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WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST (26TH OCTOBER TO 01ST NOVEMBER 2020)

Weekly Tibet News Digest is a collection of different articles, columns and Tibet related news in and outside Tibet published in various websites. The views expressed are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi.

HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

 ·         India’s Heritage of Karuna & Ahimsa

·         Statement on the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

TIBET TODAY

·         China sentences Tibetan singer to six years in prison

·         Tibetan woman tortured to death in Chinese custody, cousin detained for sending money abroad

·         China’s Panchen Lama Tours Tibet to Push CCP Agenda, ‘Sinification’ of Buddhism

·         Experts Question China’s Claim of ‘Victory’ in Anti-Poverty Drive in Tibet

TIBETANS IN EXILE

·         Sikyong, Chorig Kalon pay respects to Dr Kapila Vastyayan: “Because of friends like her, Tibet issue is alive in India”

·         Exclusive: US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Robert A. Destro Speaks to Tibet TV

·         Sikyong addresses the 13th Administrative Conference of Tibetan Settlement Officers

·         Tibet 2020 campaign concludes as US election approaches

·         China “Gravest Threat To Future Of Religious Freedom”, Says Mike Pompeo

·         Adhaaranjali of late Martial Adv. Vimalsurya Chimankar, Nagpur

·         Exclusive: CTA launches Guideline for Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

·         31st Covid-19 Briefing: Testing, Tracing and Treatment key in fighting Covid-19

FEATURE & ARTICLES

·         Cancer of forced labour spread from Xinjiang to Tibet, US keeping watch: Top US official tells India Today by Geeta Mohan, India Today

·         Next priority is to make official US policy on Tibet: Sangay by Vishal Gulati, IANS

·         India signs defensive agreement with US following Himalayan standoff with China by James Griffiths, CNN

·         Why do so many Asian nations want to be in China’s debt? by Brahma Chellaney

·         A nation without a memory is a dead nation by Claude Arpi