Autonomy Is Solution for Tibet, Dalai Lama Says

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The influx of Han Chinese and the growing restrictions on religious practice have become the biggest threats to Tibet, which faces “something like a death sentence” under Chinese rule, said the Dalai Lama..

Now, thanks in part to the high visibility of Tibet-China relations during the 2008 Olympics, the religious and political head of Tibetans presides over a diplomatic situation that looks ready to combust. For decades the Dalai Lama has advocated a “middle way”: he has said he wants autonomy, not independence, for his people; he would be happy for Tibet to remain part of China in exchange for protection of Tibetan education, culture and religion. In an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, he even said he would accept China’s communist rule. But after eight unproductive rounds of talks with Beijing, members of the exile community are fed up; some are advocating violent resistance and a fight for independence. For more, Read

More Tibetans Being Jailed: Report

Dharamsala, Dec. 23 – China is handing down further prison terms to Tibetans arrested for protests earlier this year in southwestern province of Sichuan, according to sources, Radio Free Asia reported.

Many of those recently sentenced are said to have taken part in a March 18 protest in Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Updates on Casualties in Tibet Demonstration

Dharamshala: According to reliable information received from Tibet, a Tibetan youth aged around 20 was brutally beaten and arrested by officials of the Public Security Bureau for raising slogan of Tibet’s independence in the capital Lhasa around 5 p.m. on 20 November.

In a separate incident, officials of Public Security Bureau arrested the abbot of Woeser monastery in Markham, Khenpo Jampa Gyaltsen, from his monastery on 28 November.

Meanwhile, sources continue to send information on Tibetans killed during brutal torture sessions by the Chinese security officials following its crackdown on peaceful demonstrations by Tibetans in the capital Lhasa in March this year. For more, Read

Sergiu Matei: Dalai Lama told me that I did a favor for humanity

It is not only the first Romania but also the first journalists who met Dalai Lama. The reason is already widely known: Sergiu Matei became wide known in September 2006 when he taped the killing of Tibetans by the Chinese and helped a Tibetan escape, while on an expedition together with Alex Gavan on the Cho Oyu mountain.