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Chinese authorities order removal of prayer wheels from clinic

Phayul[Wednesday, April 09, 2014 23:53]

By Phuntsok Yangchen Central Heart Clinic in Dzora town, April 2, 2014/photo/RFA listener DHARAMSHALA, April 9: Chinese authorities in Matoe County in Qinghai province have ordered a local Tibetan clinic to remove Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheels from its compound, the US funded Radio Free Asia reported. According to a source, the authorities had said the prayer wheels installation had ‘political implications’ and threatened that they would take action against those who had installed them if the prayer wheels were not quickly taken down and destroyed. The local Tibetans have expressed their opposition against the demolition order. “The Chinese authorities are now calling even our religious objects illegal and are treating the people who create them as criminals,” RFA quoted the same source as saying. The Central Heart Clinic which practices both traditional Tibetan medicine and allopathic medicine is the largest in Dzora town. The prayer wheels that contained mantras of the Medicine Buddha were installed in 2010 by funds donated by patients. Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities also threatened to take possession of a sacred mountain to be sold for mining. The sacred mountain of Rishor at Kharkor village in Matoe is considered sacred by local Tibetans. A source told RFA that the Tibetans had resisted plans by County officials in the past to excavate minerals from the sacred mountain, “So far, the local Tibetans have pressured local authorities to suspend the project. But if the government now disregards the people’s concerns, the Tibetans could rise up,” the source added. In a separate incident, more than a hundred Tibetans in Sangchu County’s Hortsang faced Chinese authorities to protest against the government’s illegal construction of highway on farmland owned by the Tibetans on April 2.

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wo Tibetans arrested in Sog for exchanging content through phone

Phayul[Thursday, April 10, 2014 21:38] By Phuntsok Yangchen DHARAMSHALA, April 10: Chinese authorities in Sog County have arrested two Tibetans of village no 4 of Trido Township on March 30, according to Ngawang Tharpa, a Tibetan with close contacts in the region. The two Tibetans, Tseko and an unidentified man, were arrested for sharing pictures and political information on Tibet through their cellphones, said Tharpa. “The two had been taken to Sog County but it is not known where they are currently held.” Tharpa also noted that many people in Sog County were arrested for no reason and situation in the region remains tense. Earlier this month, two Tibetans named Phurtse and Rinchen Wangdue from the same locality were arrested for exchanging messages with politically restricted content through their micro messaging apps on their cellphones. In March, the Chinese authorities launched a massive hunt for ‘miscreants’ who painted a graffiti reading ‘Tibet is independent’ on an iron bride near Trido Township. The authorities have stepped up surveillance and security around the town with strict monitoring of people's movements and intercepting of communication lines in the area making it difficult to verify information and details about arrests. The same source said the authorities have set up three checkposts along the ten different villages of Trido township and another three between Trido and Drilda monastery which are only 12 kilometres away from each other.

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ibetan youth arrested for solo protest in Dege

Phayul[Thursday, April 10, 2014 01:14] video screengrab DHARAMSHALA, APRIL 9: A Tibetan youth was arrested by Chinese authorities in Mani Ghego town in Dege County in traditional Tibetan province of Kham after a solitary protest on April 8, a videoclip of which is being circulated on the Facebook. The video, apparently taken by a passerby, shows the Tibetan youth throwing leaflets in the air and shouting “Longlive Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama), Tibet needs freedom” as he walks through the street leading to the local government offices. Passersby could be heard expressing their support to the youth. There is no further information available about the Tibetan youth or aftermath of his protest except that he has been arrested.