The battle to keep Tibetans under control is inflicting severe psychological damage on Chinese armed police, an internal training document has revealed.
BEIJING: The leaked 25-page training manual was given to members of the People’s Armed Police charged with keeping order in Tibetan areas of Sichuan province.
Among the advice it offers are ways of combating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for paramilitary troops involved in recent atrocities.
One section is titled: “How should you deal with flashbacks of brutal episodes?” It specifically refers to an incident in Aba county on March 16, 2011 when a Tibetan monk named Phuntsok self-immolated in a market and to a protest on March 18, 2009 in Seda and Ganzi counties where Chinese armed police, confronted by protesting Tibetans, fired into the crowd. (View full report)
