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Growing up in the Tibetan refugee settlement of Mundgod in southern India, Ngawang Choephel was enthralled by the music of the land he had left behind. He had fled in 1968, when his mother Sonam Dekyi carried the two-year-old Choephel on her back through the Himalayas to India, and he found that traditional music was just about the only link he had to home. As a teen, he made a dranyan (a six-stringed lute) from a gourd and fishing line and taught himself to play. In 1992, after graduating from the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts...
...still being held in a remote prison, reportedly in failing health, and his plight has moved off the political front burner. Now that China has landed the 2008 Olympics, the West may have run out of carrots. "It is six years since my son was put in jail," says Dekyi, now 67. "And no one has done anything...
...Dekyi has been allowed to see her son only once since his imprisonment. She maintains a daily public vigil on the streets of New Delhi, India, handing out petitions. "My only hope is to get my son released," she says, with tears flooding down her face. "That is my life. If the Chinese do not release my son, I shall make sure I die in front of their embassy...
Prior to her tour of the United States, which was co-sponsored by Amnesty International, Dekyi sat on the streets of Delhi passing out pamphlets to draw international attention to her son's plight...
...have great hopes in the people of the United States and especially the students of the United States," said Dekyi. She asked the audience to write to the United States government to put pressure on the Chinese government to release...