Five monks have gone missing since the raid by Chinese security officials on Ramoche Temple following protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March 2008.
According to information received by TCHRD, the whereabouts of Ramoche monastery’s Chagzoe (manager and treasurer) Sonam Rabgyal and four other monks cannot be ascertained. The monks were arrested during a midnight raid in monks’ residence on 7 April 2008.
In the recent few months after the outbreak of the major protests across the Tibetan plateau since March 10, 2008, a few more cases of, particularly, the enforced and involuntary disappearance of Tibetans are beginning to surface. According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), there are at least more than a thousand Tibetans whose current whereabouts and well being remains completely unknown to their family members and their affiliated monasteries.
8 September 2008 A witness declares to the judge that the deaths and tortures committed by the Chinese Government continued during the Olympic Games (04/09). Original article in Spanishhttp://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/legislacion/noticias/734479/09/08/Tibet-Un-testigo-denuncia-ante-Pedraz-que-las-matanzas-y-torturas-del-Gobierno-chino-continuaron-durante-los-JJOO.html The Director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Urgen Tenzin, denounced yesterday to the judge of Spain’s special high court or…