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International Campaign for Tibet on Monday said that US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya Dharamsala, India visit is crucial in highlighting th
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The news of a young man self-immolating has the potential to stir up controversies at a global level, especially when the act in itself was a call for attention towards the repression of one nation by the other, but the news of Shurmo, a 26-year old man from Tibet, stayed underground for more than five years.
This is what happened in Chinese-occupied Tibet. Although there were many Tibetan eyewitnesses to Shurmo’s self-immolation that day yet because of the Chinese government’s extreme, heinous and draconian rules and policies, which censor press and the Internet in Tibet, the news of this unfortunate event failed to surface on the Internet and otherwise at the time it happened.
The United States will continue to press for talks between Beijing and representatives of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on meaningful autonomy for Tibetans and greater protections for their rights, the US State Department says.