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Tibetan writer calls for end to self-immolations
Tibetans including a prominent writer under virtual house arrest in Beijing are pleading for an end to self-immolations in protest of Chinese rule, saying self-destructive measures do nothing for the cause of Tibetan rights.Poet Tsering Woeser said in online appeal posted Thursday that she is "grief-stricken" by the more than two dozen people who have set themselves on fire over the past year. She
Tibetans including a prominent writer under virtual house arrest in Beijing are pleading for an end to self-immolations in protest of Chinese rule, saying self-destructive measures do nothing for the cause of Tibetan rights.Poet Tsering Woeser said in online appeal posted Thursday that she is "grief-stricken" by the more than two dozen people who have set themselves on fire over the past year. She
Dalai Lama not to address Tibetans on 'uprising day'
For the first time in 53 years, Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will not address a gathering of Tibetans March 10, the day the Chinese launched a crackdown to suppress an uprising in Tibet in 1959, his aides said.
For the first time in 53 years, Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will not address a gathering of Tibetans March 10, the day the Chinese launched a crackdown to suppress an uprising in Tibet in 1959, his aides said.
China calls Tibetan immolators criminals, outcasts
Chinese officials sought Wednesday to discredit Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest China's rule over their region, calling them outcasts, criminals and mentally ill people
Another teen Tibetan immolates in China
A Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese oppression in Tibet, the third such self-immolation in three days, a U.S.-based broadcaster said.
A Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese oppression in Tibet, the third such self-immolation in three days, a U.S.-based broadcaster said.
Third Tibetan self-immolates in three days in China
BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - A Tibetan youth has burned himself to death in southwestern China, the third self-immolation in three days, in what overseas Tibetan rights groups said reflects growing
BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - A Tibetan youth has burned himself to death in southwestern China, the third self-immolation in three days, in what overseas Tibetan rights groups said reflects growing
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