According to a March 1 report by the Voice of Tibet, the Communist Party of China (CPC) authorities have recently upgraded the border control measures between Tibet and India, and since Monday, people entering and leaving the Murdoch area of Linzhi, Tibet, must have border communication documents. The border management brigade of the Tibet Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station in Murdoch announced on the same day that the border checkpoints of Damu and Daguo Bridge have started to check the “border pass” and ID cards of people entering and leaving the area. And as many as seven visa points were set up in Linzhi City alone.
In addition, according to China’s “Regulations on Border Management in the Tibet Autonomous Region”, the whole area of Motuo has been classified as a border management area, and people entering and leaving the area have to comply with the relevant regulations on border management and present relevant documents at the border checkpoints before they can be released.
The report quoted Pemaje, a researcher at the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, as saying that the Chinese Communist authorities have set up “border guards” in the border areas of Tibet in the name of “construction” and “aid to Tibet. The purpose of forcibly relocating Tibetans after establishing “border villages” in the border areas is to prevent Tibetans in Tibet from fleeing the country. The strategic thinking of the authorities is that “to govern the country, we must govern the border, and to govern the border, we must stabilize Tibet”.
According to a report released by the International Campaign for Tibet, the Chinese Communist authorities have built some 628 “well-off” border villages between 2017 and 2020 in Linzhi and Shigatse, which border Arunachal Pradesh, India, since the release of the “Plan for the Construction of Well-off Villages in the Border Areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region” in 2017. “well-off” border villages.
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