Le Leader du village exécuté
Dharamshala, 12 décembre 2014 : Les autorités chinoises du comté de Driru ont tué le leader du village tibétain d'Ushung connu localement comme un homme très respecté et quelqu'un qui a initié plusieurs chantiers sociaux dans le domaine de l'éducation, la promotion de la religion et la culture, l'unité et l'harmonie. L'incident a eu lieu le 9 décembre 2014.
D'après le TCHRD, Bachen Gyalwa a été tué le 21 novembre 2014 sous les ordres des autorités chinoises.
Bachen Gyalwa (appelé aussi Ngawang Monlam ) était un ancien moine du monastère de Gyashoe Pelkar, il a été arrêté avec plusieurs autres Tibétains dont Peka, Neymey, Droril et Tashi.
Ils sont ensuite été amené au centre de détention du comté de Driru sans qu'aucune information n'ait filtré jusqu'à ce jour à leur sujet.
Avant son exécution, Bachen Gyalwa avait été arrêté et remercié pour faire place à un nouveau chef de village choisi par le gouvernement. Ceci se passe dans un comté réputé "politiquement instable" selon Pékin car les Tibétains ici résistent depuis longtemps aux autorités chinoises en refusant de se montrer "loyaux".
D'après le TCHRD, Bachen a été exécuté en garde à vue sous le commandement du Comité du Parti de Driru.
Les autorités ont prévenu les Tibétains de ne pas communiquer l'information de la mort de Gyachen à l'extérieur du comté, sans quoi il sera pris des mesures punitives à l'encontre des Tibétains. Ces derniers ont été forcés de signer et poser leurs empreintes sur une déclaration promettant qu'ils resteront silencieux au sujet de l'exécution.
Le secrétaire régional du Parti a publié une ordonnance en 59 points mettant sévèrement en garde les Tibétains qui maniganceraient contre le gouvernement chinois. Les Tibétains de Driru ont la communauté internationale pour qu'elle envoie des équipes d'inspecteurs pour les libérer cette répression anticipative.
A ces menaces s'ajoutent des mesures répressives telles l'interdiction de voyager, des mesures auxquelles les Tibétains sont habitués, comme aussi le black-out des moyens de communication.
Bachen Gyalwa, en tant que chef de village avait fait construire une énorme salle communautaire où il invitait les lamas tibétains à donner leurs enseignements et à organiser des rituels ainsi que des danses.
Il avait également fait construire une école où les Tibétains diplômés pouvaient donner des leçons aux Tibétains illétrés, jeunes comme vieux. Il aida à la fondation d'un opéra tibétain, d'un institut de danse, fit construire des hôpitaux, des magasins et des routes pour relier les villages.
France Tibet
Source : Phayul, RFA, TCHRD
Chinese authorities in Tibet’s restive Driru county were accused on Monday of murdering a popular Tibetan village chief while he was detained because of his efforts to promote Tibetan culture and the economic well-being and unity of the Tibetan people.
Bachen Gewa, the leader of Ushung village in Driru (in Chinese, Biru) county’s Gyashoe Yangshok township in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s Nagchu (Naqu) prefecture, was killed on Nov. 21 “on the orders of the local [ruling Chinese] Communist Party authorities,” the India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) said in a statement.
Gewa, also called Ngawang Monlam, had earlier been arrested and “removed from his post” to make way for a government-approved village head, TCHRD said, quoting a source with contacts in Driru, a county considered “politically unstable” by Beijing and where Tibetans have long resisted forced displays of loyalty to the Chinese authorities.
“[He] was then killed on the orders of the secretary of the Driru County Party Committee,” TCHRD said.
Gewa died while in police custody, TCHRD director Tsering Tsomo told RFA’s Tibetan Service in an interview on Monday.
“We believe that his death, which came while he was under the supervision of Chinese security personnel, represents a severe violation of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights,” Tsomo said.
Details on the exact circumstances of Gewa’s death were not immediately available, but Gewa “had posed a formidable challenge to the Chinese government’s ongoing ‘stability maintenance’ measures that have been implemented since late 2011,” TCHRD said in a statement.
'Courageous, patriotic'
“[Bachen Gewa] was a courageous and patriotic Tibetan leader who served the village with utmost dedication for many years,” TCHRD said, quoting a source.
“At the village he built a huge community hall, where he invited Tibetan lamas to give religious teachings and organized prayer ceremonies and cultural performances,” the source said.
“He [also] built a school, where he invited educated Tibetans to teach illiterate Tibetans, including the young and elderly. He helped found Tibetan opera and dance institutes [and] built hospitals, shops and roads in the locality.”
Local authorities have warned Gyashoe Yangshok township residents not to discuss Gewa’s death, or to spread news of other recent detentions and arrests, with anyone outside the area, TCHRD said.
“The authorities forcibly took signatures of local Tibetans, making them promise not to reveal any information about the incidents to the outside world. They have [also] imposed other measures of control, including travel restrictions in the area.”
Tibetans in Driru have long resisted forced displays of loyalty to Beijing, which has imposed tight restrictions in the area, including widespread detentions and a clampdown on communications.
In September 2013, Beijing began a campaign to force Tibetans to fly the Chinese national flag from their homes, sources say.
The campaign intensified in early October 2013 when villagers refused to fly the flags, throwing them instead into a river and prompting a deadly security crackdown in which Chinese police fired into unarmed crowds.
Sporadic demonstrations challenging Chinese rule have continued in Tibetan-populated areas of China since widespread protests swept the region in 2008, with 133 Tibetans to date setting themselves ablaze to oppose Beijing’s rule and call for the return of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
Reported by Yangdon Demo for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Karma Dorjee. Written in English by Richard Finney.
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Village leader killed in Driru, 107 nuns expelled in Phenbo
Phayul[Friday, December 12, 2014 11:51]
DHARAMSHALA, December 12: The Chinese authorities in Driru County have killed a Tibetan village leader who was known by the locals as a man who is well respected and someone who has pioneered several social works in the field of youth education, promotion of religion and culture, unity and harmony. The incident took place on Dec. 9, 2014.
Bachen Gyalwa or Ngawang Monlam was a former monk of Gyashoe Pelkar monastery, was arrested along with several other Tibetans including Peka, Neymey, Droril and Tashi.
The arrestees were taken to Driru County detention center and there is no information about them as of now.
Local sources say that the Chinese have killed Gyachen because they wanted his removal from the post and even issued orders to remove him from the post which the Chinese want to be filled by a Chinese replacement.
The authorities warned the Tibetans against leaking the news of Gyachen’s death to the outside world failing which the authorities would take punitive measures against the Tibetans. The Tibetans were forced to sign and give thumb impressions on an agreement accepting to remain mute about the killing.
A Chinese regional party secretary has issued a 59 point rulebook issuing stern warning against the Tibetans who plot against the Chinese government. The Tibetans in Driru have urged the world community to send investigating teams to save them from the impending repression.
Meanwhile, 107 nuns of a nunnery in Phenbo, near Lhasa, in August this year. The nuns have distributed pamphlets seeking help in their hours of despair. “We have been forced to leave our quarters where we worship and study. We have nowhere to go. Please save us,” the nuns wrote.
On August 12, the Chinese authorities bulldozed the quarters of Shar Bhumpa Monastery in Phenbo. Several nuns have reportedly collapsed seeing the mowing down of their residences. A few nuns have also been reportedly missing.
