"The greatly increased attention and news coverage, etc., is much more likely to help than to harm the Dalai Lama and his followers."
I'm afraid that's simply not true - the recent riots in Lhasa and across Tibetan areas within Tibet China itself have been dealt with ruthlessly - all the time the Chinese people themselves have had the truth hidden from them.
The monk on the home page had just run into a burning police station to rescue prisoners after the Chinese set it on fire - you can see he's charred and the skin hangs off him in sheets (visible in the film). He was arrested and tortured (but torture's OK anywhere these days), released and arrested again - he died in captivity.
In fact, type Lhasa riots into Google and see the results that come up - pro Chinese every one. What's happened there? No BBC, NY Times, Reuters etc - pro-Chinese across the board. Shit - that looks like someone is censoring the results. Page 5 before the Wikipedia article comes up - that's unbelievable.