China vows to intensify crackdown on pro-Tibet materials
China has vowed to implement more stringent measures to crackdown on what it calls “illegal publications” and “reactionary promotional products” including text messages, audio visual products, TV and radio programmes and books in Tibet. China deems publications on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the exile Tibetan administration
India’s new Mountain Strike Corps to deploy 40,000 additional troop on Indo-Tibetan border
The Indian government has given the go ahead for raising a Mountain Strike Corps, the much-awaited expansion which will equip the Indian armed forces to ‘move from the current stage of dissuasion to deterrence against China.’ The Cabinet Committee on Security headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the proposal
More Tibetans shot, savagely beaten in Tawu firings
Even as communication channels in Tawu, the site of Chinese police firings on unarmed Tibetans earlier this month in eastern Tibet remain erratic, more details about the tragic incident and those injured have reached exile.
Nomads losing livelihood, unity and culture post resettlement: Tibetan writer
A Tibetan writer born to a nomadic family inside Tibet has blasted China’s mass resettlement policy of Tibetans and listed eight “losses” nomads (Tib: drogpas) have suffered post resettlement. Written in Tibetan under the pseudonym Bongtak Rilu