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Exquisite Proportionality. Why China Frets Tibetan Language Classes?



2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

March 5: St Piran’s Day, Cornwall national day

1991 March 5: Kurdish National Uprising in Iraq

1957 March 6: Ghana, 1st sub-Saharan African country to become independent from colonial rule

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

1959 March 10: Tibetan National Uprising Day

1990 March 11: Day of Re-Establishment of Lithuania’s Independence

1968 March 12: Mauritius Independence Day

2005 March 13: Tunisian National Day of Internet Freedom

1855 March 14: International Circassian Language Day

1801 March 14: Mother Tongue Day in Estonia

2008 March 14: Tibetan Unrest

1848 March 15: Hungarian Revolution of 1848

1988 March 16: Halabja Massacre, Kurdistan

461 March 17: Saint Patrick’s Day, Ireland

1956 March 20: Tunisia Independence day

1990 March 21: Namibia Independence Day

1992 March 21: Tatarstan Sovereignty Referendum

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No matter your skin colour, all non-Indigenous Australians are complicit in colonialism

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Greek prosecutors charge 20 over deadly wildfire in Mati

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Adivasis accuse Maoists of extortion

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Make St Piran’s Day a holiday in Cornwall say public

Welsh-language children’s literature festival to hit Cardiff

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Growing Irish language sector targeting teachers

Unionists blast council decision to light up building for Irish language act

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Latvia: May 13 will become “State Language Day” next year

Students learn Inuvialuktun with puppets that don’t speak English

In Year of Indigenous Languages, Norway sends song with Sami joik to Eurovison Song Contest

Lapland’s indigenous Sámi score victory in fishing dispute

Why is China so terrified of Tibetan language classes?

20th year of raising the Tibetan national flag in Northampton

Tibetan community to mark 60th anniversary of uprising with march, flag-raising

2019 Tibetan Youth Leadership Program in Washington, DC

Tibetans Restricted in Sichuan, Gansu Ahead of Uprising Anniversary

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Former Spanish security secretary says ‘minimum force’ used in Catalan indyref

‘Exquisite proportionality’: Coordinator of 2017 referendum police crackdown testifies

Catalan speaker: “We will never give up on the will to decide our own future”

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