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Article Archive for June 2011

Respecting and Recognizing the Tibetan Government and Sustaining the Hope Alive
Tibetan Youth Congress  |  Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011  |  One Comment
Respecting and Recognizing the Tibetan Government and Sustaining the Hope Alive

One of the highest, most commendable achievements of the Tibetan people during the last 52 years in exile has been our ability, despite extreme challenges and pressures over the years to safeguard and retain the …

བོད་གཞུང་ ཐ་སྙད་ཅིག་མ་རེད།
Gendun Rabsal  |  Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011  |  4 Comments
བོད་གཞུང་ ཐ་སྙད་ཅིག་མ་རེད།

དེ་རིང་བོད་ཀྱི་དྲ་བརྙན་བརྒྱུད་ནས་ བཀའ་བློན་ཁྲི་པ་མཆོག་གིས་ “བོད་གཞུང་”དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གསལ་བཤད་གནང་བ་དེར་ཉན་པ་ཡིན།

The Chater Amendment
A Test of Our Mangtso
Ogyen Kyab  |  Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011  |  5 Comments

The announcement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama devolving his political power to an elected leadership came at a time when we were excited and ready for our general election for the Kalon Tripa and …

Lobsang Sangay’s wrong Churchill quote
Christophe Besuchet  |  Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011  |  One Comment
Lobsang Sangay’s wrong Churchill quote

I had not yet fully digested the scope of the Dalai Lama’s retirement when I was struck by a curious remarks made by Lobsang Sangay on BBC’s HARDtalk and NDTV’s Your Call. According to the …

Decapitated, then emasculated
The programmed termination of the Tibetan nation
Christophe Besuchet  |  Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011  |  One Comment
Decapitated, then emasculated

The sort of political sentence pronounced on the Tibetan people resembles the terrible “death by a thousand cuts”. This was a form of execution practiced in China until the early twentieth century, in which the …