How Beijing’s 1995 Disappearance of the Panchen Lama Enabled Crimes Against Humanity

30 years ago, China let a then six-year-old disappear in order to better control Tibet. An expert explains what is behind it.

HRW urges China to release 11th Panchen Lama, calls on ‘concerned parties’ to assert Tibetan rights

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged China to free the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choki Nyima, and his parents, who were removed from public view in 1995 and have remained missing ever since. As the 30th anniversary of their disappearance approaches on Saturday, human rights advocates have intensified pressure on Beijing to end decades of secrecy and take accountability for the Panchen Lama and his family. There is still some doubt over whether N…

How Beijing’s 1995 Disappearance of the Panchen Lama Enabled Crimes Against Humanity

China weathered no consequences for abducting a 6-year-old in 1995. That same impunity continues to fuel collective punishment, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention.

On May 17 the anniversary of the abduction by the Chinese authorities of the child designated as reincarnation of the second Tibetan authority is celebrated. A story that the imminent ninetieth birthday of the Dalai Lama relates to the concerns about interference in the succession. Meanwhile, Tibet Radio was born in exile, to fill the void left by the chipusury of programs in Tibetan language of Radio Free Asia and Voice of America.

Buddhist nations urged to speak up ahead of China’s 30-year Panchen Lama abduction, disappearance - Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, May15’25) – Human Rights Watch has on May 15 reiterated its call on China to release the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his parents, ahead of the completion of 30 years since it abducted them on May 17, 1995. The New York-based international rights group said the issue had become all the […]