"I’m Died, She Thought"

Today the satellite channel Link TV is showing "Tibet: Beyond Fear," a documentary Neal Genzlinger of the New York Times calls "advocacy filmmaking at its most brazen." The documentary tells the personal stories of a Tibetan Buddhist nun named Ngawang Sangdrol and a monk named Bagdro. They were both imprisoned for speaking out against the government of China.

Ngawang Sangdrol was a teenager when she was imprisoned in 1992 and released, unexpectedly, in 2002. “They told my sister pick up me. Then they says my sister cry. My sister thought it was just body. I’m died, she thought.”