Richard Spencer reports in the Telegraph:
Monks with “attitude problems”, or who refuse to change their thinking in line with official demands, will be dismissed or jailed.
Abbots and other leaders who fail to carry out government orders to “re-educate” their charges will be replaced by the regime’s appointees.
The orders are contained in an official document posted only in Tibetan on the government’s Tibet information website. This refers to Kandze, a prefecture of Sichuan Province populated largely by Tibetans, where some of the most violent clashes between monks and security forces took place earlier this year.
It provides the most detailed picture yet of an official crackdown against monks involved in the protests that broke out in March.
The document, signed by Li Changping, the prefecture head, records decisions made by the local Communist Party cadres’ executive committee.
