Tibet repression continues

US defends detention of Uighurs at Gitmo; China defends detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur Muslim, at Guantanamo Bay in oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit April 4. The US claims Parhat… Read moreUS defends detention of Uighurs at Gitmo; China defends detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang

Tibet: deadly repression continues

Troops from the paramilitary People’s Armed Police (PAP) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) fired on hundreds of protesters led by Buddhist monks at Kardze in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Sichuan province April 3, leaving eight dead. The protest… Read moreTibet: deadly repression continues

Tibetans wage free speech struggle in San Francisco

Tibetan activists—chanting “Reject China’s bloody torch,” “Olympics in China, torture in Tibet” and “We will never give up”—are gathering daily at midday at San Francisco’s Civic Center in what has essentially become a protest campaign to demand their right to… Read moreTibetans wage free speech struggle in San Francisco

Tibet: 1,000 arrested, hundreds “disappeared”

Days after the harsh crackdown on protests in Lhasa, Chinese authorities are now arresting hundreds of Tibetans elsewhere in Tibet and Tibetan regions of neighboring Gansu and Sichuan provinces. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy reports that in… Read moreTibet: 1,000 arrested, hundreds “disappeared”

Beijing-groomed Buddhists diss Dalai Lama

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua March 16 quoted the 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu harshly condemning the Tibetan uprising: “The rioters’ acts not only harmed the interests of the nation and the people, but also violated the aim of… Read moreBeijing-groomed Buddhists diss Dalai Lama

Tibetan protests continue; Dalai Lama calls for coexistence

While little news is now coming out of Lhasa, the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that at least three Tibetan protesters were shot dead by Chinese security forces March 18 during a peaceful demonstration in Kardze… Read moreTibetan protests continue; Dalai Lama calls for coexistence

Nomadic villages join Tibet uprising

On March 18, protests broke out in Ganja, a nomadic village 25 kilometers north of Labrang in Amdo (traditional Tibetan region in Gansu province), with some 2,000 marching on government township office with Tibetan flags and portraits of the Dalai… Read moreNomadic villages join Tibet uprising

Marital law in Tibet; clashes spread

A week after it began, the uprising in Tibet finally hit the front page of the New York Times March 15, with clashes reported throughout Lhasa the previous day. At the Tromsikhang market, Chinese-owned shops were burned and cars overturned…. Read moreMarital law in Tibet; clashes spread

Tibetan uprising spreads

With military vehicles patrolling Lhasa and monasteries surrounded by troops following the biggest protests in Tibet since 1989, unrest is spreading to other cities with substantial Tibetan populations. Protests are reported at Lutsang monastery in Qinghai (known in Tibetan as… Read moreTibetan uprising spreads

China: Uighur militants busted; riots in Tibet

A Chinese passenger jet en route to Beijing from the Xinjiang region (known as Uighurstan or East Turkestan to its indigenous inhabitants, the Turkic and Muslim Uighur people) was forced to make an emergency landing March 7 after the flight… Read moreChina: Uighur militants busted; riots in Tibet

Turkmenistan tilts to Russia, China

Jane’s Country Risk News reports Feb. 1 that renewed US attempts to woo Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov to open his country’s vast natural gas reserves may be “too little, too late.” Russia already accounts for 97% of Turkmenistan’s gas exports…. Read moreTurkmenistan tilts to Russia, China