Chinese authorities in Tibet have detained a Tibetan man for possessing a picture of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s foremost Buddhist spiritual leader who has been living in exile since 1959, RFA has learned.
Karma Samdup
Funeral observances for a popular Tibetan lama were blocked early this year by Chinese police who barred devotees from attending and deleted images of the religious leader that were shared online.
Choktrul Dawa Rinpoche, 86, died on Jan. 30 at his residence in the Tibetan capital Lhasa
News of a Tibetan self-immolation protest in 2015 has surfaced after going unreported for five years, the Dharamsala, India-based Tibetan exile government the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said this week, citing unnamed sources in Tibet.
Police in western China’s Sichuan province detained the family members of a young Tibetan who died in a self-immolation protest against Chinese rule last month and held
公元1959年，對幾代藏人來說，是個刻骨銘心的年份。
上世紀50年代初共產黨入侵並佔領西藏後，在藏區暴力推行的一系列政策引發的不滿和抵抗在這一年達到頂峰。
六十年前的1959年3月，西藏首府拉薩，在中國軍隊和藏人之間，發生了一場大規模的武裝暴力衝突，不僅導致成千上萬人失去生命，也形成了目前西藏民眾抗議和當局暴力鎮壓的根源。
甘南藏區佐蓋多瑪鄉，貧困的牧民們依照共產黨的政策，放棄了牲畜和傳統的遊牧生活，住進了政府補貼修建的新房裏。屋裏顯眼的位置懸掛著毛澤東和習近平的照片，上面披掛著白色的哈達 。
四川阿壩再有兩名年輕藏人上周以自焚抗議中國當局的高壓政策，據稱其中壹人已過世，另壹人正接受救治。在美國的自由西藏組織也已證實這兩名藏人自焚的事件。
四川省阿壩州阿壩縣求吉瑪鄉年輕藏人多波於今年11月4日在當地高呼口號展開自焚抗議，當場身亡之後，本周六（12月8日）該鄉另壹位年輕藏人珠闊，也以自焚向中國政府表達抗議，目前生死不明。