On April 27, a group of 80 Tibetans from the neighboring Golog prefecture went to Ngaba in about 40 vehicles to show support for relatives enrolled as monks in the monastery, a Tibetan living in Ngaba said, speaking on condition of anonymity.“When they had traveled as far as the Gyatoe subdistrict in Upper Ngaba, Chinese security forces detained them,” he said.“Many of those Tibetans come from Chigdril [in Chinese, Jiuzhi] county, and are worried about their relatives at Kirti monastery. They have received no information about their present condition,” he said.

The toxic effluent produced by rampant mining of a gold reserve near a sacred mountain in Rebkong in northeastern Tibet continues to pollute a river flowing out of it.The waste generated from the gold mining activities are being openly dumped on the pastures with least concerns. The effluents are discharged directly into the Gu- Chu river harming both the people and animals alike.The local residents have repeatedly filed numerous grievances and complains against the gold miners, to the local authority offices to the central government, but all in vain.

Lobsang Sangay to succeed Samdhong Rinpoche as the next Tibetan PM.Lobsang Sangay, a research fellow at the Harvard Law School, will be the next Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government in exile.The Election Commissioner Jampal Chosang today announced Lobsang's victory in the polls held on March 20, 2011. The Election Commissioner also announced the results of the polls for 15th Tibetan Parliament in exile :

U-Tsang Province

Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, Pema Jungney, Sharling Tenzin Dadon,Geshe Kelsang Damdul,Karma Yeshi,Dawa Tsering,Dolma Tsering,Bhumo Tsering

Do-Toe Province

We, the monks at Kirti Jeypa Monastery, in Dharamsala North India, and Sukhe Kirti Monastery in Darjeeling, are organising an all monk Peace March from Dharamsala to Delhi. This march is aimed to express support to our bretherens and fellow monks in Kirti Monastery in Ngaba,Tibet.Through this march, we are putting forward three point demands to the international community and the Chinese governement:

To protest the ongoing lockdown of Kirti Monastery and brutal crackdown on people of Ngaba, Tibet including monks, Tibetan Youth Congress today launched an Indefinite Hunger Strike at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.This fast is participated by three executive members of Tibetan Youth Congress - Dhondup Lhadar (Vice President), Tenzin Norsang (Joint Secretary) and Konchok Yangphel (Finance Secretary).Tsewang Rigzin, President of the Tibetan Youth Congress said at the start of the hunger strike that, “the continuing siege of Kirti Monastery, kidnapping of over 300 monks and killing of three elderly Ti

The monks at Kirti monastery in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture had resisted a forced campaign of “political re-education” following the March 17 self-immolation death of a monk protesting Beijing’s rule in the area.“On April 21, at about 9 p.m., armed security personnel and a special police unit were deployed at the monastery,” said Kanyag Tsering and Lobsang Yeshe, monks at Kirti monastery’s branch monastery in India, citing sources in the Ngaba region.“They went to every room and detained more than 300 monks and put them into more than 10 large buses.”

Chinese authorities have detained and tortured Tibetan monks amid a siege of a major monastery there, according to exile sources.Tensions have been running high at the besieged monastery of Kirti , which is home to some 2,500 Tibetan monks who say they are now running out of food.The siege of the monastery was sparked by the death of a monk last month in a self-immolation protest against Beijing's rule.A number of detentions, beatings, and attacks on unarmed local people with trained police dogs have been reported since.Exile sources now say that Chinese authorities are increasing the pressure

A Video of unrest at a Tibetan monastery in China where a monk burnt himself to death has surfaced, with overseas activists saying it refutes Chinese government claims that the situation there is normal.The video obtained by the Voice of America's Tibetan service and posted on its website appears to show heavy security patrolling around the Kirti monastery in a Tibetan region of south-western China's Sichuan province.A monk in his early 20s identified as Phuntsog set himself on fire in Kirti on March 16 to mark the third anniversary of violent Tibetan riots against Chinese rule, triggering the

On the 3rd anniversary of the Historic Uprising of 2008 in Ngaba, Tibet against the continuing illegal occupation of Tibet and oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese government, Phuntsok, a 20 year old monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, Tibet, self-immolated on March 16th 2011.This sacrifice has unmasked the true face of the illegal Communist Chinese regime and thus the Chinese government has launched the so called “patriotic re-education” campaign and deployed hundreds of military personnel in and around Kirti Monastery.

In Gansu, a siege was under way at a middle school where students demonstrated in November in support of continued Tibetan-language classes.Gonpo, a researcher at Dharamsala's Norbulingka Institute, said that security had been stepped up outside a Tibetan high school in Machu township in the remote western province of Gansu."I heard the armed police were still outside [the school] in Machu," Gonpo said."The school was closed for a few days. When they came back to class, the students were confined in the courtyard of the school and prevented from leaving [campus]."

Dechen Wangmo was re-arrested last Wednesday, 9 days after her release from prison for receiving warm welcome at her village.Wangmo's brother Dawa Phuntsok told VOA Tibetan Service that Wangmo received a heroic welcome from about 400 local people as arrived at her village near Kardzi on April 6 after her release from prison.Chinese authorities had re-arrested Wangmo two days after her arrival at her village. Her cousin Rinchen Sangmo was also arrested for her participation in welcoming Wangmo back to their village.

Tibetans have resisted what they believed to be an attempt by Chinese security forces to remove monks from a restive monastery and jail them in another location.Security has been tight around Kirti monastery in Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture after one of its monks died on March 17 after setting himself on fire in protest at Chinese rule in Tibet."On April 11, members of the public gathered outside Kirti monastery," said Kanyag Tsering and Lobsang Yeshe, Tibetan monks living in India and citing sources in the region.When a large group of Chinese People's Armed Police approached the monaste

Since the self-immolation of Phuntsok on 16 March 2011 at Ngaba County, Sichuan, coinciding with third anniversary of the 2008 uprising in Tibet and to protest against continued repression by Chinese authorities in Tibet, the situation has aggravated at Ngaba Kirti Monastery – the monastery to which Phuntsok was affiliated. According to latest confirmed information, Chinese security forces have cordoned the monastery and additional contingents of armed security forces (estimated to be around 800) have been brought in on 9 April 2011 to reinforce security clampdown in Ngaba County.The movement

Approximately 200 people held a candlelight vigil at the main Tibetan Temple in Dharamshala to pay their homage to the late Jamyang Jinpa, a 37 year old monk of Labrang Monastery.Jamyang Jinpa died April 3, presumably as a tragic result of prison and police brutality after his detention on April 9 2008.After a protest march around the streets of McLeod Ganj, lead by monks carrying the picture of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan flag and a banner reading "we have no freedom of speech", the candlelight bearing attendees gathered at the main Tibetan Temple where a series of speeches were