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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008

Contact: Tenzin Dorjee in New York, +646-724-0748
Lhadon Tethong in Dharamsala, India, +91-9805-237-015
Kate Woznow in New York +917-601-0069

PROTESTS RAGE ACROSS TIBET AS CHINA RESPONDS WITH BRUTE FORCE
Tibetans Clash with Chinese Troops in Lhasa; Unprecedented Unrest
Throughout Tibet

Dharamsala/New York– Chinese authorities have responded with brute force
today to ongoing protests in Lhasa and across Tibet. Sources inside
Tibet say that Chinese tanks rolled into Lhasa this morning and
thousands of armed troops have sealed off the three major monasteries
where the protests were initiated on Monday. Following a police
crackdown on a protest staged by monks from Ramoche Monastery in central
Lhasa, dozens of monks and lay people clashed with armed police in the
streets, overturning police vehicles and lighting them on fire. Police
fired live ammunition into the crowd of protesters and at least two
people and up to 33 are reported dead.

“At great risk, Tibetans across Tibet are rising up against China’s
occupation of our homeland to show the world that, five months out from
the Beijing Olympics, the situation in Tibet is critical and demands
international attention,” said Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director of
Students for a Free Tibet. “Years of China’s repressive policies,
repeated denunciations of the Dalai Lama, and the violent response to
peaceful demonstrations by monks earlier this week have aggravated the
tensions and desperation felt by Tibetans throughout Tibet."

In Labrang, eastern Tibet (present-day Gansu Province), 3,000 people
converged in the streets today while The Tibetan Center for Human Rights
and Democracy is reporting widespread unrest throughout the Kham
(present-day Sichuan province) and Amdo (Qinghai province) provinces of
Tibet. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it has “received firsthand
reports from American citizens in the city who report gunfire and other
indications of violence.” Foreign governments are calling on the Chinese
government to show restraint and have issued travel advisories for the
Tibetan Autonomous Region.

“China has swamped Tibet with Chinese settlers, poured money into
colonialist mega-projects like the railway that solidify its control,
and ruthlessly attacked Tibetan culture and religion," said Tenzin
Dorjee, Deputy Director of Students for a Free Tibet. “As the Olympics
approach and the world’s eyes turn to Beijing, this outpouring of
frustration is the natural consequence.”

The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, appealed to the Chinese
leadership to “stop using force and address the long-simmering
resentment of the Tibetan people.” In concert with Tibetan exiles around
the world, Tibetans inside Tibet launched the protests on Monday to mark
the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising.

“The timing and scale of this unrest throughout Tibet indicate a truly
national Tibetan uprising taking place against China’s illegal
occupation of Tibet,” added Mr. Dorjee.

PRESS RELEASE
Contacts:

Chhime R. Chhoekyapa, Secretary Mobile + 91 (09816021879)
Tenzin Taklha, Joint Secretary Mobile + 91 (09816021813)




PRESS RELEASE


I am deeply concerned over the situation that has been developing in Tibet following peaceful protests in many parts of Tibet, including Lhasa, in recent days. These protests are a manifestation of the deep-rooted resentment of the Tibetan people under the present governance.

As I have always said, unity and stability under brute force is at best a temporary solution. It is unrealistic to expect unity and stability under such a rule and would therefore not be conducive to finding a peaceful and lasting solution.

I therefore appeal to the Chinese leadership to stop using force and address the long-simmering resentment of the Tibetan people through dialogue with the Tibetan people. I also urge my fellow Tibetans not to resort to violence.


THE DALAI LAMA



Dated: March 14, 2008

I am deeply concerned over the situation that has been developing in Tibet following peaceful protests in many parts of Tibet, including Lhasa, in recent days. These protests are a manifestation of the deep-rooted resentment of the Tibetan people under the present governance.

As I have always said, unity and stability under brute force is at best a temporary solution. It is unrealistic to expect unity and stability under such a rule and would therefore not be conducive to finding a peaceful and lasting solution.

I therefore appeal to the Chinese leadership to stop using force and address the long-simmering resentment of the Tibetan people through dialogue with the Tibetan people. I also urge my fellow Tibetans not to resort to violence.

THE DALAI LAMA

Dated: March 14, 2008

Thanks, Chaiwallah (Sorry about the duplication of service).

It is crucial that discussion of Tibet should not cease once "order" is imposed and the news media have turned to other affairs. A lot of people are about to disappear into the many prisons of the Tibetan plateau and, I suspect, a lot of outstanding scores against anyone the least bit politically suspect are about to be settled.

Please do whatever you can to keep attention focussed on Tibet.

WHY IS TIBET IN FLAMES?

RECLAIMING THE STREETS,
BY GABRIEL LAFITTE (Former Environmental Adviser to HH the DL's Govt-in-Exile)

The monks and nuns leading the protest in Tibet know they will die - and they're ready for it, writes adviser to the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Gabriel Lafitte
The Tibetan revolt, like those of two and five decades ago, will be crushed by the overwhelming might of the Chinese military. No match could be more unequal: maroon-clad nuns and monks versus the machinery of oppression of the global rising power. In recent months, fast-response mobile tactical squads whose sole purpose is to quell the masses have been overtly rehearsing on the streets of Tibetan towns for just what they are now doing.

What is the point of revolt if it is almost certainly suicidal?

This uprising has many uniquely Tibetan characteristics. At street level, a favourite item seized from Chinese shops was toilet rolls - hardly the usual target of looters. Not that Tibetans, over millennia, have felt much need for the paper rolls, or even for the basics of the Chinese cuisine such as soy sauce. What the Tibetans did with the loo paper was to hurl it over power lines, instantly making Lhasa, and other Tibetan towns, Tibetan again. Right across the 25 per cent of China that is ethnically and culturally Tibetan, the unrolled toilet paper looks like wind horses, the white silken scarf khadags with which Tibetans greet and bless each other. As all Tibetans know, they carry their message on the wind: Victory to the gods!

That is what this revolt is about: making Tibet Tibetan once more. The white scarves also protected Tibetan shopkeepers from attack as the streets filled, for a short and costly moment of freedom, with Tibetans smashing the businesses of immigrant Chinese traders.

Even in the most intoxicating moment of reclaiming the streets no Tibetan could have forgotten the ever present security cameras, and the network of informers penetrating deeply into urban Tibetan private lives. No Tibetan could have been unmindful that the full repressive power of a modernised, high-tech tyranny would hunt them down, and show no mercy. All Tibetans know of former friends who, on release from prison and torture, now shun old acquaintances because they are under such intense pressure by their torturers to regularly name names of those who privately voice thoughts that do not conform to the Party line. These informers live in fear of being hauled in again, for further torture, and of betraying their friends.

That is what makes this revolt uniquely Tibetan. It is no accident that from the outset the protests were led by those who have already renounced all ties to kin, dedicating their lives to serve all of humanity, unconditionally. The nuns and monks of Tibet have taken vows to work for the liberation of all sentient beings from all sources of suffering - in the mind and in the external world. From the Dalai Lama through to the newest novice, they train in meditation to cut attachment to existence, to the existence of me ahead of all others.

They know they will die, and are ready for it. Just as in the great Tibetan revolts of 1959 and 1987, many will die in secret prison cells, after torture. When the world is no longer watching, or able to see, Tibetans who risked all so as to focus the world - in this Olympic year - on China's shame, will die.

What do Tibetans find so objectionable about today's China? Why is it that Tibetans and Chinese, neighbours for thousands of years, cannot get on?

Media coverage focuses on immediate causes, but there is a deeper story. Having worked with Tibetans for 30 years, having seen Chinese development projects in Tibet for myself, and having been briefly imprisoned for it, I can share what my Tibetan friends tell me. Contemporary Chinese capitalist modernity is as problematic for Tibetans as past State violence and repression. China today pours money, overwhelmingly State money, into Tibet, into railways, highways, tourist infrastructure and a top-heavy administrative elite. Glass towers, shopping malls, enormous brothels masquerading as discos, towering offices, now dominate urban Tibetan skylines which only 20 years ago were a sacred landscape of prayer flags, temples and meditation.

On the face of it, that's progress. If Lhasa now looks like any Chinese boomtown, that's just the price of modernity - or so many outsiders say. But Tibetans find themselves excluded from the material benefits of modernity, watching powerlessly as gangs of non-Tibetan immigrants take over even the unskilled jobs on construction sites and driving taxis. Tibetans remain poor, socially excluded, on the margins of a State-funded construction boom that reduces Tibetans to a minority meant to smile for the tourist cameras as they try to focus on their spiritual pilgrimage. The holy city of Lhasa, and all the big monasteries where the protests began, have been swamped by mass Chinese tourism, poking lenses into the most private devotions of those on the path to enlightenment.

The new railway to Lhasa, less than two years in operation, accelerated the tourism boom, the brothels and discos, and the marginalisation of Tibetans. Most Tibetans live in a countryside as big as western Europe, with their herds of yak, sheep and goats, eking an existence on land rigidly allocated decades ago by Chinese bureaucrats who refuse to re-divide land as families grow and new families form. Poverty among Tibetans is endemic, even as statistics averaged for entire provinces, bundling urban boom and rural neglect, proclaim rising standards of living.

The latest threat to Tibetan ways of life comes wrapped in an ideology of environmentalism. In the name of protecting the Tibetan upper reaches of China's great rivers - both the Yangtze and the Yellow - thousands of Tibetan nomads are being forced off their land, and resettled in miserable new towns in the middle of nowhere. Instantly, their livelihoods and intimate knowledge of the land and sustainable management, are useless - but they are seldom given training in new skills or even compensation beyond a grain survival ration.

Now the nomads, in a huge and rapidly expanding area, are ecological refugees, on the mistaken assumption that they are ignorantly and carelessly to blame for degradation of a vast grassland second in size only to Australia's pastoral inland. The nomads, compulsorily voiceless, not allowed to form any NGOs of their own, have no opportunity to show how deeply they care for the land, having sustained its productivity and its wildlife over millennia. China's urban-based Party elite regards nomads as stupid, uneducated, unscientific, greedy and destructive - everything China is trying to get away from. There is no partnership between authority and those on the land, because they are of different races, with very different worldviews.

This is the bedrock of the revolt. The Chinese authorities hold rural Tibetans in contempt, while urban educated Tibetans are viewed with suspicion, their exclusive loyalty to China and the Party forever tested by extreme "patriotic education" campaigns that make it compulsory to denounce the most revered lamas.

To be a Tibetan in Tibet is a lot like being black in Mississippi 50 years ago. Travel within Tibet, migration from country to city, number of livestock permitted, number of children permitted, all are rigidly and oppressively controlled by an invasive bureaucracy. Meanwhile health care and education, strictly on a capitalist user-pays basis, are concentrated in urban areas. Only if you have the money upfront, and connections, do you even get in the door of a hospital.

The monks and nuns, who devote their lives to clarifying and purifying the mind, draw inspiration from the example of their teachers, and the teachers of their teachers, the highest of all being the Dalai Lama. China's Party leaders, including President Hu Jintao, who imposed martial law the last time Tibet revolted, never seem to learn that insisting on monks trampling or spitting on an image of the Dalai Lama is only going to deepen Tibetan alienation.

The China the world glimpses briefly today is a China that has not, in Tibet, changed as much as we would all hope. Tibet is stuck in a time warp, of Marxist anti-religion propaganda, mass campaigns of denunciation and thought reform. China's policies in Tibet are deeply contradictory and self-defeating. China wants Tibetans to embrace and love the motherland and the Party, but the punitive insistence on stability always undermines the uneven, often exclusionary, progress towards development.

China needs to be told by its friends that an empire cannot be made into a nation by force. Australia, as a close friend and with a Prime Minister fluent in Chinese, is uniquely placed to remind the isolated and fearful Party leaders that they can gain much by listening to the message of the rioters: give us a break. Australia could teach China much about landcare, about rural communities and government working as partners to repair long term damage, and about discovering the hard way how to respect and reconcile with the Indigenous peoples.

As the Dalai Lama has always said: Tibetans and Chinese have gotten on well in the past, and can do so again, but only if there is mutual respect for fellow human beings who differ in their sources of happiness.

Tibetan monks and nuns are now dying, usually with equanimity and no hatred, in order to maintain that difference.

Chai, that strikes the nail squarely on the head. Have you seen this?

http://www.tchrd.org/press/2008/pr20080318c.html

Office of the Dalai Lama's Press Release (4 Hours Ago)
Office of the Dalai Lama's Press Release
dalailama.com[Wednesday, March 19, 2008 00:33]
PRESS RELEASE
Contacts: Chhime R. Chhoekyapa, Secretary Mobile + 91 (09816021879)
Tenzin Taklha, Joint Secretary
Mobile + 91 (09816021813)

PRESS RELEASE

I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to world leaders and the international community for their concern over the recent sad turn of events in Tibet and for their attempts to persuade the Chinese authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with the demonstrations.

Since the Chinese Government has accused me of orchestrating these protests in Tibet, I call for a thorough investigation by a respected body, which should include Chinese representatives, to look into these allegations. Such a body would need to visit Tibet, the traditional Tibetan areas outside the Tibet Autonomous Region, and also the Central Tibetan Administration here in India. In order for the international community, and especially the more than one billion Chinese people who do not have access to uncensored information, to find out what is really going on in Tibet, it would be tremendously helpful if representatives of the international media also undertook such investigations.

Whether it was intended or not, I believe that a form of cultural genocide has taken place in Tibet, where the Tibetan identity has been under constant attack. Tibetans have been reduced to an insignificant minority in their own land as a result of the huge transfer of non-Tibetans into Tibet. The distinctive Tibetan cultural heritage with its characteristic language, customs and traditions is fading away. Instead of working to unify its nationalities, the Chinese government discriminates against these minority nationalities, the Tibetans among them.

It is common knowledge that Tibetan monasteries, which constitute our principal seats of learning, besides being the repository of Tibetan Buddhist culture, have been severely reduced in both in number and population. In those monasteries that do still exist, serious study of Tibetan Buddhism is no longer allowed; in fact, even admission to these centres of learning is being strictly regulated. In reality, there is no religious freedom in Tibet. Even to call for a little more freedom is to risk being labeled a separatist. Nor is there any real autonomy in Tibet, even though these basic freedoms are guaranteed by the Chinese constitution.

I believe the demonstrations and protests taking place in Tibet are a spontaneous outburst of public resentment built up by years of repression in defiance of authorities that are oblivious to the sentiments of the local populace. They mistakenly believe that further repressive measures are the way to achieve their declared aim of long-term unity and stability.

On our part, we remain committed to taking the Middle Way approach and pursuing a process of dialogue in order to find a mutually beneficial solution to the Tibetan issue.

With these points in mind, I also seek the international community’s support for our efforts to resolve Tibet’s problems through dialogue, and I urge them to call upon the Chinese leadership to exercise the utmost restraint in dealing with the current disturbed situation and to treat those who are being arrested properly and fairly.

Dalai Lama
Dharamsala March 18, 2008

HH THE DALAI LAMA THREATENS TO RESIGN

Background:

In the face of ever-growing reports of uprisings all over Tibet, HH the Dalai Lama has appealed to Tibetans to refrain from violent protests.BBC News 24 carried footage of him this morning threatening to resign completely from all political roles if Tibetans get out of control and resort to violence.

Many young Tibetans are frustrated by the non-violent approach which has produced no change in the lives of Tibetans under Chinese rule.

The Chinese have imposed a complete media black-out in Tibet. Foreign journalists have been expelled from all parts of Tibet. News is coming from the cell phones of individual Tibetans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxm2obArsBs
This link carries footage of Tibetan "Freedom Riders" on horseback riding into the small border town of Bora, on ther far north-east border of Qinghai (Amdo) and China.

The latest news this morning is that trucks full of Chinese armed troops, accompanied by tanks, have rolled into several Tibetan towns in the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan (formerly parts of the Tibetan provinces of Amdo and Kham)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: 20 March 2008


Join TCHRD movement to end killings, arbitrary arrests, inhumane torture and enforced disappearances in Tibet


Sensing the unspeakable human rights violations taking place inside Tibet since the past ten days, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) condemns in its strongest possible terms the ongoing ironclad crackdown on peaceful Tibetan protestors by the Chinese authorities in the Chinese occupied Tibet.


So far, at least 65 Tibetans were known to have been killed, thousands injured, over thousands arbitrarily detained and arrested, hundreds disappeared and death toll rising.


The law enforcement authorities' issuance of ultimatum to the protesting Tibetans to voluntarily surrender before midnight of 17 March in Lhasa is formally over but still cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions are taking place in Lhasa and other parts of Tibet. The Centre considers the surrender order by the Chinese authorities as a tactical ploy to deceive the Tibetans to give in so as to ensure the maximum arrests. Ironically, the arbitrary arrests and detentions of peaceful Tibetan protestors have been underway since the midnight of 15 March 2008. The report of arrests and detentions are mounting and going on in a full swing.


TCHRD is deeply disturbed by the imposition of intense and severe restriction on the movements of the Tibetan people, severely affecting their daily lives, denying immediate access to food, fresh drinking water and other basic and essential necessities to sustain life. TCHRD conceives that the ongoing severe restriction inside Tibet has all the elements of 'Martial Law in Disguise'.


The staff members and interns of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) are tonsuring their heads and women staff wearing black bandana on forehead to show their sincere gesture of respect to those who were killed during the recent peaceful protests inside Tibet.


TCHRD welcomes others to join in our non-violent movement to highlight the grave human rights situation inside Tibet and call for an immediate end to the killings, arbitrary arrests, inhumane torture and enforced disappearances of Tibetans.


TCHRD appeals:

1. To your government to pressure the United Nations to immediately send a fact-finding mission to Tibet
2. To write to your government to pressure China to put an end to the ongoing violent crackdown on the peaceful Tibetan demonstrators
3. To urge your government to pressure China to allow independent foreign media into Tibet
4. To stage peaceful solidarity activities in your area

5. To ask your friends and colleagues to follow the current situation in Tibet through www.tchrd.org

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The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is the first Tibetan non-governmental organization (NGO) to be formed with the mission "to highlight the human rights situation in Tibet and to promote principles of democracy in the Tibetan community." TCHRD is independent of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, and is based in Dharamsala, India. Founded in January 1996, and registered as an NGO on 4 May 1996. For further information visit our website: www.tchrd.org or write to us on: [email protected]

15 Tibetan Monks Detained

Samten (m), aged 17, Lungkar Monastery, Qinghai Province
Trulku Tenpa Rigsang (m), aged 26, Lungkar Monastery, Qinghai Province
Gelek Pel (m) aged 32 Lungkar Monastery, Qinghai Province
Lobsang (m) aged 15, Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Lobsang Thukjey (m), aged 19 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Tsultrim Palden (m), aged 20 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Lobsher (m), aged 20 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Phurden (m), aged 22 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Thupdon (m), aged 24 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Lobsang Ngodup (m), aged 29 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Lodoe (m), aged 30 Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province
Thupwang (m), aged 30, Darthang Monastery
Pema Garwang (m), aged 30, Darthang Monastery
Tsegyam (m), aged 22, Kashi Monastery
Soepa (m), aged 30, Mangye Monastery
WRITE TO:

President of the People’s Republic of China:
HU Jintao Guojia Zhuxi
The State Council General Office
2 Fuyoujie, Xichengqu
Beijingshi 100017, People's Republic of China
Salutation: Your Excellency

Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Government:
Qiangba PUNCOG Zhuren
Xizang Zizhiqu Renmin Zhengfu
1 Kang'angdonglu
Lasashi 850000
Xizang Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China
Salutation: Dear Chairman

Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China:
MENG Jianzhu Buzhang
Gong’anbu
14 Dongchang’anjie
Dongchengqu
Beijingshi 100741, People's Republic of China
Salutation: Your Excellency
COPIES TO:

Ambassador for the People's Republic of China
His Excellency LU Shumin
515 St. Patrick Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 5H3
Fax: (613) 789-1911
Salutation: Your Excellency

Mayor of Lasa Municipal People’s Government Tibet Autonomous Region
LOBSANG Gyaincain Shizhang
Lasashi Zizhiqu Renmin Zhengfu
16 Jinjulu, Lasashi 850000
Xizang Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China
Salutation: Dear Mayor

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21st March 008




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THE DALAI LAMA NEEDS A STRATEGY FOR THE TIME BEING


RESIGNATION AMOUNTS TO DEFEAT


THE DALAI LAMA NEEDS AN OLYMPIC FLAG GAME STRATEGY

CALLED FLYING A MULTITUDE OF TIBETAN FLAGS IN BEJING THIS SUMMER

COMPETING IN EVERY FIELD AND IN EVERY OLYMPIC ENDEAVOUR

COMPETING IN MARTIAL ARTS

BEATING THE CHINESE AND OTHERS AT THEIR OWN GAME

WINNING



BY THIS MEANS THE TIBETAN PEOPLE CAN BE UNIFIED

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Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives (USA):

“The violent response by Chinese police forces to peaceful protesters in Tibet is disgraceful. It must be met with strong condemnation by the United States government and the international community. The Chinese government should immediately provide information on the welfare and whereabouts of the detained Buddhist monks and facilitate access by international human rights monitors and journalists to Tibetan areas.

“We know from the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights that the human rights situation in China and Tibet continues to worsen and the repression of religious freedom has increased. There is disturbing new evidence of a pre-Olympic crackdown on religious leaders, journalists and lawyers in recent months. The Olympic Games in Beijing this summer should provide an opportunity for more free expression, not less. I call upon the Bush Administration to publicly condemn the attacks in the strongest possible terms and consider issuing a travel warning to Tibet because of concerns that tourists could be caught in the violence.

“It is long past time for Beijing to make progress on a solution that respects the human rights of every Tibetan. The plight of the people of Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world and the United States must be prepared to confront the Chinese government when they violate the human rights of their people.”

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HUMAN WRITE
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THE WAY IS DOWN RIVER TO BEJING

ORANGE FLAG BEARERS AND BOWL CARRIERS FORM THE VANGUARD

NO TORCH

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BE WATER ALL THE WAY

FLOW TO THE LOWEST PLACE

WIN THERE

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