Occupying Tibet’s Rivers

Rare protests against the construction of a hydroelectric dam have been met with severe reprisals and military lockdown.

The planned Kamtok dam in the sacred mountains of Gèndong threatens the displacement of villages and ancient Buddhist monasteries in the upper reaches of the Drichu river (known internationally as Yangtze) in Tibet.

The protests draw urgent attention to China’s dam-building now reaching upriver to the sources of Asia’s great rivers in Tibet without consent from the local Tibetan population, nor inclusion of their traditional ecological knowledge.

Occupying Tibet’s Rivers

Tibet Watch