Tibetan County chief removed after defying religious crackdown orders

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Tenzin Nyidon

DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 3: Druk Bum Gyal, the County chief of Drakkar county in Tsolho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Tibet, has reportedly been stripped of his post after declining to immediately enforce Beijing’s sweeping campaign targeting Tibetan religious practices, according to a report by the Dharamshala-based Tibetan outlet, Tibet Times.

Chinese authorities recently ordered the implementation of stringent measures across five counties in Tsolho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture—Serchen, Trika, Drakkar, Mangra, and Ba—requiring local authorities to prohibit the public from observing Nyungne, a traditional Buddhist fasti...

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