Tibetan exiles forgo New Year celebrations with anti-China demonstrations
Tibetan exiles Monday staged dramatic anti-China demonstrations as part of a wider movement to boycott Losar (New Year) celebrations in order to protest against Chinese rule in Tibet
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Candlelit vigil planned for Tibetan New Year
The Taiwan-based civic group Taiwan Friends of Tibet announced Monday plans to hold a candlelit vigil on Wednesday, the start of the Tibetan New Year. The event is intended to show solidarity with the victims of the Chinese government’s crackdown
Tibetans forgo celebration
For Tibetans in the homeland and elsewhere, the new year — known as Losar — is the biggest holiday of all. Not this year.
China expects Tibet to celebrate, or else
Instead of planning festivities to mark their beloved New Year’s, Tibetans want to remember those who died in last year’s protests against Chinese rule. But Beijing has other ideas.