In the recent spates of sporadic protests reported from Kardze County, more reports of protest led by group of two or four persons continue to surface from the area. According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), two young monks in their early 20's from Tsitsang Monastery were detained by the County Chinese security forces for their peaceful protest in Kardze COunty.

On 20 May 2008, two monks, Loyang from Tsaklab Village, Lhopa Township, Kardze County, and Tenzin Ngodup from Pharingtsang of Kardze County, Kardze "Tibet Autonomous Prefecture" ("TAP") Sichuan Province, staged a peaceful protest at the main Kardze County headquarters and chanted slogans, "Dalai Lama return to Tibet", "Long Live the Dalai Lama", and "Immediate release of all political prisoners including Trulku Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche". The latter is a prominent religious figure arrested on 18 May by the Chinese security forces from his residence for unknown reasons and was taken away to an undisclosed location. The two protesting monks were immediately detained by the Kardze County Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials and bundled away in a waiting police vehicle to the Kardze County PSB Detention Centre for questioning. There is no information on the condition of two arrestees at the moment.

Kardze Tsitsang Monastery, to which the two young arrested monks belong, was established by Venerable Hor Choeje Ngawang Phuntsok of Kardze County. Apart from Kardze Tsitsang Monastery, he established twelve other monastic institutions in Kardze region. Venerable Hor Choeje Ngawang Phuntsok is a highly revered and respected figure among the local people of the region.

Incidentally on the same day, three nuns of Tehor Nyagay Nunnery, Achoe from Rida Village, Soe Choekyi from Lamna Village and Taga a.k.a Tashi Yangtso from Noekab Village under Kardze County staged a similar protest at Kardze County government headquarters and were later detained by the PSB officials.

Similarly more protests and arrests were reported from the same area on 11, 12, 14 May 2008 where twelve nuns from Drakar Nunnery and scores of nuns from Kardze Ganden Choeling Nunnery and 55 nuns of Pang-ri Nunnery in Su-ngo Township, Kardze County were arrested by the Chinese security forces.

TCHRD expresses its grave concern over the arbitrary detention of two young monks of Tsitsang Monastery and others detained earlier from the region. TCHRD also urges the Chinese authorities to respect fundamental human rights of right to freedom of expression, opinion and peaceful assembly enshrined in the Chinese Constitution and other major international covenants, which she had signed and ratified. The Centre urges the United Nations and its vital organs to intervene and pressurize the Chinese government to seek their immediate release from the arbitrary detention.