La Comunità tibetana in Italia, l'Associazione Cellerè, l'Associazione VillaggioTerra ong.onlus invitano ad una marcia di tre giorni per esprimere solidarietà con il popolo tibetano e rivendicare con forza il rispetto dei diritti umani in Tibet.

Nel 1949 è iniziata l'occupazione del Tibet da parte della Cina, terminata nel 1959 con l'annessione dell'intera nazione. Nel 1960 la Commissione di Giustizia Internazionale ha riscontrato atti di genocidio e la violazione di sedici articoli della Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti dell'Uomo.

Più di un milione di tibetani sono morti a seguito dell'occupazione cinese.

Migliaia di prigionieri religiosi e politici tibetani sono detenuti in prigioni e in campi di lavoro forzato dove la tortura è pratica comune.

Alle deprimenti condizioni di vita delle donne tibetane si aggiunge il diritto negato di avere figli liberamente. Sono numerose le sterilizzazioni forzate.

Circa seimila monumenti della cultura tibetana sono stati distrutti e rappresentavano il 90% del patrimonio artistico e architettonico.

Le autorità cinesi discriminano apertamente i tibetani. Il diritto alla salute come il diritto allo studio o al lavoro non sono egualmente distribuiti tra i cittadini cinesi e tibetani.

La politica di espansione colonialistica cinese sta distruggendo le risorse naturali di cui il Tibet era ricco, animali selvatici sterminati, foreste abbattute e terreno impoverito.

Source: Times India

Beijing, November 15, 2012, With a revolutionary hero for a father and a pop star for a wife, China's new leader Xi Jinping has impeccable political pedigree but has given few clues about how he will govern the country. Xi, 59, walked into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday as general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the most powerful position in the world's most populous country and second-biggest economy.

He is expected to become national president in March and hold both posts for the next decade.

He has risen to the top of the secretive party by presenting himself as a compromise candidate -- acceptable to outgoing leader Hu Jintao, still-influential former president Jiang Zemin, and other power-brokers.

DHARAMSHALA, November 12: In more heartbreaking news coming out of Tibetan, a second Tibetan set himself on fire today in the Rebkong region of eastern Tibet.

Sources are confirming with Phayul that the Tibetan identified as Nyingchag Bum, 20, passed away in his protest in Dowa region of Rebkong.

“Nyingchag Bum from Yonlag Dewa set himself on fire on the main street of Dowa town,” Geshe Rongwo Lobsang Nyendak, a Tibetan member of parliament told Phayul. “Monks from the nearby Dowa Monastery carried his charred body inside the Monastery premises.”

Source: nytimes.com

By ANDREW JACOBS

BEIJING — In a gruesome act of resistance that has played out dozens of times in recent months, six young Tibetans set fire to themselves this week, shouting demands for freedom as they were consumed by flames. On Friday, for the second day in a row, thousands of Tibetan students took to the streets in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai denouncing “cultural genocide” and demanding an end to heavy-handed police tactics, exile groups said.

Here in the nation’s capital, where Communist Party power brokers are presenting a new generation of leaders, the outgoing president, Hu Jintao, made no mention on Thursday of the anger consuming China’s discontented borderlands during his sprawling address to the nation. Asked by foreign reporters about the escalating crisis, delegates to the 18th Party Congress blamed the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader, or inelegantly dodged the question altogether. “Can I not answer that?” one asked nervously.

Source: phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, November 9: Thousands of Tibetan school students in the Rebkong region of eastern Tibet are carrying out a major street protest at the time of filing this report.

Sources have told Phayul that 5000 to 6000 students began protesting in the streets of Rongwo town since 5 am (local time), raising slogans for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s return and rights of the Tibetan people.

“The students have been protesting in front of the major Chinese government offices and have jam-packed entire streets in the region,” Dorjee Wangchuk, an exiled Tibetan with contacts in the region said.

“The students have been reciting the ancient Tibetan prayer hymn for His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Ghang-ri Ra-wei Kor-wei) and raised slogans calling for freedom in Tibet, the rights of the Tibetan people, and the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet.”