WTN for March 2012

• Increased Religious Repression Forces Monks to Flee, Monasteries to Close - TCHRD
• China's Guangdong to hire 10,000 "online public opinion guides" - BBC
• Wake Up and Smell the Jasmine - Foreign Policy
• Legalizing the Tools of Repression - NYT
• Exiled PM wants 'fact finding' mission in Tibet - Austrailia Broadcasting Corp.
• Under lockdown: Life inside dissident Tibetan town - AP
• Tibet chief orders tight control ahead of congress - BBC
• Tibetan Writer Says China Is Blocking Her From Award - NY Times
• Tibet cut off from the rest of the world - Reporters Without Borders

• The Dalai Lama Card Reappears in Sino-Mongolian Relations - China Brief

• Chinese infighting: Secrets of a succession war - Financial Times

• China violence: 12 dead in Kashgar city in Xinjiang - BBC
• Preparing for Troubles. Streamlining leadership in Tibetan regions of the PRC - TibetInfoNet
• West area tops illegal land deals - China Daily
• Under lockdown: Life inside dissident Tibetan town - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• On Tibetan Plateau, A Sense Of Constant Surveillance - NPR
• Inside story: Tibetan discontent smoulders - Tibet
• Show of Might - Tibet
• Mother of four self-immolates in Tibet - freetibet.org
• Lockdown in Lhasa at Tibetan New Year; unprecedented detentions of hundreds of Tibetans after Dalai Lama teaching in exile - ICT
• Report: Tibetan woman, student set selves on fire - AP

• Why are they jailed? - Nepal Times
• TWA mourns the self immolation deaths of two female protesters this past weekend - Tibetan Women's Association
• Central Tibetan Administration Mourns Tragic Self-immolation of two more Tibetans - CTA
• Memorandum on the Call for an EU Special Coordinator for Tibetan Affairs - Tibet-Envoy
• Tibetan teenager becomes third person to self-immolate in three days - The Telegraph
• Tibetan School Girl Dies in Self-Immolation Protest - VOA News
• UN holds China accountable for forced resettlement of Tibetan nomads - freetibet.org
• China: Immolations are Terrorism in Disguise - SkyNews

• Facebook, China Have Much in Common - Bloomberg
• Self-immolation Shadow over China's Two Sessions - TCHRD
• Tibet immolations 'will not stop development - BBC
• Free Tibet refutes China’s claim that self-immolations “orchestrated” - FreeTibet

• China needs to match words with actions - AFP
• The Buddha and the tigress - The Economist

• Security Forces Kill at Least 5 in China - NY Times
• At panel talks, Hu stresses Tibet stability - China Daily
• China Drops Plan to Legalize Secret Detentions - VOA News
• Carr's Challenge on Tibet - ABC
• China's got the whole world in its hands - The Telegraph
• Fire on the Mountain - Foreign Policy
• Tibet protests hit China on anniversary - AFP
• Tibetan Monk Self-Immolates in Rebkong, Thousands Gather to Pray and Protest - VOA
• China passes new law allowing secret detentions - CNN
• Wen Warns China Over Reform - RFA

• Four Tibetan Environmental Activists Arrested in Tawu - TCHRD
• China: Tibetan Monasteries Placed Under Direct Rule - Human Rights Watch
• Tensions escalate in Qinghai: Rebkong self-immolation, student protest, monks commemorate March 10 - ICT
• Self-immolations issue: Tibetan parliamentarians start session wearing black ribbons - Times of India
• Nepal clamps down on protests by Tibetans - Hindustan Times
• Language Policy Comes Under Scrutiny - Radio Free Asia
• Tibetans protest after monk sets himself on fire in China - Tibet
• Self-Immolations in Tibetan Areas of China Making Situation More Delicate - VOA News

• Four years on, wife calls for Tibetan filmmaker's release - CPJ
• Dying as a political act: Centuries-old Buddhist tradition of self-immolation continues in China - National Post
• Tibetans Protest in Northwest China - NY Times
• Another Tibetan Self-Immolates in China Protest - VOA

• Change is coming to China – but will Beijing lead a social revolution? - Guardian

• Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do) - Int’l Herald Tribune
• Dalai’s incarnation critical for Tibet’s future - Global Times
• Clampdown urged on 'migrant monks' - SCMP
• Protests continue in Tibet: Two thousand Tibetans fill streets in Malho - Phayul
• Tibetans Injured in Grenade Attack - Radio Free Asia
• Tibetan protests: Qinghai immolation sparks mass protest - BBC
• Thousands Mourn Tibetan Self-Immolator in China - VOA News
• Ten Tibetans Missing After Drango Crackdown - TCHRD
• Dalai Lama Says He’d ‘Welcome’ Investigation of Tibetan Self-Immolations - WSJ

• Tibetan Monk Dies Days after Self-immolation - TCHRD
• Tibetan Monks Stage Protest March - RFA
• Horrific anti-China protests become Tibet's norm - AP
• Abbot 'Disappeared', Sister Dies Amid Widening Crackdown in Zatoe - TCHRD

• Ad Touting Freedom in Tibet Outrages Rights Advocates - Epoch Times
• Why are Tibetans burning themselves to death? - Ch 4 News
• Tibetan Self-Immolations Rise as China Tightens Grip - NY Times

• Why do we continue to ignore China's rise? Arrogance - The Observer
• Twelve Known Tibetans Missing After Drango Crackdown - TCHRD
• Authorities tighten controls on a Tibetan township in China's southwestern Sichuan province - RFA
• China: Dalai Lama Behind Self-Immolation Protests - AP

• House Arrest For All Tibetans Till March 31 - Hindustan Times
• One Tibetan woman's tragic path to self-immolation - The Guardian
• Tibetan separatist efforts will fail: official - China Daily
• Another Self-immolation Death in Ngaba - TCHRD
• Tibet wants the international community's help - Georgia Straight
• Tibetan who Self Immolated in Delhi India Dies - RTYC
• Jamphel Yeshi, self-immolating Tibetan, left letter before death: activists - Tibet