(TibetanReview.net, Mar28’24) — While most of the Tibetans, including hundreds of monks, detained and severely ill-treated and beaten during their interrogation for around a month by Chinese police since the last week of Feb 2024 in Dege county of Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) prefecture in Sichuan province have been reported released recently, a section of them still remains disappeared, according to the Tibetan-language tibettimes.net Mar 28, citing local Tibetan sources.
The report says that more than 10 Tibetans abducted by Chinese police last month after two petitions were submitted to the authorities on Feb 14, urging the cancellation of a massive 13-tier hydropower complex set to be built over the Drichu (Chinese: Jinsha) river, still remain unaccounted for.
The report says many in this group were university students, suggesting that their abduction might be related to those two petitions.
The report names some of those abducted Tibetans as Rigzin, Thubphur, Dechen Dolma, Yangkyi, and Tsedrub.
The report says not only is there no information on their conditions or whereabouts but also that even names are not known of several of the more than 10 police-abduction victims.
The report also cites local Tibetan sources as saying Chinese authorities have recently imposed tight restrictions on the movement of Tibetans, including with carrying out of searches, in many areas of the upper Wönpo (Wangbuding) Township.
The authorities were also stated to have announced plans to deploy many more Chinese cadres to the area next month on a special task.
Another source has said China recently deployed a large body of troop in Dege county, setting up army camps in towns and residential areas and carrying out patrolling and monitoring activities there. The internet has remained banned in the county over the past one month.
The hydroelectric power dam complex will submerge homes of some 2,000 Tibetan villagers as well as ancient monasteries that include the Wonto and Yena monasteries dating back to the 13th century and containing priceless murals.