Tibetan Refugees on Indo-China Border Recall How Chinese Regime Pushed Them Out

U.S. State Department has first meeting with Tibet government-in-exile

Tibetan refugees, Lobsang Tempa, 91 (L) and Kalsang Lhamo, 85 (R) in the refugee colony of Agling in Leh in India on Oct. 18, 2020. Venus Upadhayaya/Epoch Times

LEH, India—The United States recently took an unprecedented step in calling attention to human rights in Tibet.

In the first meeting between Tibet’s exiled government and the U.S. State Department, the State Department’s recently appointed special coordinator for Tibetan issues, Robert Destro, met for formal talks on Oct. 15 in Washington with Tibet’s president-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, to address the “dire human rights issues” suffered by Tibetans at the hands of the Chinese regime.