Chinese Police Beat Monk to Death Over Banned Cassettes

Kardo, former monk of the Champa Ling monastery in Chamdo prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), was taken into custody on April 21 at his home in Dzogang (in Chinese, Zuogong) county by county police, a Tibetan living in India told RFA’s Tibetan Service on Monday. “Two cassettes of the Dalai Lama’s speeches were discovered in his room,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity and citing contacts in the region. “After he was detained, he was severely beaten by police, and he died on April 28,” the source said.

Kardo had studied for a long time at the Champa Ling monastery in Chamdo and was known to be good in his studies, but had left the monastery at an unknown date, the source said. “He left because of the monastery’s worship of the Shugden deity.”

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