Word: tapontsang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Tapontsang, who eventually lived in eight different prisons, her life ran the gamut from sexual exploitation to starvation...
...were not allowed to wash ourselves in prison," Tapontsang said of one prison. "But most of the young women, including myself, were told by the commander to do the laundry and clean his quarters, were we were raped daily...
...Tapontsang said she became one of only four women survivors of that camp. Tapontsang said that she was convinced she survived against great odds because of her continuing faith in the Dalai Lama and Buddhism...
...When Tapontsang was released from prison in 1986, she said, she returned to Kham-her home region-in Tibet...
...Tapontsang left Tibet for India to report to the Dalai Lama, beginning her travels speaking for Tibetan independence. On the suggestion of the Dalai Lama, she detailed her prison life in her recently-published book Ama Adhe: The Voice That Remembers...