Human Rights Update 2011 – Febuary
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
Protecting Tibetan Rights and Freedoms
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Three Lives and A Song: Disappearance of Panchen Lama
Today marks the 18th year of Tibet’s XIth Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima’s disappearance into Chinese custody. One of the most important spiritual leaders of Tibet, the then six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his family members were ‘disappeared’ by the Chinese authorities on 17 May 1995, just three days after His Holiness the Dalai Lama [...]