When more and more exiles trickled into the Darjeeling region, reportedly there were amnemities between some newly arrivals, causing the simultanious existence of two “Freedom“-newspapers in Darjeeling. Funded by Gyalo Thondup’s secretary Lhamo Tsering, this newspaper gave employment to former guerilla soldiers coming down from Tibet. Much more than Freedom, it focused on the fighting happening on the plateau.
Defend Tibet’s Freedom, རང་དབང་སྲུང་སྐྱོབས་གསར་ཤོག
First issue of Rang dbang srung skyobs gsar shog. July 31, 1963. South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Library of the University of Vienna.
[…] exile newspaper emerged out of the two parallel publications Freedom and Defend Tibet’s Freedom. When the Dalai Lama intervened in 1965, both publications were merged. It first came out on March […]
[…] newspaper. Main initiator was Gyalo Thondup’s secretary Lhamo Tsering, who was also behind Defend Tibet’s Freedom (རང་དབང་སྲུང་སྐྱོབས་གསར་ཤོག་). It was […]