Tibetan Government in Exile Says Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Draconian’ Zero-COVID Measures Endangering Lives

Young Tibetan Buddhist novice monks stand in the grasslands of their nomadic camp on the Tibetan Plateau in Madou County, Qinghai Province, China on July 24, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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.”