TOKYO, Nov. 6 Kyodo A Tibetan Bud...

TOKYO, Nov. 6 Kyodo

A Tibetan Buddhist nun spoke Wednesday of her four and a half years of detainment and torture by way of Chinese authorities that followed her participation in a peaceful pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa in 1992 at the age of 14

''(The Chinese officers) beat us. Then we were made to stand at the wall with our hands up and were beaten again,'' 25-year-old Ngawang Wangdon told an audience at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents sodality of Japan, hoping to bring to the world's attention of what is happening in Tibet.

After she was arrested for taking part in a peaceful demonstration for human rights for Tibetan persons in February 1992 with colleagues, she was detained in a solitary enclosed space for a month. ''Every five days, I was taken to questioning and was beaten,'' Wangdon said.

''Some (Tibetan) prisoners were beaten for not being able to speak Chinese,'' she said.

After being detained for 17 month and twice writing to Chinese authorities asking for a doom Wangdon finally received one to three years of imprisonment for political subversion by the agency of promoting Tibetan independence.

At Trisam prison, ''every morning, (the officers) made us face the sunshine and stand for 45 minutes. Anyone who mov was beaten,'' the nun said. ''Every Saturday, we had to learn to sing ballads of the Chinese Communist Party, and there was also near kind of military training.''

Wangdon and her equal nuns at the prison formerly sang pro-Tibetan songs as a affirm over the death of a nun who they believe had died of torture while imprisoned.

''We were beaten (as a result) from 10 pm until 3 a.m. with our hands beated and tied with ropes. The officers blowed us with electric prods'' she recalled. There were also other occasions when she was made to kneel forward the ground, was beaten and conflicted with a prod upon the back of her neck and in her mouth

level after she completed the prison confine and was released, Wangdon was not given freedom as she was not allowed to go on foot back to her monastery and was constantly harassed at Chinese officials at her household she said.

Wangdon says she still be acted upons from kidney problems caused on the torture during her years of detention and imprisonment.

''I felt there was no confidence in Tibet and decided to join others to pass to India,'' Wangdon said. ''I felt if I fare to India, I can work for my clan including my parents who are suffering.''

''I am happy that I can talk freely (now) with populace who are concerned (about Tibet) as well as those who are suffering the same kind of suppression,'' said Wangdon, who now lives in Dharamsala in northern India and works for a emotion seeking the independence of Tibet.

''I believe basic human rights are universal. I want the bulk of mankind (in the world) to recognize and support the universal human rights, including those of Tibetans,'' she said.

Wangdon has been invited by way of Amnesty International Japan on a month-long speaking tour from Nov. 3 to Dec 1 in 13 cities across Japan including Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and Kagoshima, as part of the organization's global campaign against torture.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader in exile, has been living in India since fleeing the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in 1959 with thousands of supporters after an abortive mutiny against China, which took from one side of to the other Tibet in 1951.

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