Tibetan Uprising Day in Manchester Sunday March 10th 2013

This will be a peaceful candlelight protest in memory of the Tibetan Martyrs who have died at the hands of the Chinese Communist Government in Tibet. It will also be an opportunity to raise awareness of what's going on out there in Tibet 'Now Known under Communist Rule as 'The Chinese Autonomous Region of Tibet'
Some Background Info:
Since 1959 the Chinese Communist party or CCP have had control of Tibet and over time it has become a criminal offence for Tibetans to speak their own language, practice Tibetan Buddhism or Possess anything relating to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

News on Tibet..........

DHARAMSHALA, March 5: Beijing based Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser has dedicated her International Women’s Courage Award to Tibetan self-immolators, numbering over 100, who have set themselves on fire protesting China’s occupation.

Writing to Phayul, Woeser, 44, who is currently under house arrest due to heightened security restrictions following China’s parliamentary session, said the recognition by the United States government gives her “mixed feelings.”

Another Self Immolation in Tibet!!!

In order to protest against the failed policy of Chinese government in Tibet a man called Tandingthar forty in age from Xonglu village of Chentsa county in Amdo province self immolated at 6;30 Tibet time this morning in front of the main police office in the region.

Sorry We are Now Closed!

Chinese authorities have closed Tibet to visitors following the 2 recent

Self- immolations  In  Lhasa Tibet's capital.

 It is the start of a major festival that traditionally sees tourists

flock to the Himalayan region which has been under tight security

 since March 2008 due to the protests against Chinese barbaric

 treatment of Tibetans.

Many travel agencies said they were told in May that travellers from

 Overseas would not be allowed into Tibet and said they were

clueless about how long the ban would last.

"The tourism bureau asked us to stop organising foreign groups to Tibet

 in late May.

We don't know when they will lift the ban," an employee at the Tibet China

International Tour Service told AFP.

The festival traditionally sees Buddhist pilgrims flock to Tibet