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November 29: Eight Tibetans including six monks have been detained by
Chinese authorities in Palyul County last Friday, reported the Tibet Times.
The Tibetans were detained by Chinese authorities who had been tipped off about a protest that the Tibetans had planned to carry out the next day. According to sources, two local officials had stolen a truck full of sacred stones from a pilgrimage site at the Khangmar Nyingma monastery. A chunk of the stolen stones have reportedly been sold in China and the rest were seen outside a construction site managed by the County administration, said sources. The Tibetans had decided to stage a protest on November 23 but were arrested before the protest. Several appeals from the local Tibetans to the County administration to return the stolen stones to their rightful owners were ignored. The monastery has been put under constant surveillance with additional Chinese security forces patrolling the streets of Terlung. Strict monitoring of all communication facilities has made it difficult to acquire further information. |
undated picture of Lhamo, 20, who will be behind bars for two years.
Malho People’s Intermediate Court announced the verdict in a secret trial, a source said. Tsondue Choeden, a 19 year monk of Rebkong Rongwo monastery, 20 year old Lhamo from Dowa Khyinga Dewa, and a Dong-dhe Samphetsang family’s 17 year old son were all sentenced to two years in prison while another Tibetan, 18 year old Sodhbum from Dowa Kharkya Dewa is currently held under detention but has not been tried. 
Tibetans demonstrating against Chinese rule in Rongwo region of Rebkong, eastern Tibet on November 9, 2012.
Lhamo is accused of taking part in pro-independence protests and for bringing down the Chinese national flag during the protests following Kalsang Jinpa’s death. Dongdhe Samphetsang’s son is accused of taking part in independence protests. Sodhbum is accused of filling gasoline repeatedly in the motorcycle owned by a Tibetan who self immolated. He is held without trial at a detention centre in Xiling. More than 5000 students took to the steets of Rongwo town raising slogans for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s return and demanding freedom for the Tibetan people, a day after Kalsang Jinpa set himself ablaze and died immediately thereafter. The deepening crisis inside Tibet has witnessed large scale anti-China protests that saw self immolations by 121 Tibetans since 2009, demanding freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. |
an undated picture of Dorjee/file
Dorjee, a student of the Rebkong intermediate school, was also charged with "instigating separatism", engaging in pro-independence protests and founding a group called 'Ghangsol Gyunzin Tsokpa' (Eng: Tibet culture preservation organization). He is currently held at a detention centre in Xiling, Qinghai. He is a native of Dowa town in Rebkong. Meanwhile, two monks, Drakpa Gyatso and Jigme Tenzin, both from Dowa town of Rebkong, had been released. They were arrested following fiery self immolation protests by Tibetans in the region that alone has seen 13 self-immolations since March 14, 2012. The deepening crisis inside Tibet has witnessed large scale anti-China protests and a series of self-immolations that has now seen 120 Tibetans set themselves on fire, since 2009, demanding freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. |
