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    Mar Jang-nyug is a Tibetan writer born and brought up in Marong village of Ngaba in the Tibetan province of Amdo. He represents in many ways the number of University-educated young Tibetans, schooled in the Chinese system, a system that Mar Jang-nyug rips apart in this stinging collection of journal entries and personal notes titled “Ancestors’ Tomb”. This book reveals the oppressive nature of Chinese rule in Tibet. Through his writings, Mar Jang-nyug bears witness to the suffering and pain endured by Tibetans and exposes the authoritarian workings of the Chinese government. Through interviews with elderly Tibetans who have survived the early years of Chinese invasion, the author reveals heart-rending accounts of starvation, imprisonment, torture, death and destruction unleashed on Ngaba and by extension, the rest of the Tibetan plateau during the late 1950s. All these witnesses are common folks such as nomads and farmers thus laying bare the sophistry of China’s claim of liberating ordinary Tibetans from “feudal serfdom and slavery”. Through an array of prose and poetry, the book describes the dictatorial nature of the Chinese government, which has contributed to increased cases of human rights violations, marginalization of Tibetan language, environmental destruction in the form of unrestricted deforestation and mining. The invoking of historical memories about Ngaba during the nascent stages of Chinese rule in Tibet is telling in that it gives a historical context -resonant with underlying Buddhist theme of cause and effect - to the spate of self-immolation protests in Tibet in recent years. The historical recollections of Ngaba inhabitants shed light on deep-rooted grievances against past and current injustices. In many ways, it explains why Ngaba became the first Tibetan area to witness self-immolation protests. The local recollection of history varies from the one touted by the Chinese government with the latter containing no mention of the events that led to the consolidation of Chinese rule in Tibet. The accounts are replete with unaddressed grievances and unfulfilled aspirations, at once personal and yet political, as is demonstrated by the tortured body of the author’s mother and her legacy to her son in the form of a wounded heart, both bearing witness to brutalities bygone and present.

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    Mar Jang-nyug is a Tibetan writer born and brought up in Marong village of Ngaba in the Tibetan province of Amdo. He represents in many ways the number of University-educated young Tibetans, schooled in the Chinese system, a system that Mar Jang-nyug rips apart in this stinging collection of journal entries and personal notes titled “Ancestors’ Tomb”. This book reveals the oppressive nature of Chinese rule in Tibet. Through his writings, Mar Jang-nyug bears witness to the suffering and pain endured by Tibetans and exposes the authoritarian workings of the Chinese government. Through interviews with elderly Tibetans who have survived the early years of Chinese invasion, the author reveals heart-rending accounts of starvation, imprisonment, torture, death and destruction unleashed on Ngaba and by extension, the rest of the Tibetan plateau during the late 1950s. All these witnesses are common folks such as nomads and farmers thus laying bare the sophistry of China’s claim of liberating ordinary Tibetans from “feudal serfdom and slavery”. Through an array of prose and poetry, the book describes the dictatorial nature of the Chinese government, which has contributed to increased cases of human rights violations, marginalization of Tibetan language, environmental destruction in the form of unrestricted deforestation and mining. The invoking of historical memories about Ngaba during the nascent stages of Chinese rule in Tibet is telling in that it gives a historical context -resonant with underlying Buddhist theme of cause and effect - to the spate of self-immolation protests in Tibet in recent years. The historical recollections of Ngaba inhabitants shed light on deep-rooted grievances against past and current injustices. In many ways, it explains why Ngaba became the first Tibetan area to witness self-immolation protests. The local recollection of history varies from the one touted by the Chinese government with the latter containing no mention of the events that led to the consolidation of Chinese rule in Tibet. The accounts are replete with unaddressed grievances and unfulfilled aspirations, at once personal and yet political, as is demonstrated by the tortured body of the author’s mother and her legacy to her son in the form of a wounded heart, both bearing witness to brutalities bygone and present.

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    Ancestors' Tomb by Mar Jang-Nyug (Tibetan Language)

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    Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
    Mar Jang-nyug is a Tibetan writer born and brought up in Marong village of Ngaba in the Tibetan province of Amdo. He represents in many ways the number of University-educated young Tibetans, schooled in the Chinese system, a system that Mar Jang-nyug rips apart in this stinging collection of journal entries and personal notes titled “Ancestors’ Tomb”. This book reveals the oppressive nature of Chinese rule in Tibet. Through his writings, Mar Jang-nyug bears witness to the suffering and pain endured by Tibetans and exposes the authoritarian workings of the Chinese government. Through interviews with elderly Tibetans who have survived the early years of Chinese invasion, the author reveals heart-rending accounts of starvation, imprisonment, torture, death and destruction unleashed on Ngaba and by extension, the rest of the Tibetan plateau during the late 1950s. All these witnesses are common folks such as nomads and farmers thus laying bare the sophistry of China’s claim of liberating ordinary Tibetans from “feudal serfdom and slavery”. Through an array of prose and poetry, the book describes the dictatorial nature of the Chinese government, which has contributed to increased cases of human rights violations, marginalization of Tibetan language, environmental destruction in the form of unrestricted deforestation and mining. The invoking of historical memories about Ngaba during the nascent stages of Chinese rule in Tibet is telling in that it gives a historical context -resonant with underlying Buddhist theme of cause and effect - to the spate of self-immolation protests in Tibet in recent years. The historical recollections of Ngaba inhabitants shed light on deep-rooted grievances against past and current injustices. In many ways, it explains why Ngaba became the first Tibetan area to witness self-immolation protests. The local recollection of history varies from the one touted by the Chinese government with the latter containing no mention of the events that led to the consolidation of Chinese rule in Tibet. The accounts are replete with unaddressed grievances and unfulfilled aspirations, at once personal and yet political, as is demonstrated by the tortured body of the author’s mother and her legacy to her son in the form of a wounded heart, both bearing witness to brutalities bygone and present.

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