Phayul
May 6, 2008
By Tenzin Chodon
Dharamsala - After sixteen days of tireless walking in the North Indian summer, marchers have finally reached Nainital, a town in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Nainital or ‘Lake district of India’ was the only route mentioned by the organizing committee on their march to Tibet.
The 270 marchers who arrived in town this afternoon were welcomed by the Sweater Sellers Association and the Tibetan Khampa Association with ceremonial Tibetan scarves. Residents carried Tibetan flags and cheered the marchers as they made their latest stop. Regional TYC along with the other two associations have arranged for their stay as a gesture of goodwill and encouragement. (more…)
The Daily News Journal
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
May 5, 2008
Pema Richeson and her parents moved to Rutherford County in 1996. These days, the 2003 Oakland High School graduate is thousands of miles away in India, marching to Tibet with a group of freedom marchers.
The 23-year-old is involved with Tibetan Freedom Movement and is a communications/media team member for the March to Tibet. As China prepares to host the Olympics this summer, international attention and activism has increased surrounding Tibet, a region that has long sought freedom from China’s control.
“The March to Tibet is an initiative launched by five leading Tibetan non-governmental organizations in Dharamsala, India, exiled-home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile,” said Richeson from India. “(It) currently has 250 core members who are committed to walking to Tibet, and eight Western support marchers. The aim of the march is to raise awareness about Tibetans’ plight.” (more…)
Moradabad, Apr 30 (ANI): Exiled Tibetans, who are on their return march to Tibet, reached Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday.
The marchers had resumed their peaceful march to Tibet on April 19 from New Delhi.
After the successful conduct of the Olympic torch relay in New Delhi on April 17, they set out on foot towards Tibet to support their brethren facing alleged oppression under the Chinese regime.
Holding placards with captions like ‘March to Tibet’, the marchers stopped over for a brief halt at Moradabad.
The marchers said they were following the path of non-violence and peace propagated by Mahatma Gandhi and Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. (more…)
Tehelka Magazine (Vol. 5 Issue 16) published a detailed article about the March, the organizers and the ideas behind it all.
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Declaring that they would somehow bypass security and demonstrate against the Beijing Olympics torch relay in the Indian capital, 200 Tibetans Wednesday ended their month long march from Dharamsala to Delhi. The gurdwara near northeast Delhi’s Majnu ka Tilla, where the Tibetan refugee colony is, wore a different look with the marchers setting up camp. Monks, dressed in their maroon robes, dotted the entire place, crowded with rucksacks, sleeping mats and photographs of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal head of the Tibetans.
The ‘March to Tibet’, which saw 30 women among the 200 protestors took one month to complete the journey from Dharamsala - the Himalayan abode for the Dalai Lama and his government-in-exile - to New Delhi. (more…)
AFP
April 7, 2008
NEW DELHI - Hundreds of protestors in India and Nepal on Monday shaved their heads and donated blood in fresh protests over China’s crackdown against unrest in Tibet, witnesses said.
Those going bald included Indian Sikhs — for whom uncut hair is an article of faith — and a three-year-old girl. (more…)
Times Online
April 4, 2008
Jane Macartney in Beijing
Chinese paramilitary police have killed eight people after opening fire on several hundred Tibetan monks and villagers in bloody violence that will fuel human rights protests as London prepares to host its leg of the Olympic torch relay this weekend.
Witnesses said the clash – in which dozens were wounded – erupted late last night after a government inspection team entered a monastery in the Chinese province of Sichuan trying to confiscate pictures of the Dalai Lama. (more…)
AP
March 31, 2008
NEW DELHI: Indian police barred several hundred Tibetans from marching Monday to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, where they planned to submit more than 1.4 million names from an Internet petition calling on China to act with restraint in Tibet.
About 300 demonstrators gathered in downtown New Delhi with 80 boxes containing the names from the online petition, said Tenzin Choedon, an organizer of the protest. (more…)
Boston Phoenix
March 28, 2008
The Olympics may prove to be China’s Achilles’s heel
It is about money. That is why technology giants such as Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft allow themselves to be co-opted into helping China enforce domestic mind control; why the world averts its gaze from the Darfur genocide China underwrites through its Sudanese oil purchases; and why whatever international protests might materialize in response to China’s violent suppression of Tibetan revolt are likely to be symbolic. (more…)
Times Online
March 27, 2008
Tibetan monks staged a daring protest against Chinese rule, disrupted an official government tour for foreign journalists with screams that the Dalai Lama was not to blame for violence and demands for religious freedom.
The astonishing outburst by about 30 monks came as the first group of journalists to visit Lhasa since the violent March 14 riot was being shown around the Jokhang temple, the holiest shrine in the Tibetan canon. (more…)
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