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A mother of four dies in latest self-immolation protest in Tibet

Phayul.com

DHARAMSHALA, March 4: In confirmed reports coming out of Tibet, a Tibetan mother of four passed away after setting her body on fire demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet.

The self-immolation occurred in the beleaguered Ngaba region of eastern Tibet at around 6.30 a.m. (local time) today.

Groups demand China stop repression of minorities

Taipei Times

Human rights advocates yesterday called on Beijing to stop the repression of people in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, and blamed the recent cases of self-immolation by Tibetans and ethnic conflict in Xinjiang on the Chinese government.

“The situation in Tibet and East Turkestan [another name for Xinjiang] is becoming critical as 25 people have set themselves on fire in Tibet since March last year — of which 15 have died — and there have been violent clashes between Uighurs and Chinese in East Turkestan,” Taiwan Friends of Tibet chairperson Chow Mei-li (周美里) told a press conference.

A fuller perspective on 228 needed

Jolan Hsieh 謝若蘭

The history of the 228 Incident is a bloody one. Irrespective of the controversies that surround it, it may serve as a lesson for later generations. More importantly, it is Taiwan’s most precious collective memory and historical asset. The sad thing is that each year around the anniversary of the Incident, as the subject is once more brought to the fore, it is often presented as a matter solely involving ethnic Taiwanese — Han Chinese whose ancestors moved to Taiwan prior to 1945, or the arrival of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) — and Mainlanders (Han Chinese who moved to Taiwan after 1945). Discussion of the 228 Incident is often no more than a war of words between different party ideologies.

Ma Ying-jeou, the Phony Pony President of Taiwan, Caves Again!

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

Did I call it, or did I call it? Scroll back down on the listings to February 3rd when I predicted that the Ma government would waffle on the US beef issue. Even now, before the perfunctory excuses and "proper examination" of the appropriate health departments have even started, US beef is already coming into the country. One wonders how anyone can believe anything that comes out of the Ma government.

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