Crucial to such an agreement, the activists said, are the end of military repression and recognition by the central government of the region's distinct cultural heritage.
Before his suicide on Monday morning, Tsewang Norbu reportedly handed out leaflets demanding the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader, and calling for an end of the repression that has intensified in the area since the clashes at Kirti Monastery.
But its sweep is impressive, even if its detail on the twists of contemporary thought give rise to footnotes that take up more than a quarter of the pages.So what is left, given that society now takes for granted the rights of women, the end of sexual repression and the mixing of the sexes in all sorts of organisation from school to the workplace?
To have what some consider to be one of the most emotional and widespread appeals by Chinese citizens for the end of government repression of the internet and its netizens winning a public award marks an incredible milestone in Chinese media.
Many church groups, labor unions, universities, and other organizations within Europe and the United States are now calling for BDS and for further actions and demonstrations to force the end of Israeli repression and human rights abuses.
The Kurds have replaced their demands for independence with the more practical goals of autonomy, native-language instruction in public schools, and an end to repression of Kurdish activism.
And it was widely considered the first test of this young democracy's commitment to ending decades of repression and impunity.
That would be a tragedy for Egypt, which until recently believed it was on a path to ending decades of repression and dictatorship.
For them, the Simpson case, like the King affair, must have seemed just another chapter in a never-ending story of repression and persecution of African-Americans, starting with slavery and lynchings – Billie Holiday's "strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees" – and continuing to this day in the judicial system's bias against blacks, and incidents such as those in Ferguson and Baltimore.
