Dharamshala, April 27 -- The Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) of the Central Tibetan Administration has launched a month-long awareness initiative honouring the 36th birthday of Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, Jetsun Tenzin Gedhun Yeshi Trinley Phuntsok Pal Sangpo, commonly known as Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was forcibly taken along with his family by Chinese authorities at the age of six in 1995, as reported by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).

This awareness initiative, running from April 25, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima's birthday, to May 17, which marks the 30th anniversary of his forced disappearance, aims to raise urgent awareness about the unprecedented three-decade absence of the 11th Panchen Lama.

The CTA...