“Chinese authorities destroyed a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and forced Buddhist monks to watch it,” Radio Free Asia reported.
“After ‘official allegations that the statue was built too high,’ the Chinese authorities destroyed the statue in the Tibetan county of Drago over a period of nine days, starting on December 12,” the report said. Radio Free Asia confirmed the disaster with satellite images. The statue stood under a large, white dome. Now, it’s a pile of rubble.
“It simply came to our notice then [1966-76] “Cultural Revolution, when the Chinese government destroyed everything that was old in Tibet,” said a Tibetan living in India. “It seems that the Chinese authorities deliberately made the destruction more disrespectful to the Buddhists by destroying 45 prayer wheels used by the faithful,” the story said in the same report.
According to the publication, the statue was relatively new and its destruction marks the growing barbarity of the Chinese regime in recent years.
“With the construction completed on October 5, 2015, the Buddha statue in Drago was made with contributions of about 40 million yuan ($ 6.3 million) by local Tibetans and was designed to withstand earthquakes,” said a former Drago resident. named Palden, who lives now. in India.
“And it had the full approval of the local authorities,” Palden said, adding that Chinese authorities later withdrew their approval and said the statue had been built too high.
“But in reality, their intention is to completely destroy Tibetan identity by eradicating the Tibetan religion and culture,” he said.
As Brahma Chellaney pointed out on Twitter, China is taking a page out of the Taliban game book. The Taliban destroyed countless religious sites in Afghanistan during their first administration before the US-led invasion. Their most notable targets were two huge Buddha statues in Bamiyan built in the sixth century.
The rationale is probably similar: Adherence to Buddhism precludes strict observance of the regime. In Afghanistan, this regime is radical Islam as defined by the Taliban. In China, this regime is communism as defined by Xi Jinping.
nationalreview.com
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
.
