A Great Mountain Burned by Fire
'A Great Mountain Burned by Fire: China's Crackdown in Tibet' details new campaigns directed against Tibetan culture and religion in the last few months. Almost any expression of Tibetan identity not directly sanctioned by the state can be branded as ‘reactionary’ or ‘splittist’ and penalized with a long prison sentence, or worse. Pop stars, artists and writers have been detained under a new drive against “cultural products” with suspect ideological content such as songs referring to the Dalai Lama, and in music bars Tibetan performers are no longer allowed to address the audience as “Tibetan brothers and sisters” because it is considered “subversive” to the “unity of the nationalities”.
Despite the severe risks, Tibetans continue to express their views and pass on information. Blog posts, emails and articles revealing experiences of imprisonment, interrogation and loss, as well as perspectives on a way forward translated in this report, indicate an unquenchable spirit and expression of a deeply-felt Tibetan identity. ‘A Great Mountain Burned by Fire’ includes the first translations into English from the only known book to be published in the PRC about the uprising over the past year. This collection of writing, ‘The Eastern Snow Mountain’, by Tibetans still in Tibet was banned almost as soon as it appeared. One of the authors writes: “In a year that turned out to be like a raging storm… how could we remain… in fear. [This work is] a sketch of history written in the blood of a generation.”
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Date: 03/09/2009
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Lhundup Tso
A Tibetan school girl, 16-year old Lhundup Tso, was killed when police opened fire on unarmed protestors in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) on March 16, 2008. Sources from the area have identified the body pictured as Lhundup Tso. The protest began when monks at Kir
Date: 03/16/2008
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Wangdu
Wangdu, 41, a former Project Officer for an HIV/AIDS program in Lhasa run by the Australian Burnet Institute, who is serving life in prison for “espionage”. Wangdu, who speaks fluent Chinese and once worked as a guide for Chinese tourists at the Jokhang,
Date: 03/08/2009
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Migmar Dhundup
Migmar Dhondup, who is in his early thirties, was recently working as a tour guide and has previous experience working for an NGO doing community development work. He is known to be a passionate conservationist. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for
Date: 03/08/2009
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Portrait Image of Migmar Dhondup
Portrait Image of Migmar Dhondup
Date: 03/08/2009
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Troops in Lhasa, December 12, 2008
A heavy presence of troops and armed police were evident in Lhasa on December 12, 2008, a Tibetan Buddhist festival day (Tsongkhapa's paranirvana butter lamp festival, the 25th day of 10 month in Tibetan calendar). An observer said: “The atmosphere was ex
Date: 12/12/2008
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Drepung Monks Encounter Armed Troops
Drepung monks encounter armed police in the march to Lhasa on March 10, 2008, beginning a wave of protests that swept the plateau.
Date: 03/10/2008
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Protests Near Labrang Tashikyil Monastery
Protests near Labrang Tashikyil monastery in Kanlho TAP, Gansu, on March 14-15 2008, were the first major signal that protests were to spread across Tibet, apparently taking the PRC authorities by surprise.
Date: 03/14/2008
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Rioting in Lhasa, March 14, 2008
After four days of peaceful protests, rioting broke out in Lhasa on March 14, 2008. This image was taken by an eyewitness, believed to be Chinese, and uploaded online. The Chinese authorities have sought to represent the unprecedented wave of protests acr
Date: 03/14/2008
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Labrang Jigme Guri (or Gyatso) in Amdo
Senior monk Jigme Guri (or Gyatso), whose account of a period in detention following the March protests in his monastery, Labrang (Chinese: Xiahe) was videoed and uploaded on Youtube, was seized by armed police on November 4 last year and is being held in
Date: 03/08/2009
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