More than 1 200 Tibetans are still missing since a Chinese crackdown on the region after protests in March last year, a report said on Monday.
China’s foreign minister warned other countries on Saturday not to let the Dalai Lama use their territory to try to sever Tibet from Chinese control.
Years of Chinese government denunciations and decades in exile have not loosened the Dalai Lama’s influence over Tibetans in his homeland.
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/ 28 February 2009
A Tibetan Buddhist monk in China set himself on fire in an apparent protest against government religious restrictions and was shot by security forces.
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/ 12 January 2009
China is likely to establish a holiday to mark what it calls the ”liberation” of Tibetan serfs, state media said on Monday.
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/ 8 December 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will pay a ”heavy price” for meeting the Dalai Lama, a Chinese state paper said on Monday.
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/ 11 November 2008
The Chinese government will never accept the Dalai Lama’s calls for ”high-level autonomy” for Tibet, an official said at a briefing on Monday.
China on Thursday rejected accusations by a representative of the Dalai Lama that it was not serious about talks over the status of Tibet.
China launched another attack on the Dalai Lama on Wednesday even as his envoys are expected to have a second day of secretive fence-mending talks.
The Olympic torch was paraded on Saturday through the streets of Tibet’s capital, Lhasa — the scene of bloody riots in March.
China has released a total of 1 157 people who were involved in riots in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March.
The Dalai Lama on Friday welcomed China’s offer to meet his envoy for talks after weeks of protests over Tibet and repeated calls from the exiled spiritual leader for dialogue with Beijing. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that talks would take place in the coming days, which the Dalai Lama’s spokesperson described as "a step in the right direction".
Chinese security forces sealed off parts of Lhasa on Saturday and Tibet’s government-in-exile said it was investigating reports of fresh protests, weeks after the city was shaken by an anti-government riot. The reports coincided with a visit by a group of diplomats, who were led on a closely guarded tour of the city.
China’s crackdown on protests in Tibet has left at least 135 people dead, 1 000 injured and 400 arrested, the head of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile said in Brussels on Wednesday. ”Information from Tibet is very difficult to get, but we have sources who are very reliable, who phone us at the risk of their lives,” parliamentary speaker Karma Chophel said.
Rioting erupted in a province neighbouring Tibet on Sunday, two days after ugly street protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa that the contested region’s government-in-exile said had killed 80 people. A police officer said that about 200 Tibetan protesters had hurled petrol bombs and burnt down a police station.