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TIBET AT A TURNING POINT: THE SPRING UPRISING AND CHINA’S NEW CRACKDOWN Sangye Lhamo, a 26 year old nun from Serchuteng township, Kardze county, was detained on May 28 along with two other nuns from Dragkar nunnery in Kardze, Tsewang Kando, 38, also from Serchuteng township, and Yeshi Lhadon, 24, from Tsozhi village, Kardze county. According to sources now in exile, the three were detained following a peaceful demonstration in the town market square where they distributed leaflets. The three nuns are currently being held in Kardze town jail, however they have been denied family visitation. 64
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET 7AN ‘ARDUOUS STRUGGLE’ — PROTESTS IN KARDZE SINCE MARCH 10 “Monks at the local monastery have been making donations and presenting Hada [khatags, Tibetan white blessing scarves] to ordinary people who were beaten and injured by police during a peaceful protest [in Kardze] not long ago. At the same time, the monastery authorities have announced to the monks and ordinary people that two cadre monks on the patriotic re-education work group (one of them is called Yeshe) have been too severe, and so an extremely severe sanction has been taken out on these two monks as well as their entire families: “jirulebire”, which means that from now on, no monks or believers are permitted to perform prayers or other religious activities for these two monks and all of their families, including funerals. It’s being said among Tibetan religious believers that this is the most fearful punishment.” — The Tibetan writer Woeser, writing on a blog site on May 21 KARDZE TOWN, the historic centre of the Trehor region, is now a county town under Kardze TAP, Sichuan province — the prefectural government seat is Dartsendo (Chinese: Kangding). Tibetans in Kardze TAP (in the Tibetan region of Kham) are known for their strong sense of Tibetan identity and nationalism; many Khampas were involved in resistance to the Chinese invasion in 1949–50 and to the Chinese presence in 1956–59. Hardline Chinese campaigns against the Dalai Lama and economic policies that have led to the loss of their land and livelihoods as well as the extraction of minerals by Chinese prospectors have caused deep resentment in the region. The recent intensification of restrictions on religious expression, and the requirement to denounce the Dalai Lama, have compounded frustration in the region and appear to have increased the likelihood of Tibetans taking risks to express their discontent. An article in Ganzi Daily published on January 4, 2008, noted that the county's remote location and “historical reasons” — a reference to Tibetan pro-independence sentiment and loyalty to the Dalai Lama — had made the work of “maintaining public order and safeguarding stability […] very arduous.” Kardze, one of 18 counties in the prefecture, has been the site of more known political detentions of Tibetans (55) by Chinese authorities than any other county outside the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) since the current period of Tibetan political activism began in 1987, based on data available in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) Political Prisoner Database (PPD). 1 65
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