Tibetan monks embarrass China - 27 Mar 08

What was supposed to be a carefully organised tour to show the Chinese view on Tibet, has instead turned into an embarrassment.

Buddhist monks disrupted an official news briefing for foreign journalists on Wednesday, accusing Chinese authorities of lying about the situation in Tibet.

And now, Beijing says it is willing to negotiate with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, but with conditions.

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[dorje168]

He called for innovative

approaches to a large set

of policies which could

include anything from

increased policing to

better internet control or better unemployment insurance.

[88888888chen]

Kamm told reporters that he had requested the Chinese authorities

to release the two prominent Tibetan

political prisoners during his most recent trip to Beijing.
“I’d like to take this opportunity to express

my strong hope that among those who are

released early would be Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

and, of course, Lobsang Tenzin,” Kamm thad old reporters outside a congressional hearing in Washington.

[trademind]

"indispensable" parts of china...

that word says everything

they are not gonna stop

they want it all and they will get it

[UnluckyGambler]

eh, the entire world needs to unite. no countries, no borders. we are one people, dividing ourselves up from one another is unwise, and indeed destructive.

[FREETIBETANSNOW]

india and China occupied

Tibet share a 3488 km long

disputed border which was the

cause of a short but bloody war in 1962.

Since then, the two Asian giants have shared uneasy military ties with a series of border talks failing to yield much result.

The 15th round of the cross-border talks will last two days and is expected to cover a range of long-standing territorial disputes and other issues

[FREETIBETANSNOW]

In other information given by a

Tibetan from the Ngaba region

currently attending the ongoing Kalachakra teachings in Bodh Gaya,

both the Tibetans had their hands folded in prayers as they faced towards the Kirti monastery, engulfed in flames.

[FREETIBETANSNOW]

Free Tibet, the UK based organisation campaigning for an end to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, while quoting sources from inside Tibet said

in a release today that “the person believed to be a lay person, was heard calling for the return of the Dalai Lama before Chinese forces extinguished the flames and removed him.”

His well-being and whereabouts are unknown.