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Tibetan exiles around the world and their supporters plan to use YouTube to commemorate "global uprising day" this Saturday, March 10.

More than 1.2 million Tibetans have since died as a result of the occupation, according to the Tibetan Government in Exile.

The president of Students for a Free Tibet is in Beijing right now, exactly one year ahead of the 2008 Olympics, vlogging and blogging about Tibetan sovereignty and being a general pain in the ass to the Chinese government.

Lhadon Tethong's liveblogging experiment is incredibly ballsy or incredibly foolhardy, depending on how you look at it.

From Beijing's white paper:

"Before 1959 the 14th Dalai Lama, as a leader of Tibetan Buddhism and also head of the Tibetan local government, monopolized both political and religious power."

Sounds familiar. Anything else?

Radio Free Asia reports that a Tibetan monk in Sichuan has been arrested and faces eight years in prison for distributing Tibetan independence information.

Two envoys of the Dalai Lama headed Thursday to the Chinese capital for fresh talks arranged just days after the exiled leader suggested it was time Tibetans rethink their strategy for engaging with China, a Tibetan official said.

BEIJING - Chinese state media accused the Dalai Lama on Sunday of closing the door to talks over Tibet's future, an apparent response to rising international calls for Beijing to negotiate with Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader.

In a lengthy article, Xinhua News Agency cited past actions and statements attributed to the 72-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner that it said contradicted or undermined his calls for negotiations.

"It was the Dalai Lama clique that closed the door of dialogue," Xinhua said, using China's standard term for the Tibetan government-in-exile.

The future course of the Tibetan movement, including the possibility of an historic switch from demanding autonomy to a demand for full independence, will be the focus of a special meeting next month of around 300 delegates representing the worldwide exiled Tibetan community.

Tibet reopened to tourists Wednesday, three months after the Chinese government banned visits by foreigners after violent anti-government riots and protests. Officials from the Tibetan Tourism Bureau say the first group of foreign tourists, from Sweden, arrived at the Lhasa airport on Wednesday morning. China threw a curtain around Tibet and areas in nearby provinces with sizable Tibetan populations after the March violence, citing the safety of foreign tourists and journalists.

Just when we thought China was becoming more, shall we say, civilized, this video is put up on Youtube of Chinese soldiers shooting Tibetan pilgrims on their way to see the Dalai Lama.

It has English commentary with Japanese ....