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Environmental destruction leads to protests

The report, commissioned by Free Tibet, is titled "Environmental protests on the Tibetan Plateau."

The report analyzes twelve confirmed environmental protests that have occurred in Tibetan areas in Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu since 2010. The report found that official mining, river damming, pollution and spreading false information were the main causes of the protests. The Tibetan region is rich in natural resources, including clean drinking water resources and large deposits of gold, copper, silver and chromium. Rivers originating from the Tibetan Plateau are ideal for hydroelectric power generation.

Despite the authorities' promise to change policies, nothing has actually changed. Most protests have been met with violent repression and police threats. The report cites an August 2013 protest in Zaduo County as an example, where the authorities dispersed the protesters by threatening, intimidating and spreading false information to make Chinese and Tibetan people against each other. Another example is Deqin County in Yunnan Province, where polices constantly beat a protester in July 2014. The head of a mining company brazenly said that if Tibetan continued to protest, the authorities had "sufficient reason" to kill the protester.

Environmental degradation and the destruction of people's livelihood often trigger further conflicts between Tibetans and the authorities. After the anti-mining protests in Buliu County, Nagqu Prefecture in May 2013, the authorities soon implemented a "political re-education" program in the county. This has sparked larger-scale protests and global responses.

Reports say that in order to protest environmental damage, some Tibetans even committed suicide, and at least two Tibetans set themselves on fire near mining sites.

The official deployment of a large number of police and armed police to siege and participate in mining has seriously damaged the local ecological environment, which is a livelihood disaster of colonialism

Namtso Lake is the holy lake in Tibet

A Tibetan said truthfully, "We Tibetans do not learn about the value of the earth from books or newspapers, but through our own lives and the protection of our land by our ancestors for thousands of years. The official exploitation of these holy mountains and holy lakes is not just pollution and destruction of the environment. It undermined our traditions, value, humanity, laws, and religious beliefs, and is the destruction of the historical heritage left by our ancestors."

The report suggests that many Tibetans view land as an invaluable protector of their entire living environment, and the value of this land cannot be sold for money.