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Advertisement US broadcaster denies China’s allegations of “encouraging” Tibet immolations

A screen grab of Tibetan nun Palden Choetso's self-immolation protest on November 3, 2012 in Tawu, eastern Tibet.
A screen grab of Tibetan nun Palden Choetso's self-immolation protest on November 3, 2012 in Tawu, eastern Tibet.

DHARAMSHALA, February 7: A major US based broadcaster, which has a widely followed Tibetan language section, has denied Chinese allegations of their involvement in encouraging Tibetan protesters to set themselves on fire.

Voice of America Director David Ensor in a release Wednesday said the allegations were “totally false,” while noting that the self-immolations are “tragic and a sign of distress in Tibet.” He further called on China Daily and CCTV to “retract their stories.”

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Three Tibetan films to feature at human rights film festival

DHARAMSHALA, February 6: A film festival on the state of global human rights, currently underway in Oslo, Norway will be focusing on Tibet with the screening of three prominent Tibetan documentaries.

The Human Rights Human Wrongs Documentary Film Festival from February 5-10, will feature “exceptional films, talks and debates about the current state of Human Rights and human rights filmmaking in Norway and the world.”

In its fifth edition, this year the Festival’s topics are “Outcasts, Freedom of Expression, Protest Movements and Payback/ Economic Injustice.”

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Former Democratic Progressive Party chairman Lin Yi-xiong closes his eyes at Taipei’s Gikong Presbyterian Church yesterday as he begins a hunger strike he intends to sustain until construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant is halted.
Photo: CNA

Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Lin Yi-xiong (林義雄) yesterday began a hunger strike at Taipei’s Gikong Presbyterian Church to demand that the government halt the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮), saying that the President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administration’s pledge that the plant would be safe was “a trick to fool the public.”

“So-called nuclear safety is questionable because even if the plant was completed and became operational, unassailable damage could still take place in the event of a natural disaster or human error,” Lin said.