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TIBET AT A TURNING POINT: THE SPRING UPRISING AND CHINA’S NEW CRACKDOWN On March 17, Tibetan students at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing held a silent vigil to honor the Tibetans who were killed in protests in Tibet since March 10. It was the first known demonstration by Tibetans in China's capital. local monks. Casualties as a result of the protest, which was met by armed police, could not be confirmed. At Rabgya monastery in Machen County, Golog TAP in Qinghai on March 16, local people performed a puja (Tibetan Buddhist prayer ceremony) for those killed near Kirti monastery. According to at least one reliable report, police surrounded the monastery and asked the senior monks to stop the puja, otherwise they would use force. The lamas then asked the monks to stop. Some Tibetans who committed suicide following the protests were said to have done so because they could not bear to witness the oppression. A Tibetan called Lapo in his fifties, from a nomadic area in Luchu county in Gansu, committed suicide because “he was unable to bear Chinese oppression on fellow Tibetans”, according to a report ICT has received based on information from Tibet. A 31-year old nun, Losang Tsomo, 34
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET from Cholung nunnery, was so traumatised by what she had witnessed during the crackdown on protests in Meldro Gungkar on April 12 that she committed suicide later that day. Dissent and crackdown in Rebkong Rongwu monastery in Rebkong (Chinese: Tongren) county, Tsolho (Chinese: Huangnan) TAP, Qinghai, is still under lockdown and the whereabouts of monks detained after a protest on April 17 is unclear, according to reports from Tibetans with connections in the area. Armed police raided the monastery and confiscated pictures of the Dalai Lama after monks staged a protest calling for the release of other monks detained following earlier demonstrations and incidents of dissent in the area in February and March. Monks were seen being taken away from the monastery with their hands tied behind their backs and being loaded onto trucks. Two days later, a number of the monks taken into custody were released after being subject to severe beating in custody, according to sources. Dawa, the disciplinary master who was first detained on April 18, is believed to have been released. In June, further raids of the monastery took place, and it is believed that no religious activities are allowed there. The former head of Rongwu monastery, Alak (an honorific title, meaning ‘lama’) Khaso, a highly respected local figure, had attempted to mediate between the monks and local authorities on April 17, but was injured following the police crackdown on the protest. He is reportedly now recovering in hospital in Xining from a broken leg that may have been the result of treatment while in custody. One reliable Tibetan source said that some Tibetan women and an elderly man rushed to try to help the lama after they saw his head bleeding, but were also detained. The same Tibetan source said: “Their hands were tied with wires. At that time they arrested up to 100 people, who filled four military trucks.” The crackdown in Rebkong follows a protest on February 21 after authorities interrupted the annual Monlam ceremony at a local monastery, which was scheduled to end on February 22, and a further incident of dissent by monks on March 17. Radio Free Asia reported approximately 200 protestors, mostly monks, were detained in February after authorities used tear gas to disperse crowds gathered for the religious celebration. It is believed that most of the detained have been released, but many were reported to have suffered injuries. 10 35
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