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Breaking News - The CCP’s “Patriotic education” to Tibetans is met by suicidal protests

The situation of conflict sparked by the CCP’s detention and suppression in Tibetan regions have escalated with time. Tibetans in some regions have shown protest by refusing to farm agricultural land. Two Tibetan monks had been forced to commit suicide, and many others placed under arrest.

Following the suicide of Song Tu, a monk from the Gede Monastery, in Ngawa county, Ganzi of Sichuan Province on the 16th of April, the Norwegian Sound of Hope Radio Network reported on a Tibetan Buddhist nun who chose to commit suicide, after bearing extremes of the suppression.

The Chinese Communist regime has forcibly divulged “Patriotic education on Tibetan monks, and forced the Party’s flag to be hung highly at the roof of every temple building. The “Patriotic education” policy has a demand for every monk to kneel beneath the flag, and to be sworn in for their separation from the Dalai Lama. Moreover, every monk of the monastery had to be photographed while holding a CCP flag. This has been met with much resentment and noncooperation.

Additionally, military police continue to besiege and harass Tibetan temples. At least eight monks have been arrested from the Dacang Lamu Gede Temple, Senduo Temple, as well as Duique Village, in Ruogai County of Ngawa sub-prefecture. The youngest of those under arrest was 14 years of age. On the 19th of April, approximately 190 monks secretly escaped to the mountains, from the Dacang Lamu Gede Temple. Currently the entire Ngawa sub-prefecture remains under the strict surveillance of the CCP military police force.

On the 17th of April, Chinese Communist military police captured eight monks from the Nalanduo Temple in Tibet’s Linzhou County. Aside from these incidents, CCP army troops also arrested 32 monks in recent days, from the Xicang Temple in Luqu County of Gannan sub-prefecture.

To date, CCP military police have arrested more than 203 monks from the Zhaxi Qukuo Temple, in Duoke village, Zhuoni County of the Gannan sub-prefecture. The Chinese Communist state has also transferred special troops in black military uniform from Henan, to stand guard at Tibet’s Anduo Regong region, while adopting more rigorous means of surveillance and persecution.

Many local farmers have indicated they would refuse to farm agricultural land, if the Chinese Communist government does not cease the persecution on Tibetan people,

The above was brought to you by Li Yuhan and Chris Thomas for Breaking News on Sound of Hope Radio Network.