Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently arrived back in Dharamshala after an extensive fifteen-day visit to Europe which covered Italy, England and Scotland. While there he met British royalty, European celebrities and another global human rights superstar-Aung San Suu Kyi.

Dharamshala: In 2011, the spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama reiterated his belief that China is committing a form of 'cultural genocide'* in Tibet: consciously, deliberately and with intent. However, totaliatarian states, or even democratic ones for that matter, rarely signal their intent to commit genocide-cultural, economic or otherwise in actual overt policies.

Dharamshala: Gabriel Lafitte is a development policiy consultant to the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, northern India. Here he considers China's attempts to erode Tibetan cultural indentity.