European parliament asks China, Vietnam to account for Tibetan lama’s custodial death

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(TibetanReview.net, Apr30’25) – The European Parliament has on Apr 30 joined the growing international call on China and Vietnam to account for the arrest of a revered Buddhist leader from Tibet, his sudden death under suspicious circumstances in their custody in the latter’s territory, and the great secrecy and haste with which they cremated his body in the middle of the night late last month, all within a space of four days or so.

The Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Mounir Satouri, and the Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China, Engin Eroglu, have jointly addressed a letter to the Chinese Ambassador to the European Union on this matter, which concerns Tulku Hungkar Dorje, the 57-year-old abbot of Lung-ngon Monastery in Ga-de County of Golog Prefecture, Qinghai province.

Satouri has also written a separate letter to the Vietnamese Ambassador to the EU, raising...

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