Tibetan students protest in Beijing
Talk about courage! Tibetan university students in Beijing have taken their country’s call for freedom directly to the Chinese capital (from the Times UK):
Anti-Chinese unrest spreading through Tibetan regions reached the capital, Beijing, today when Tibetan students at the National Minorities University staged a sit-in.
About 100 students braved a cordon of police to hold a demonstration, apparently in support of Tibetans who have been demonstrating since last Monday in Lhasa, capital of the Himalayan regions, and many other towns to demand greater religious freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama. [...]
The demonstration is one of very few to be staged by students in Beijing since the 1989 protests centred in Tiananmen Square ended in a bloody crackdown. The unusually courageous display in the city that is the seat of Chinese power is the first reported unrest by Tibetans outside the regions of China where many live.
Here is a photo of the vigil:
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