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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET
On March 30 similar operations took place at Taktsang Lhamo, Gomang and Dongri
monasteries. By early April the patriotic education campaign was extended to ordinary
people in affected rural areas, who were obliged to denounce the uprising and pledge
loyalty to the Communist Party. There were eight points to be repeated in front of a
video camera and those who refused to state these were threatened with imprisonment.
The points were as follows:
1. I oppose the Dalai clique;
2. I will not keep the Dalai’s photo in my house;
3. My thinking is not influenced by the Dalai clique;
4. I will not follow splittism;
5. The conspiracy to split nationalities cannot succeed;
6. I love the Communist Party;
7. I will follow the Party no matter what;
8. I recognise the Party’s great kindness.
By the end of April many detainees had been released without charge, while hundreds
still in custody were moved to prisons in Dujiangyan and Wenchuan. Their
fate after the May 12 earthquake is still unknown. Deaths of prisoners and prison
guards have been reported after the major Ngaba prefectural prison — Maowun (Chinese:
Maoxian) in Wenchuan, was partially destroyed in the earthquake. 1 The Chinese
press reported that in other prisons in the area, too, prisoners and staff were
killed in the earthquake. While it could not be confirmed whether Tibetans imprisoned
following the recent protests in Ngaba were among the victims, Tibetan protestors
are understood to have been imprisoned in the area, including in detention
facilities at Wenchuan, Maoxian and Dujiangyan.
Deaths in Ngaba
According to exile monks from the region now in India, Nechung, a 38-year old
woman was among those who tore down the signboard on a Ngaba police station entrance
on March 16. She was detained two days later, and when she was released on
March 26, she could not speak, or eat without vomiting. Her relatives tried to admit
her to hospital but did not get permission. She died on April 17, and monks were not
allowed to perform death rites for her. Her husband has fled to the mountains, and she
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