Source: tibet.net, 28-02-2012

DHARAMSHALA: Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS), Bangalore Chapter, conducted a two-day National Youth Convention entitled YUVA BHARAT – 2020, from 25- 26 February at Prashant Kutiram, Jigani, Bangalore.

As invited, Mr. Tashi Phuntsok, Chief Representative, South Zone, Bangalore attended the inaugural session and also delivered a comprehensive presentation on the Situation in Tibet in the light of current events in Tibet and also at the larger perspective of India and her neighbours with specific focus on regional security.

The inauguration was blessed by the Jagadguru Shankarcharya Sr. Sri Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamiji and addressed by, among others, Dr. V.K Sarawat, Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defense & Director General DRDO, Dr. Subramanium Swamy, President, Janata Party, Sri P N Benjamin, Founder, Bangalore Initiative Religious Dialogue and Sri Indresh Kumar, Member, National Executive, Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh.

Source: tibet.net, 28-02-2012

DHARAMSHALA: India Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) organized a four days educational tour for the final year Master’s degree student of English Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass communication, (IIMC) New Delhi to Dharamshala from 16-19 February 2012. The Study tour was initiated to enhance better understanding and awareness about Tibet and its freedom  struggle.

Around 28 students and a staff visited Dharamshala and had a meetings and programs with officials of Central Tibetan Administration, Tibetan NGO’s and other institutions.

Source:tibet.net, By Matthias Williams, Reuters,

18-02-2012, The plight of Tibetans has deteriorated since a wave of deadly protests shook the region in 2008, as soldiers, spies and constant checkpoints put the Chinese region into a “lockdown”, the Tibetan prime minister-in-exile said.

Relations between exiled Tibetan leaders and Beijing had also deteriorated in the past four years as the Chinese government shunned talks with Tibetan envoys, Lobsang Sangay told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.

Riots killed at least 19 people throughout Tibetan parts of China in 2008, prompting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to call life in the region “hell on earth”.

Beijing has tightened its grip on what it calls the Tibet Autonomous Region since then, flooding the area with soldiers and non-Tibetan Chinese, and squeezing the job prospects and freedom of expression of the local population, Sangay said.

Source :phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, February 17: Yet another Tibetan has died in the continuing wave of self-immolation in Tibet.

Dhamchoe Sangpo, a monk from Bongthak Ewam Tare Shedrup Dhargey Ling monastery in the Tsongon region of Amdo, eastern Tibet set his body on fire at around 6 am local time in an apparent protest against the Chinese government.

Source: phayul.com

 DHARAMSHALA, February 17: In a fresh warning to Beijing, an international rights group has said the detention of Tibetan pilgrims on their return journey from pilgrimage to India and Nepal, will only escalate tensions in Tibetan regions.

"The Chinese government should immediately release Tibetans who have been detained by local police and are being forced to undergo political re-education after travelling to India to listen to religious teachings there," New York based Human Rights Watch said yesterday.