New Delhi, October 8: India Tibet Coordination Office in coordination with Prof. Shivaji Sarkar, Head of English Department IIMC (Indian Institute of Mass Communication) organized a half-day seminar on Tibet at the institute.
The seminar was attended by all the four department heads and 50 students from the institute.
Mr. Tempa Tsering, Minister for Department of Information and International Relation, Central Tibetan Administration gave brief overview on the Sino-Tibet relations from historical times to date. He also highlighted the issues concerning the environmental destructions, population influx, and militarilisation facing Tibet under the pretext of developments by China, and also pointed out the gradual changes happening within China post Tiananmen Square massacre.
Mr. Penpa Tsering, Member of Tibetan Parliament in exile and also the Director of Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre, New Delhi made presentation on the “Democracy in Exile” and explained the gradual process of democratisation in the Tibetan administrative system.
Kalon Tempa and Mr Penpa later responded to several questions from the students varying from Sino-Tibet politics to Indian security concern in regard to Tibet as a buffer state between the two Asian giants pre-1959.
Based on report filed by India Tibet Coordination Office, New Delhi
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