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Sunday, June 28, 2009 

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Anyone going to india or Nepal in the end of July ? I am thinking to go there 29th or 30th of July but still not sure yet.... So if any of you are in Nepal or in India during that time do write me a mail so we can hung out .... Tashi
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 

Hello everyone, as many of you already Notice that i got problem with my facebook account about a week now,  well i have been try to contact with facebook many days now but they never reply me and never tell me why my account got deleted. so i made new account. let hope that they will not deleted the new account for no reason....
 please the new account  you can search for tashi.d.tsering@live.com
hope to see you all in my new account again....
regards
Tashi

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Saturday, April 18, 2009 
Hello everyone, sorry about the problem in facebook, many of you many thought that i have deleted my facebook account... but i didnt delete that acccount. I got some problem in there. coz some people reported me in there thats why my account got blocked hopefully my account will be unblocked soon, i have sent few emails to facebook but still havent get any reply from them so until than i have to keep waiting. i think it gonna take sometime ....
 this is not the first time my account got blocked in there, it happened few times before already, the chinese reported me few times already. anyway hope this time will work out again....
  please i see you soon in facebook once it unblock again...
regards
tashi


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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 



Hello my
friends, how are you all doing? First all I like to wish you all a good
day and happy Easter. Anyway what I like to say today is that I have
been try to start a new project about Sponsor a Tibetan child, thats
why I need your warm support and opinion, what I like to do is start to
Accept any amount of donations or people can contact me if they want
sponsor a Tibetan child. I also opened a paypal account for anyone want
do a donation by email: tashi.d.tsering@gmail.com  which
is the address for donation by email. All the Donations will go direct
to the Tibetans child who is in need help.

Anyway I have have been thinking do to this project for long time back
but never go the chance to do it, coz I was little worried that people
may start to think that I am a cheater or something like that… but now
I think if I don’t try I will never know if this project will work or
not…..
Please I need your opinion and idea…
Regards
tashi
happy Easter


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Thursday, March 19, 2009 

Phayul[Wednesday, March 18, 2009 18:33]
Dharamsala, March 18 - A Tibetan nun was severely beaten before facing arrest four days before the 50th Tibetan national uprising day, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said, citing a source.

Lobsang Khandro, 21, a nun from Gema Dra-wok Nunnery in Thing-ka Township, Kardze County, Kardze "Tibet Autonomous Prefecture" ("TAP"), Sichuan Province carried out a solo protest march on the morning of 6 March 2009.

Khandro walked from Takchu Bridge to Kardze government headquarter. Sources said she carried pamphlets, political literature on Tibet and some prayer flags. She shouted slogans such as "No Freedom in Tibet", "Tibetan People Rise Up, Rise Up", "Long Live the Dalai Lama" and "Chinese Authorities Release all Political Prisoners", according to the centre.

The Chinese security personnel rushed in five police vans and beat her severely before taking her to a new detention centre build near the government hospital in Kardze.

Relatives visiting her were turned away by the authorities who told them that she had committed a serious crime and deserves to die.

"If she has involved in this kind of activity, there is no other way but to die. She has committed a serious offense and crime. There is nothing left for all of you to inquire about. Moreover, all of you must not contact the outside world on this matter", the source told TCHRD quoting the authorities.

The Gema Dra-wok Nunnery is situated at a distance of 16 kilometers from Kardze County en route to the sacred pilgrimage site, Khawa Karpo.

Nuns of Gema Dra-wok Nunnery participated in a mass uprising last year during the Tibet unrest and five nuns are still serving prison terms, said TCHRD. 

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 

Phayul.com
[Thursday, March 19, 2009
A law firm known for its handling controversial cases has been ordered to shut down on Tuesday, the Human Rights in China said today.

According to a press release issued by HRIC, the Haidian District Bureau of Justice in Beijing ordered a six-month ban on Yitong, a Beijing based law firm that had handled sensitive and controversial cases in the past. The firm has also been asked to turn in the licenses of all its lawyers. The Bureau of Justice said that the firm violated the law in allowing a lawyer, Li Subin, to work without a license.

Citing lawyers at the firm, HRIC said “most likely the authorities wanted to punish the firm because some of its lawyers were among the signers of an appeal in August 2008 that called for direct election of the Beijing Lawyers Association.

Li Subin told Human Rights in China (HRIC) that the decision is not only "a sorrow for all Chinese lawyers but also a sorrow for all Chinese people."

"The six-month shutdown sends a chilling warning to all lawyers that the authorities will not tolerate any perceived challenges to their power. This is not the path to a rule of law," said Sharon Hom, executive director of HRIC.

The shutdown is effective from March 13 to September 12, 2009. The decision stipulates that at the end of this period, the firm must re-apply in order to resume operation, and that it can reopen only after inspection by the Bureau, said HRIC. The firm is given 60 days to appeal the decision and three months to bring an administrative suit against the Bureau. 

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 
Tibet under the gun
Cameron Stewart, Associate editor | November 08, 2008
Article from:  The Australian
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IN the ancient back alleys of Tibet's capital, Lhasa, a grim military operation has played out this week, hidden from the eyes of the world. As night falls, hundreds of Chinese troops fan out across this rebellious city, armed with riot shields and assault rifles.

They set up sentry posts on street corners and dispatch patrols in groups of six soldiers, three with shields and three with guns.

    *BLOG: The Tibet you don't hear about
    *GALLERY: Tibet under the gun
    * AUDIO: Cameron Stewart in Tibet
   

These patrols spend the night walking down the lanes of Lhasa's Tibetan quarter, looking for any signof dissent. They glare at me asthey pass, angry at the presence of a foreigner.

When the sun rises, the soldiers do not melt away, but are replaced by a new rotation of troops. The military stranglehold on Lhasa by day is maintained with one chilling addition -- snipers are installed on rooftops around the city's most holy site, the Jokhang Temple, ready to train their guns on the hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims praying in Barkhor Square below.

Only months after the Beijing Olympics, there is no post-Games euphoria in Tibet.

Hopes of greater autonomy and freedom have been stifled by Beijing, which -- stung by bloody anti-Chinese riots in March and by the indignity of the subsequent Olympic torch relay protests -- has come down on Tibetans with an iron fist.

During four days in Lhasa this week -- the first visit to Tibet by an Australian journalist since the March riots that left up to 200 people dead -- I witnessed a city creaking under the weight of the Chinese military.

In meeting local Chinese government officials, it was apparent that Beijing has lost patience with those Tibetans who oppose its rule and has chosen the path of zero tolerance.

The heavy military presence betrays China's unspoken fear that it is losing, rather than winning, the hearts and minds of local Tibetans, who accuse Beijing of subjugating their culture and religion to preserve national unity.

In an interview with The Weekend Australian, the vice-governor of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Bai Ma Cai Wang, reveals that China has recently boosted its security presence in Lhasa above and beyond the crackdown that followed the March riots. This is China's first public acknowledgment that it has beefed up its security forces in Tibet.

"In order for Tibet's stability and for people's safety and for people's desire for security and order, the Government has moderately adjusted the presence of the police force on the street," he says.

Bai Ma says the Government fears a repeat of the March riots, which he says were the work of the exiled Dalai Lama and his supporters. "After the March 14 riots, the Dalai Lama and his followers have speeded up their separatist activities."

Despite being the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhist population, the Dalai Lama has been airbrushed from view in Lhasa by the Chinese, who accuse him of being a political activist for an independent Tibet. There are no pictures or portraits of him in public areas, and Tibetans are reluctant to praise him in public, fearing retribution.

"The image of the Dalai Lama in Tibetan people's minds has already gone away," says Bai Ma. But the long lines of Tibetans waiting to pay homage to the tombs of former Dalai Lamas in Lhasa's imposing Potala Palace, and the thousands of passionate Buddhist pilgrims who prostrate themselves each day outside the Jokhang Temple suggest otherwise.

I visited Tibet with News Limited journalist Steve Lewis and federal Liberal MP Michael Johnson, vice-chairman of the Australia-China Parliamentary Friendship group, at the invitation of the Chinese Government, which urged us: "Tell Australians what you have heard and seen about the truth in Tibet."

This gave us access to high-level Communist Party officials, parliamentarians and local governors in Lhasa, but the official program included no meetings with senior Buddhists and no one whose views strayed from the official line.

When I asked for permission to visit Drapchi prison, where at least 202 people involved in the March riots remain incarcerated, I was refused.

It was only when we slipped away from our hotel at night and found some of the few Tibetans who spoke English that we heard alternative views. Even then they were reluctant to talk, fearing they might be seen or overheard by the authorities. One monk told us there were "more and more Chinese, more and more soldiers" in Lhasa in recent weeks.

But no one will speak out, he says, because of fears they will be reported to the police. "Detectives, they listen to what you say ... sometimes (Barkhor) square is full of detectives listening in."

He says Tibetans "feel very bad" about the situation but are powerless to stop it. Another monk claimed that the Chinese had installed listening devices in the main tourist sites where Westerners might interact with Tibetans, and said no one felt safe talking to foreigners about the political situation in Tibet.

On Monday, we witnessed a group of monks being placed in a police van and taken away but attempts to get an explanation were unsuccessful.

The Chinese authorities have gone to extraordinary lengths to monitor local Tibetans, installing CCTV cameras on buildings and deploying plainclothes police as well as the more overt scrutiny of the large numbers of uniformed police and soldiers.

In interviews with local Chinese officials, their frustration with the situation was palpable. They cannot understand why years of economic growth in Tibet have failed to quell Tibetan demands for greater autonomy or independence from China. There is little understanding or acceptance that Tibetans may have different priorities.

In meetings this week, Chinese officials quoted statistics showing vast improvements in the health, housing, wellbeing and life expectancy of the Tibetans. The Chinese Government has poured billions of dollars into Tibet's economy, with state subsidies accounting for 75 per cent of the gross domestic product.

The results can be seen in and around Lhasa, with wide new roads, upmarket fashion stores and whitegoods stores boasting widescreen televisions. There is a thriving middle class of fashionably dressed locals with mobile phones glued to their ears and driving the latest cars.

The problem is that almost all of this middle class in Lhasa are Han Chinese immigrants, rather than local Tibetans who are primarily herdsmen and farmers and lack the literacy skills and education to seize the opportunities created by the Chinese investment. "While a minority of Tibetans have been rewarded with state jobs, the majority of Tibetans, who are poorly equipped to access new economic opportunities, have been marginalised," says Ben Hillman, a Tibet expert from the Australian National University's China Institute.

So the frustration of local Tibetans goes beyond the eroding of their culture and traditions under Chinese rule -- it is also an economic development issue similar to many around the world where an indigenous people are marginalised by more commercially successful immigrants.

There are signs Chinese officials realise their mistake in focusing too heavily on infrastructure rather than on the Tibetans themselves.

"The education program in Tibet is still not satisfactory," says Wang Jinjun, vice-director-general of the State Council Information Office. "The policy now is to better tackle the issue of herdsmen and farmers."

The economic plight of Tibetans has not been helped by the March riots, which all but killed tourism. Shops and cafes are empty and there is barely a foreign tourist to be seen.

Tibetans have only themselves to blame for this, because so many of them supported the riots, in which 1317 people were arrested, says Wang De Wen, of the Tibet People's Congress.

The riots "were organised by Tibet separatists headed by the Dalai Lama and his followers, who are not willing to see the great leap forward in the development of Tibet, so they instigated violent incidents which involved the smashing, the grabbing, the looting and the setting fire to shops," says Wang. "This violent incident has wreaked havoc on the economic situation and the life of the Tibet people and has cost 320 million yuan ($70 million) since March."

The deputy secretary-general of the Tibet People's Congress, Tonga, was reluctant to talk about those who were detained after the riots, but claimed the majority of Tibetans involved now regretted their actions.

"After our re-education program most of them will regret what they have done," Tonga says. When pressed further on what this means he adds: "A relevant government official briefed them on what was right and what was wrong."

Tibetan officials we spoke to denied all claims that the religious freedom of Tibetans was being curtailed. The head of religious affairs of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Kalsang, denied widely reported views in the West that monks were required to denounce the Dalai Lama as part of "patriotic education" programs in monasteries.

He was partly contradicted several days later by Wang Jinjun who conceded that monks in Tibet were being given "legal information programs" in which they were told not to mix religion with politics.

The most striking aspect of the meetings with Chinese officials was the extent of their hostility towards the Dalai Lama who, along with the the self-styled Tibetan government in exile in India, is blamed for fomenting the uprising and for turning the Tibet issue into a cause celebre in the West.

The Chinese dismiss the Dalai Lama's repeated assertion that he seeks only greater autonomy for Tibet, rather than independence.

When I ask whether China's problems in Tibet might be eased by granting greater autonomy while still retaining national control of the region, Wang Jinjun is dismissive, saying it would return Tibet to its feudal origins. "Tibet will not be reduced to a backwater society which features theocratic rule," he says.

The human dimension of this intractable problem can best be seen by taking a walk through Lhasa, where on my last day I saw a group of Tibetan women, with their babies strapped to their backs, talking and laughing under the watchful eye of a rooftop sniper.


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Saturday, May 10, 2008 
China detains 32 monks in Chushul County
TCHRD[Friday, May 09, 2008 17:44]


China detains 32 monks of Ratoe Monastery in Chushul Public Security Bureau (PSB) Detention Centre, according to reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).

According to multiple sources, the monks of Ratoe Monastery staged a major peaceful protest on 14 March 2008 in Nyethang Township, Chushul County, Lhasa Municipality, "Tibet Autonomous Region" ("TAR").

The peaceful protest was initially led by a group of monks of Ratoe Monastery but later joined by ordinary Tibetans. The protesters marched for about two and half kilometers heading to the Township government head office demanding "Freedom in Tibet", "Independence for Tibet" and "Long Live Dalai Lama".

When the protesters neared the Township government head office, they were halted and blocked by the Chinese security forces. The peaceful protesters were defused and sent back to their respective places. No arrests of protesters were made by the Chinese security forces at that time.

However, later the Chinese authorities came to Ratoe Monastery and stepped up intense political and "patriotic re-education" campaigns against what the Chinese authorities describe as inroads made by the "Dalai Clique and separatist forces" in the monastery. At the same time the monks were repeatedly pressed by the Chinese authorities to surrender before them. Apparently not a single monk surrendered and relented to the dictat issued by the authorities.

On 16 April 2008, the incident took a surprise turn when hundreds of Chinese security forces consisting of Public Security Bureau (PSB) and People's Armed Police (PAP) surrounded the Ratoe Monastery around 4.30 AM in the morning (Beijing Standard Time). Shortly afterward, the security forces raided the monks' residences to search for weapons and other incriminating materials.

However, during the raid, no guns, weapons and other incriminating materials were found in the monks' residences. The photos of the Dalai Lama and mobile phones were confiscated by the Chinese security forces during the raid.

In the ensuing moments, the Chinese security forces arrested 50 monks of Ratoe Monastery for taking part in a peaceful protest on 14 March 2008. They were detained in Chushul PSB Detention Centre. However since then arrest, 18 detainee monks had been released. Currently 32 monks of Ratoe Monastery are detained in Chushul PSB detention centre.

Most of the detainee monks are in early twenties. A former political prisoner Namkar, 45, was among the detainees. He had earlier served two years imprisonment term in Drapchi Prison for taking part in Pro-independence Uprising of 1989 in Lhasa. Ironically, one of the arrestees was also identified as a 38 year-old Thupchok, a prominent Democratic Management Committee (DMC) "work team member" of Ratoe Monastery. As a DMC "work team members" he had been directly responsible for implementing the controversial and much resented "patriotic education" campaign in his own Ratoe Monastery.

The situation in Ratoe Monastery is currently said to be calm and restricted. It is said that there are around 90 monks in Ratoe Monastery. The Chinese authorities have denied total visitation rights to the 32 detainee monks. There has been no further information about their present condition and well being.

The Centre expresses its serious concern at the continuous detention of monks, whose only crime had been to express their grievances in a peaceful manner. The constitution and law of China guarantees its citizen the right to freedom of expression and opinion. In this context, TCHRD believes the monks of Ratoe Monastery have not violated the laws of land and had resorted to any action that undermined the Chinese constitution. TCHRD therefore appeals to the Chinese authorities to immediately release all the detained monks and also to ensure a speedy restoration of normalcy in Ratoe Monastery. The Centre also calls upon UN and international bodies for an immediate intervention in releasing the detained monks.

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Sunday, May 04, 2008 
China, Dalai Lama envoys agree to keep talking: official media
AFP[Sunday, May 04, 2008 21:48]

SHENZHEN, China — China and the Dalai Lama's envoys agreed to keep the door open on dialogue after holding talks here Sunday, state media said, although no breakthrough in ending the Tibet crisis was reported.

The closed-door meeting was the first between the two sides in over a year and came after global leaders pressured China to reopen dialogue amid seven weeks of deadly unrest in Tibet that has marred the nation's Olympic build-up.

"Chinese central government officials and the private representatives of the 14th Dalai Lama agreed to hold another round of contact and consultation at an appropriate time," China's official Xinhua news agency reported late Sunday.

However, the Chinese officials in the talks held firm on China's previously stated conditions for dialogue to succeed, positions that the Tibetan spiritual leader has already rejected.

Xinhua did not report any major agreement between the two sides during their one day of talks on Sunday.

Tibetan officials had said the top priority for the Dalai Lama's envoys at the talks was to end the current wave of repression in Tibet.

Ahead of the meeting, Chinese President Hu Jintao voiced hope that progress would be made in the talks.

"I hope some positive results will be achieved in the meeting," Hu told Japanese reporters in Beijing ahead of his visit to Tokyo this week.

"Our policy toward the Dalai Lama is clear and consistent, and the door for dialogue remains open."

However, Hu also cautioned that China, which belatedly offered on April 25 to hold the talks following appeals by US President George W. Bush and other leaders, would not take the words of the Dalai Lama's envoys at face value.

"We need to look out for not only what they would say but also what they would do," Hu reportedly said.

China has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of wanting independence for his homeland and of fomenting the recent unrest in an effort to shine a world spotlight on Tibet ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.

The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner has rejected these accusations, but has accused China of widespread human rights violations of his people and maintained his push for greater Tibetan autonomy under Chinese rule.

The unrest in Tibet began on March 10 with peaceful protests in the capital, Lhasa, to mark the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule.

It escalated into a day of rioting on March 14 in Lhasa, then spread to other parts of western China with Tibetan populations.

The Tibetan government-in-exile says 203 Tibetans have been killed and about 1,000 hurt in the crackdown.

China says it has acted with restraint and that Tibetan "rioters" and "insurgents" have killed 21 people.

Sunday's meeting was between Sitar, who uses only one name, and Zhu Weiqun from China's ruling Communist Party's United Front Work Department, and the Dalai Lama's top envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen.

In the meeting, Zhu and Sitar defended the action taken by Chinese authorities in quelling the unrest as "completely correct," Xinhua reported.

Zhu and Sitar also repeated China's publicly stated positions as to what the Dalai Lama should do to "create conditions" for further talks.

"The Dalai side would take credible moves to stop activities aimed at splitting China, stop plotting and inciting violence, and stop disrupting and sabotaging the Beijing Olympic Games," Xinhua cited the pair as saying.

Exiled Tibetan leaders had sought to play down expectations for the talks, and said their top priority was to end the current crisis in Tibet.

"Our immediate concern is for the repression to end and all restrictions on Tibetans should be lifted," the government-in-exile's spokesman, Thubten Samphel, said Sunday.

Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche emphasised on Saturday that the talks would be held at an informal level and not be on a par with six earlier rounds that started in late 2002 and broke off in 2007.

"There will be no discussions over basic China-Tibet issues... as there is no atmosphere and conditions for these matters under the current situation in Tibet," Rinpoche told reporters.

Rinpoche told AFP on Sunday that the Dalai Lama's envoys were due to return to India, where the government-in-exile is based, on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Chinese troops invaded Tibet in 1950 before annexing the region the next year. The Dalai Lama fled his homeland following the failed 1959 uprising.
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Friday, May 02, 2008 
Dalai Lama's Envoys to leave for talks with China
Phayul[Friday, May 02, 2008 15:54]
By Phurbu Thinley

Dharamsala, May 2: The envoys of the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama are to leave for China to hold "informal talks with representatives of the Chinese leadership", the Office of the His Holiness the Dalai Lama confirmed today.

"His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen will arrive in China on May 3, 2008 for informal talks with representatives of the Chinese leadership," the statement released by the office said.

The statement, however, did not indicate whether it is part of a series of dialogue between the two sides that has been taking place since 2002.

"During this brief visit, the envoys will take up the urgent issue of the current crisis in the Tibetan areas. They will convey His Holiness the Dalai Lama's deep concerns about the Chinese authorities' handling of the situation and also provide suggestions to bring peace to the region," the statement from the Dalai Lama's secretary Mr Chhime R. Chhoekyapa said.

So far six rounds of dialogue have taken place between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Beijing.

The sixth round of Sino-Tibetan talk was held in China from June 29 to July 5 last year.

Despite six rounds of talks, Tibetans leaders have lately complained there had been no concrete result at all on the fundamental issue. They have, in fact complained of increased repression and brutality in Tibet.

"Since the Chinese leadership has indicated, publicly as well as in briefings given to foreign governments, its position on the continuation of the dialogue, the envoys will raise the issue of moving forward on the process for a mutually satisfactory solution to the Tibetan issue," today's statement indicated.

The Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche last week welcomed the Chinese Government's decision to meet with Tibetan representatives, but added that Tibetan people's resentment against Chinese government will continue unless China makes sincere efforts to address their grievances.
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