Sangdrol Shares Experience with CTA Officials
Dharamsala 21 March, 2005: Life of a former political prisoner is harsh in Tibet, said Ngawang Sangdrol, who is on her first visit to India after her release on medical parole in 2002. Sangdrol was speaking to the staff of the Central Tibetan Administration on Saturday.
Sangdrol talking to CTA staff |
Sangdrol talked about her experience in prison and life in Tibet. The Tibetan officials, many of whom have not seen Tibet, carefully listened to the stories of torture and Chinese atrocities. She said that a former political prisoner can not go back to his or her monastery or nunnery and that the former prisoner faces strict restrictions everywhere.
Sangdrol said that the Tibetans in Tibet have great expectations of their brothers and sisters in India.
Sangdrol will also travel to Tibetan settlements in Southern India.
Sangdrol was a nun from Garu nunnery and is 27 years old. She was first arrested in 1990 for taking part in demonstration in Lhasa. She was considered too young for prosecution but was again arrested and sentenced for three years of imprisonment in 1992 for her involvement in protest demonstration. Her prison sentence was repeatedly extended for singing freedom songs in prison and for her participation in a protest in Drapchi prison on 4 May 1998. She was sentenced to be imprisoned until 2011.
The city of Northhampton in the United Kingdom awarded her an honorary citizenship on 8 March 2002 in recognition of the suffering of the people of Tibet.