According to another report from Tibet, the anti-Dalai Lama campaign has been intensified in the country. In Shigatse, public announcements were made by loudspeakers from motor vehicles driven around residential areas and market places. The announcement stated that it was forbidden for Tibetans to own pictures of the Dalai Lama and that those who have them at home were required to surrender them at once. Sometime after that, at Phondo Chaksam village in Phenpo Lhundup Dzong, Tibetans were made to burn pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama which had been confiscated from the people in the area; the people were forced to trample upon the pictures before they were burned. Many people were found complaining that it seemed as if the Cultural Revolution had come back. Several violent incidents are known to have taken place as a result of Tibetan resistance to the Chinese anti-Dalai Lama campaign. Sometime in the beginning of August, around 100 Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims from Nangchen (in Kham) arrived in vehicles

at Ngari Dharchen, Ngari (Chinese: Ali). Soon after reaching the pilgrim site, two Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB) personnel removed the pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama they saw put up in the vehicles. Fighting ensued between the incensed pilgrims and the PSB personnel who received a severe beating. As a result of it the Tibetan pilgrims were rounded up by the Ngari PSB. They were later released after being made to pay fines. Another incident occurred in Purang (pr Purheng, Chinese: Burang) Dzong in August where a Chinese border checkpost guard stooped a Tibetan driver and without uttering a word yanked out a picture of H.H the Dalai Lama and the Sakya Dhagtri Rinpoche who had been photographed together which he saw displayed in it. Fighting ensued between the two men. When the matter reached the Dzong authorities, the border checkpost guard was told to apologise to the driver for not explaining the reason for confiscating the picture. (EuroTibet News N·7)