Chinese authorities announced the return of Chinese cadres and migrant workers to resume work at the Jiacha Hydropower Station that was put into operation during the 13th Five-Year Plan” (2016-2020) period. Located in Gyatsa County in Lhoka (Ch: Shannan) City, Tibet Autonomous Region, the Jiacha is one of the three hydro dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo including Dagu and Jiexu, which China’s State Council announced in 2013 as part of its new Energy Development Plan.
The Chinese authorities in the “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) and other Tibetan areas in neighboring provinces have launched a two-months renewed “Patriotic Education” campaign covering almost every sections of society beginning primarily with the monastic institutions, party cadres, security forces and government employees, farmers and private entrepreneurs, educational institutions and common people, to denounce the Dalai Lama and the “splittist forces” in the coming two months.
In June 2003 there was news of five Tibetans arrested from the Tibet University in Lhasa. Dawa Tashi, one of the students arrested at the time reached Dharamsala and testified to TCHRD his personal accounts of the events that took place during the time.
According to Dawa Tashi, on 9 June 2003, civil clothed Lhasa Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials came to the university campus and ransacked the students living quarters and found a letter addressed to the United Nations and other political literary writings. Five students including himself were immediately arrested and subsequently detained in Tibet Autonomous Region (“TAR”) PSB Detention Centre.
The five had clandestinely written political essays and formed a secret organisation called “Democratic Youth Group of the Snowland”.
Twenty seven monks have been reported expelled from their monasteries. Their expulsions, which took place in June 1997, bring the total figure of known expulsions in connection with China’s religious strike down launched in April 1996 to 3,993. According to the information, received from a reliable source, Chinese work-teams arrived at Sakya Monastery in Lhoka county in “Tibet Autonomous Region”…