China’s mining practices in Tibet reveal a two-way policy: to transfer massive population numbers into Tibet so as to lessen the burden of its own population problems while marginalising Tibetans and to exploit…
A recent report describing the inhumane treatment of prisoners in Chinese prisons in Tibet has been received. The report recounts the case of a pregnant woman who was arrested on suspicion of independence…
In 1995 Lobsang Lungtok, a monk, was arrested for independence activities. After 18 months imprisonment he was expelled from his monastery in April this year. In January 1997 three other monks and one…
Kalsang Dawa, a 29 year old painter from Phenpo, central Tibet, was reported to have died mysteriously in October 1995 while serving his prison sentence in a Chinese prison in Tibet (reported in…
China’s on-going campaign to destroy all physical signs of Tibet’s ancient civilisation is leaving piles of rubble across the land. China’s aim to wipe out all traces of Tibetan religion has seen the…
In an attempt to hide the ongoing birth control policy in the “Tibetan Autonomous Region” (TAR), Chinese health authorities forbid the official use of words relating to birth control. A notice, dated 13…
Tenpa Wangdrak, a 53 year-old former monk of Ganden Monastery, comes from Yartoe Yarzam in Lhoka Nedong County. His parents are no longer living but he has a sister who has occasionally visited…
Chinese authorities have announced through newspaper and radio broadcasts that Beijing will tighten its security measures in the whole of Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang because of the speculated unrest and trouble from…
Ngawang Lhundrup, a recent arrival from Tibet, was a monk from Shedrupling Monastery in Lhoka Gonkar at the age of 14. He took part in a demonstration in Barkhor, Lhasa, in 1992, as…
Independent sources have reported on two Tibetans arrested in late 1996 by Apa Hsien Public security Bureau in connection with possession of wooden printing blocks used for printing pro-independence posters. Jamyang Tsakli, aged…
Sources in Lhasa report a recent decision that the Tibetan Language Department of the University of Tibet in Lhasa will not take any new students for the academic year of 1997-98. The reason…