RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION BY CHINA CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE IN TIBET
Lhasa: Tibet Press has reported that cultural liberty in Tibet is a myth as Tibetans under the Chinese administration are strictly forbidden to follow their religion.
In Tibet, those who are found practising their own religion, get arrested, beaten up and tortured brutally.
While many of the arrested Tibetans were released after a deterioration in their health, Tibet Press reported, adding that the nuns and the monks are the targeted people of the Chinese.
According to Radio Free Asia sources in the region, Chinese authorities have long sought to restrict the size and influence of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, traditionally a focus of Tibetan cultural and national identity.
In a recent ‘All China Religious
Circles’ conference in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa on May 13, the need for impelling Tibet’s long-term peace and stability and cohesive consensus on high-quality development was emphasised along with the sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism.
Aggressive promotion of Mandarin from the primary level of schooling of children from minority ethnic groups is part of this agenda contrary to China’s purported “Bilingual Language Policy”.
This conference was also attended by TAR Chairman Yan Sinhal.
Recently, US State Secretary Antony Blinken spoke at the release of the 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom at the State Department.
He mentioned that China prosecute religious followers and called it as contradicting the CCP’s doctrine for destructing religious places and discriminating Tibetan Buddhists. Rashad Hussain, Ambassador-atLarge
for International Religious Freedom who also spoke at the State department expressed that many governments use unfair laws to prosecute religious practitioners.
He stressed that China was still cracking down on Tibetan Buddhists. Authorities arrested, tortured and use other abuses against Tibetans who promotes their language and culture, keeps pictures and writings of the Dalai Lama or practiced their religion at Buddhist monasteries.