Yankyi Dolma-Attacked With Electric Batons
Image: TCHRD
A report released toda by the TCHRD states that Chinese security forces have arested two nuns, Yangkyi Dolma and Sonam Yangchen, of Dragkar Nunnery in Kardze County, Kardze in Tibet’s eastern region of Kham (so-called “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, Sichuan Province), for holding what was described as a peaceful protest at the Kardze County main market square on March 24, 2009.
The nuns shouted slogans calling for “swift return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet,” “human rights for Tibetans in Tibet,” and “religious freedom in Tibet.”
According to TCHRD:
“Yangkyi Dolma distributed handful of handwritten pamphlets during the short protest. The Chinese People’s Armed Police (PAP) immediately detained both the Tibetan nuns from the site of protest and beaten indiscriminately with rods and electric batons before being thrown into and driven away in a security vehicle. Following the incident, at around 7 PM in the evening, a group of security forces stormed into Yangkyi’s family home ransacking the portrait of the Dalai Lama and rebuked the family members for being the supporter of separatist forces. Early next morning (on 25 March), two Chinese security forces arrived at Yangkyi’s home and told his brother Tsangyang Gyatso to report at the Kardze County government headquarters”.
