Tibet Brief - Edition 13 E-mail
February, 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:

  1. China to mark takeover of Tibet with "Serfs Emancipation Day"
  2. China to face UN Human Rights Council on rights record
  3. Tibetans support Charter 08 and call for Liu Xiaobo's release
  4. Coordinated international response on Tibet can shift Chinese intransigence
     

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Video: Channel 4 Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet

Dispatches_thumbTibetan 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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Great Mountain reportA 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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