Parliamentarians to fast on Losar, Announce solidarity campaigns

In solidarity with the ongoing crisis in Tibet, members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile will sit on a hunger fast on the first day of Tibetan new year ‘Losar’ on February 22. Speaker Penpa Tsering and Deputy Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel announced a series of other solidarity campaigns

Beacons of resistance, not desperate acts by Christophe Besuchet

I do not know if you are like me, but I find it extremely distressing to see how commonly the adjective “desperate” has been used by the media and Tibetans in exile to describe the self-immolation protests that have taken place in Tibet since 2009 — seventeen cases so far as I write this.