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Tibetan Prayer Flags Destroyed

June 18, 2020;

Chinese authorities have undertaken a campaign of “behavioural reform”, destroying prayer flags in Golog and Tengchen, Tibet. In what has been described as, “an act of contempt and utter disregard for local Tibetans’ customs and faith”, sources have described how, “authorities have set out to root out this Tibetan tradition of hanging prayer flags everywhere, directing local officials, the heads of monasteries, and relevant authorities… to carry out the order”.

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