Exile Tibetans participate in a candlelight vigil to mourn the death of teenager monk Tenzin Nyima (aka Tamey) at the Main Square in McLeod Ganj, India, on 25 January 2021. Nyima died after being severely beaten and tortured by Chinese authorities for a peaceful protest against Chinese rule in Tibet.
Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal
By Lobsang Wangyal
McLEOD GANJ, India, 25 January 2021
Exile Tibetans in McLeod Ganj marched in a candlelight vigil to mourn and protest the death in Chinese custody of a Tibetan teenager in Tibet.
Nineteen-year-old Tenzin Nyima, also called Tamey, a Tibetan monk from Dza Wonpo monastery in Kardze, in Kham region in eastern Tibet, now incorporated in Sichuan Province, has died on 19 January, after being severely beaten and tortured by Chinese authorities for a peaceful protest against Chinese rule in Tibet.
Nyima distributed hundreds of hand-written leaflets outside the local government offices and around the area calling for Tibetan independence on 7 November 2019. He was arrested the same day.
Following his protest, six others, among them four monks and two laypersons, also staged similar protests. They were all arrested and each sentenced to five years in prison.
Gonpo Dhondup, President of the Tibetan Youth Congress, blasted China for the continued repressive policies in Tibet. “Tibetans in Tibet live under severe human rights conditions, intense surveillance in their daily lives, but the people are not giving up the fight for their freedom.”
“We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Tibet. Generations may change, but our fight for justice and freedom will not cease.”
This has been going on since Tibet was brutally occupied. Ever since, Samdhong Rinpoche’s PMship, Tibetans have cozied up to the Chinese dictators. Independence was suppressed and its advocates demonised and discredited. He even announced that the Tibet issue was an “internal issue of China” and “China was not an enemy”.
As a result Tibet lost western support and today, Tibet is almost a non-issue on the world stage. Even though there has been a bipartisan law passed recently by the US Congress, there is lurking danger that even this welcome development will be compromised if Penpa Tsering becomes the Sikyong.
He will once again pursue the old disastrous policy of his mentor, Samdhong Rinpoche, to suck up to the CCP and once again denounce western interference in Tibetan affairs in order to curry favour from the Chinese communists.
He will denounce all independence advocates as anti-Dalai Lama and will stop all demonstrations against the Chinese in order to cox the communists for talks. He is on record as saying, “China has helped us and hope it will continue”. He is oblivious of the death of 155 souls who have self-immolated.
With Samdhong’s policy, Tibet became a non-entity from being among the ten most prominent issues of 2008 after the pan Tibet revolution in Tibet, sucking up to the communists has only brought disaster as we see how India has been ruined by its policy of cozying up to the Chinese regime.
The Galwan Valley tragedy, clash in Sikkim, and constant incursions into Indian territory to building 100 houses on Indian soil in Arunachal Pradesh are all the result of India’s cozying up with communist China.
The relationship between China and India are at its worst since the time of the Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai era despite Modi-Xi bruouhaha!
CCP has the go to tool in the tool box the dictatorship of the party shown in the Stalinist kangaroo court executions and George Orwell’s writings.
CCP has survived and thrived by brutally destroying personal identity and granting crumbs of self-respect so well documented in water boarding which had origins in Christian inquisition and slavery and imperial army based on the brotherhood of hazing.
So CCP has made clear:
They will promote Chinese at the expense of non Chinese languages–Tibetan, Mongolian and Turkish, etc.
At the same time they will destroy the self respect and identity and the cultural heritage of non Chinese indigenous peoples unfortunate enough to be under occupation by Chinese.
Chinese? Cantonese are not imperialists; Szechuan warlords wanted to copy European colonialists vis a vis Tibetans; Mandarin speakers like Hua Guofeng didn’t want to be wannabe colonialists.
Buy Xi Xi La La is drunk on power and Tibetans are at the mercy of a man who knows no mercy.
I think this is true sometimes, as long as it doesn’t turn into “Idiot compassion.” (I don’t like the phrase, but sometimes fits.) Flies can be distracting and interfere with practice (disturbing the mind, as one of my teachers said.) Sometimes magnetizing, pacifying, and enriching don’t work, and a little destruction is appropriate, I believe. Sometimes I have to go away in order to understand compassion in the situation. Maybe my practice isn’t developed enough, but that’s how it is.