The Tibetan government-in-exile has taken aim at the “draconian measures” used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to enforce its so-called “zero-COVID policy,” saying the measures are “evidently causing more harm than good.”
In a statement issued on Sept. 26, the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in Dharamshala, India, said the CCP’s “mismanagement of the pandemic outbreak in Tibet only exposes Beijing’s failed COVID-policy implementation resulting in the endangerment of Tibetan lives.”
Tibet is considered an autonomous region of the People’s Republic of China.
The comments from the Tibetan government-in-exile, also known as the Central Tibetan Administration, come as China’s strict containment restrictions across Tibet have led to cries for help from people in the capital of Lhasa, where local authorities have closed off parts of the city and rolled out mass-testing for residents….