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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET
Photos of the Dalai Lama and other senior religious leaders at Kirti monastery in Ngaba
county, Ngaba TAP, Sichuan province, were damaged by armed police following a raid on
the monastery in early April 2008. Kirti monastery was at the center of the wave of
protests in eastern Tibet when monks were joined by laypeople and schoolchildren in
a major protest on March 16, calling for a free Tibet, with pictures of the Dalai Lama and
Tibetan flags on display.
Other protests against the aggressive anti-Dalai Lama campaign and imposition of
political campaigns against religion took place in Yulgen (Tsang) in Qinghai and
Nyagchuka in Sichuan on April 15, in Derge (Dzakok) in Sichuan on April 28, and
Markham (Khenpalung) in the TAR on May 12, as well as in Nechung monastery in
Lhasa on April 19.
One of the most significant protests of this second wave occurred on May 14, when approximately
55 nuns from Pangri nunnery in Su-ngo township, Kardze county in
Kardze TAP, staged a demonstration. According to Tibetan sources, the Pangri nuns
protested on May 14 because of their distress and anger at the crackdown, detentions
and disappearances that have followed peaceful protests in different areas of the
Tibetan plateau, as well as resentment against the implementation of the patriotic
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