Starting as a child, this Tibetan woman was forced to face 22 years of Chinese oppression

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Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Scroll.in 18 May 2021

One day the Chinese occupying forces announced: “Children are allowed to work!” It was no longer a matter of collecting firewood or cow dung, but of proper work organised by the Chinese authorities. Tendöl was assigned to the Jokhang, the most sacred temple in the centre of Lhasa, which was partially destroyed.

All Buddha statues had already disappeared. It was said that the Chinese transported the copper the statues contained all the way to China to manufacture cartridges. The Tibetan children had to clean and tidy up. Everywhere they noticed traces of blood.

Tendöl heard that Tibetans had been murdered in the Jokhang by nails being pierced into their heads…the brutality was boundless. This was the time after Mao’s death when the Gang of Four tried to seize power in China.

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