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CHINA: Public Frustration Over Denial of Basic Rights and Freedoms, Magnified by a Lack of Rule of Law

Salem-News.com Eye on the World Report.

(SAYDABAD, Bangladesh) - Public frustration in China over the government’s denial of basic rights and freedoms, magnified by a lack of rule of law....

Our goal with Eye on the World is to illustrate and highlight politically oriented problems and tragedies that traditional media channels don't have time or interest in covering.

Tibetan self-immolations - the most `underreported` story of 2011

“Not so the despair of many Tibetans at their plight under Chinese rule, now in its seventh decade” - TIME magazine

(DHARAMSHALA, Tibet) - An agony that many Tibetan and Tibet supporters continue to suffer, following the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet, has now come to the fore of international media.

The Himalayas-Once Moaning, now Groaning

Analyzing militarization and exploitation of natural resources in this mystic place.

(PALAMPUR, Himachal Pradesh, India) - The Himalayas are being pounded again. Timber was stolen first; medicinal and aromatic herbs next.

Now power projects are stealing water, life line for 30 million mountain folks and 3 billion in the Himalayan-water-dependent nations, as far as Vietnam.

Leading Tibetan Blogger Arrested by Chinese Security Police (VIDEO)

Jamyang Kyi is also a singer and songwriter and has released several well-received albums.

(KATHMANDU, Tibet) - Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a leading Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer in the midst of a major crackdown on anti-Chinese protests in the region, Radio Free Asia reports.

Plainclothes state security officers escorted Jamyang Kyi from her office at state-owned Qinghai TV on April 1st, an authoritative source told RFA’s Tibetan service. "She never returned," a source in Siling [in Chinese, Xining] said.

Fresh Protest Reported in Tibetan Capital

The March 29th protest coincided with a day-long visit to Lhasa by foreign diplomats, who came at the invitation of Chinese authorities.

(KATHMANDU, Tibet) - Witnesses in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, say fresh protests erupted there Saturday afternoon despite a massive Chinese police and paramilitary presence, Radio Free Asia reports.

Witnesses told RFA's Tibetan service that several hundred Tibetans rallied around 2:00 PM on March 29th, beginning in the area near Center Beijing Road. Shops near the central post office on Lhasa Youth Road were closed, as security forces surrounded the Tibetan residential areas in Barkhor, Kama Kunsang, Ramoche, and the Jokhang temple.

Tibetans March For Talks With Dalai Lama

Even former top Communist Party aide Bao Tong in Chechnya says the Dalai Lama is the only Tibetan leader with the ability to bring about a conciliatory agreement.

(KATHMANDU, Tibet) - Tibetans in western China staged protests this week calling on Chinese leaders to open a dialogue with their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

An 18-year old monk died after nuns, monks and local Tibetan farmers clashed with armed police in Karze (in Chinese, Ganzi) prefecture in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, with dozens of detentions in the wake of protests in the area, Tibetan sources in India said.