DHARAMSHALA, AUGUST 20: Three more Tibetans with gunshot wounds have succumbed to injuries as Chinese authorities continue to deny medical attention to the Tibetans injured in a firing on unarmed protesters demanding release of a local village chief in Denma town in Sershul County last week, sources said.
The bodies of the three, Tsewang Gonpo, 60; Yeshe, 42; and Jinpa Tharchin, 18; who belonged to the same family, have been handed over to the family on Monday.
The three were held at the detention center in Loshu township in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture along with scores of other Tibetans who were detained following a protest on Aug. 12.
Tsewang Gonpo was uncle of Dema Wangdak, Shukpa village’s chief whose detention in the wee hours of Aug. 12 sparked off protests by local Tibetans the following day.
Two other Tibetans had died at the same detention center on Sunday, one dying of untreated gunshot wounds, while the other reportedly killed himself refusing to undergo further atrocities at the hands of Chinese police.
Even as protests by Tibetan advocacy groups continue around the world the Chinese authorities continue to deny medical treatment to those injured, many of whom had sustained gunshot wounds.
The International Campaign for Tibet has condemned the shooting and urged the international community must express their “abhorrence” of the actions by Chinese police to ensure that the injured Tibetans receive immediate medical attention.
“This alarming news indicates that the authorities in this area are apparently acting with complete and dangerous impunity,” Matteo Mecacci, President of the International Campaign for Tibet, said in a statement on Monday.
A Tibetan source told RFA that the Chinese authorities called a meeting of Tibetan residents of Loshu Township on Monday. “On Aug. 18, the people of Denkor district in Loshu were summoned to a public meeting in which authorities urged people to spread the word that Wangdak’s detention was not related to horse racing or making incense offerings, but rather was due to his embezzlement of public funds,” the US funded radio quoted a Tibetan named Gyaltsen as saying.
