Dharamshala — While constructing the railway line connecting Chengdu to Lhasa, the Chinese emptied the Tibetan mountains and transported tons of minerals by truck during the night, forbidding Tibetans from approaching the mountains for fear that they would discover their secret. They dug up five mountains in a single village. How many mountains did they dig, and how many more will they dig to extract minerals from Tibet during the construction of the 1,629 km railway line connecting Chengdu to Lhasa, Tibet?
The Sichuan-Tibet railway line is an ongoing project by the Chinese government, with construction beginning in 2018 in Yaan County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, and expected to be completed in 2030. However, according to reliable and verified sources in Tibet, under the pretext of building the railway line, the Chinese Communist government is emptying the Tibetan mountains and extracting tons of mineral resources. They transport minerals in trucks only at night and prohibit Tibetans from entering the mountains and areas near the construction sites, fearing that they will discover that they are extracting mineral resources.
According to the sources, the Chinese government has dug into five Tibetan mountains named Pawo Dragden, Anye Rapak, Le-nunnun, Lhage Nun, and Kulong Nun, located in a single village called Golo Dho, in Nagchuka County, Ganze, in eastern Tibet. The Chinese also ordered truck drivers to work at night to transport resources from Tibet to Chinese cities. In order to keep their work secret, they also ordered Tibetans not to approach the excavation areas in the mountains.
The Sichuan-Tibet railway line, which is 1,629 km long, crosses at least 13 Tibetan counties and cities, including Yaan city (ཡ་ཨན), Luding County (ལྕགས་ཟམ), Kangding City (དར་རྩེ་མདོ།), Nagchuka (ཉག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) County, Litang County་(ལི་ཐང་རྫོང་།), Pelyul County (དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།), Jamda County (འཇོ་མདའ་རྫོང་), Gongjong County (གོ་ཇོ་རྫོང་།), Pasho County (དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང), Pome County (སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང), Mainling (སྨན་གླིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར) City, Nang County (སྣང་རྫོང་།), Gonggar County (གོང་དཀར་རྫོང་། ) and Lhasa.
The source said that if building a railway line in a single village destroyed five mountains, then how many sacred mountains would the Chinese destroy by building a 1,629-kilometer railway line crossing more than 13 Tibetan counties and cities? More than 50 environmentalists and scientists have also warned that this Chinese project would cause landslides, floods, and related disasters, a series of mountainous catastrophes, and climate change. These disasters will have a direct impact on Tibetans, rather than benefiting them through the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet railway line.
According to some reports, the Chinese will build at least 72 tunnels and 121 bridges for the Sichuan-Tibet railway line. How many sacred Tibetan mountains will be destroyed, what environmental damage will be caused, and how many minerals will be extracted in more than 13 counties and cities in Tibet? It is questionable whether China is developing Tibet or destroying Tibet. 10th Panchen Lama once said that Chinese rule in Tibet had brought "more destruction than benefit" to the Tibetan people.
China-Tibet: The one-thing you need to know:
Over the past 70 decades, there has been ongoing political repression, social discrimination, economic marginalization, environmental destruction, and cultural assimilation, particularly due to Chinese migration to Tibet which is fueling intense resentment among the people of occupied Tibet.
The communist-totalitarian state of China began its invasion of Tibet in 1949, reaching complete occupation of the country in 1959. Since that time, more than 1.2 million people, 20% of the nation's population of six million, have died as a direct result of China's invasion and occupation. In addition, over 99% of Tibet's six thousand religious monasteries, temples, and shrines, have been looted or decimated resulting in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of sacred Buddhist scriptures.
Until 1949, Tibet was an independent Buddhist nation in the Himalayas which had little contact with the rest of the world. It existed as a rich cultural storehouse of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism. Religion was a unifying theme among the Tibetans -- as was their own language, literature, art, and world view developed by living at high altitudes, under harsh conditions, in a balance with their environment.
