'A Sequence of Tortures: A Diary of Interrogations' by Jamyang Kyi is an authorial work of exceptional importance as a part of the great peaceful uprising protests which took place across all the Three Provinces of Tibet in March 2008 and which are ineffaceable from the annals of modern Tibetan history.
On 1 April 2008, a group of police personnel claiming to be from the Qinghai Provincial State Security Department, on orders from Beijing, arrived at Jamyang Kyi’s office at the Qinghai Provincial Television Station and took her into custody. This was the first development in which an official, or a government officer, in Tibet was arrested in connection with the peaceful protests of 2008.
It is said, “There is in this world no walled fencing which is strong enough to be total protection against wind.” So it was that news about Jamyang Kyi’s arrest became known in the outside world on the second or third day of the incident. In particulars, not letting any loss of time, Radio Free Asia made the first broadcast about the development. As a result, globally well known news publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The times (London) carried news stories on her arrest one after another. Through successive postings and follow-ups on the news, the story appeared in a total of more than 500 publications across five continents and four oceans in a matter of several days. More significantly, journalists in Beijing demanded to know from the spokesperson of China’s Foreign Ministry the whereabouts of Jamyang Kyi. As a result of developments like this, the Qinghai Provincial State Security Department sent a direct communication to the Qinghai Provincial Television Station, informing them that they were releasing Jamyang Kyi on bail. And so, on the basis of a surety provided by the Qinghai Provincial Television Station, she was set free on 21 April 2008.
Astonishingly, in 2009, she made a series of postings on a blog she was maintaining inside Tibet a highly moving set of notes of fifty-nine thousand one hundred and fifteen words under the title of “Diary of Interrogations – A Sequence of Tortures.” Once again she single-handedly became the key figure who dug up and exposed to the outside world events that had taken place during the great peaceful protest movement in Tibet of 2008.
On 1 April 2008, a group of police personnel claiming to be from the Qinghai Provincial State Security Department, on orders from Beijing, arrived at Jamyang Kyi’s office at the Qinghai Provincial Television Station and took her into custody. This was the first development in which an official, or a government officer, in Tibet was arrested in connection with the peaceful protests of 2008.
It is said, “There is in this world no walled fencing which is strong enough to be total protection against wind.” So it was that news about Jamyang Kyi’s arrest became known in the outside world on the second or third day of the incident. In particulars, not letting any loss of time, Radio Free Asia made the first broadcast about the development. As a result, globally well known news publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The times (London) carried news stories on her arrest one after another. Through successive postings and follow-ups on the news, the story appeared in a total of more than 500 publications across five continents and four oceans in a matter of several days. More significantly, journalists in Beijing demanded to know from the spokesperson of China’s Foreign Ministry the whereabouts of Jamyang Kyi. As a result of developments like this, the Qinghai Provincial State Security Department sent a direct communication to the Qinghai Provincial Television Station, informing them that they were releasing Jamyang Kyi on bail. And so, on the basis of a surety provided by the Qinghai Provincial Television Station, she was set free on 21 April 2008.
Astonishingly, in 2009, she made a series of postings on a blog she was maintaining inside Tibet a highly moving set of notes of fifty-nine thousand one hundred and fifteen words under the title of “Diary of Interrogations – A Sequence of Tortures.” Once again she single-handedly became the key figure who dug up and exposed to the outside world events that had taken place during the great peaceful protest movement in Tibet of 2008.
