| Tibet Brief - Edition 14 |
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| March, 2009 | International Campaign for Tibet |
The Tibet Brief is an ICT publication for policy-makers, providing concise information and perspectives on the political, economic and human rights situation in Tibet. In this edition:
- Protests, arrests and sentences continue with Strike Hard Campaign
- China dismisses human rights concerns on Tibet during UN rights review
- Tibetans engage in civil disobedience by refusing to celebrate Tibetan New Year
- Rights take second place during Clinton China visit - State Dept report finds severe repression in Tibet
Video: Channel 4 Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet
Tibetan exile Tash Despa returns to the homeland he risked his life escaping from to carry out secret filming with the award-winning, Bafta-nominated director Jezza Neumann. At the risk to its makers of imprisonment and deportation, this Dispatches film reveals the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation in Tibet, uncovering evidence of the 'cultural genocide' described by the Dalai Lama.
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A Great Mountain Burned by Fire: China’s Crackdown in Tibet
March 10, 2009, marked the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa that led to the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet, and the first anniversary of an unprecedented wave of overwhelmingly peaceful protests that swept across the Tibetan plateau, to be met by a violent crackdown.
Since March 10, 2008, the Chinese government has engaged in a comprehensive cover-up of the torture, disappearances and killings that have taken place across Tibet combined with a propaganda offensive against the exiled Tibetan leader, Nobel Peace Laureate the Dalai Lama.
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