Palden Sonam* expresses outrage at the suspicious circumstance in which Tulku Rigzin Hungkar Dorje, a victim of China’s campaign to assimilate Tibet and transnational repression, died in Vietnam on March 28, and calls the outrageous manner in which he was cremated there not only disrespect for the dead but also a humiliation for the living, all more because it issued a white paper on the human rights situation in Tibet on the same day.
In August 2024 Rigzin Hungkar Dorje (56), a prominent Tibetan lama with followers not only in Tibet but also in China and Vietnam, went missing. After eight months, he reappeared, but ...





