The View From Drapchi Prison

In 1993, 14 imprisoned Buddhist nuns secretly recorded protest songs and smuggled the tape out of Drapchi Prison in Tibet. When word of the recording got out, the nuns say Chinese authorities added five to nine years to their sentences. Seven nuns eventually were released, but remain in Tibet. One died in custody and six others now live in exile. Four are currently visiting London to help raise awareness of the Tibetan struggle for independence and religious freedom. Catherine Drew has more


In 1993 in Tibets Drapchi Prison fourteen young nuns all prisoners of conscience imprisoned for taking part in peaceful demonstrations calling for Tibetan independence had their sentences extended by between five and nine years each for recording freedom songs that would later be heard around the world.

Of the Drapchi 14, or Tibets singing nuns as they became known around the world, one died in custody, seven remain in Tibet and six are now living in exile in India, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA.

Singing Louder: In the run up to and during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the world will be scrutinising the human rights situation in China as never before despite her authoritarian regimes best attempts to gloss over their appalling record. To help raise awareness of Tibet's critical situation and the plight of Tibetans, the Tibetan Community in Britain has organised a UK reunion during March and April 2008 of the six singing nuns now living in exile. Despite years of inhumane treatment including interrogation, torture, solitary confinement, beatings and years of malnutrition, the spirit and determination of these former political prisoners remain unbroken. According to Ngawang Sangdrol one of the six former political prisoners coming to the UK:

Whilst in the UK the six will re-record some of the songs they sung in prison in 1993 and will speak to the British public of their time in prison, their exile from Tibet and their ongoing struggle against Chinese rule of their homeland, and will appeal to the British government and the public to support His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is visiting the UK in May 2008, and the Tibetan people in their efforts to find a resolution to the Chinese occupation of their country.


Singing Louder will also commemorate the 10th anniversary of protests inside Drapchi Prison in 1998, after which five nun inmates died as a result of beatings and maltreatment at the hands of the prison authorities. A decade later, things have not improved in Tibet.
The Tibetan Community in Britain aims to ensure that these former political prisoners have an opportunity to have their voices heard as loudly as possible.

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[Joe021970]

thanks for this nice video, keep on posting.

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