DHARAMSHALA, November 15: Chinese authorities in Driru County have detained three Tibetans for allegedly putting up posters that demanded freedom for Tibetans on Monday, the US Congress funded Radio Free Asia reported.
The three Tibetans were identified as Sonam Dhondub, 19, Tsering Tashi, 18 and Choksar (age not known). The family members of the three were not allowed to see them.
More than 80 armed policemen are closely watching the 170 families living in Shakchu village of Driru where Tibetans are required to produce public benefit access card and their government issued identity cards to leave the village for daily chores.
Driru has been at the centre of a collective act of defiance by Tibetans who refused to cooperate with the Chinese government orders to hoist the Chinese national flag.
In September, Tibetans of Mowa village clashed with Chinese security forces after defiant Tibetans refused to raise the Chinese flag and threw them into a river. The authorities propagated that the Tibetans must love their motherland and hoist Chinese national flag on their houses, leading to a standoff between the government authorities and the locals.
Meanwhile, Tibetans in Kardze County’s Dongkhor township have repeatedly destroyed flagpoles built by the Chinese on community buildings which were required to fly the Chinese flag. “The flag stands were destroyed two or three times after Chinese government personnel came and rebuilt them,” RFA cited a source.
