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Council subsequently produced a number of reports dealing with topics
such as the development of a tourist lodge, an analysis of possible
benefits of logging versus non-logging, economic development and
anthropological studies. These reports are currently under consideration
by NEDP. As well, the funds given by NEDP support the native people in
their ongoing dialogue with the Province of British Columbia.
"On 30 September 1988, the provincial Government announced that it
intended to proceed with a mix of logging and recreational activity in
the Stein Valley and to start work on an access road. This decision was
heavily criticized by native and environmental groups. The Lytton and
Mount Currie Bands asked Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd., a
New Zealand-based company, and the holder of the cutting rights to the
area, to stop all logging development in the area. On 13 April 1989,
Fletcher Challenge indicated that it would cease all activities in the
disputed Stein Valley for at least a year. This apparently was done in
order to give the provincial Government and the Lytton and Mount Currie
Bands time to resolve their dispute over the future of the Stein Valley.
Efforts to seek a solution to this dispute are currently under way."
China
35. In a communication of 2 May 1989 addressed to the Government concerned,
the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur:
"A number of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns were reportedly killed
or injured in the course of demonstrations which took place in Lhasa on
10 December 1988, including the following persons: Gyalpo
(Ngawang Kunga), dead, and Anu (Ngawang Drupchok), seriously injured in
the bowels3 from Drepting monastery; Kalsang Tsering (Lobsang Bekyong)^
shot from rooftop, reportedly died as a result of injuries, Lobsang Tenpa
(Ngawang Phuntsog), seriously injured in hip, and Tsering Shelchgpa,
wounded in neck and kidneys and then taken to Gutsa prison, all from Sera
monastery; Wangdu (Lobsang Targye), suffered chest, bowels and kidney
wounds and broken shoulder, reportedly died as a result of injuries, from
Ganden monastery; Lochen (Locho), broken leg, from Kiawo Monastery;
Gyaltsen Choesang, Gyaltsen Thinley, Gyaltsen Tender, Ngawang Lhadron and
Lobsang Wangmo9 unspecified injuries, all from Garu nunnery.
"It has further been alleged that at 24 January 1989 the following
Buddhist monks or religious students were among prisoners detained in
Tibet as a result of the September 1987, March 1988 and December 1988
demonstrations? Yulo Dawa Tsering9 sentenced on 19 January 1989 to
14 years imprisonment, Bakdo3 Tadin9 Tenpa Wangdak3 Dakpa Tashi,
Phuntsog Gyantsen, Tenzin Tsultim, Drakpa Sonam9 Lobsang Chunjor,
Lobsang Palden9 Drakpa.Tsultim, Tsondup Gyaltsen, Lhendup Keldens
Lobsang Dawa and Dakpa Tengye, 15 monks from Ganden monastery;
Lobsang Thupkhye9 monk from Sera monastery; Ngawang Chime9
Jamphel Sherab, Jamphel Wangchuk, Ngawang Shampel9 Ngawang Zyigyen and
Ngawang Thoesum, monks from Drepung monastery; Tsering Dhondup9 student
from the Nyechung Government religious training school; Thupten, student
from Nyechung.
"It has been reported that a number of monks and nuns were
ill-treated while in custody.