TESTIMONY
Ever since The Peoples Republic of China signed the United Nations Convention against Torture in 1986 they have denied all existence of torture in their legal system. But the testimonies of the political refuges from Tibet shows the opposite.
During the 33 years that the Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso spent in Chinese prison starvation, torture and humiliation was part of his everyday life. When he escaped to India he managed to smuggle with him some of the instrument used for torture. These instrument bear the testimony of what is happening inside Tibet. The portraits are taken of three buddhist monks who in the photos are showing wounds after torture. The last portrait is of a buddhist nun who was raped and sexually abused with an electric baton. They all bring forward and share their testimony of the torture that are bieng used by the by the Chinese government in Tibet.
The book Testimony have been created together with Amnesty International.
Knife gun:
When the Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso escaped to India he managed to smuggle with him some of the torture instruments that are used in the Chinese prison in Tibet. One of his friends managed to bribe a prison guard and pay him to get several of the torture intrument and devices that was used in the prison. This is a knife gun that have had poison put on its edge and that are used in crowds and demonstrations to wound or kill people in a quiet and silent way.
Palden Gyatso here shows how his mouth was destroyed with an electric shock gun during a interrogation.His tongue is crackled and the inside of his mouth covered with scares. The electric shocks also damaged his memory and made all his teeth fall out.
Ever since The Peoples Republic of China signed the United Nations Convention against torture in 1986 they have denied all existence of torture in there legal system. But the testimonies of the political refuges from Tibet shows the opposite. During the 33 years that the Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso spent in Chinese prison starvation, torture and humiliation was part of his evryday life.
The Buddhist monk Tenzin Dhondup, 37 years old, shows the scares from the situation when he was badly beaten by the Chinese military. His monastery was forced to take part in a religious ceremony arranged for international media to show that religious freedom exist in the country. When the monks instead started to shout Free Tibet they where surrounded by the military. Tenzin became unconscious from poisonous tear gas that was thrown out and he was then beaten with a stick where a nail had been put in the top. He nearly died from the bleeding wound but succeeded to hide when all people with visible damages where arrested and during the following days he escaped out of Tibet.
