Lobsang Sangay, the president of the Central Tibetan Administration, speaks during a gathering to mark the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Lhasa, in Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Hundreds of Tibetans had staged a protest in 1959 in the Tibetan capital Lhasa against China's rule. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
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The six million Tibetans suffering Beijing’s relentless repression inside Tibet, and the Tibetans living in forced exile in India and across the world, led by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, have had but scant hope for preserving their identity.
Yet, the most recent illustration of political support from one of the world’s leading free democracies lends a measure of optimism. It comes in form of the April 27, 2021, virtual meeting between the All-Party Japanese Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet, which reports say congratulated the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) president, Lobsang Sangay, on the completion of his two-year tenure as