1. For more details refer Chapter on Political Freedoms

2. Xinhua, 27 June 2001 (16 July 1999).

3. Xinhua, 16 October 2001

4. TCHRD Interview 5/415, 27 July 2001

5. For details refer Chapter on Political Freedoms

6. See Case Study, Appendix

7. TCHRD Human Rights Update, “Escape to avoid arrest for independence posters” at www.tchrd.org/hrupdate/2001/20103.html March 2001.

8. For more details refer Chapter on The Right to Education

9. For more details refer Chapter the Chapter on Freedom of Religious Belief and Practice

10. TCHRD Interview 4/368, 1 January 2001

11. For more details refer Chapter on The Right to Livelihood

12. U.S. Committee for Refugees, Annual Report, 1999

13. See Case Study, Appendix

14. See Case Study, Appendix

15. Office of Tibet, State of Tibetan Refugees in Nepal, 1999, Brochure, 1999

16. Tapan K Bose Protection of Refugees in South Asia : Need for legal Framework p 39

17. See Case Study, Appendix

18. See Case Study, Appendix

19. See Case Study, Appendix

20. TIN News Update, “Tibetans sent back across the border as pressure increases on Nepal”, 20 December 2000

21. TIN News Update, “New increases in deportations of Tibetans from Nepal”, 24 December 2001

22. ibid

23. TCHRD Interview, December 2001

24. TIN News Update, 24 December 2001