12. Jan 2010
Two Machu schools shut down
(VOT) VOT radio service reports that an intermediate school (Tib: Lobding) and an elementary school (Tib: Lobchung) in Machu (Chin: Maqu) county Kanlho (Chin: Gannan) TAP, Gansu province, have been closed down due to "fear of protest". An education seminar on Tibetan language by a noted Tibetan scholar, Dong Yonten Gyatso, was to be organised jointly by 'Bhoerig Lobda Dringwa', 'Mangtroe Phakey Tsokpa' (a group for preservation of Tibetan Language) and 'Mani Tsokpa'. The seminar's name - "Bhoemii Kyiduk Nyamnyong" ("Tibetan people's happiness and suffering experienced together") - is derived from a slogan used in 2008 by protesting students in the county.