More than 100 Tibetans from five nomadic villages have staged a protest against a Chinese mining concern in Dardsedo (in Chinese, Kangding) county in the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, fearing more environmental damage after the company resumed operations, Tibetan sources with knowledge of the situation said.

Protesters from the county’s Lhagang, Nangkor, Naglung, Kunmang and Nang nomadic villages in the Yulshok Gargye region in Minyak (Minya) county of southwest China’s Sichuan province demanded on May 4 that Lhagang Kargye Kha cease mining activities which it began in the area last month, a Tibetan source told RFA’s Tibetan Service...