WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST 20 APRIL 2016
WEEKLY DIGEST 20 April 16 (Click here for Pdf version)
INSIDE TIBET
- Tibetan Protest Monk Released From Prison in Uncertain Health RFA, 19 April 2016
- China’s ill-advised development policy led to protest by Tibetan graduates TCHRD, 12 April 2016
- Tibetans Sentenced For Attempt to Retake Community Land RFA, 11 April 2016
- Tibetan Monk Released From Prison After Being Held Incommunicado For Years RFA, 08 April 2016
- Revoke discriminatory, unjust verdict against Tibetan writer Shokjang TCHRD, 07 April 2016
- No home but the hills for Tibet’s nomad Gulf News, AFP, 01 April 2016
IN EXILE
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins 270 Religious Leaders to Sign Interfaith Climate Statement Tibet.net, 20 April 2016
- US Congress Holds Hearing on China’s Pervasive Use of Torture, Golog Jigme Testifies Tibet.net, 18 April 2016
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama Expresses Sympathy and Support for the Victims of Earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador Dalailama.com, 18 April 2016
- US State Department Releases 2015 Annual Human Rights Report, Mentions Severe Repression and Human Rights Abuses in Tibet Tibet.net, 15 April 2016
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama Expresses Condolences over Kerala Temple Fire Dalailama.com. 12 April 2016
INTERVIEW
The Dalai Lama Speaks Exclusively To NDTV NDTV, 7 April 2016
COLUMN
- The Plan for a Chengdu to Lhasa Railway Gabriel Lafitte, Rukor.org, 20 April 2016
- Water War: This River Could Sink China-India Relations by Joel Wuthnow, The National Interest, 19 April 2016
- Xi Jinping in quandary over Panama Papers by Tenzin Tseten, TPI, 13 April 2016
- China signals policy shift on Dalai Lama by Jayadeva Ranade, Hindustan Times, 05 April 2016
DELHI EVENT
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BOOK REVIEW
Voice of sanity: Why the Tibetan cause is a deeper search for self by Thubten Samphel, Hindustan Times, 02 April 2016