Updates on Tibet, 24 April 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 5:10 p.m.
Update for Thursday, 24 April 2008, last updated 2 PM (IST)
Re: Tibet Demonstrations
22 April 2008
Rebgong (Ch: Tongren) County, Malho “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,” Qinghai province-Chinese authorities using contradictory tactics to spoil image of Tibetan people
At Rongpo monastery, Rebkong County, Chinese armed forces barged into
the chamber of the protective deity (a small room where the monastery’s
deity statue is housed). Often such rooms serve as a safe place where
hunters and poachers give up their hunting weapons while vowing not to
hunt any more.
From the monastery chamber the Chinese armed forces took the
knives, bows and arrows and placed it outside the monastery. Pictures
were then taken which will be used for propaganda purposes of
presenting a false picture of Tibetans.
In a village nearby Rongpo monastery, Chinese armed forces
confiscated explosives from a few families. However, Tibetan farmers
actually use the explosives to ward off extreme weather, especially
hail storms that often ruin the farmers’ crops. In fact the concerned
town offices themselves provide the explosives to the farmers so the
current act of confiscating the explosives is nothing but contradictory
and provocative
