Two brother killed.

Feb 09, Thursday. Two Tibetan brothers have been shot dead by Chinese forces in Drango.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/another-02092012170023.html

fresh protest in Yushul

 The Lhasa Sera monastery monks style of protest, that led to 2008 Tibetan uprising , a similar protest by monks in Trido county in Yushul, ended peacefully,  but it is too early to predict anything.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/defiant-02082012161711.html

Tibet's twentith Self immolation

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/tensions-02082012101354.html
 Rikdzin Dorje (nickname Rikpe) set himself ablaze and in critical condition, age 19, son of the Garpa
Tsongko household in division no.2 of Me'uruma township, Ngaba county.

According to Kyayang:

father is Tsongko and his mother is Dungkar. He was taken away from the site
of his protest by soldiers and police, first to the county hospital and
later to Barkham (Ngaba pref. capital). As of the night of the 8th he was
believed to be on the verge of death, but no clear information on whether he
is still alive is available.
Rikpe is the youngest of six children. He is a humble person, and when he
was a monk, he used to enjoy looking after pigeons. He is a kind person, and
was a hard and persistent worker. He was a Kirti monk when he was younger,
but left the monastery in 2010 and since then has been living at home. His
halfbrother Rabten came into exile and is presently studying at Kirti
monastery in exile.

Chinese flag pulled down

 Tibetans are emboldened by daring protest.

Tibetan protesters have pulled down a Chinese flag, put up posters calling for freedom, and shouted slogans at police in western China, defying a security clampdown following a spate of deadly protests against Beijing’s rule, sources in Tibet and in exile said Tuesday.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/flag-02072012151919.html

Life and death

Prepare for a life or death struggle


For the long term survival of a people, compatriots, we must articulate the experience (literally ‘joys and sorrows’) of our people in the pure form of our native language, and keep loyalty to our people at the centre of our humble hearts!

Compatriots! Let us march forward together, arm linked in arm, and restore the pure form of our native language to life. This is the common and exclusive responsibility that all red-faced Tibetans must shoulder, and the first step in restoring the source of our collective pride.

Snowlanders! We must even be ready to die for the sake of our people!

Brave compatriots! In the cause of protecting the cherished homeland of the red faces, we must ascend to the pure realms of cultural excellence.

Kye! Kye! People of the snow land of Tibet! The time has come to seize the jewel prize!

January 26th 2012

This is the text of a leaflet distributed by Tarpa, who was arrested by police in Dzamtang county on January 26th, although not the final leaflet that led to his arrest. He and Orgyen, who was shot and killed at that time, were fellow students at a college in Mianyang, Sichuan, and their native villages were traditional subjects of the Tsangchen monastery of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Released by Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering

Kirti monastery in exile

January 28th 2012



(Matthew Akester's -Translator’s note: ‘red faced Tibetans’ is a vernacular idiom for the Tibetan people recalling their common imperial and martial heritage)

ཐར་པའི་སྙན་ངག


ཤི་གསོན་གྱི་སྔོན་བརྡ།

མི་རིགས་ཤིག་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོག་ཡུན་རིང་དུ་གནས་དགོས་ན། སྤུན་ཟླ་ཚོ། ང་ཚོས་ཕ་སྐད་གཙང་མའི་ལམ་ནས་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་བདེ་སྡུག་གླེང་དགོས་ལ། ཡ་ཆུང་སེམས་པའི་དཀྱིལ་ནས་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་ལ་རྒྱ་དྲན་དགོས། སྤུན་ཟླ་ཚོ། མདུན་དུ་སྐྱོད་དང་། ང་ཚོ་ལག་རྡང་གཅིག་ཏུ་སྦྲེལ་ནས། འུ་ཅག་གི་ཕ་སྐད་གཙང་མའི་དབུགས་རྒྱུན་སླར་ཡང་གསོ། འདི་ནི་གདོང་དམར་བོད་པ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཕྲག་ཏུ་བབས་པའི་ མ་བགོས་ཐུན་མོང་གི་ལས་འགན་ཉག་གཅིག་ཡིན་ལ། ལ་རྒྱའི་ཚེ་སྲོག་སླར་ཡང་གསོ་བའི་གོམ་པ་དང་པོ་རེད། གངས་ཅན་པ། ང་ཚོ་མི་རིགས་འདིའི་ཆེད་དུ་ཤི་ཡང་ཐུབ་དགོས། ངའི་སྤུན་ཟླ་རྒོད་པོ་ཚོ། འུ་ཅག་གདོང་དམར་བའི་ཕ་གཞི་དྲོན་མོ་སྲུང་བའི་ཕྱིར། ཤེས་རིག་གི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སྙེག་དགོས། ཀྱེ་ཀྱེ། བོད་ཁ་བ་ཅན་པ། ནོར་བུའི་ནོམ་ངོས་ཟིན་དགོས་པའི་དུས་ལ་བབས་འདུག ༢༠༡༢།༠༡།༢༦ ཐར་པ་ནས

Kham Sethar enrupted

Tibetan in Kham Sethar protested and killed.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/protest-01242012093312.html

protestors shot in Drango

Thousands of Tibetan took part in protest and at least three people were shot dead and numbers of them were injured after Chinese crackdown.


http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/killed-01232012124137.html

On Monday morning,

Around 3 to 4 thousands of Tibetan people gathered in Drango County and shouted slogans such as “Free Tibet” “return of Dalai Lama to Tibet”. They were carrying Tibetan traditional scarf, Karta, on top of sticks.

According to an exiled monk Yeshi Sangpo,from Tibet, “It was Chinese New Year today, but thousands of Tibetan protested in the wake of some threatening self immolation in Drango,but the source did not witness any self immolations. There was huge protest rally joined by thousands of Tibetan lay people. When the protesters were reaching in front of the local Chinese police, then the police shot fire. The armed Chinese police have used tear gas and fired shoot at protesters around 2:30PM, three of them were killed on the spot and while two other sustained injures to their legs. The protest started in the morning and it continues at the time of reporting it was 3:30PM in Tibet. The Tibetan protestors have done serious damages, and destroyed Chinese shops and other Chinese outlets in the area.



Our second source , a monk from kham Drango ,who took part in the protest said.



“one protestor was killed and about 30 people injured and 5 of them very seriously in the protest. The protest began around 9:30am in the morning of Jan 23, at a cross road and then it spread. We shouted slogans calling for Long Live His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Freedom for Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet,. When we reached the police station, they fired automatic weapons at the protestors. The Chinese police have also used fire fighters, tear gas to disperse the crowd. Yonten, a layman was killed on the spot and his body was brought to Drango monastery. Another 32 people were injured are kept at the Dongo monastery, 5 of them were in serious condition. Many other protestors injured were taken away by their relatives to provide them shelter.

Another source told our reporter, “hundreds of Tibetan were arrested ensuing the protest, Tibetan from Tawu county have come to join the protest in Drango.



Chinese website confirmed the death of one protester http://www.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1019/8/9/3/101989382.html?coluid=0&kindid=0&docid=101989382&mdate=0123223424.