The Untouchables of Dharamsala |
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By Tenzin Tsundue, 29-03-2011
Published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 13, Dated 02 Apr 2011
Young Tibetans have grappled for years with the radical idea of a Tibet without the Dalai Lama. Now, as His Holiness steps down, Tenzin Tsundue traces their difficult moment of change
My Gandhian guru, Rajiv Voraji, once told me a tale of a small kingdom ruled by a brute who’d break his subjects’ backs with heavy taxes while he made merry. The poor farmers, unable to revolt, left for a jungle. When the king’s rations finished, he realised his mistake and journeyed to the jungle, knelt down and begged them to return, saying, “I am not your king but your servant.”
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Italy Polling Booth for Kalon Tripa and Europe Chitue Election 2011 |
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Italy Polling Booth for Kalon and Chitue Election 2011
Election Date - 20th March, 2011
Timing - 09 -17.00
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Spanish High Court allows appeal for dropped cases against Chinese repression |
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Source: phayul.com. 15-03-2011
By Kalsang Rinchen
Dharamsala, March 15 - The Spanish High Court has issued a court ruling allowing the Comité de Apoyo al Tíbet (CAT) and the Fundación Casa del Tíbet to appeal the Audiencia Nacionals’ decision to shelve a lawsuit against three Chinese ministers and five senior communist party officials.
In February 2010, Judge Santiago Pedráz of the Central Court Nº 1 said the court could no longer handle the case after a new law restricted its powers to investigate human rights cases abroad. Pedráz said the investigation would have to be dropped against the Chinese leaders due to the change in the law regarding universal jurisdiction in 2009, as the lawsuit neither involved Spanish victims nor were the accused on Spanish soil.
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Viewpoint: Dalai Lama's exile challenge for Tibetans |
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Source: bbcnews. 15-03-2011
Viewpoint: Dalai Lama's exile challenge for Tibetans
As the Tibetan parliament-in-exile meets in Dharamsala to discuss the Dalai Lama's decision to devolve his political role to an elected official, Robert Barnett of Columbia University looks at what lies behind the Tibetan spiritual leader's move.
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It is true that for China and for most of us, we will not see much difference in the short term if his plan goes ahead. The Dalai Lama has said that he will continue travelling around the world as a religious leader and will still speak on Tibetan issues, albeit in a personal capacity.The Dalai Lama's promise on 10 March to step down from his position as head of the Tibetan government has already been described by the Chinese government and his critics as "a trick".
So this is not a monastic vow of silence or an end to his role as the figurehead of the Tibetan people and as the most powerful voice through which their concerns will be expressed.
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