Wikio - Kham

China May Have Killed 140 Tibetans This Week (Dispel the Illusion)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Chinese security forces opened fire on a crowd this week in eastern Tibet and may have killed 140 people, the Dalai Lama told a French daily on Thursday. "The Chinese army again fired on a crowd on Monday August 18, in the Kham region in eastern Tibet," he told Le Monde. "One hundred and forty Tibetans are reported to have been killed, but the figure needs to be confirmed."...

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Kham and Amdo Update in Tibet - Chamdo, China (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:43:33 GMT

I Lefy My Foot Every Corner in Tibet

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China’s Olympic torch arrives in Tibet (Tibet Will Be Free)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:04:59 GMT

***To understand why this nun’s photo is here please read to the end of this post. The Chinese authorities took the Olympic torch into Tibet today. It was paraded through a town in Gyalthang, an Eastern Tibetan area of Kham now administered under China’s Yunnan province. According to a Reuters article, “Olympic torch arrives in Tibetan [...]

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Tibet: More than 80 nuns detained after peaceful protests continue in Kham (YubaNet.com)

Sat, 31 May 2008 16:05:50 GMT

Tibetan nuns have taken a leading role in dissent in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham) with two further peaceful protests on Wednesday (May 28) and at least six more separate protests since more than 50 nuns were detained after a bold demonstration on May 14. More than 80 nuns have now been detained in the unrest...

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Biography of Marcher: Gedun Gyatso (Tibet Will Be Free)

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:35:02 GMT

Gedun Gyatso, 27, grew up in the idyllic village of Podma in the Kham province of Tibet. He would spend his summers at the top of a mountain with five others young men protecting the village yaks from wolves and foxes with stones and slings. Gedun learned about Tibetan culture and history from his grandfather [...]

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Biography of Marcher: Tenpa (Tibet Will Be Free)

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:17:31 GMT

In 1959, Tenpa, the son of semi-nomadic farmers from Kham Dege, Tibet, heard of the danger to the His Holiness the Dalai Lama and left his home in the dead of night to travel to Lhasa. He never saw his mother again and twenty-five years passed before he reunited with his father in Karnataka, India. [...]

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The Uprising continues (Tibet Will Be Free)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:15:36 GMT

Protests erupted in Eastern Tibet today in Machu, Luchu and Aba in what China calls Sichuan province but is actually the Tibetan province of Kham. And yesterday demonstrations were reported in Lithang and Sershul in Kham and at Samye monastery, south of Lhasa. Monks from Kirti monastery in Amdo also took to the streets along [...]

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Tibet roundup: 16/3 (Blood & Treasure)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:24:40 GMT

Radio Free Asia reporting that Lhasa is now under effective lockdown, protests spread to Lanzhou and the Kham regions of Western Sichuan. Nomads! “On March 15, there were two demonstrations in the Lithang area. During the morning, the nomads from...

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