{"id":12412,"date":"2020-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/chinese-media-say-tibetan-dies-fighting-covid-19-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:00:00","slug":"chinese-media-say-tibetan-dies-fighting-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/chinese-media-say-tibetan-dies-fighting-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese media say Tibetan dies fighting COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese state media are reporting that a Tibetan man died from \n\u201coverwork\u201d this week after fighting to prevent the spread of the \ncoronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azi Lhundup (Ch: Azhen Nengzhou) was found dead on March 15 in a \nresting room in the Sichuan Hongyuan No. 1 Police Station, where he was \nan official, the Chinese media said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 30-year- old Tibetan was from Khyungchu (Ch: Hongyuan) county and\n was reportedly deployed in prevention work in a Tibetan area of \nSichuan, in western China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn the day before his death, he had been working continuously for 24 hours,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjnews.com.cn\/feature\/2020\/03\/16\/704637.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing News<\/a>, a Chinese language newspaper, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/198.71.233.163\/4vo.170.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Azi-Lhundup-1-600x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32177\"\/><figcaption><em>One of the photos of Azi Lhundup (right) being used by Chinese state media in their coverage of his death.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unanswered questions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reporting of Azi Lhundup\u2019s death appear to be an attempt by China\n to present a Tibetan poster boy for the campaign against coronavirus. \nChina annexed Tibet, a historically independent country, in 1959 and \ncontinues to rule over it with an iron fist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Months after the eruption of the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese \nauthorities have yet to provide figures for the number of Tibetan \ncasualties. Despite this, official Chinese media reported in detail \nabout Azi Lhundup\u2019s Tibetan nationality and his membership in the \nChinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seems to be an attempt to spread the narrative of Tibetans \nsupporting the work of the Chinese government up to the point of \nsacrificing their lives, without any verifiable information about the \ncause of Azi Lhundup\u2019s death, the reasons why he was \u201coverworking\u201d and \nwhether that was his voluntary choice.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chinese propaganda<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, Chinese state media have also been putting an official \npropaganda spin on the donations made by Tibetan monasteries and \nnunneries to areas of China affected by the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtibet.com\/tb\/xw_1629\/ypxw\/202003\/t20200316_964918.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese state-run Tibetan language media<\/a>\n have reported on the Chinese government\u2019s attempts at framing the \nmonasteries\u2019 and nunneries\u2019 humanitarian initiative as though the \nreligious fraternity had \u201cdiligently responded\u201d to the \u201cappeal\u201d of the \ngovernment to contribute to the prevention of the pandemic, therefore \npromoting the propaganda idea of \u201cLoving the country and loving the \nreligion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By doing this, Chinese state media try to present the compassionate \nand humanitarian actions of Tibetan Buddhist institutions in Tibet, as \nbeing driven by the Chinese government and in service of the promotion \nof Communist ideology \u2014  an ideology whose aim is to totally control \nmonastic institutions  and to stifle religious freedom in Tibet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media are reporting that a Tibetan man died from  \u201coverwork\u201d this week after fighting to prevent the spread of the  coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12413,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[45,691],"news_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12412","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-inside-tibet","categorie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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