Siliguri – The Siliguri-based Northeast Zonal Tibetan Youth Congress(TYC) has alleged that due to the religious repression of the Chinese Government many Tibetan monks are either committing suicide or fleeing from the country.
At a meeting at Salugara near Siliguri in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, the organization said that the Chinese Government was trying to keep Tibetans away from their political and religious leader the Dalai Lama.
“More than 400 monasteries are occupied by the Chinese Army. They do not allow anybody to come inside or to go outside the monasteries. We are living in this free world. The Tibetan Youth Congress and the Tibetan supporter groups have all launched this campaign in the northeast in Siliguri”, said Dawa Gyalpo, president of TYC, Northeast zone.
Gyalpo, who fled from Tibet, while narrating his experience of the alleged religious repression in Tibet said that the Chinese authorities have unleashed a reign of terror in Tibet and have even asked people to renounce the Dalai Lama as a traitor! In the name of patriotic education they were forcing the nuns and monks to sign and accept a five-point pledge regarding acceptance of Tibet as a part of China.
The TYC has appealed to the international community for more support on the issue of Tibet.
“He’s requesting other nations and state ministers as he’s quite popular in the world and the northeast”, Gyalpo added.
According to the TYC, the Chinese Government carries out religious processions through Democratic Management Committees that have been set up in monasteries and nunneries across Tibet.
Gyalpo further said that the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, had said that the Tibetan problem should be left to the Tibetan people to solve.
