30th Birthday of Tibet’s Missing Panchen Lama Marked With Calls For His Freedom

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30th Birthday of Tibet’s Missing Panchen Lama Marked With Calls For His Freedom


An RFA cartoonist's rendition of what the 11th Panchen Lama, last seen in 1995 when he was six years old, might look like on his 30th birthday, April 25, 2019.

Tibetans around the world, their supporters and religious freedom advocates marked the 30th birthday of the Panchen Lama with marches and calls on China to release the  the second most well-known religious figure in Tibet.

On May 14, 1995, Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, recognized six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th Panchen Lama and three days later, Chinese authorities took him and his family away, installing another boy in his place. He was for years considered the world’s youngest political prisoner.

The religious leader’s whereabouts and condition remain unknown and he has not been seen in public since his disappearance.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/panchen-lama-04252019181902.html