Message to the Ueno Royal Museum from Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol, a former political prisoner of conscience
Ngawang Sangdrol, of Garu Nunnery, was first detained in 199o and imprisoned for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. She was only 13 years old. She was released after 9 months, but arrested again in 1992. Her prison term spiked from an initial 3-years to a combined sentence of 23 years – a result of several sentence extensions within prison. She was imprisoned and tortured for 11 years and released in October 2002.
She remains an irrepressible champion of human rights and non-violence in spite of the daunting obstacles she faces.
Please read more about her: Here
This is a video message to Mr Seiichi Mizuno of the Ueno Royal Museum from her.
Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol talks about torture in prison
In June 1993, Ngawang Sangdrol and 13 other women record songs and poems of independence on an audiocassette in Drapchi Prison, which is smuggled out of the prison. In October, her sentence is extended by 6 years for the incident. This is the song.
