Tibet Watch News

This third interview was conducted with a 15-year-old from Kham in eastern Tibet. She completed her elementary education in July 2022 in Lhasa alongside around 800 students of both Tibetan and Chinese descent.

This interview reveals how the Tibetan language is disappearing from public life in Tibet at the expense of the Chinese. The following account is in their own words. Their identity has been withheld. 

This is the first of a series of interviews with Tibetan refugees who have recently escaped from occupied-Tibet, and arrived India in early 2023.

In early January 2023, Tseta (46) and Dhonko (26) were detained by Gyalthang County security personnel from the ‘Dolma Home’ guesthouse without any apparent justification.

Gonmo Kyi, the sister of Tibetan political prisoner Dorjee Tashi, has been arrested while protesting for her brother’s release.

Zangkar Jamyang, 47, was arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado by police on 4 June 2020. Nearly three years later, in December 2022, his family discovered that he was charged with “inciting splittist acts and spreading rumours in WeChat groups,” and sentenced to four years in prison.