Tightened security, intimidation in Tibet mark Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday

9 months ago

Tsering Dhundup

DHARAMSHALA, July 17: As the global Tibetan community joyously marked the nongenerian Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday on July 6, with major celebrations in Dharamshala and across the world, an atmosphere of fear, surveillance, and intimidation gripped Tibetans inside Tibet under Chinese rule.

According to a detailed report by Tibet rights group based in the US, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), authorities across the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan areas in Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu provinces launched an intensified campaign to suppress any public or private tribute to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

Between July 1 and 6, officials reportedly convened meetings across monasteries in Lhasa, including the renowned monastic universities of Drepung and Ganden, warn...

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