By Khedroob Thondup

The Tibetan struggle has always been about survival — of a people, a culture, and a land. Today, that struggle is not only political but ecological. The repression inside Tibet is inseparable from the disastrous environmental degradation unfolding across the plateau. Mining projects gouge sacred mountains, dams choke rivers, and global warming accelerates the melting of glaciers that sustain Asia’s water systems. The Tibetan diaspora must bring these realities to the world’s attention, because silence is complicity.

Repression and Silencing of Tibetans. Inside Tibet, repression is not abstract. Surveillance, arbitrary arrests, and restrictions on religion and language suffocate daily life. Tibetans cannot freely speak about the destruction of their environment or the erosion of their culture. The diaspora, therefore, carries the responsibility of being the voice of the silenced. Advocacy abroad is not o...