Tongde

Remarkably, the film tapes were successfully smuggled out of China, apparently just days before Dhondup Wangchen and Golog Jigme, his monk cameraman, were picked up by the police on March 26, Gyaljong Tsetrin says. They were on their way to Tongde county in Qinghai province, a Tibetan area in the northwest of the country, when they were detained. Just weeks earlier, violent anti-Chinese riots had broken out in Lhasa and spread across Tibetan areas in the west of China.

2008 October 2, Dinah Gardner, “Enemy of the state”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2014

On Friday, at least 1,000 people protested at a government building in Tongde County, not far from Tongren.[…] At Friday’s demonstration in Tongde County, marchers demanded the release of 50 monks seized a day earlier by the police after they raised a Tibetan flag and banners extolling the Dalai Lama.

2012 March 17, Andrew Jacobs, “Tibetans Protest in Northwest China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2012, Asia Pacific