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TIBET AT A TURNING POINT: THE SPRING UPRISING AND CHINA’S NEW CRACKDOWN According to recent information received by ICT, a 16-year old Tibetan boy in Machu was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Although the charges cannot be confirmed, sources in the area indicate that his offence was ‘political’ and likely to be due to involvement in the Machu protest. Kunchok, who is believed to be an orphan, was reportedly detained on April 11 and asked to pay a large fine of up to 15,000 yuan (US $2195) , which he was unable to pay. According to the same account, even after some Tibetans found the money to pay his fine, he was not released, and was sentenced on June 15. The same Tibetan source said: “The sentencing occurred around the time of the Olympic torch relay in Lhasa and Xining — at this time, the number of security personnel was stepped up and people were speculating that it must be because of the Olympics.” Long sentences were also handed down to two other Tibetans who may have been involved in the protests at around the same time. Twenty year old Lama Kyap, a monk from Upper Nurma village, Tseu Nur township in Machu, was sentenced to 15 years, and Khechok, in his thirties, was sentenced to 13 years. Details of the charges against them are not known. Most detainees seem to have been released during May, on payment of hefty fines, ranging from 5000 yuan (US $732) per person to 15–20,000 yuan (US $2195–US $2930) for those suspected of active involvement in the protests. The county has remained under virtual martial law, with search and arrest operations continuing sporadically (for instance at Tsendrok monastery on April 18). According to reports circulating in the area, local Tibetans are disturbed by other actions of security personnel now entrenched in Machu — in particular, news has reached ICT of soldiers or armed police shooting and eating Tibetan mastiff dogs, and also taking cash from monasteries where patriotic education is being enforced. A stringent campaign of patriotic education has begun in the monasteries of the nomadic area of Machu county following the protests. There are nine monasteries in this area, mostly with small populations of monks, and many of them were involved in the protests in March. More than 100 personnel were sent into the area to implement patriotic education in the monasteries after the protests broke out in March, and there was a particular emphasis — as with other campaigns across Tibet — on denunciations of the Dalai Lama. A Tibetan source in exile with connections in Machu told ICT: “Tibetan Buddhist monks were advised to learn about Communist Party rule rather than about Bud- 82
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET dhism.” The same source quoted a monk from the area saying: “What is happening in the monasteries now with regard to patriotic education is a real disaster for monks, we are trying to practice our religion but it is hardly possible.” The same report said that some monks were leaving the monasteries in response to the campaign. The patriotic education campaign is also being extended to laypeople in Machu. 83
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