But local officials could not have arranged for Karma to be tried in far-away Xinjiang, let alone persuade the central government to ban the brothers’ innocuous book about their love of nature. Higher-level leaders may have taken up the case against Karma – persuading their counterparts in Xinjiang to resurrect the old antiques case – because he had used his connections in Beijing to complain about the treatment of his brothers by officials in Tibet.
但当地官员显然是无法安排嘎玛桑珠到遥远的新疆受审的，更别说去说服中央政府查禁那本没有政治问题，描述几兄弟对自然之爱的书。这意味着可能有更高级的官员在针对嘎玛桑珠——这些官员要求他们在新疆的同僚把盗窃文物的旧案翻出来——因为桑珠利用自己和北京的关系来反映兄弟们在西藏当地官员处所受到的不良待遇。