Published by: World Tibet Network News, Monday, March 25, 1996
From: Tibetan Youth Congress, President!
Date: 25 Mar 1996
The Chinese Government has enacted a new family planning policy in Amdo recently called "Charden Bukye". According to this notice the Tibetan Public servants of Chinese Government can have only one kid per family. If there is a second child they have to pay a fine of Chinese Yuan 3000. If there is a birth of 3rd Child then the parents are arrested and put through reeducation process. For the nomads and farmers the limit for family is two kids and when they have the third child they are levied a fine of Chinese Yuan (Y) 3000. If there is a fourth child born then the parents are arrested and detained. In the process of applying this policy, there are several cases when pregnant women are forcibly taken from the farm and nomadic areas and coercive abortions carried out or in other cases the whole of the womb is taken out. After that there are denied registration in hospital and medicine is not given at all.
The taxes for the farmers and the nomads are increased at once this year. The farmers are levied 40 percent tax on their production of the grain output. Nomads are levied 18 percent tax plus other taxes such as grass tax, water tax, meat tax, hide tax, wool tax, tanned leather tax, Yak Wool tax, Sheep tax, Yak tax and animal sale tax.
In every school and Monastery there are lot of plain clothman police watching every activities of the Tibetans. They tell all the Tibetans to avoid incoming tourist and not to talk with them. If found talking with foreigners they will be arrested and detained and a detailed enquiry will be carried out. Similarly Tibetans cannot keep Dalai Lama's photo. In addition to that the Chinese have encouraged the migration of both civilian and military personnel into Tibet. There are atleast 50 to 60 truck load of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers moving to Tibet on Golmud to Lhasa highway each day.
Testified by Mr. Kelsang (not his real name) Age 67 from Amdo on
23rd March 1996 at Dharamsala.
