Dharamsala, October 5 – A Tibetan man from Tibet’s Ngaba region has been arrested in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, on October 1, 2010, said Tsering, a monk at the Kirti monastery based here. He is currently said to be held at an unknown location in Ngaba.
Joleb Dawa, 38, from Ngaba’s Tagkatsang village, is a teacher at a Tibetan school in Ngaba and the editor of the journal “dhusrab kyi nga”. The exact charges against Dawa is not known yet but Tsering believes the arrest is linked to the journal as two other Tibetans associated with the journal had earlier been arrested and are currently under detention.
Dawa was held for about a month at a detention center in Ngaba for his alleged role in leading the massive drive to burn animal skins and fur in the region after the Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama at a religious gathering in Amravati spoke against the use of animal skins and fur.
Dawa, a father of two, was again arrested on March 16, 2008, and detained for the following few months. Chinese police ransacked a small bookshop run by his wife and took away certain belongings.
