"A Drop of Tear: Nyenpo Yutse's Cry for Help"

This is a translation and re-creation of a Tibetan language blog post by Kunga Tsayang, also known by his pen name Gangnyi (??????? or "Sun of the Snow"). The original post is not available, as are all other posts on the major Tibetan language blog site, tibetabc.cn, at least since the Janurary of 2010. Thanks to High Peaks Pure Earth, which had saved a copy of the original post on 26 March 2009, Tibetan Plateau blog and Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement are able to present the following translation.

The author, Kunga Tsayang or Gangnyi, was arrested by Chinese authorities on 17 March 2009 and sentenced to 5 years of prison on 17 November 2009 on various charges including posting articles online. Gangnyi is one of the many Tibetan writers, artists and educators who are being arrested or punished by the Chinese government in the recent years, as reported on the blog of Lungrig Gyal, editor of Tibet Times (???????????????). The following post is an evidence that Gangnyi was an environmental activist and reporter.


The first page of the saved original blog post

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A Drop of Tear: Nyenpo Yutse's Cry for Help


Purely beautiful


The mountains, waters and forests of my country are scarred with these unhealable wounds.





Despite forty years of mining, from the beginning of eighties till now, one cay say that no benefits to the locals are seen or heard.




Effects of coal mining: The holy mountain in the ancestral land of the three tribes of Golok people has been scarred with unhealable wounds. The glacier of the upper valley is visibly melting; the lakes and the streams are dwindling and the trees and plants of the lower valleys are dying out silently. All these have happening for years, yet nobody in the area seems to pay attention. So after two years of studying the situation we on behalf of the local people urged local authority to stop these mining activities.







As par the written decision of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which states that "The sources of resource depletion and environmental pollution are backward modes of production. The local authorities should decisively enforce the necessary national laws, guidelines and policy to quickly stop such activities." Accordingly, these non-beneficial and polluting activities should be stopped immediately. [The written decision of the Party also states that] "Whoever develops a region should also preserve it; whoever destroys the environment should restore it and whoever receive benefits should also compensate." So according to this principle, it is high time that those who caused this destruction and received benefits take responsibility for their actions.