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TIBET AT A TURNING POINT: THE SPRING UPRISING AND CHINA’S NEW CRACKDOWN
NAME, AGE, SEX PLACE OF ORIGIN OCCUPTION DATE OF DETENTION
Yeshe Tso, 20, F Kardze TAP, Sichuan Nun, Pangri nunnery May 14
Yeshi Lhadon, 24, F Trehor, Kardze County, Nun May 28
Kardze, Sichuan Dragkar nunnery
Yibu, 22, F Kardze TAP, Sichuan Nun March 24
Yiga, M Sershul County, Herder March 31
Kardze, Sichuan
Yonten Gyatso, M Dzoge County, Monk March 21
Ngaba TAP, Sichuan
Yonten Shitrug, M Dzoge County, Monk March 21
Ngaba TAP, Sichuan
Yonten, 34, M Sangchu, Monk April 1
Kanlho TAP, Gansu
Yudron Lhamo, 18, F Kardze TAP, Sichuan Nun, Pangri nunnery May 14
Yudron, 27, F Kardze TAP, Sichuan Nun, Pangri nunnery May 14
Zoepa, 30, M Lhasa, TAR Monk, Sera monastery March 10
An account by a Tibetan of torture during detention
following March 14 in Lhasa
A young Tibetan man sent some details to a friend in exile of his brief period in detention
after a house-to-house search on March 18. 19 The Tibetan, whose name is not
known to ICT, said that on March 18, armed soldiers broke down the doors to his family’s
home, ransacked the property, and beat members of his family, who appear to
have been suspected of involvement in the protests. The Tibetan’s account is consistent
with other accounts of detention following the protest obtained by ICT. He said:
“I was arrested and they took me with them, tied my thumbs behind my back, very
tightly, so that this whole area has been numb for the last two or three months [all of
his left thumb]. At first I thought that they were going to kill me, they hit my head a
lot, and heads are easy to break, it’s not like the rest of the body. They took me to
prison, for four days they didn’t ask me anything, they just threw us here. They gave
us half a steamed bun a day, that’s very small. They didn’t provide any water. Everyone
was very thirsty and a lot of people drank their urine. We had no clothes, no blankets,
nothing to lie down on, nothing — just cement floors — and it was very cold. For
four days nobody spoke to us, they just left us there.
“We heard a lot of things. Many people had arms or legs broken or gunshot wounds
but they weren’t taken to hospital. They were there with us. It was really terrible. I
can’t believe that we are in the 21st century. For instance, one boy who was shot three
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