By: Tenzin Tsundue
Almora, Uttarakhand: When I packed my sleeping bag that early morning before sunrise for this long journey, I placed a white (khatak) scarf at the altar of His Holiness and said I have decided, whatever happens, I will make my way through.  Walking for almost 70 with 300 people covering more than 900 [...]

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Shimla: Unlike the French leg of the Olympic torch run, where the ‘flame of universal brotherhood’ got eclipsed by rising cries of Tibetan nationalism, the most sensitive part of the flame’s journey ended eventless in Delhi as an army of securitymen made sure nothing went wrong. The police in Delhi was prepared for the worst, [...]

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Dharamsala: Members of Indo-Tibet Friendship Society and Bharat-Tibet Sahyog Manch held a protest march here yesterday to condemn the alleged human rights violations in Tibet. meanwhile, protesting Tibetan monks continued their chain hunger strike for the ninth day while other Tibetans continued with candle-light protests.Shops and restaurants run by local Indians also remained closed to [...]

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Friends of Tibet and the Tibetan administration together will be organizing a talk titled ‘Tibet of our Minds: A Journey’s End?’ at Dharamsala on March 27. Vijay Crishna, industrialist, theatre personality and an avid mountaineer. who has made many exploratory trips into Tibet, will be the main speaker. This event will be inaugurated by [...]

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Shimla: Protesting members of the Members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress and Regional Tibetan Women’s Association ended their fast on Wednesday. Later they also held a candlelight vigil.
The protesters claimed that they would continue their struggel in a peaceful manner. Claiming that the present movement was the most effective since the last two decades [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today asked the Tibetans holding anti-China protests in various parts of the state to maintain peace and not to indulge in violence. He said the state government would not try to prevent the Tibetans from holding peaceful protests, but at the same time asked them to cooperate [...]

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Dehra: Following the arrest of about 100 Tibetan monks here by the Kangra police this morning, the protestors have now decided to stage a hunger strike. The monks were part of the protest march started by a group of five Tibetan NGOs to highlight the plight of people in Tibet. The protestors plan to enter [...]

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Dharamsala: Despite being warned by the district police, about hundred Tibetan refugees continued their march in a bid to enter Tibet to protest against what they call China’s illegal occupation of the country. The march had started on Monday and On Wednesday they reached Dehra, a border town in Kangra district. The police had earlier [...]

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Dharamsala: Following the ‘long march’ to Lhasa planned by the exiled Tibetans during the Olympics, now Tibetan here have planned to hold their own Olympics at Dharamsala from May 15 to 25.As a precursor, a worldwide Tibetan Olympics torch relay is being held, which started in Delhi last January. It is scheduled to pass through [...]

By: Tensin Tsundue
A large number of Tibetan refugees with their supporters are going to march to Tibet from Dharamsala. Starting the six-month long walk from 10 March 2008, passing through New Delhi and north Indian states, we should reach Tibet border around the time Beijing 2008 Olympics opens(14-25 Aug ‘08). I am going. What’s your [...]