WTN for October 2011

• I have an aim - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• SC orders govt not to hand over 23 free-Tibet activists to China - Nepal News
• UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights has released a report on the impacts of mining/ extractive industries on indigenous communities: - UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights
• Why are people disappearing in China? - Human Rights Watch
• Statement of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, on the Issue of His Reincarnation - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Urgent Appeal to Nepal Govt; Hand over the 23 Tibetans to UNHCR - TCHRD
• Tibetan Buddhist leaders meet to talk Dalai Lama's - Phayul
• Dalai Lama Blesses Visiting Burmese Activists - SFT India
• Significance and Challenges to Tibetan Democracy Today - ICT
• China Critic Wins Zambian Election - Wall Street Journal
• Desperate Self Immolation Continues in Ngaba - TCHRD
• Candlelight vigil held in Dharamsala following two self-immolations in Tibet - TWA
• China's 12th Five-year Plan Will Start Construction on Over 60 Hydropower Projects - China Energy News Net

• US urges China to respect Tibetans' rights - AFP
• Chinese, U.S. political parties hold third high-level dialogue - Xinhua
• Tibetan Parliament Beats the U.S. Senate by 59,904 Times - Tibetan Political Review
• Sangay’s New Cabinet: Strengths and Weaknesses - Tibetan Political Review
• Tibetans of Dechen Shangrila - ABC Radio
• GuChuSum Commemorates 20th Annniversary - Tibet
• China: More Tibetan monks set themselves on fire to protest repression - Amnesty International
• Baird defends Israel, condemns China - Postmedia
• China to Launch ‘Third Battle Campaign’ in Tibet - TCHRD
• South Africa: Issue Visa to Dalai Lama - Human Rights Watch
• China, Tibet and the Dynamics of Inland Borders - China Heritage Quarterly
• Burma dam: Work halted on divisive Myitsone project - BBC News
• TWA seeks effective implementation of legal measures protecting women’s rights - TWA
• China Warns Dalai Lama About Choosing Successor - VOA
• China Rejects US Concerns Over Immolated Tibetan Monks - VOA
• Artist's Wife Asks China to Reject Secret Arrests Bill - VOA
• Dalai Lama: Re-set Harmony with Soft Autonomy versus Cultural Nihilism - Eurasia Review

• Birthday Greetings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Archbishop Desmond Tutu - Tibet
• China's power should not make it immune to criticism over Tibet - Sydney Morning Herald
• TWA seeks effective implementation of legal measures protecting women’s rights - TWA
• Tibet's Next Incarnation - TIME
• Chinese 'peace prize' ditched after one year - South China Morning Post

• MPs to meet new Tibetan Prime Minister in exile, Dr Lobsang Sangay in Dharamsala - Tibet Society (UK)
• Dalai Lama visit blocked by South Africa to please China, says opposition - Guardian
• Tibetan Flag Removal Triggers Protests - AFP
• Today’s fifth self-immolation in Tibet establishes unprecedented trend - Free Tibet
• Dalai ruling made, but not public - Citizen Online
• HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA REGRETS CALLING OFF SOUTH AFRICA VISIT - Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• One More Monk Self Immolates In Ngaba - TCHRD
• South African Friends of Tibet are not surprised by the failure of the SA Govt to timeously issue a visa to the Dalai Lama - South African Friends of Tibet

• ‘Lucky’ Calgarian leads effort to resettle 1,000 exiled Tibetans in Canada - Calgary Herald
• Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) calls upon the People's Republic of China to put an end to its repression in Tibet as demonstrated by the ongoing unrest in Ngaba and other Tibetan areas - Tibet

• Another Tibetan Monk Sets Himself Ablaze—and the Karmapa's Take on the Fiery Protests - TIME
• Desmond Tutu attacks South African government over Dalai Lama ban - Guardian
• Lawmaker says China engages in cyber spying - Reuters
• Address by Minister Baird at Office of Religious Freedom Stakeholder Consultations - Department of Foreign Affairs
• The Forgotten History of Tibet's Role in Nepal's 1949 UN Application - Tibetan Political Review
• Burma dam: Why Myitsone plan is being halted - BBC News
• China’s Response to a Rising India - National Bureau of Asian Research
• Tibetan Monk Detained Again - RFA
• China’s delight at Wall Street Revolution - Financial Times
• INPaT Disappointed with South Africa's Visa Denial to His Holiness the Dalai Lama - INPaT

• Lobsang Sangay: Exiled Tibetans' new political leader - CNN
• Self-immolation 'trend' at restive Tibetan monastery - BBC News
• China: Release Nobel Laureate and Others Wrongly Jailed, Disappeared - Human Rights Watch
• Tibetan suicide protests violate Buddhist morality - Beijing Times
• Tutu at 80: Will humble pie be eaten at his party? - BBC News
• South Africa, hang your head in shame over Dalai Lama, lost ideals and dreams forever deferred - Daily Maverick
• Tibetan youths self-immolate in protest at China rule - BBC News
• Two teenagers set themselves on fire – rumours that many more in Tibet ready to give their lives - Free Tibet

• Nobel Laureate Granted Family Visits - RFA
• Campaign Against Secret Detentions - RFA
• China Punishes Officials for Tourist Beating - VOA
• 'Cultural Reforms' to Target Media - RFA
• Monks Nursing Burns At Hospitals - RFA
• Self-Immolation a 'Worrying' Trend - RFA
• Dalai Lama to Make Video Appearance at S. African Celebration - VOA
• Dalai Lama a ‘divisive figure’ - IOL News
• China seals off restive Tibetan monastery - AFP
• The Sun-Beaten Path Wins VIFF Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema - VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
• TIBETANS REMEMBER THE SELF-IMMOLATED MARTYRS & CONDEMN THE ONGOING CHINESE MILITARY REPRESSION IN NGABA, TIBET - Tibet
• Dalai Lama criticizes China in S.African address - AP
• Selling out? - Senator Consiglio Di Nino, Ottawa

• 13 Tibetan protesters detained in Indian capital - AP
• 2 Tibetan former monks set themselves on fire in latest protest against China - AP
• Chinese suitor reopens Kalahari Minerals talks - Financial Times
• Beijing Gallery Puts a Focus on Global Warming - New York Times
• Tibetan protests against China take a deadly new turn - AP
• Tibet Justice Center Releases Tibet’s Stateless Nationals II: Tibetan Refugees in India - Tibet Justice Center

• Chinese claim fairer treatment of Zambian workers - BBC News
• OSCE Assembly Participants Concerned at South Africa's Denail of Visa to the Dalai Lama - Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• China attacks 'Dalai clique' over self-immolations - AP
• Khaying passes away in hospital, China says no condolences - Phayul
• THIS LIFE - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Excluded : The Zhang Guoxi Case - US Asia Law
• China: End Crackdown on Tibetan Monasteries - Human Rights Watch
• WE CAN AND WE MUST - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Choepel Dies After Self Immolation - TCHRD
• Self-immolations: Joint Press Statement of Kashag and TPiE - Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile/The Kashag

• TWA completes weeklong International Advocacy Campaign in Finland - Tibetan Womens Association
• THE TASK FORCE MEETING HELD IN DHARAMSALA - CTA
• Candle light vigil in Warsaw, Poland - Free Tibet (Warsaw)
• Devil in disguise - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• CECC annual report -- Tibet section - US Congressional-Executive Commission on China
• Self-immolation and the renewal of the Tibet movement - Tibetan Review
• Tibet: What does a trend of self-immolations tell us? - Tibetan Review
• News of Tibetan Self-Immolations Censored Online - Tibetan Review
• Fire Under the Snow: Tibet's Self-Immolations of Protest - Tibetan Review
• G20 needs to tell President Hu to extinguish the flames by bringing freedom to Tibet and China - Phayul

• Aba under siege after Tibetan monks protest - AFP video

• China's big economic stick: No Dalai Lama allowed - Mail & Guardian
• Tibetan monastery a 'virtual prison': exiled monk - AFP
• Town Mourns Over Self-Immolation - RFA
• Fiery Debate Over Self-Immolations - RFA
• China's repression in Tibet getting worse: Sangay - ANI
• Study Points to Heavy-Handed Repression of Tibetan Area in China - New York Times
• Dalai Lama Criticizes 'Immoral' Chinese Censorship - VOA
• Another Self-Immolation; Serious Concerns about Increased Incidents - TCHRD
• Between the Lines: Interpreting the Dalai Lama’s Statement on his Successor - The China Beat
• Analysis: Is a winter of discontent on the way? - Reuters
• UNPO Alarmed by Self-Immolation Deaths in Tibet, Seek United Nations Intervention - UNPO
• TIBET--A FIRST-HAND LOOK (September 05, 1997) - US House of Representatives - Congressman Wolf
• Kashag to Hold Grand Prayer Service to Mourn Tragic Self-immolations in Tibet - CTA

• Tibetan resettlement project update - CTC
• Nun Self Immolates, then Marches, Calling for Freedom - TCHRD
• Press Statement - Tibetan Solidarity Movement
• TWA holds Global solidarity actions in honor of Martyr Tenzin Wangmo - Tibetan Women’s Association
• CALL FOR PROTESTS BY TIBETANS ON OCTOBER 19 - South Asia Analysis
• Tibetan nun 'dies in fire protest' near China monastery - BBC News
• Dalai Lama invited to SA – again - Dispatch
• The Dalai Lama to join mass prayer gathering for self-immolating Tibetans - Phayul
• The Critical Situation of Tibet - TCHRD

• China: Dalai Lama stance on suicides is terrorism - AP
• Chinese town under siege as Tibetan monks protest - AFP
• Tibetans stage protest in Taipei - Taipei Times
• US State Department onTibetan self-immolations - US State Department
• NATURAL INSTINCT - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Troops Pour Into Lhasa - RFA
• "Federal government 'appaled' at self-immolations in Tibet - Speaker of the German foreign ministry, Mr Andreas Peschke

• Violence, Protests at Xinjiang School - RFA
• THE STRUGGLE FOR A FREE TIBET - Tsoltim N. Shakabpa
• Dalai Lama spokesman critical of DK - Politiken
• China Opens Tibet Buddhist Theological Institute - Xinhua
• Tibetan Values Movement Spreads - RFA
• Tibetan Administration eager to revive Nepal-Tibetan ties - Hindustan Times
• Dhitsa Monastery Geshe Arrested - TCHRD
• Delegation brings Tibetan culture to US - China Daily
• Tibetan's failed suicide captured in amateur video - AP
• Yet Another Self-Immolation in Kandze - TCHRD
• NGOs Appeal to UN Human Rights Chief over Tibetan Self-Immolation Protests - ICT

• Tibetan Artist Installs 20 Tonnes of Soil from Tibet in India Exhibit - Tenzing Rigdol
• Tibetan protests against China turn desperate as self-immolations increase - Globe and Mail
• Tibetan self-immolations raised in UK Parliament - Tibet Society
• THOUSANDS OF EXILES TO HELP ARTIST DISMANTLE TIBET SOIL EXHIBIT - Tenzing Rigdol
• Super Samgha called on world leaders to intervene China's intensified crackdown on Tibetan monks - Super Samgha (Japan)
• European Parliament resolution on Tibet, in particular self-immolation by nuns and monks - European Parliament
• China Reins in Liberalization of Culture - New York Times
• Writer Meycheh Arrested - TCHRD