Thursday, May 26, 2011

Do Tibetans Benefit from “Comfortable Housing”? By Woeser

Photo taken in July 2007 in Yushu, Qinghai Province.
Under construction is the village for "ecological migrants" but should be called a "new urban slum".
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on May 4, 2011 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on May 9, 2011.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

"Jampel! Jampel!" Memorial Show in Lhasa for Late Tibetan Artist Jampel

A memorial show was held by the Gedun Choephel Artists' Guild in Lhasa on May 15, 2011 to commemorate the passing of young Tibetan artist Jampel (Full name, Choenyi Jampel).


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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

"Kirti Monastery Facing A Great Disaster" By Woeser

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on April 19, 2011 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on April 27, 2011.

The unrest in Ngaba, Eastern Tibet, the subject of this blogpost, has been ongoing since the self-immolation of young monk, Phuntsog, from Kirti Monastery - on whom Woeser wrote in a previous blogpost. Woeser also wrote a poem dedicated to another Kirti monk who was detained on March 25, 2011, in Beijing. In this blogpost, Woeser also remembers another monk from Amdo's Labrang Monastery, Jamyang Jinpa, who died on April 3, 2011, due to torture in detention following his protest in front of foreign journalists at his monastery in April 2008.

The most recent report from Ngaba was released two days ago by International Campaign for Tibet, to read, follow the link.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

"Why Was the Documentary To Commemorate the Yushu Earthquake Banned?" By Woeser


High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on April 7, 2011 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and posted on her blog on April 14, 2011, the one year anniversary of the Yushu earthquake. 
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Monday, May 2, 2011

"The Ten Greatest Tibetan Swindlers" By Penpa Tashi


High Peaks Pure Earth has been following a blogpost titled "The Ten Greatest Tibetan Swindlers" that was originally posted on Penpa Tashi's TibetCul blog on October 1, 2010. For unclear reasons, the original post on http://penpatashi.tibetcul.com/107391.html is no longer accessible (the rest of the blog is unaffected), it was either removed by the author or removed by the TibetCul administrators.
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