DHARMSHALA: Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) at Dharmshala(India) has disclosed that, on monk committed suicide in Amdo Ngaba  and another reportedly beaten to death by the Chinese security forces Friday.
 

As per the information a monk Lobsang Jinpa of Ngaba Kirti Monastery committed suicide.

He hailed from Ngasib Village in Amdo Ngaba. In his signed suicide note, Lobsang stated, "the Chinese government has leveled false allegations against the monks of Kirti Monastery for leaking State Secrets to the outside world, leading and organizing the protests and for keeping the dead bodies of Tibetan protesters shot dead by the Chinese security forces.

However, all the charges leveled by the Chinese government were not committed by anyone in Kirti Monastery, but carried out solely by me". In another similar incident, a monk named Legtsok of Ngaba Gomang Monastery committed suicide.

The deceased was 75 years old and hailed from a small hamlet in the upper flank of Ngaba prefecture.

Sources say that day before committing suicide, Legtsok accompanied by two other monks while on their way to perform prayer rituals at a house of a Tibetan family encountered a large contingent of Chinese security forces heading towards Ngaba Gomang Monastery to quell the protesting peaceful monks at the monastery.

The forces brutally beat Legtsok and detained him for a few days. Later he was released and sent back to the monastery. Just moments before his suicide, he sent two of his disciples to return the money owned by his other disciples and relatives that was kept with him for safe keeping.

Minutes after his disciples' departure, he committed suicide. When his disciples returned, they found him dead. He repeatedly told his two disciples that "he can't bear the oppression anymore".

Those words served as premonition to his imminent death.

In another incident, a monk of Ngaba Namtso Monastery was reportedly beaten to death by the Chinese security forces Friday.

Further information about the death could not be ascertained at the moment. In the light of the sad turn of events inside Tibet, TCHRD appeals to the world communities to immediately intervene and prevent the ongoing repression in the monastic communities in Tibet.

The Centre strongly condemns China's brutal purging and threatening the existence of Tibetan Buddhism.