Two Kirti Monastery Monks Arrested Again In Eastern Tibet

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Tibet.net

File Photo: Yonten

Dharamshala, India-- Two young monks of Kirti Monastery in Tibet were arbitrarily arrested by the Chinese security police on 4 November.Yonten (19) and Lopey (21) were arrested from within the monastery premises. Their whereabouts and the reason for their arrest are still unknown.

As per information received, more than 200 Chinese security officials are still stationed at the monastery to keep a close vigil on the movement of the monks. These officials disrupts the daily religious routines of the monastery by calling the monks for unnecessary patriotic educations and meetings of the monastery officials.

It is also reported that all Tibetan youths below the age of 18 years in the Ngaba area, are forced to go to Chinese government-run schools for political indoctrination. Families who have their children in monasteries are also forced to take them back and send them to Chinese schools. A penalty of 3000 Yuan is imposed on the families who doesn't oblige with the new policy.

File Photo: Lopey