The Secret Tibet (The Forbidden world)

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{The Tibet Post International -23 July 2008}-In a bizarre case of mounting surveillance over the monasteries, sources have reported about China's exploitation of Tibetan officials versus Tibetan monks. The new drive has recently been launched in Drago monastery in Karze (Ch: Ganzi) county.

Which requires the prominent county and township level officials to monitor and indoctrinate the high ranking lamas and abbots of the monastery while more than 120 low level Tibetan officials have been mobilized to monitor the activities of the general monks as well as to politically educate them.

According to the new edict, if any monks are found guilty of disobeying and participating in the protests, the responsible Tibetan official will have to bear the brunt of expulsion from service. This new drive has thus placed both the officials and monks under immense pressure of distress and anxiety.

The new drive further decreed that the monastery would face closure, either permanently or temporarily, if more than 30% of the monks were found participating in the protests even after it had been cleansed (of separatist forces). In the event of permanently closing down the monastery, all the monks would have to leave the monastery, which would then be confiscated by the state, the authorities have stated.

With only less than three weeks for the Summer Olympics to go, China has stepped up restrictions in whole of Tibet with particular intensification of restrictions and surveillance on the Tibetan people living in Beijing and elsewhere in Mainland China. Tibetan officials and students living in the Chinese capital and adjacent areas are under strict security observation with many of them ordered to leave the capital. This is a clear case of the innate distrust that the Chinese leaders have of Tibetan people.

In a daring effort, a young Tibetan monk, whose identity could not be confirmed except for his monastery, staged a lone demonstration in front of the Karze county's Armed Police office on June July 15. Failing to capture the monk by around ten armed police personnel who pounced on him as soon as he had shouted slogans, the police fired at least three bullets (rubber bullet) rendering the monk unconscious and was thus captured, tossed into a police vain and taken away. The monk is said to be belonging to Langna monastery of Yarto Rongpatsa village in Karze county.

Report- Tibetan Solidarity Committee