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Tag: Tibetans

November 22, 2019

Two Tibetans Detained Following Independence Protest...

The protest by the two men, Yonten and Choegyal, took place at about 2:30 p.m. in front of the police station in Sershul’s Dza Wonpo village in the Kardze (Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a Tibetan monk living in India told RFA, citing contacts in the region

August 26, 2019

Tibetan Man Detained For Sharing Dalai...

Rinso, a resident of Thangkor township’s Village No. 3 in Dzoege county, a part of Tibet’s historical eastern region of Kham, was held for just over a week and then released…

July 2, 2019

Thousands of Monks, Nuns ‘Politically Re-Educated’...

During 2017 and 2018, at least 4,820 Tibetan and Han Chinese monks and nuns were removed from Larung Gar, with over 7,000 dwellings and other structures torn down beginning in 2001, according to sources in the region

May 2, 2019

Tibetans Relocated From Ancestral Land Face...

Tibetan nomads forced by government order to move from their farmland homes to suburbs in the regional capital Lhasa are facing crowded conditions, with large families piled into single dwellings and opportunities for employment cut off, Tibetan sources say

April 22, 2019

Observers Warn the Future Prospects of...

The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule and has since worked to promote religious and cultural autonomy for his people

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