http://www.uyghurnews.com/ - Feed for Uyghur, Uighur, East Turkistan, Tibet News en-us http://www.uyghurnews.com/SiteDesign/etflag.gif http://www.uyghurnews.com/ China (CPC) and the State Council. During the meeting, Wen, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee's Political Bureau, congratulated the Panchen Lama, as well as all Tibetan compatriots, on the forthcoming Tibetan New Year, which falls on February 22. The premiere heard a report by the Panchen Lama on his life and work since he was enthroned 17 years ago. Wen praised and congratulated the Panchen Lama on his marked progress in Buddhist research and cultural and ethic aspects, noting that the Panchen Lama has behaved in a good style as a Living Buddha of the Tibetan Buddhism. The year 2011 is the 60th anniversary of the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, and over]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=chinese-premier-wen-meets-panchen-lama&ItemID=NV-213201228064271320962 Tibet? ]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=what-will-xi-mean-for-tibet&ItemID=ZM-2132012688242712499943 Tibetan Buddhist nun Palden Choetso standing in the street, burning herself as a human torch. I want to respond, to douse her flames. It’s impossible. So too is it to salute her for her bravery, for her faith in love, for her determination, and her belief that peace is possible. Did she cry out for freedom? For herself? Her people? Her land? Her nation? For her beloved lama, teacher, and savior? I watch as an elegant laywoman, a passerby startled and gripped with horror, manages to quickly take a white khata greeting scarf out of her bag, a traditional offering of goodwill and respect. She waves the scarf toward the stock-still flaming nun and then offers it into the fire as Palden Choetso passes out, dying in agony, her body crumpling to the]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=commentary-a-cry-for-freedom&ItemID=FA-2132012425142712167068 China premier meets govt-installed Tibetan cleric February 12, 2012 By SCOTT McDONALD, Associated Press – 2 days ago   BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told a government-installed Tibetan cleric Friday to uphold national unity in a meeting amid recurring anti-government unrest in Tibetan communities. The government's account of Wen's meeting with the Panchen Lama did not mention the unrest, which sparked two weeks ago with protests in southwest China. Chinese security forces shot dead Thursday two Tibetan brothers who had been on the run since taking part in the protests, U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia said. Wen urged the Panchen Lama to play a bigger role in maintaining national unity and ethnic harmony, a statement on the central government's website said. The Panchen Lama is the second-ranked religious leader to Tibetans, after the Dalai Lama, but most Tibetans do not accept him because he was appointed by Beijing. The original boy selec]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-premier-meets-govt-installed-tibetan-cleric&ItemID=RT-2132012309342712849151 Tibet officials 'prepare for war' February 12, 2012   Officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been ordered to recognize the "grave situation" in maintaining stability and to ready themselves for "a war against secessionist sabotage," months before a major plenary session of the Communist Party of China. The fight against the Dalai Lama clique is a "long-term, complicated and sometimes even acute" one, Chen Quanguo, regional Party chief of Tibet, was quoted by the Tibet Daily Thursday as saying. "For those irresponsible officials who walk away from their duties, fail to implement policies or are found guilty of dereliction of duty in maintaining stability, they shall be immediately removed from their posts, pending punishment, regardless of how great the contributions they made in the past or what kind of position they held," Chen warned in a strongly worded speech. Chen asked local officials to "improve the precautionary and emer]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibet-officials-prepare-for-war&ItemID=SJ-213201213684271296179 China to UN expert group: Panchen Lama receiving "excellent education" February 12, 2012 9 February, 2012 International Campaign for Tibet Group Raises cases of disappearances of Tibetan monk Jigme Guri and monks from Kirti monastery GENEVA, February 9, 2012 - According to a report of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance (WGEID) submitted to the 19th session of the UN human rights Council, the government of the People’s Republic of China continues to maintain, nearly 17 years after his enforced disappearance, that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, is not "under house arrest."  Official Chinese claims notwithstanding, the Panchen Lama has not been seen since he was taken from his home in May 1995, nor have numerous appeals by the international community for specific information about his welfare and whereabouts been satisfied.    "He and his family are currently leading normal lives in Tibet, and he is rec]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-to-un-expert-group-panchen-lama-receiving-excellent-education&ItemID=RJ-2132012339242712800181 Tibetans set themselves alight in protests February 12, 2012 Warning - this video contains images which some may find distressing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16975739 Authorities in China have launched a big security operation to try to end a wave of unrest caused by Tibetan campaigners. In the past year, at least 19 people have publicly set themselves on fire, five in the past week alone, in a campaign calling for more freedom for Tibetans. China has exercised sovereignty over Tibet for more than six decades. Damian Grammaticas has been to Sichuan province bordering Tibet where most of the trouble has happened. ]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetans-set-themselves-alight-in-protests&ItemID=OV-2132012192442712977728 human rights at EU-China Summit February 12, 2012 http://www.hrw.org/node/105114   For Immediate Release Worsening Environment Requires Expressions of Concern, Expectations (New York, February 10, 2012) – The European Union should strongly express its concerns about China’s deteriorating human rights environment both publicly and privately during the EU-China Summit on February 14, 2012, in Beijing, human rights Watch said today. “With the Chinese government’s widening attacks on freedom of expression, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and government critics, the EU needs to speak out not just to protest abuses, but to make its expectations for positive change crystal clear,” said Sophie Richardson, China director at human rights Watch. “The EU should send a message that the Chinese government’s status quo on human rights is unacceptable and a threat to bilateral relations.” On February 6, Huma]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=eu-dont-sideline-human-rights-at-eu-china-summit&ItemID=QB-213201271142711785711 Tibetan Burns Self in Protest in Ngaba February 12, 2012 TCHRD PRESS RELEASE 9 February 2012, Dharamsala                  Contact: Ms. Dukthen Kyi (English) / Mr. Jampel Monlam (Tibetan, Chinese)  Tel: +91 1892 223363, 229225, 225874     A 19-yr-old Tibetan set himself alight in protest against the Chinese government on 8 February 2012 around 6.30 pm (Tibet Time) at Ngaba County in Sichuan Province. Rinzin Dorjee (aka Rikpe) self-immolated at No. 2 Primary School in Ngaba town, where 13 Tibetans have now set themselves on fire. Soon after the incident, security personnel arrived, doused the flames, and reportedly took Rikpe to the Aba County hospital. Later, he was taken to a hospital in Barkham (Chinese: Ma’erkang), capital of Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. Not much details are available on his condition. However, some sources say that by the night o]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=one-more-tibetan-burns-self-in-protest-in-ngaba&ItemID=VT-213201247242711367853 SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tenzin-gyatso-our-precious-dalai-lama&ItemID=MP-2132012767642711955339 Tibetan man self-immolates today in Ngaba February 12, 2012 In a climate of deepening tension and military buildup, a Tibetan man set fire to himself today (February 8) at around 6 pm local time in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), according to Tibetan monks in exile who are in contact with people in the region. According to two Tibetan monks from Kirti monastery in Dharamsala, India (associated with Kirti monastery in Ngaba), the Tibetan set himself on fire at a primary school early in the evening in Ngaba county town in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province (the Tibetan area of Amdo). Sources said that the Tibetan seemed to be a monk, but his name and place of origin are not known. He was taken away by police, and it is not known whether he is still alive. Two monks were also detained from the vicinity.   The two Kirti monks in exile, Kanyag Tsering and Lobsang Yeshe, said that they believed security was tightened still further in Ngaba because of the global spotl]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetan-man-self-immolates-today-in-ngaba&ItemID=UH-2132012277942711505414 China sacks four officials in Tibet over 'stability' February 12, 2012 The Chinese Communist Party chief in Tibet has sacked four officials for "endangering stability" in the region, state media reports. According to the Tibet Daily newspaper, they were sacked for leaving their posts in the Chamdo region during the Lunar New Year. The regional government on Monday had warned officials to maintain stability or face dismissal or criminal charges. The dismissal comes as another Tibetan reportedly set himself on fire. Two of the four officials face disciplinary charges. The man who set himself alight is believed to be a monk in Aba prefecture in Sichuan province, rights groups said. If confirmed, this would be the 20th such case in the past year. He was reportedly taken away by police on Wednesday and his current condition is unknown. The incident was reported by various rights groups, as well as the Tibetan Centre for human rights and Democracy (TCHRD) in Dharamsala, India, the]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-sacks-four-officials-in-tibet-over-stability&ItemID=GP-2132012482142711180555 Tibetans Burn Selves for Freedom February 12, 2012 News today that three Tibetan herders may have set themselves alight highlights the increasing frequency with which Tibetans (usually monks or nuns) have been turning to self-immolation,bringing to 19 the total that have done so in the past year. Why are Tibetans setting themselves on fire with such frequency? The Chinese government has denied any responsibility, instead blaming the Dalai Lama for encouraging such radical actions. However, this claim doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. The Chinese government has told the West that the Dalai Lama is irrelevant to Tibetans, while telling Chinese and Tibetans within China that he has been marginalized to the point of becoming a “political orphan.” It’s therefore illogical to accuse him of being the mastermind behind radical actions taken by Tibetans.   The reality is that the Dalai Lama single-handedly introduced democracy to the Tibetan government in exile im]]> SUN, 12 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetans-burn-selves-for-freedom&ItemID=CH-2132012627242711114915 Tibetan-populated provinces in China. Photo courtesy of Kanyag Tsering Tenzin Choedron in an undated photo. A teenage Tibetan Buddhist nun set herself on fire on Saturday in the latest self-immolation against Chinese rule as protesters torched government buildings in southwestern Sichuan province, exile sources said.Tenzin Choedron, aged 18 and from the Mamo Nunnery in the Ngaba (Aba, in Chinese) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, shouted slogans against the Chinese government as she was burning before security forces hauled her away, the sources said, quoting local contacts.Choedron was the 23rd Tibetan—and the third nun—to have self-immolated since February 2009 when Beijing stepped up a clampdown on monasteries and rounded up hundreds of protesting monks.Thirteen of the 23 who self-immolated are known to have died following their protests, according to advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet.Choedron is believed to have suffe]]> SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=nun-self-immolates-buildings-torched&ItemID=XX-2132012474562027402444 SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=koz-yeshida-nemlengen-zemin-turme-hayati30-aprel&ItemID=UH-2132012677960615276692 SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=armiye-eli-sayrami-heqqide&ItemID=PD-213201211760615594807 SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=amerika-xitay-ishlar-birleshme-komiteti-gaw-jisheng-heqqide-guwahliq-berish-yighini-chaqiridu&ItemID=TZ-2132012158060615509926 SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=muxbirlarni-qoghdash-komiteti-xitayda-turmige-qamalghan-27-yazghuchining-yerimidin-kopreki-uyghur&ItemID=EG-2132012589460615292496 SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=bu-yil-xitayning-import-kisport-qimmiti-korunerlik-towenligen&ItemID=ED-2132012307260615923274 SAT, 11 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=yershari-mektupliri-gezitide-uyghurlarning-omumiy-ehwali-qisqiche-tonushturuldi&ItemID=YZ-2132012482660615715999 human rights Defenders. Undated photo of Zhu Yufu. Updated at 1.40 p.m. EST on 2012-2-10 A court in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou has handed down a seven-year jail term to a veteran pro-democracy activist for "incitement to subvert state power" after he penned a poem calling on the Chinese people to vote with their feet.Zhu Yufu, 60, was handed the sentence on Friday after his Jan. 31 trial, the latest in a string of political activists to receive heavy jail terms for subversion, the China human rights Defenders (CHRD) said in a statement.The procuratorate’s indictment cited as evidence a poem, “It Is Time,” that Zhu wrote and shared during online calls for 'Jasmine' rallies inspired by protests in the Middle East in early 2011.During his trial Zhu told the court that he had been merely exercising his freedoms as enshrined in the co]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=seven-years-in-jail-for-a-poem&ItemID=ST-2132012789962027669782 Tibetans returning from a major Buddhist ritual in India may be held for up to four months by Chinese authorities. RFA / Thomas L. Kelly Tibetan pilgrims receive Buddhist teachings at the Kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India, January 2012. Hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims held by Chinese authorities following their return last month from a religious gathering in India presided over by the Dalai Lama may be detained until May, according to sources in Tibet and overseas.The pilgrims—including retired Communist Party and government cadres—are being held in hotels around Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, and are being interrogated about their activities and contacts in India and subjected to intensive “political re-education” sessions, sources said.“There must be at least 700 or 800 of them detained in [Tibet’s regional capital] Lhasa,” one U.S.-based Tibetan said, citing sources in the region. “I don’t have an accurate number.”“They were put in the hotels and forced to do ‘political study’ and confession,” a ]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=pilgrims-may-be-held-for-months&ItemID=NR-2132012764562027275975 China to escape the fighting, June 14, 2011. More than 50,000 people have fled to the southwestern Chinese border following fighting between Burma's ethnic Kachin rebels and government troops, aid workers said Friday. But an official in China's Yunnan province denied there is a burgeoning refugee problem in the region.Armed clashes between Burmese government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) began last June, but have escalated into large-scale conflict since the beginning of the year, aid groups said, despite efforts by both sides to initiate a ceasefire agreement.Dozens of refugee camps have mushroomed in Yunnan's Dehong prefecture, which runs along the border with KIA-held territory in Burma, and refugees are now facing overcrowding and a shortage of food and medical supplies, according to aid worker Ma Er, who is coordinating rel]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=official-denies-refugee-crisis&ItemID=PA-2132012997862027828720 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=forced-eviction-illegal&ItemID=OW-2132012750162027250519 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=heptilik-xewerler-4-fewraldin-10-fewralghiche&ItemID=BF-2132012292160615907439 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xitay-dairiliri-yene-bir-oktichini-qamaq-jazasigha-hokum-qildi&ItemID=KV-213201237760615435065 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=kanada-bash-ministiri-xarper-xitaygha-nefitmu-satimiz-kishilik-hoquqnimu-chekinmey-otturigha-qoyimiz&ItemID=IE-2132012641560615516940 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xitay-dairiliri-uyghur-sergerdan-balilarni-yurtigha-qayturup-kelish-herikitining-waqti-uzartti&ItemID=HA-2132012446560615780535 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=yawropa-ittipaqi-xitay-bilen-otkuzulidighan-sohbette-kishilik-hoquqni-bir-chetke-qayrip-qoymasliqqa-chaqirildi&ItemID=LU-213201220960615989614 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=yaxshiliq-we-dunyaning-chayanliri&ItemID=YK-2132012422460615909009 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=albaniyide-yashawatqan-ababekri-ghulja-weqesining-ehmiyiti-heqqide-toxtaldi&ItemID=KO-2132012369160615618356 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=kanada-bash-ministiri-beyjing-ziyaritide-kishilik-hoquq-we-huseyin-jelil-mesillirini-otturigha-qoydi&ItemID=BL-21320127956061425186 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xitay-merkizi-komitetining-ichki-qismidiki-jiddiy-majra-wang-lijun-weqesi&ItemID=NK-213201230460614667188 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=yene-2-neper-tibetlikning-saqchilar-teripidin-etip-olturulushi-jiddiy-inkas-qozghidi&ItemID=QI-2132012862360614842060 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xitay-chegra-mudapie-qisimlirining-otkur-xenjer-dek-bolushini-telep-qildi&ItemID=PL-2132012427760614195451 FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=toqsunluq-charwichilar-bilen-aptonom-rayonluq-erziyet-idarisining-sohbiti-muweppeqiyetlik-bolmidi&ItemID=JP-2132012371760614948089 Tibetans staged protest in Kyegudo in Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai province Wednesday morning. ?? About 1,400 Tibetan protesters carried banners and chanted slogans calling for return of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, freedom for Tibet, respect for Tibetan lives and Tibetan langauge and release of political prisoners including Panchen Lama. Sources told VOA Tibetan the group of protesters were to march from Sekhar Monastery to Zatoe town before they were blocked at a bridge by Chinese security forces and dispersed to their respective places. There is no case of arrest or conflict. An immediate meeting was held in the afternoon' trucks of police were deployed in the protest area. ]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=thousands-protest-in-kyegudo&ItemID=EM-2132012254142711170602 Tibetans are dying [self-immolating], others are detained and arrested, and others, like me, who ar]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=self-immolation-and-tension-in-tibet-as-solidarity-vigils-held-across-the-globe&ItemID=MI-213201231614271165404 Tibet: Krishna February 10, 2012 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Ready-to-offer-help-to-ease-tensions-over-Tibet-Krishna/articleshow/11810035.cms   BEIJING: Describing Tibet issue as an internal affair of China, India said it was "willing to offer any help" to ease the recent spurt in tensions, striking a cautious note on the self immolations by Buddhist monks and subsequent violence.  External affairs minister, SM Krishna who held extensive talks with four senior Chinese leaders today, told the media here that the Tibetan issue had figured during the parleys.  "We did discuss Tibetan issue also. It is government of India's position that the Tibetan Autonomous Region is part of the People's Republic of China, (PRC) as a result of that we are dealing with internal affairs of China", he said.  "Hence we have to be very cautious and any help that we can render to ease]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=ready-to-offer-help-to-ease-tensions-over-tibet-krishna&ItemID=SL-2132012799742711699390 Tibetan protester set himself ablaze Wednesday to protest Chinese rule in a Tibetan-populated area of China’s western Sichuan province, according to Tibetan sources in exile. Twenty-one Tibetans, mostly monks and former monks, have set fire to themselves in a wave of self-immolation protests in ethnic Tibetan regions of China since March 2009 as Beijing has stepped up a crackdown on monasteries amid charges of human rights abuses. Wednesday's self-immolation took place at 6:30 p.m. local time at the No. 2 primary school in the main town of Ngaba county, in the Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) prefecture, India-based monks Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering said in a statement to RFA, citing contacts in the region. The still-unidentified Tibetan man shouted slogans before self-immolating, they said. “The protester appeared to be a monk,&]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=new-self-immolation-amid-tensions&ItemID=AO-2132012370542711966194 Tibetans in Tibet in view of the Chinese military build-up in Tibet, Kalon Tripa has called for more substantive support from the world community to end the Chinese government’s repression in Tibet. “Hundreds of convoys carrying Chinese military personnel with automatic machine guns are moving towards Tibet. We fear many Tibetans might face unfortunate experiences,” Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay told hundreds of Tibetans and supporters gathered at a solidarity vigil in Dharamsala today. “We really feel the Chinese government is preparing for something really tragic. Hence it is critical that the international community must intervene now to show support for Tibet and Tibetan people,” Dr Sangay said. “The Tibetans in Tibet are giving up their lives because the occupation of Tibet and repressive polic]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=kalon-tripa-calls-for-more-concrete-actions-from-intl-community-on-tibet&ItemID=YO-2132012546542711749298 Tibetan Village Stops Mining on Sacred Mountain February 10, 2012 http://intercontinentalcry.org/tibetan-villagers-halt-mining-project-on-sacred-mountain/ In Tibetan culture, where people live in intimate relationship with the natural world around them, reality and mythology have a way of blending together. So it was perhaps no surprise to local villagers when, after a Chinese mining company and local authorities repeatedly repelled efforts stop a gold mining project on the slopes of holy Mount Kawagebo, the mountain appeared to strike back. Mount Kawagebo, so sacred that climbing is banned, sits on the border between Tibet and China’s Yunnan Province; its eastern side is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Area UNESCO World Heritage site. In February 2011, a small gold-mining operation started near the village of Abin, which is on the western side of Kawagebo, along the path of an 800-year-old pilgrimage route that circles the mountain, attracting tens of]]> FRI, 10 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetan-village-stops-mining-on-sacred-mountain&ItemID=XL-2132012349642710702358 China try an independent candidate who hoped to stand for local parliamentary elections. ImagineChina Staff at a Chinese company cast votes in local parliamentary elections in Shanghai, Sept. 14, 2011. A court in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong is trying an independent parliamentary election candidate this week for violating electoral law, her lawyer said.Last October, hundreds of Li Biyun's supporters turned out in her home district of Rongli, in Guangdong's Foshan city, to protest her detention.But her trial went ahead this week at the Shunde district People's Court in Foshan, according to her legal representative Wang Jinping."Li Biyun was charged because she protested against illegal election practices," Wang said, adding that Li had scant chance of a fair trial."The elections were organized by the local National People's Congress (NPC), and now the public prosecutors and the judges are all people who were appointed by them," he said."There are al]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=election-activist-stands-trial&ItemID=VX-2132012696262027969486 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=row-over-olympic-toy-factory&ItemID=TJ-2132012758362027203686 Tibet are sacked for failing to crack down on unrest. AFP Tibetan monks walk past police vehicles on a street in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province, Jan. 26, 2012. A Tibetan teenager who set himself ablaze this week to protest Chinese rule is in critical condition after Chinese security forces doused the flames and took him away, according to sources in exile and Tibet.He was identified as former monk Rigdzin Dorje, aged 19.Dorje set fire to himself on Wednesday at a school in the main town of Ngaba county, in the Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) prefecture in Sichuan.He was the 21st Tibetan to have self-immolated in a wave of protests in ethnic Tibetan regions of China since March 2009 as Beijing stepped up a crackdown on monasteries.“He was taken from the site of his protest by soldiers and police, first to the county hospital and later to Barkham,” the prefectural capital,  India-based monks Kanyag Tsering and Losang Yeshe said, citing contacts in]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=self-immolater-fights-for-life&ItemID=BJ-2132012958062027950980 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=100-escape-from-traffickers&ItemID=FE-2132012418962027606345 Tibetan monk burns himself in protest. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener. A Tibetan wears a mask against the backdrop of protests in Nangchen county in Qinghai province, Feb. 8, 2012. Updated at 12:30 p.m. EST on 2012-02-10 Chinese security forces on Thursday shot and killed a Tibetan monk and his brother who had been involved in protests against Chinese rule, as another Tibetan self-immolated to protest Tibetans' plight, sources said. The shooting in Draggo (in Chinese, Luhuo) county in southwest Sichuan province signaled a hardening crackdown by Chinese authorities on dissent by Tibetans, 22 of whom have self-immolated since March 2009 when Beijing escalated a clampdown on monasteries.     The two brothers had been on the run for more than two weeks, and had been hiding in the hills in a nomad region when they were surrounded and fired upon, according to sources in Tibet and in exile. Killed on the spot An undated photo of Yeshe]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=two-shot-dead-another-self-immolation&ItemID=FZ-2132012337562027423656 China’s northwest say local authorities seized thousands of acres of their land. RFA These families say government officials appropriated their land in Xinjiang's Toksun county. More than 40 ethnic Uyghurs protested outside of a government office in China’s northwest Xinjiang region Thursday demanding that authorities return a portion of land they say was seized from them and given to Han Chinese as part of a municipal development plan. The protesters, from Turpan prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, said that some 410,000 mu (67,500 acres) of their grazing land and 68 livestock pens were appropriated by local authorities in 2008 for the expansion of the regional capital Urumqi. But they said that none of them had been offered compensation. Abdurehim Abliz, a representative of the group from Toksun county’s Gholbiyi village, said that the herdsmen had hoped to speak with officials at the Urumqi municipal office about an edict which higher authorities had issu]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=herdsmen-demand-answers-compensation&ItemID=GO-2132012357662027987093 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=foreign-poll-observers-critical&ItemID=NO-2132012504662027892592 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=amerikining-xitayda-turushluq-elchixanisi-wiza-bejirish-resmiyetlirini-addiylashturidighanliqini-jakarlidi&ItemID=MO-213201290160614569248 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xitay-dairiliri-tibettiki-kadirliridin-urushqa-teyyarliq-halitide-turush-ni-telep-qildi&ItemID=GT-2132012806860614214459 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=b-d-t-bash-sekretari-ban-kimun-xewpsizlik-kengishini-ortaq-heriket-qilalmasliq-bilen-eyiblidi&ItemID=TK-21320122165606143975 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=kechurum-teshkilati-xitay-rusiye-we-bilarusiyidin-import-qilinghan-qorallar-awam-xelqni-basturushqa-ishlitilmekte&ItemID=WI-2132012249360614365379 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=japakesh-afghanistan-xelqining-bugunki-pajielik-ehwaligha-kim-eyiblik-1&ItemID=BC-2132012988060613659434 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=turkiye-xitay-bilen-rusiyini-ismini-atimay-tenqid-qildi&ItemID=GT-2132012104260613716189 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=professor-doktor-sultan-mehmut-uyghur-mektipini-ziyaret-qildi&ItemID=IW-213201211456061394161 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xelqara-islam-hemkarliq-teshkilati-suriye-krizisini-hel-qilishning-yolini-izdimekte&ItemID=HX-213201289760613690733 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=istanbulda-yashlar-uchun-istrategiye-toghrisida-leksiye-berish-yighini-otkuzuldi&ItemID=VF-213201237160613390459 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=beyjing-dairilirining-internet-blogida-kimlik-tuzumini-yolgha-qoyushi-naraziliq-qozghidi&ItemID=EC-2132012551260613878000 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=chongchingning-muawin-sheher-bashliqi-wang-lijun-weqesi-xitayning-ichi-sirtida-zor-ghulghula-qozghidi&ItemID=LI-2132012572260613427007 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=amerikida-xitayning-texnika-jasusluqigha-ait-weqeler-ashkarilandi&ItemID=PE-21320123316061382372 THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=toqsunluq-40-nechche-neper-uyghur-charwichi-uyghur-rayonluq-partkom-aldida-topliship-hokumetke-naraziliq-bildurdi&ItemID=PR-2132012209460613860665 Tibetans in Tibet and call on China to stop killing innocent Tibetans [London, 7 February] On 8th February, Tibetans and supporters will gather at Chinese Embassies across the world to show their solidarity with Tibetans in Tibet and on China to stop killing innocent Tibetans and seriously and progressively address Tibetans’ grievances about the lack of human rights and freedoms in their country In London, Tibetan monks will lead prayers and there will be guest speakers including Thubten Samdup, Representative of the Dalai Lama in the UK and Northern Europe. Attendees will wear black ribbons over their mouths to highlight how Tibetans are being silenced in Tibet. There will also be a vigil at the Chinese Consulate in Edinburgh between 6 and 8pm. Last week the Tibetan Prime Minister in exile, Lobsang Sangay, called for world-wide vigils on February 8 to express solidarity with Tib]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=wednesday-8th-february-global-vigils-for-tibet&ItemID=SL-2132012879842710274349 China’s president stood in front of the palace in Lhasa, Tibet, that is the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama and delivered a warning to the world. “We will completely smash any plot to destroy stability in Tibet and jeopardize national unity,” said Xi Jinping, serving notice that China would fight what he called Tibetan separatists. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper begins his five-day trip to China, those Tibetan “separatists” are very much in the news again. Demonstrations in the past few weeks in support of Tibet in cities a few hundred miles from one of the cities Harper will visit here are being met with sharp government crackdowns. It’s difficult to know how serious the situation is]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=pipelines-pandas-trump-democracy&ItemID=YR-213201281642710648574 Tibetans in Tibet February 09, 2012 United Nations for a Free Tibet P.O. Box 10044, Oakland, CA 94610 Tel: 971 55 688 2005 E-mail: unfft@gmx.com http://unitednations4freetibet.com   For Immediate Release February 7, 2012 Oakland - Along with Chinese and Vietnamese Rights groups, worldwide campaign joined and organized by United Nations For a Free Tibet will be held in Argentina, Cost Rica, Emirates, India, Germany, Romania and many other countries on February 8th, to show our solidarity with Tibetans in Tibet.  Kalon Tripa calls for worldwide vigil and said entire Tibet under martial law. In his first official statement on the recent killings of Tibetans in Tibet, Kalong Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay urged Tibetans and Tibet supporters all over the world to take part in a global vigil on Wednesday, February 8. In two separate incidents, earlier this week, hundreds of Tibetans took out de]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=worldwide-vigil-in-solidarity-with-tibetans-in-tibet&ItemID=PO-2132012801942710236060 China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities. The two are among 21 companies ordered to develop a mechanism to block material considered religiously offensive after private petitioners took them to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Individuals have brought two cases against internet companies in India, fuelling fears about censorship in the world's largest democracy. "[Our] review team has looked at the content and disabled this content from the local domains of [Google] search, YouTube and Blogger," said a Google spokeswoman, Paroma Roy Chowdhury. At the heart of the dispute is a law India passed last year making companies responsible for user content posted on their websites]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=google-and-facebook-block-content-in-india-after-court-warns-of-crackdown&ItemID=DR-2132012111442709966814 China. In January, a court in the central Chinese city of Wuhan sentenced writer Li Tie to 10 years on charges of subversion of state power, and prosecutors in Hangzhou charged poet Zhu Yufu with subversion for penning a poem about political reform. Prominent dissident Yu Jie, who fled China in January, explained at a press conference in Washington how Beijing policemen beat him for hours and burned him with cigarettes. In late December, a Sichuan court sentenced pro-democracy activist Chen Wei to nine years for subversion; a few days later a court in Guizhou gave government critic Chen Xi ten years on the same charge.Such harsh sente]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-forbidden-citizen&ItemID=DP-2132012567342709699144 China this week, many Canadians will be wondering how he will deal with the human-rights dimension of the Canada-China relationship. A recent Asia Pacific Foundation survey of Canadians professionally engaged with Asia found that 72 per cent perceive China’s human-rights record to be “poor.” Many also view Canada’s record of action on human rights in the region to be ineffective, with 62 per cent believing that no real difference was made. Many Canadians believe that serious human-rights problems persist in China and that we need to engage, yet feel uncertain about how to proceed. China’s performance of international human-rights standards has been conflicted. Beijing has incorporated many of these standards into its constitution and domestic]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-integrated-approach-to-engaging-beijing&ItemID=VX-2132012821642709259375 Tibetan Dialogue? February 09, 2012 By the Editorial Board of The Tibetan Political Review   “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”  This Zen Buddhist koan is sometimes cited by those who follow the ups and downs – mostly downs – of the Sino-Tibetan dialogue.  The Tibetan side wants to negotiate a political resolution; the Chinese side either refuses to discuss anything beyond the personal status of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, or refuses to even acknowledge that there is a dialogue.   Now, there are two questions of new urgency that Tibetans must address in relation to the future of this dialogue.  First, Tibetans must clarify internally who will decide Tibetan policy on the dialogue process and control the envoys.  Second, Tibetans must decide how to respond externally to China’s growing intransigence in restarting talks.   The first question is illustrated by a November 2011 ]]> THU, 09 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=what-future-for-the-sino-tibetan-dialogue&ItemID=RN-2132012461942708759199 Tibetans around the world pray for those who have 'sacrificed' for Tibet. AFP A Tibetan monk walks past police vehicles on a street in Chengdu in China's Sichuan province, Jan. 26, 2012. Another Tibetan protester set himself ablaze Wednesday to protest Chinese rule in a Tibetan-populated area of China’s western Sichuan province, according to Tibetan sources in exile.Twenty-one Tibetans, mostly monks and former monks, have set fire to themselves in a wave of self-immolation protests in ethnic Tibetan regions of China since March 2009 as Beijing has stepped up a crackdown on monasteries amid charges of human rights abuses.  Wednesday's self-immolation took place at 6:30 p.m. local time at the No. 2 primary school in the main town of Ngaba county, in the Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) prefecture, India-based monks Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering said in a statement to RFA, citing contacts in the region. The still-unidentified Tibetan man shouted slogans before self-immolat]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=new-self-immolation-amid-tensions&ItemID=JI-2132012108162027979276 China's state-controlled media has been effectively barred from covering forthcoming polls in the rebel Guangdong village of Wukan, journalists said via anonymous microblog posts this week.Residents of Wukan voted for new election officials last week, in the wake of several weeks of protests last year sparked by anger over official corruption and the sale of local farmland.Violent protests by the Wukan villagers against unscrupulous land grabs and rigged elections sparked rare concessions following an investigation by the provincial government of Guangdong, which concluded that most of the villagers' demands and complaints were fair.However, Chinese journalists have said via popular microblogging services that they have been turned back by officials after trav]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=journalists-kept-away-from-wukan&ItemID=XM-2132012483562027972963 China's Communist Party. AFP Bo Xilai looks on during a meeting at the National People's Congress in Beijing, March 6, 2010. A former gang-busting police chief with strong political ties to an up-and-coming ruling Chinese Communist Party official in southwestern city of Chongqing took an abrupt "leave of absence" Wednesday amid rumors that he may seek political asylum in the United States.China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had "no information" about the sudden recuperation leave taken by vice mayor and former police chief of Chongqing Wang Lijun, who is deputy to the city's Communist Party chief Bo Xilai. Wang was removed from his key posts last week, prompting speculation he may be under investigation by the ruling Communist Party.Chongqing's provincial-ranking government said in a posting on its official microblog account on Wednesday that Wang, 52, was on sick leave, sparking widespread speculation of a politi]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=former-triad-cop-on-rest-leave&ItemID=BS-213201284062027107752 Tibetans in two troubled southwest Chinese provinces on Wednesday defied a security crackdown and held protests against Beijing's rule as another monk self-immolated, fueling tensions, according to local and exile sources.   Chinese security forces attempted but failed to stop the demonstrations in two counties in Qinghai province as protesters shouted slogans and carried banners calling for a "free Tibet," the release of all Tibetan political prisoners, and the return of Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, the sources said. The crowds swelled to about 1,000 each at the peak of the protests in Nangchen (Nangqian, in Chinese) county and Tridu (Chenduo, in Chinese) county in Yulshul (Yushu, in Chinese) prefecture, the so]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=defiant-tibetans-hold-protests&ItemID=BI-213201259562027699514 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=iranda-hazir-xelq-guruch-bilen-yemek-yaghqa-mohtaj&ItemID=KS-2132012755960613172898 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=amerikining-chungchingdiki-konsulxanisi-muawin-sheher-bashliqi-wang-lijunning-panahliq-teligenliki-heqqide-izhat-berishni-ret-qildi&ItemID=KM-213201290176061397638 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=xitay-merkizi-tv-istansisi-keler-heptide-sezgur-mesililerni-chushendurmekchi&ItemID=DA-2132012159960613595333 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=seudi-erebistani-qatarliq-alte-dolet-suriyidin-elchilirini-qayturup-ketti&ItemID=SC-2132012963360613882980 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=yawropa-parlamentida-xitayning-lopnur-596-belgilik-yadro-siniqining-qebih-tesiri-heqqide-xelqaraliq-yighin-echilidu&ItemID=VB-213201279526061357854 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=kanada-bash-ministiri-stephen-harper-xitay-ziyaritini-bashlidi&ItemID=JQ-2132012257660613689166 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=d-u-q-wekilliri-fransiyining-parizh-shehiride-yighingha-qatnashti&ItemID=MU-21320123266061389588 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=tibetler-we-tibet-qollighuchiliri-bir-septe-heriketlenmekte&ItemID=OX-2132012270160613574988 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=shangxeyde-jazalanghan-xitay-emeldarining-qeshqerge-emeldar-qilip-teyinlinishi-kuchluk-inkas-qozghidi&ItemID=ST-213201253016061343823 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=husen-hesen-ependi-5-fewral-ghulja-weqesining-awstraliyidiki-uyghurlar-hayatigha-korsetken-tesiri-heqqide-pikir-bayan-qildi&ItemID=DF-2132012192760613871286 " + ss.noscript() + ""); //-> Türkiyidiki sherqiy türkistan ammiwi teshkilatlar ghulja weqesini xatirilesh munasiwiti bilen, türkiyining enqere, istanbul, qeysi]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=ghulja-weqesining-15-yilliqi-munasiwiti-bilen-istanbulda-namayish-otkuzuldi&ItemID=CB-21320122406061355781 WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=rabiye-qadir-xanim-obamadin-diniy-erkinlik-komitetining-mektupigha-ijabiy-inkas-qayturushini-telep-qildi&ItemID=GV-2132012624860613185759 China February 08, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2012  The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sent the following letter on February 3, 2012:   The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500   Dear Mr. President:   The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hopes your upcoming meetings with China’s Vice President Xi Jinping are productive, and we respectfully urge you to raise critical issues of religious freedom and the rule of law during the visit. We know you are personally committed to protecting the vulnerable and expanding the rule of law. We urge you to demonstrate unwavering support for freedom of religion or belief and the rule of law by raising the situation of those in prison, disappeared, or under pressure in China for seeking greater government accountability, religious freedom, and other human rights.   The re]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=uscirf-letter-to-president-obama-on-religious-freedom-and-rule-of-law-in-china&ItemID=UN-213201291042708437006 Tibetan officials warned to maintain stability February 08, 2012 The Tibetan regional government has warned its officials to maintain stability or face dismissal or criminal charges ahead of the Tibetan new year. The notice was posted on the regional government website. It follows a series of deadly protests in Sichuan province in January and the self-immolations of 19 ethnic Tibetans in the past year in apparent protest against Chinese rule. Tibet celebrates its new year on 22 February. The anniversary of deadly 2008 riots in Lhasa falls shortly afterwards, on 14 March. 'Extreme importance' Citing the government notice, the Tibet Daily newspaper said that officials were warned that they "must put all their efforts into maintaining a stable, unified social situation in our region". They were also urged to "have a clear head and fully recognise the extreme importance and urgency of the job of maintaining stability". The newspaper, however, made no mention of the rec]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetan-officials-warned-to-maintain-stability&ItemID=LK-2132012716042708521554 China at new heights February 08, 2012 AFP Monday, Feb 06, 2012 DHARAMSHALA, India - A continuing spate of self-immolations by Tibetans in China are a desperate response to “new levels” of Chinese persecution, the Tibet government-in-exile said Monday. In a statement from its seat in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala, the exiled government urged the international community to “directly and immediately engage” with the Chinese leadership to prevent further violence. At least 19 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the past year in protest against what they see as repressive policies in Tibetan-inhabited areas, which were hit by deadly unrest last month. “Drastic actions, such as the self-immolations, indicate to us that the Chinese policies in Tibet have reached new levels of repression,” the statement said. “The international community must let leaders in Beijing know unequivocally that the world is conc]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibet-exiles-say-repression-in-china-at-new-heights&ItemID=QB-2132012120342708397657 Tibetan Administration is deeply concerned and alarmed over the recent news of three more self-immolations having taken place in Serthar (Sichuan) on Friday, February 3, 2012. Unconfirmed reports state that three Tibetans were involved, two of them aged in their 60s and 30s respectively. All three have sustained injuries, but their exact condition and whereabouts remain unknown. With Tibetan New Year on February 22nd and the March 10th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising coming up, there are also reports of build-up of security forces and police in and around the city of Lhasa, and its key monasteries. Furthermore, draconian measures to restrict movement of Tibetans in the capital could further aggravate the tense situation in Tibet. The Central Tibetan Administration based in India, fears further bloodshed and loss of lives. &ld]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=another-wave-of-self-immolation-amidst-increased-police-presence&ItemID=LT-2132012924542708670872 Tibetans, particularly Buddhist nuns and monks, who have been attacked as so-called separatists by the Chinese Government. In fact Tibetan leaders, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, do not seek separation from China but rather the end of Chinese colonialisation, including a domestic national constitution that protects Tibet's linguistic, religious and cultural autonomy. This middle way approach, which would maintain Chinese control of foreign affairs and defence, but allow Tibetan domestic autonomy of Tibet, is supported by the All-Party Parliamentarians Group for Tibet, of which I am chair. Tragically, there has been a deterioration in conditions on the ground for indigenous Tibetans in the last 12 months, together with a continuing international indifference to the plight of Tibetans and the deliberate erosion of their immensely rich ]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=self-sacrifice-in-the-desperate-fight-for-tibet&ItemID=DZ-2132012330042707894943 China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country. Zhang, speaking with McCain on a panel at the high-level Munich security conference, dismissed his comments about a looming Chinese Arab Spring as "no more than fantasy" and condemned foreign interference in Chinese internal affairs. McCain, who ran for president against Barack Obama in 2008, told Zhang in front of an audience of ministers, diplomats and security officials: "It is a matter of concern when Tibetans are burning themselves to death because of the continued repression of the Tibetan people in your country." "I have said on many occasion and I will say again the Arab Spring is coming to China as well.]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=mccain-ruffles-beijing-with-talk-of-chinese-arab-spring&ItemID=JJ-2132012661242707251542 Tibetans returning from a Buddhist ritual in India are subjected to security measures by Chinese authorities. RFA / Thomas L. Kelly Tibetan pilgrims receive Buddhist teachings at the Kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India, January 2012. Hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims returning from a religious gathering held last month in India are being detained, interrogated, and subjected to political “re-education” sessions before being allowed by Chinese authorities to reunite with their families, Tibetan sources said. Those who live in Tibetan-populated areas in Chinese provinces outside the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)  have been forced onto trains and sent back quickly, sources in exile said. In a surprising move, China had earlier allowed about 9,000 Tibetans to travel to India to take part in the ten-day Kalachakra religious festival conducted in Bodhgaya in January by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama—a figure revil]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=controls-slapped-on-pilgrims&ItemID=ID-213201266842707764194 Tibetans by the Chinese security forces in northeastern Tibet and the lockdown of Tibet, the International Parliamentarians has called for a UN-led fact-finding mission to observe the situation in Tibet. In a statement on 31 January, International Network of Parliamentarians on Tibet (INPaT) said it is extremely concerned for the news that several Tibetans in Draggo, Kardze and in Dzamthang, Ngaba have been shot dead by Chinese security forces last week. “INPaT considers the use of force not an acceptable response on the part of the Chinese authorities toward peaceful protests carried out by Tibetans to excercise right to freedom of expression and assembly,” the statement said. “INPaT remains deeply concerned that these cases of extrajudicial killings of Tibetans has happened in the background of self-immolati]]> WED, 08 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=world-parliamentarians-call-for-un-fact-finding-mission-to-tibet&ItemID=DE-213201261334270776428 China's weekend decision joining Russia in vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for an end to nearly a year of bloodshed in Syria and for the Middle East country's brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad to step down.The double veto has drawn international condemnation as it threatens to escalate the violence which has left about 6,000 people dead since protests against Assad's regime began in Ma]]> TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=chinas-veto-set-to-backfire&ItemID=YN-2132012178662027708165 China should not interfere in Syrian affairs. AFP A Syrian anti-government protester holds a poster in Hama city, north of Syria's capital Damascus, April 29, 2011. Chinese netizens showed a mixed response this week to criticism over Beijing's veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for an end to nearly a year of bloodshed in Syria and for its leader, Bashar al-Assad, to step down.While Chinese political activists and some bloggers condemned Beijing's veto, which came after violence has left about 6,000 people dead since protests began last March, some netizens drew parallels with Beijing's uncertainty over Libya, while others said China should stay out of attempts by other countries to interfere."I predict that in a few months' time, the spokesperson of the [foreign ministry] will stand on their podium and say 'we respect the choice of the Syrian people,'" wrote user @huidi on the popular Twitter]]> TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=netizens-react-to-syria-veto&ItemID=NC-2132012815462027605111 Tibetans continue protests despite a security clampdown in Chinese provinces. Photo courtesy of RFA listener. Tibetan monks mourn the death of a protester shot dead by Chinese security forces in Sichuan province's Serthar county, Jan. 23, 2012. Tibetan protesters have pulled down a Chinese flag, put up posters calling for freedom, and shouted slogans at police in western China, defying a security clampdown following a spate of deadly protests against Beijing’s rule, sources in Tibet and in exile said Tuesday.More than a dozen Tibetans were also detained this week, adding to more than 100 who were picked up immediately following bloody protests two weeks ago that left up to six people dead, according to activists.On Saturday, Tibetans in Wonpo town, in Sershul county in Sichuan province’s Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) prefecture, pulled down the Chinese national flag from a school, according to a Tibetan living in India, Champa Yonten.A day later, Chinese police detained four Tibetans afte]]> TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=chinese-flag-pulled-down&ItemID=PI-2132012363262027898102 TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=lessons-from-the-cold-war&ItemID=RL-2132012479062027959667 TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=trafficking-victims-escape-after-ordeal&ItemID=IJ-213201225062027281521 China’s ruling Communist Party wants to set up branches at all major microblogging sites. ImagineChina Chinese netizens at an Internet cafe in Quanzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 29, 2011. Authorities plan to establish propaganda department branches of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the offices of Chinese Internet companies providing microblogging services, according to reports and netizens.The Party’s move, first reported by Taiwan’s United Daily News, is part of a bid to increase Beijing’s surveillance of public opinion.The new measure follows a decision by central authorities to enforce a “real name policy” for all bloggers on China’s four biggest microblogging sites: sina.com, qq.com, sohu.com, and 163.com.Beijing-based media expert Li Bin said the plan was unlikely to have a major impact on China’s microblogging community.“I don’t think this new way of controlling people’s minds will work,” Li said in an interview on Tuesday.“Netizens can express ]]> TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/radiofreeasia/Read.asp?RadioFreeAsia=ccp-proposes-cells-for-microblogs&ItemID=FA-2132012143762027294983 TUE, 07 FEB 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/rfa_uyghur/Read.asp?UighurNews=amerika-diniy-ishlar-komiteti-obamadin-shi-jingping-bilen-korushkende-xitaydiki-diniy-erkinlik-mesilisini-otturigha-qoyushni-telep-qildi&ItemID=EC-21320125430606137880