Estos equipos han mantenido una "vigilación intrusiva" in the villages with interrogations and political indoctrination of citizens, según Human Rights Watch. They also describe how the teams pressure Tibetans to express their support for the Communist Party and to publicly oppose the Dalai Lama..
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BEIJING.- China keeps 21.000 officials in the Tibet region acting as spies, controlling the population to prevent protests from occurring and ensuring that Tibetans support the Communist Party and not the Dalai Lama, denounce this Monday Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The Chinese Government decided in 2011 create surveillance teams of four or more people in each of the more than 5.000 villages in the region, in an unprecedented campaign to prevent protests like those in 2008.
The measure should have ended in 2014 and the teams had to have relocated, si bien HRW advierte hoy de que sigue vigente y afirma que "hay señales" que indican que los equipos permanecerán en estas ubicaciones de manera "permanente".
Since they were transferred, estos equipos de control han llevado a cabo una "vigilancia intrusiva" in the villages, through interrogating citizens about their religious or political thoughts and even subjecting them to political indoctrination.
También han establecido unidades de seguridad para controlar la actitud de aldeanos o para recabar información que pueda facilitar una detención u otro "castigo", HRW says in a statement.
Official reports describe the teams pressuring Tibetans to express support for the ruling Communist Party and publicly oppose the Dalai Lama., adds the organization. "La decisión de extender este programa de control en el Tíbet de manera indefinida no es otra cosa que una violación continua de los derechos humanos. La nueva normalidad para los tibetanos es la vigilancia permanente", said the director of HRW in China, Sophie Richardson.
El Ejecutivo inicialmente explicó que el objetivo de los equipos desplazados a los pequeños pueblos era "la mejora de servicios y de condiciones", but according to the leader of the Party in the region in 2011, su principal cometido era "convertir cada aldea en un fuerte en la lucha contra el separatismo", in reference to those who support the Dalai Lama, supports the NGO in defense of human rights.
Other organizations such as the Campaign for Tibet have been denouncing similar practices carried out by the authorities., como sesiones de "educación patriótica" in Tibet and other regions where the Tibetan ethnic group lives, como Sichuan o Gansu.
Entries to the region are restricted, and it is almost impossible for foreign journalists to confirm this situation from the ground, since they are prohibited from entering, unless it is on a trip organized by the Chinese regime.
Beijing assures that Tibet has been an inseparable part of its territory for centuries, while Tibetans in exile argue that the region was long virtually independent until it was occupied by communist troops in 1951.
