Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Reporter: Stephen McDonell

In the last year, nearly 50 Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule and we have rare footage of what is happening there, but be warned this story contains disturbing images.

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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: In the remotest regions of China, inhabited by the country's Tibetan minority, an appalling uprising is under way.

Source: phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, September 10: In what is being seen as a propaganda offensive, China is soon expected to open a new office in order to “communicate with and serve” exiled Tibetans and assist them in returning back to the country.

According to a report published by the Chinese Communist Party run Global Times, the office, to be managed by the so called Tibetan Autonomous Region, will open this month.

The report, citing the Hong Kong-based Chinese language paper Ming Pao said the office will be at par with other overseas Chinese affairs offices and serve overseas Tibetans. 

“There are about 150,000 Tibetans living overseas, but Tibet does not have an organ to serve them while all other provinces and autonomous regions in China have overseas Chinese affairs offices,” the report cited Ming Pao as saying.

Source: phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, September 10: In growing expressions of defiance against China’s rule, protesters have pulled down a Chinese flag and raised the Tibetan national flag at a school in eastern Tibet.

Leaflets calling for Tibet’s freedom, written in red ink, were also scattered around the flagpole.

According to exiled Tibetans with contacts in the region, the Chinese flag at a school in Dzachukha Wonpo region of Kardze was pulled down at around midnight on Friday. Instead, the ‘banned in Tibet’ Tibetan national flag was hoisted.

Source: tibet.net, September 4, 2012

By Thubten Samphel*

Ancient China erected the Great Wall to keep out the barbarians. Modern China has erected the Great Firewall to prevent barbarian thoughts from infecting the health of the citizens of the People’s Republic. Like the ancient wall, the Great Firewall has been breached. Tibetan exiles have initiated a conversation with the netizens of China that has the potential to moderate Beijing’s policy towards Tibetans and other minorities.

One burning topic of discussion between Tibetan exiles and the Chinese on the Mainland is the spate of fiery deaths that engulf Tibet today. So far, 51 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009. All of them called for freedom in Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to his homeland. When informed of these self-immolations, the reaction from the Chinese netizens is one of is shock and disbelief. Even when images of self-immolations were sent to them, the sentiment of the majority Chinese netizens is, this can’t be happening in China.

Source: phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, September 3: In reports coming just in, the three Tibetan hunger strikers who began their indefinite fastearlier today in the Indian capital New Delhi, have been detained by Indian authorities.

The three were forcibly removed from Jantar Mantar, the site of the hunger strike protest, minutes back, citing security reasons due to the Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie’s ongoing visit to India.

Speaking to Phayul over phone from New Delhi, Joint Secretary of Tibetan Youth Congress, the organisers of the indefinite hunger strike, Tenzin Norsang said that the three were forcibly taken away amidst heightened tensions by the Indian police.

Source: tibet.net, 3rd September, 12