Lhasa: Tibetans are committing self-immolations at the instigation of Dalai Lama, a top Tibetan official has alleged. "Since March 2012, there have been some cases of self immolation of monks at the instigation of the Dalai Lama," Tonga, Director general of Ethnic, Religious, Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region, told a group of visiting foreign journalists.
He, however, said that all these incidents have taken place outside Tibet. "No local residents in Tibet Autonomous Region have self-immolated so far. These incidents have taken place in neighbouring Tibetan-inhabited regions," he said.
"We have utmost respect for the lives of people. This instigation is bad. The immolation cases only happened quite recently. These are planned and instigated," he said. According to Tonga, some of these immolation bids are planned by anti-social elements, some are led by people who have isolated life and do not understand matters of the world and society.
"Some are done by underprivileged people. I have gone through these cases and these are mainly because there is a conspiracy going on," he claimed. Over 100 Tibetans have committed self-immolations, according to the overseas Tibetan groups....
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01:31 PM, May 14, 2013
Washington: Asking China to refrain from making statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic and religious traditions, the United States has said the Tibetans be permitted to express their grievances freely. "We have asked the Chinese Government to refrain from statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions," the State Department spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, told reporters at his daily news...
04:46 AM, May 10, 2013
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02:53 PM, Mar 31, 2013
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11:50 AM, Mar 30, 2013
As many as 83 workers were buried alive Friday when a major landslide hit a mining area in China's Tibet region, authorities said. The accident occurred at about 6 am in the capital Lhasa's Maizhokunggar county, Xinhua reported. ...
08:59 AM, Mar 30, 2013
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08:14 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Chinese authorities are responding to an intensified wave of Tibetan self-immolation protests against Chinese rule by clamping down even harder - criminalizing the suicides, arresting protesters' friends and even confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes. The harsh measures provide an early indication that the country's new leadership is not easing up on Tibet despite the burning protests and international condemnation. ...
03:55 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Beijing: As the self-immolations in Tibet continued unabated, China has brought a new law under which anyone caught helping someone self-immolate would be held liable for "intentional homicide", a regulation officials hope will bring down such cases. According to a regulation recently drafted by the Ministry of Public Security and the judicial bodies, people who plan, organise, incite or help others perform self-immolations will be tried for intentional homicide, state-run...
01:26 PM, Dec 10, 2012
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04:56 AM, Nov 28, 2012
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11:53 AM, Nov 21, 2012
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11:29 PM, Nov 18, 2012
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03:54 PM, Nov 13, 2012
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09:23 AM, Nov 06, 2012
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Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh was the battle ground, which saw the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict. But exactly three years before that in 1959, it was in Tawang itself that the Dalai Lama had arrived after his escape from Tibet. Here is a look at the rare film footage of that escape. After a 15 day trek, on 30th March in 1959, 24-year-old Dalai Lama crossed over to Tawang in the Northeast ...
09:50 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Beijing: Amid a raging dispute with Japan over islands in East China Sea, Chinese army has scaled up its military exercises on all fronts including aerial drills by its air force in Tibet as well as by special forces. Special operations forces from the PLA have began an annual set of military drills aimed at training reconnaissance capabilities and survival skills, state-run CCTV reported. While its naval forces in the...
02:37 AM, Sep 17, 2012
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06:02 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has criticised the Chinese government's censorship policy as morally wrong and said 1.3 billion people of China have a right to know the reality. "Totalitarian regimes like China's have for several decades depended far too much on cruelty, so fear and distrust are part of their atmosphere. This is why they try to conceal reality," the Nobel Peace laureate said. "The 1.3 billion...
11:41 PM, Jun 24, 2012
