ལོ་འཁོར་སྙན་ཐོ། – 2004 by
This report looks at some of the Chinese government’s educational policies in Tibet that fail to benefit the Tibetan people but rather help achieve Beijing’s political aims. It also studies China’s compliance with its own laws – the Constitution, its various regional, ethnic, and minority laws that clearly promise the right to education to its people. The report also studies…
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy received reliable information on Bangri Rinpoche’s arrest of 26 August 1999. (Ref: TCHRD Update January 2000 & December 2003) (Background detail on Bangri Rinpoche attached below)
It has come to light through reliable sources to TCHRD- that in September 2001, Bangri Rinpoche was senteced to life by the Lhasa Municipality Intermediate People’s Court for attempting to ‘split’ the country.
Nyima Choedon, Bangri Rinpoche’s wife was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the same charge. On 29 May 2001, both were shifted to Drapchi Prison in the north of Lhasa City and were incarcerated in solitary confinement for more than a year. They were later shifted to prison unit no. 5 meant for prisoners with political charges.
10 December 1948 marked the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). A resolution of the UN General Assembly proclaimed the Declaration as the “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations” in respect for human rights.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) initiated the “Strike Hard” Campaign in China in 1983. It is a unique campaign which demonstrates China’s hardline approach against its exercise of fundamental human rights. The campaign left huge scars on its people and it dramatizes China’s image of an oppressive and ruthless state. The “Strike Hard” campaign drew huge criticism from the…
Please click on the following link to download the petition Petition to Special Rapporteur on Education on Closure of Monastic Schools in Ngaba, Tibet (2004)