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Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
Annual Report
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Cover photo: Nangpa La Shooting Incident (Photo source: ICT)
On 30 September 2006, border patrol officers of the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) shot at a group of seventy five Tibetanrefugees, killing Kelsang Nortso, a seventeen-year-old nun and injuring twenty-year-old Kunsang Namgyal. The incident occurredas the group led by two guides, approached the glaciated Nangpa La, a 18,753-foot pass near the Mount Cho-Oyu base camp. Inaddition to the injury and death, the PAP arrested about thirty of the refugees, including fourteen children as they attempted to flee.Some members of the group remain missing while forty one reached Kathmandu, Nepal safely. The Chinese government claimedthat any violence on the part of the PAP was in "self-defense". However, eyewitness accounts of nearby Everest mountaineers testify that, "the refugees were running uphill, away from the shooting. They were shooting, again and again at the group of Tibetans without any warning, who were completely defenseless." The defense statement used by the Chinese Foreign Ministry was laterproved a lie when video evidences surfaced clearly showing that the refugees were being shot at "like dogs" and later being hunteddown by the officers. Each year hundreds of Tibetans attempt to escape Chinese rule by crossing the Himalayan border in order toreach Nepal by risking their lives.
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Executive Summary5Civil and Political Liberties13
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introduction
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change in “TAR” leadership
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right to freedom of expression muffled
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arrest for pasting pro-independent posters
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arbitrary arrests and detentions
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anti-fur campaign
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employment demonstrations
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forced statements against the dalai lama
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enforced or involuntary disappearances
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prisoner releases and sentence reductions
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torture in prison and during detention
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chushul prison: a new prison for political prisoners
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plight of tibetan refugees - killing and arrest at nangpa la pass
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right to information: censored
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conclusion
Religion39
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freedom of religion as a basic human right
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banning of religious days
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the anti- Dalai Lama campaign
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the reinvigoration of patriotic (re-)education
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the Regulations on Religious Affairs
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the Panchen Lama
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arrest and detention of religious personnel
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the violation of human rights through the control of religion
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conclusion