08. May 2009
Farmers' boycott continues
(TP) The Tibet Post (TP) reports that farmers in Dege county, Kardze (Chin: Ganzi) TAP, Sichuan province, are continuing their farming boycott in protest at the ongoing repression following the events of spring 2008. TP quote Geshe Monlam Tharchin, a member of the CTA as saying that the authorities are now threatening to seize land that Tibetans refuse to cultivate in the Radho area of Dege county "to use as a military base" and are proposing to increase the military presence in eastern Tibet. "If you will not to plant the farms (sic!), our military will use those farms for our purpose", he said the local authorities have announced.