highest Buddhist leaders. For 16 years, China has kept his whereabouts unknown.  Take Action: Send a Letter to Yang Jiechi, China's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Zhu Weiqun, Vice-Minister of the United Front Work Department (and China's spokesperson on Tibetan affairs). In spite of China's best efforts, the global community has not forgotten the Panchen Lama and every year he remains missing, more people are moved to speak out for his freedom. Hisdisappearance has come to symbolize the brutality of China's regime in Tibet. Where is He? The Chinese government says the Panchen Lama is living an ordinary life, but their claim rings hollow. Repeated appeals by United Nations officials and government leaders to gain access to him have been denied. Send a message to China's leaders to remind them that the global community stands with Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and with the people of Tibet. Please read below SFT's open letter to the Panchen Lama on the occasion of his 22nd birthday. Watch a video of SFT sending a birthday message to the Panchen Lama. For more ways that you can take action for the Panchen Lama, please visit the Panchen Lama campaign website launched by the International Tibet Network (of which Students for a Free Tibet is a member organization): http://www.FreethePanchenLama.org Your actions can help free the Panchen Lama. Together we can Free Tibet. With hope, Tendor, Kate, Tendolkar, Stefanie and all of us here at SFT HQ Open Letter from Students for a Free Tibet to Panchen Rinpoche Dear Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, I don't think you will receive this letter. I know that you're being watched, monitored and controlled 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But deep down I have this stubborn hope that maybe you will hear us. Maybe you'll see us typing these words in New York, as you turn 22. I am writing on behalf of Students for a Free Tibet, an organization with more than 50,000 members in over 100 countries. Every one of us are thinking of you at this moment. Ever since you were abducted by the Chinese government at age 6, we lost touch with you. We don't know where you are, or how you are. But after all these years, we're still thinking of you and fighting for your freedom. We're not giving up. 22 is a great age to be, at least for the average boy. When I was 22, I was in my final year of college, excited but nervous at the prospect of entering the real world. I wonder how you're feeling as you turn 22, another year that you are not free. You have been denied your freedom for committing no crime except that of being the Panchen Lama. The Chinese government has robbed you of your childhood, your adolescence, your identity, your rights, your friendships, and your country. No matter what you've been told by your minders and tutors appointed by Beijing, there is a world out here where people are searching for you. Tibetans and supporters hang your photo in their homes or carry it in their wallets. Mothers hold your image to their chest, your photograph wet from tears and crumpled from years of separation. We have not forgotten you. In fact, with each passing year of your absence, your presence is burnt ever deeper into our memory. Your previous incarnation, the 10th Panchen Lama, is remembered for his monumental contribution to the Tibetan nation. What is less known about him is that he was also a great Buddhist scholar. In this time of suffering and oppression, he would have enlightened us to the reality that nothing is permanent, not even China's oppression in Tibet. Only freedom and truth will endure the test of time. The Chinese empire stands on a foundation of lies, and these lies are falling apart. We know that the forces that keep you imprisoned are running out of time. As the world moves from darkness to light, from oppression to freedom, from dictatorship to democracy, we can see the fog clearing up on the horizon. The day is not far when you will join the real world, to live a free life, to take your rightful seat at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. Sending you wishes and prayers on your 22nd birthday. May you celebrate your next birthday in freedom. Tibet will be free. Most sincerely yours, Tenzin Dorjee (Tendor) http://www.freethepanchenlama.org