DHARAMSALA (India) – Non subito. Magari tra qualche anno.Però potrebbe giungere il momento per il movimento di resistenza tibetano di adottare la via dei kamikaze già in voga nel mondo Musulmano. Attentati suicidi a Lhasa: sembra contraddire tutto ciò che da mezzo secolo caratterizza la figura del Dalai Lama e…
Dharamsala, November 22: While reaffirming their absolute “faith and allegiance” in the Dalai Lama’s leadership and agreeing to pursue for Tibet’s autonomy, Tibetan exiles did not rule out a possible shift in policy to independence if current middle-way policy fails to yield any result in the near future. Over 500…
Tibetans likely to back “Middle Way”, hope for best Middle way approach is the soft-edged noose that will spell the death of Tibetan freedom movement, slowly, gradually, without our having even realized it, almost like being killed in your sleep. It is a miracle that Tibetan movement has survived so…
From: http://www.betterworldlinks.org/open.php?id=17162&url=http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/ The central thesis of this political statement is `Great Tibet’ which includes Tibet (the Central Tibet in the author’s terminology), Qinghai (the Eastern Tibet or Amdo in the author’s terminology) and parts of Sichuan and Yunnan (Kham in the author’s terminology). Historically, Tibetan Dynasty conquered the `Great Tibet’…
Marching towards Rangzen in unison The primary objective of His Holiness the Dalai Lama adopting the Middle Path approach since 1979 had been to create an environment to ensure the protection of Tibet’s unique culture and religion. Especially with the former Chinese President Deng Xiaoping agreeing to negotiate on any…
World Council of Tibetans for an Independent Tibet In March 1959 the people of Tibet rose up against the Chinese occupation army to restore Tibetan independence and to defend the sacred person and honour of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Following the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese army in…
C’è un incubo ricorrente, ben noto nella psichiatria clinica, in cui il dormiente picchia un nemico ma non riesce a procurargli alcun danno. Più furiosamente si colpisce il nemico, con pugni o calci, più egli rimane esasperatamente illeso. In tutti gli anni in cui ho lavorato a Dharamsala mi è…
It was unfortunate that when the protests started in Lhasa last month His Holiness made a statement threatening to resign because of “violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland” (AP). I don’t want to subject His Holiness’s use of the word “violence” to any kind of semantic scrutiny, in the…
There is considerable disagreement about what exactly happened in Lhasa on March 14th – and why, but I think everyone is agreed on this one fact that the only accredited foreign journalist in Lhasa when the uprising began was James Miles, of the Economist. In an interview with CNN, Miles…
In una conferenza stampa tenuta in India i primi di aprile il Dalai Lama, rispondendo alle dichiarazioni di Pechino che lo accusa di essere l’ispiratore delle manifestazioni indipendentiste che hanno sconvolto Lhasa e altre aree del vecchio Tibet storico oggi incorporate nelle province cinesi del Qingai, Sichuan e Gansu, ha…