Vietnam urged to account for Tibetan lama’s death in Chinese police custody on its soil

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(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’25) – Following reports that a prominent religious figure in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai province had died under explained circumstances in Vietnam under Chinese police custody late last month, the Dalai Lama has said prayers for him on Apr 9. On the same day, New York-based international rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Vietnamese government to investigate the death as it has happened under suspicious circumstances.

The religious figure, Tulku Humkar Dorje, 56, was the Abbot of Lung-Ngon Monastery in the prefecture’s Gadé (Gande) County. He had previously visited India to study at the Drepung Gomang Monastery in Karnataka state from 1...

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