Chennai: The "Flame of Truth" relay, which was launched from Kochi made its journey to Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu and reached the city on the morning of 7th July. At the beginning Mr. Karma Yeshi, Member of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, who accompanied the torch, addressed the media in attendance. He elucidated about the campaign in English while a local woman of Tibetan origin, translated the same, in Tamil.

Twenty-three years ago, on 4th June 1989 at about 5 am, Chinese army tanks rolled into Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds of demonstrators, possibly more than a thousand, were killed and thousands were shot and wounded.

Dharamsala, May 31^st, 2012: Tibet Women's Association (TWA) grieves the death of Rikyo (aged 36), mother of three children who died after setting herself alight outside the Jonang Dzamthang monastery in the town of Barma, in Dzamthang in Amdo Ngaba on May 30. It marks the 6^thth case since 2009 and 25th since January 2012.

It's 99 years since Tibet's last proclaimation of independence, and since the Chinese occupation has denied the Tibetan people the right to express their views on their nation, the 1913 proclaimation remains the last legitimate statement of Tibet's status.