Updates on repression in TibetWednesday, 8 July 2009, 3:51 p.m.
Dharamsala: According
to reliable information received from sources in Tibet on 25 June,
Chinese police have arrested a forty-year-old Tibetan named Tashi,
alleging him of instigating fellow Tibetans to bomb a police station
and displaying protest banners in Bathang County in northeastern Tibet.Earlier
in March this year, the Chinese police had arrested four Tibetan youths
in connection with the bombing of the police station at Pogurshi (as
pronounced in Tibetan) in Bathang County. The four Tibetans later
managed to escape. Tashi, son of Ugen Rigzin, who is head of
Gangri Lungpa was arrested by officials of Public Security Bureau when
he was returning from the market in Bathang county on 19 June. The
police officials alleged Tashi for conspiring with the Tibetan youths. The sources could not tell the whereabouts of Tashi.In
another incident, the condition of a Tibetan named Nyima Tenzin, who
was arrested and brutally tortured for taking part in protest in Tibet
in March 2008, has turned critical. Nyima sustained grievous wounds
after he was brutally tortured by Chinese police while he was in
custody.Nyima Tenzin participated in the peaceful demonstration
against the Chinese government’s oppression that took place at Phenpo
Lhundrup County, near Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on 14 and 15 March
2008. Last year, after paying a fine of 5,000 Yuan to the
Chinese authorities, Nyima Tenzin was temporarily allowed to return to
his home. But the authorities have imposed strict restriction on him
not to leave his home town. As Nyima’s health deteriorated due
to lack of access to proper medication, his family members appealed to
Chinese authorities for permission to take Nyima to a hospital in
Lhasa. But their requests were turned down. In early June this year,
Nyima is on the verge of dying as he was reportedly vomiting blood and
has become physically infirm and bed ridden.In yet another
incident, family members are concerned for not knowing the whereabouts
of one of the three monks of Larung Ngarig Buddhist school in Serthar
County in Karze Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, who were arrested on 8
July last year.Ngagchung was arrested along with Taphun and
Gudrak in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan Province. Levelling
charges of leaking information about the situation in Tibet to the
outside world, Ngagchung was kept at a detention centre in Chengdu.
Since then, he was not allowed to meet his family members and there has
been no information about his whereabouts and wellbeing.Ngagchung
had studied for a long time at Larung Ngarig Buddhist school and served
in various capacities at the monastery. He was a member of the
monastery’s disciplinary committee at the time of his arrest.
