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00:00This is Tibet China, the roof of the world.
00:07Its cultural heritage is well protected.
00:11Freedom of religion is fully guaranteed.
00:16Yes, indeed!
00:46It is a great place to live here.
01:05It is a great place to live here.
01:10It's a momentous struggle between a communist party and Tibetan civilization.
01:31Some kind of cultural genocide is taking place.
01:35It's a mystery.
02:02It's a mystery.
02:04The story of that disappearance, not only of an individual, but of a culture.
02:18Tibet is almost forgotten.
02:20It's almost impossible to get information out.
02:23If you haven't seen it, it's a mystery.
02:29It's a mystery.
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02:50It's a mystery that can be very strong.
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03:02Aja Rinpoche is a senior Buddhist monk from Tibet.
03:28Being under Chinese rule, he was made to serve the Communist Party, until he fled.
03:58Tibetan Buddhists have two leaders, regarded as the nation's kings.
04:10The Dalai Lama is the most famous.
04:13Less well-known is his counterpart, the Panchen Lama.
04:18Tibetans believe they are reborn or reincarnated after they die.
04:25The Panchen Lama is the most famous.
04:40But in 1995, when he was just six years old, the Panchen Lama mysteriously disappeared.
04:59But in 1995, when he was just six years old, the Panchen Lama mysteriously disappeared.
05:09The missing boy is at the heart of Beijing's long battle to control the Dalai Lama's situation.
05:34And, with it, the fate of Tibet.
05:47When he was welcomed and told him,
05:54He was a little brat,
05:57he had a few years old,
05:59it would rather be a good man.
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06:20So, it was a lot of people.
06:23I don't know what they were going to talk about.
06:27It's been a long time for a long time.
06:38It's been a long time for a long time.
06:48Gyal Lo is an academic who fled China in 2020.
06:52He now campaigns for the survival of Tibet's culture and language.
06:58They have made the world of Japanese people living in the world.
07:05They have been a long time for a long time.
07:09They have been a long time for a long time.
07:12They have been a long time for a long time to become a long time.
07:16The Dalai Lama was discovered by the Panchen Lama in 1938.
07:46He led Tibet from his residence, the Potala Palace in Lhasa.
08:07In 1950, the Chinese Communist Party invaded Tibet...
08:14..and took control.
08:18Within a decade, fearing for his life, the Dalai Lama escaped across the Himalayas to India,
08:25where he's lived ever since.
08:35It is ruled as a so-called autonomous region...
08:38..under the leadership of China's President Xi Jinping.
08:43China has almost 60 ethnic minorities, including Tibetans.
08:48But President Xi's mission is to forge a national identity...
08:52..centred on the Han Chinese majority.
08:57In this broad, beautiful and beautiful land...
09:03..the peoples have a common family...
09:08..and that is China.
09:11..the peoples have found themselves to be a national group of scholars...
09:15..for the two of us, the one who was a national group...
09:18..it was a national group of scholars who were...
09:21..in the European Union.
09:23In the past decade, around 100 Tibetans are reported to have been detained for contacting
09:52the outside world with their views about China's rule.
10:07Those living in Tibet are under constant surveillance, with journalists unable to work freely.
10:18A journalist we're calling Chang has agreed to take the risk to go undercover.
10:38Some 7 million Tibetans live across the past decade.
10:48Chang is investigating roughly a quarter of the country.
11:06It's made up of parts of what are now Chinese provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
11:18If caught filming secretly, Chang could be imprisoned or disappear without trace.
11:30He's on his way to Tibet's capital, Lhasa.
11:42He's on his way to Tibet's capital, Lhasa.
11:52There are police posts equipped with high-tech surveillance every 500 meters.
12:14Chang is filming people secretly because those living in Tibet can't speak freely to the media.
12:42There are police posts in the world.
12:44For their safety, their identities have been disguised.
12:49To even talk about the Dalai Lama here is risking trouble.
12:53Tibetans who worship the Dalai Lama risk imprisonment.
13:15The roots of this religious ban date back to the 1990s, and an event surrounding their other Buddhist king, the Panchen Lama.
13:30I cannot fight against the Dalai Lama.
13:32The next day after 11 years later, the culture of the past decade of the Prophet's world is a primarilyandalistic and a beautiful alien born country.
13:40The people with Accessibility and the also invisible as the slaves in the Dalai Lama.
13:45The people with disabilities absolutely hide the name of the people.
13:50Aja Rinpoche had high Buddhist positions, but also had to work with the Chinese government.
14:20This was the first time since China invaded Tibet that one of the two highest spiritual
14:35leaders had died.
14:41With the Dalai Lama in exile, the Chinese government created a search team, including religious
14:47leaders, to select a new Panchen Lama.
14:53Their search would take half a decade.
14:56When Zoh추in began, they waited for the first time they were surrounded by the young people.
15:03They don't know what to stand up.
15:05If I were to the other people who were to the other people and people who were to the other
15:11they will still Fürst.
15:13When they were human beings, I would always diÄŸer people who were to the other people who
15:19were to the other people who were to the other people who loved them.
15:26In 1994, a few documents are reaching us in London.
15:36This was almost the last moment when we did receive documents from Tibet.
15:42It became too dangerous later.
15:45In the 1990s, Robert Barnett was running a news and research organisation about Tibet.
15:53When a Chinese government document was leaked to him, it revealed Beijing's real plans for Tibet's Buddhist leaders.
16:03Among those documents was a little booklet, and it was called A Golden Bridge Leading into a New Era.
16:12We gradually realised this is extraordinary. This is exceptional.
16:17This was directly saying what policies were going to be, and they were new policies.
16:23This paragraph says,
16:26The focal point in our region's fight to oppose separatism is to oppose the Dalai clique.
16:33As the saying goes, to kill a serpent, we must first chop off its head.
16:40If we don't do that, we cannot succeed in the struggle against separatism.
16:48So this is basically saying we can only destroy that movement by eliminating the Dalai Lama's strength, by destroying him as a political force.
16:58And their method of destroying him was the demonisation of the Dalai Lama.
17:10Suddenly, people who respected the Dalai Lama are deemed to be enemies.
17:14So that's what we see in the succession debate.
17:22The most significant turning points are this 1994 decision and the 1995 decision over the Panshalama.
17:33Though China's attitude towards the Dalai Lama was hardening, the search committee secretly sent him notes about the candidates for the next Panshalama.
17:48One boy stood out to the Dalai Lama.
17:53To become a chopped up, we have no other people who said I could judge him.
17:55I was waiting for a
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18:36that the young boy would say a kind of political prisoner.
18:40I think he may be the youngest political prisoner.
18:45I really was concerned about his safety.
18:48Aja Rinpoche says the Panchen Lama and his family were whisked away in a Communist Party plane.
19:13Never to be seen in public again, the fate of Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama would be the start
19:19of a decades-long mystery.
19:35If you do an online search for Gandanchoki Nima, the missing boy, it's almost impossible
19:42to find out anything about who he is.
19:47Kate Saunders is a leading Tibet specialist who has been researching China's policies
19:53towards its religious leaders.
19:56We've only been able to piece together a few things about his background.
20:02He was born in a nomadic village of Lari in Nagchu, which is in the Tibet Autonomous region.
20:15This is a slightly grainy photograph of Gandanchoki Nima and his family.
20:24We think that his father is a doctor and his mother a nurse.
20:29We know that he has siblings, a brother and a sister.
20:33And he's wearing a traditional brown brocade with the orange signalling his status.
20:43Gandanchoki Nima was taken from his home together with his family.
20:49And when China wants someone to disappear, that person can disappear like a stone.
20:57This really is a story of that disappearance, not only of an individual, but of a civilization.
21:05If Gandanchoki Nima hadn't been abducted, he would have gone here, the Tashi Lampo Monastery in Tibet,
21:17to receive a lifetime of spiritual education.
21:20Chinese soldiers now surrounded it.
21:23We found one of the monks present at the time.
21:27Even now it's not safe for him to speak openly.
21:31The monastery's leadership had helped identify Gandanchoki Nima as the Panchen Lama.
21:49We tried to find those who'd met the boy,
21:52but they were all either imprisoned or had disappeared from public life.
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22:25over 50 people were arrested for opposing China's interference over the
22:36Panchen Lama. It set the tone for Beijing's future rule.
22:55Despite the risks, our journalist Chang is secretly filming a
23:25Chinese taxi driver. He says many Tibetans face severe travel
23:40restrictions. Few Tibetans are allowed to leave China. But some still risk their lives to escape
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25:00The Tibetan uprising of 2008 was the biggest protest against China's rule in two decades.
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25:35The Chinese government suppressed the protests with force.
25:48In the years since, some have taken extreme measures to protest.
26:05Since 2009, around 160 Tibetans are believed to have set themselves on fire as an active
26:35resistance, some speaking out despite their horrific injuries.
26:42We are beginning to die.
26:49We are beginning to die.
26:52I think it's easy to find the opposite side.
26:56I tell you that in 2014,
26:59you can see it over here.
27:02It's very easy to find someone.
27:05I cannot find someone where they are.
27:08They're always the same.
27:14I tell them that they're not looking for another.
27:17He was a veteran man and a man of his brother.
27:26He helped me get a lot of money,
27:31and he worked at Kambun Dawey.
27:38I was a buck of the girl, so he helped me get his job.
27:43Nam Chee was only 15 years old at the time.
27:58Namjee's protest defied China's plans to eradicate the Dalai Lama from Buddhism.
28:20These dated back decades to when the government removed the Panchen Lama and set out to select
28:31their own replacement.
28:47Even China's president was involved.
29:07Beijing was now taking control of the reincarnation process.
29:20Arja Rinpoche says he was made to take part in the crucial ceremony that would decide
29:25the new Panchen Lama.
29:32I'm there.
29:36I'm there.
29:45We were taught at the end of the day.
29:51He says China forced the selection committee to choose by drawing lots from an ancient golden urn.
30:21He says China forced the selection committee to choose from an ancient golden urn.
30:33He says China forced the selection committee to choose from an ancient golden urn.
30:45China forced the selection committee to choose from an ancient golden urn.
31:03Another young boy, Yansen Nobu, the son of two Communist Party members, was selected and enthroned as the 11th Panchen Lama, the figure who would in future choose the next Dalai Lama.
31:21It was a victory for China and its rule over Tibet.
31:39Arja Rinpoche says he was asked by the Chinese government to tutor the new Panchen Lama they'd appointed, fearing the consequences of refusing.
32:01In 1998, he escaped.
32:09In 1998, he escaped.
32:15The fate of the disappeared Panchen Lama remains a mystery.
32:43We've tried over the years to track family members, but no one has been prepared to speak.
32:49The level of fear is overwhelming.
32:55We are in an era where there is one disappeared Panchen Lama and one official Panchen Lama,
33:02groomed as a patriotic figurehead to be the representative for the Chinese Communist Party.
33:20In the years since, the Chinese appointed Panchen Lama, Jansen Nobu, has grown up under
33:27their control, publicly supporting their official line.
33:31It is also the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
33:46Undercover inside Tibet, it's too risky for Chang to ask about the missing Panchen Lama.
33:52But the state-appointed one comes up.
34:11The new Panchen Lama, the real Panchen Lama, is to serve as the real Panchen Lama.
34:30Images of the Dalai Lama were once commonplace in Tibet.
34:37But these have been replaced by portraits of Chinese leaders.
34:41the young Panchen Lama was once commonplace in Muslim Ships.
34:46I see that many places are also looking for their lights.
34:49So we are living here, the young people are living here.
34:56So, the young people will use your General Assembly who put in them?
34:59Oh, that's the same!
35:00The young people are watching your family.
35:03So we have to take the back of my house by taking the back of its hands.
35:06It's certainly the case now that they think that loyalty should be to the party, especially
35:15other Xi Jinping.
35:16They're gradually reducing the content of their religion, but not eliminating.
35:21This is what they call sinicization of religion, so that it becomes less Tibetan.
35:27Forging a common consciousness of a Chinese nation is the key formula for all Xi Jinping's
35:55policy towards the ethnic minorities in China.
36:00The battle is now over culture.
36:02They're all going to become more Chinese.
36:19Nam Chi is one of an estimated 5,600 Tibetans who've been detained or sentenced.
36:25for their political views since 1990.
36:28In 2015, she took to the streets with a photograph of the Dalai Lama.
36:34Soon after, she was imprisoned.
36:37Nam Chi says she was forced to undergo political violence.
36:43Nam Chi says she was forced to undergo political re-education, studying frequently with a Chinese
36:59government officer.
37:01She spent three years in prison and says she was released with strict conditions.
37:21Nam Chi builds a Ur alto water with no means a hundred years.
37:22Nam Chi says she did not fluffy.
37:40In 2023, she fled Tibet, making the dangerous escape across the mountains.
37:49I would like to use the same thing.
37:52I was like, I was like, oh my God.
37:55I had to be able to find a person.
38:01I was like, oh, my God.
38:03And I was like, oh.
38:05I can't.
38:07I was like, oh my God.
38:09I was like, oh my God.
38:11I was like, I was like, oh my God.
38:15This is what we do.
38:17Like many Tibetans, Nam Chi is now separated from her family because of the advanced surveillance
38:39systems that enable the Chinese government to spy on everyone.
38:47Surveillance systems are fundamental to the way in which the Chinese Communist Party rules Tibet.
38:56Everyday life in Tibet is monitored in ways that no one outside of North Korea probably can really understand.
39:09Undercover inside Tibet, Chang discovers that places of worship are now under heavy surveillance.
39:17He feels it's too risky to film while going into the monasteries.
39:32But once inside, he notices many surveillance cameras.
39:41The government has concentrated surveillance resources on having facial recognition cameras in monasteries like no other aspect of Tibetan life.
39:56There's obviously a focus on supervising and monitoring religious life.
40:03The desire to control, to instill a sense of fear.
40:12Fear.
40:13Very deliberately, society-wide.
40:19Chang meets one Tibetan, a high-ranking Chinese government employee, who makes an admission about the strict controls imposed on religion.
40:34shouldn't we take on these questions?
40:35How do you take these churches?
40:36What's the place in church government can be that you've come to?
40:37I don't want to go.
40:38I don't want to go.
40:39There's a government of players.
40:40We're actually here.
40:41They are shut down.
40:42We're all in the place.
40:43We all have to go.
40:44There's enough people to visit.
40:45I can't go. The government's office can't go.
40:49The government's office is closed.
40:53They're all closed.
40:55Before the government, the people are closed.
40:59The government's office is very important.
41:03But I have a conversation with the government's office.
41:07What does that mean?
41:09If you have a photo, you'll be a guest.
41:16Everyday activities such as language preservation,
41:21passing on traditional Tibetan practices,
41:24these are being criminalised.
41:27Surveillance is at the heart of this process
41:30of subjugating the Tibetan people,
41:34of making them Chinese.
41:37China's tightening grip doesn't just affect religious life.
41:48As Chang later finds out from a Tibetan mother,
41:51it starts early, with its children.
42:07In one video uploaded on Chinese social media as part of a school assignment,
42:37a young Tibetan girl has a message for other children.
42:40Today I will tell you a funny story.
42:44Today I came to the supermarket.
42:47My mother always talks about the Greek language.
42:51The boss doesn't understand.
42:53Can you tell me?
42:55Please tell me.
42:59I'm here to tell you.
43:01As a new generation of students,
43:04we should teach our parents,
43:06and our parents.
43:07I'm here to tell you.
43:34and taught in Mandarin.
43:56A Tibetan academic, Gyar Loh,
43:59began researching what was happening in these schools.
44:04He documented his secret visits
44:18to more than 50 boarding kindergartens.
44:34oria inbread,
44:36recorded his secret to more than 50 languages.
44:38In the past, in the past,
44:40in the past,
44:42he put them on the right side.
44:43In the past,
44:46he put them in a wrong way.
44:48State media presents these schools as the best way for Tibetan children to thrive in
44:56modern China.
45:15Little is known about what life is really like in boarding schools, but Gyar Loh has found
45:22rare footage showing how some Tibetan children are treated.
45:30The headmaster of a boarding school in eastern Tibet.
45:40And a teacher in another one.
45:48Human rights groups are concerned that abuses like these are widespread.
46:00It's estimated that up to one million Tibetan children are now taught in boarding schools.
46:17Endorsing them, President Xi Jinping visited one last year.
46:25It's important to know that there are many people who are living in the world.
46:32It's important to know that there are many people who are living in the world.
46:38If you find anything you can find out on other people you can find out on other people.
46:42Wanna see me!
46:43Wanna see me!
46:45Wanna see me!
46:48Can I see you all?
46:52The longer he's in Tibet, the more Chiang hears about the repression of its culture.
47:15This Han Chinese man describes what he sees as the government's long-term objectives.
47:20Soon after, Chiang leaves Tibet.
47:45I think the Chinese government has done a lot of work in the West.
47:52The Chinese government has seen a lot of security.
47:58If the Chinese government wants to follow or check it out, it's very easy to know.
48:12So I have a big doubt.
48:28Thirty years after the succession dispute, the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama continues to tour Tibet.
48:41The Dalai Lama's choice for the Panchen Lama, Gendon Choki Nima, remains out of sight.
48:53Very little is known about the village where the boy was raised and last seen.
48:58He was taken from his hometown of Lari, deep inside Tibet.
49:05We managed to recruit another journalist prepared to make the trip, despite the risks.
49:15Visitors are checked on arrival and under constant surveillance.
49:23It's not safe to ask any questions about the missing Panchen Lama.
49:30She tries to find some evidence of his life here.
49:35But there is none.
49:37Just very heavy security.
49:41Only one image of the boy has surfaced since he was abducted from here thirty years ago.
49:58Kate Saunders received a copy.
50:01It's never been broadcast before.
50:04The Tibetan script at the top reads photograph of a family reunion.
50:11She believes it's a photograph of the missing Panchen Lama, the only image since he disappeared.
50:19It seems to show Gendon Choki Nima.
50:24He's got a toy helicopter.
50:26He's sitting on his father's lap.
50:28He could be around ten, around eleven.
50:31This looks as though it's in some sort of official compound.
50:38And it does show us that the family was still together at that point.
50:45I believe it's genuine, but we still haven't been able to fully confirm that.
50:52It shows how successfully China has been able to disappear.
50:58Not only the child, but also his entire family.
51:08In the years since the boy disappeared, the Chinese government has only responded with its official line.
51:15Tsekichi Nima is aologian.
51:36Muslim
52:06even more than the people who were able to see.
52:16So all the people who were able to see
52:21in a way that the people of the country
52:26saw a lot of the people who were able to see
52:30that the people and the people who were able to see
52:36Gendan Chokinima is center stage in that fundamental
53:06struggle for survival, not only between Buddhism and China's
53:13Sinicization campaign, but also between our values and the values
53:21that other authoritarian powers seek to impose upon us,
53:26which matters to the world in the 21st century.
53:30After decades of enforced rule, China has all but ensured it can now choose
53:40who succeeds Tibet's supreme leader.
53:43At stake for millions of Tibetans around the world,
53:49their connection to a unique culture and civilization.
53:54Like the boy still held prisoner and the Dalai Lama who chose him,
54:02Tibet, faces being slowly wiped away.
54:09The country must be devastated and that they sought to feel better and
54:13live in our lives.
54:15In the Konsequist and the Kamala, both of them had a great place
54:18for their lives.
54:19In other words, it was a very strong secret in the world.
54:22People who used it at times,
54:23not only did they learn their lives,
54:25in such a way.
54:27They never saw anything and were able to use
54:28them for their lives.
54:30A lot of people who used them,
54:33at times in their lives,
54:36extractive.
54:40You must have been out of time.
54:45You must have been out of time.
54:51You must have been out of time.
54:55And for the rest of the day you are not in the last day.
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