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Dalai Lama’s envoys travel to China for new round of talks

Jan 25, 2010, 12:28 GMT

New Delhi – Envoys of the Dalai Lama will arrive in China for a new round of talks on Tuesday to resume a dialogue stalled for nearly 15 months, the Tibetan government-in-exile said.

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen will be accompanied by three senior Tibetan officials, the spiritual leader’s secretary Chimme Chhoekyapa said in a statement.

‘The envoys will arrive in China tomorrow for discussions with the representatives of the Chinese leadership. This is the ninth round of dialogue. The envoys are visiting China after a gap of 15 months in the process that began in 2002,’ Chhoekyapa said.

Preparations for the talks in Beijing were finalized in a meeting chaired by Samdhong Rinpoche, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile. The delegation is expected to return to India at the beginning of next month.

Chinese and Tibetan officials have held eight rounds of talks so far but little tangible progress has been made.

The last round of discussions in November 2008 ended with Beijing saying that ’serious differences’ remained.

Tibetan envoys said China had shown that it had no interest in a serious solution to the question of Tibet’s status.

Beijing accused the Dalai Lama of supporting anti-Chinese riots in 2008 and demanded proof that he does not support Tibetan independence.

The 74-year-old Dalai Lama has publicly adopted a ‘middle-way’ approach, renouncing independence in favour of ‘meaningful autonomy’ for Tibet.

The Dalai Lama and his government live in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala.

(source:www.monstersandcritics.com)

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Dharamsala, Jan 23 (ANI): The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has released its 2009 annual report which focuses on various spheres of human rights violations in Tibet: Civil and Political Liberties, Right to Education, Development and Religious Freedom.

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The TCHRD is the only NGO of Tibetans-in-exile that monitors human rights inside Tibet.

“We are here to release the annual report of the centre. We release the annual report documentation of human rights violations taking place inside Tibet and 2009 you know marked the 50 years of the illegal occupation of Tibet by the Chinese and for 50 years the Tibet people have suffered a lot and then continuous human rights violations are talking place inside Tibet,” said Ugyen Tenzin, TCHRD Director.

Over 300 people have received sentences varying from three to 15 years and there are also some cases of execution of death sentences.

During 60 years of Chinese rule, the TCHRD says, the Tibetan people have suffered a lot and continuous human rights violation is taking place in Tibet.

In 1950, the Chinese troops marched into Tibet and occupied it. An estimated 134,000 Tibetans live in exile, a majority of them in India and Nepal.

Sympathizers of the Tibetans have accused China of repressing the religious aspirations of the Tibetans, specially, the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

(source:oneindia.in)

The 2009 annual report (PDF)

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