New Delhi, June 17 – The Interpol has issued a red corner notice against two Chinese nationals for their alleged involvement in the killing of a close aide of the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and two of his students in 1997 in a suspected fallout of sectarian dispute.
The red corner notice was issued against Lobsang Chodak and Tenzin Chozin for allegedly killing Lobsang Gyatso, Principal of Dharamsala-based Tibetan Dialectics Institute, and his two students in 1997, an incident that prompted security agencies to tighten the security around the Dalai Lama and monitor the monk traffic from Nepal and other areas.
The dead were the members of the inner circle of the Dalai Lama and brutally slain on the night of February four, 1997 in a bedroom a few hundred yards from the Dalai Lama’s exile residence in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh.
The body of 70-year-old Gyatso was found the next day morning and the two young monks — Nagawang Lodoe and the Dalai Lama’s Chinese-language interpreter, Lobsang Nagwang, died within hours of the attack.
According to the Interpol red corner notice, the two alleged assailants, who are students of ‘Dorje Shugden Devotees Charitable and Religious Society’, arrived in Dharamshala on January 31 and stayed in hotel.
The Dorje Shugden cult, also known Gyalchen Shugden, indulges in the worship of a spirit called Dolgyal, a practice that has not been accepted by the Dalai Lama who has stated that the “inclination of this (Dolgyal) spirit is to harm, rather than benefit, the cause of Tibet”.
