BBC: World Urged to Defend Tibet

 

On Visit, Pelosi Offers Suport to Dalai Lama

New York Times
March 21, 2008

DHARAMSALA, India — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, visiting the Dalai Lama’s headquarters here on Friday, described recent protests in Tibet as “a challenge to conscience of the world” and pressed for an investigation into whether the Dalai Lama masterminded that unrest as the Chinese government has alleged. (more…)

Reports from Tibet on March 20th

Amidst international media reports that China blanketed all ethnically Tibetan areas with a huge build-up of troops, there continued to be protests reported in some areas.

On March 20, people in Kego Township of Serta County in Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan province, were brutally suppressed by over 5,000 military police between 4:00pm and 5:00pm. The clash started when military police tried to take down a Tibetan flag that had been put up in the town. The people demonstrated against this, and were fired upon. The military police had received orders from the Central government to execute anyone who demonstrates. Over 20 people were killed or executed.

Tibetan students at Qinghai Institute for Nationalities started a silent sit-in in the western section of the campus at 8:00pm. The students included some Tibetan students in the Art Department and the Foreign Languages Department.

Students in Yushul County in Kham, Yushul (Ch: Yushu) TAP, Qinghai Province also held a protest.

BBC: Undercover Filming in Hezou, Amdo

Reports from Tibet on March 19th

Amidst reports of increasing deployment of Chinese security forces, another protest was held in northeastern Tibet. Around 7:00pm (Beijing Standard Time), more than two hundred Tibetan nomads and farmers from Ponkor Village, Ma Ngoe Township, Luchu County (Ch: Luqu Xian), Kanlho “TAP” Gansu Province, staged a peaceful demonstration at the Township Public Primary School compound. (more…)

BBC: Clash that ‘Sparked’ Tibet’s Violent Protests

BBC obtained this footage from Chinese security forces, showing how a peaceful protest by Tibetan monks may have sparked the ensuing violence in Tibet. Click on the headline to see the video.

Himalayan Buddhist Cultural Association Protests in Dharamsala

 

We the members of the Himalaya Buddhist Cultural Association on behalf the people of Ladakhi from J&K, Lahaul, spiti of Himachal, Uttarkashi, Sikkim, Monpa of Arunachal Pradesh, etc humbly condemn the following on the issues of recent unfortunate incidents in Tibet. We appeal all the nations as follows. (more…)

Reports from Tibet on March 18th

On March 18, 2008 at about 10:30am, 1,000 Tibetans including monks, lay people and children began protesting in Bora, Amdo (Ch: Gansu Province) near Hezuo. Seventy to 100 Tibetans mounted on horseback rode over a hill and into the town apparently giving the battle cry. The crowd chanted slogans for freedom and for China to “Stop the Oppression.” At one point, some tried to rush a local government building with 100 soldiers inside. Soldiers wielding rifles and firing tear gas pushed the crowd back. Two separate groups then raised the Tibetan flag – one at another government building where they removed 2 Chinese flags flying on flag poles and replaced them with Tibetan flags. The second group replaced a Chinese flag in a school yard. Seventy paramilitary trucks full of armed soldiers were seen heading towards the town. Some monks were seen bleeding.

Also in Eastern Tibet, thousands of Tibetans took to the streets in Serthar County, Kardze Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Roughly 500 monks from Choephel Shing Monastery, located in Dogo Township, Chone County (Ch: Zhouni Xian), Kanlho “TAP” joined the protest carrying the banned Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans calling for “Independence for Tibet” and “Long Live the Dalai Lama.” Sources reported that People’s Armed Police (PAP) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) forces were brought into the area to quell the demonstrators. Chinese paramilitary troops began firing live ammunition indiscriminately into the demonstrators from a rooftop, killing 3 people. Two were identified as Gonpo Nadul and Nyiga; the third victim remains unidentified. 15 people were also injured and were admitted to Kardze People’s Hospital.

Around 12:00 noon (Beijing Standard Time) monks from Kakhamey Monastery along with hundreds of Tibetans went on a protest march to the local government office in Tsoe City, Kakha Township. Protesters shouted slogans demanding an immediate end to the crackdown by the Chinese security forces and calling for “Tibetan Independence” and “Long Live the Dalai Lama.”

In Marthang County  (Ch: Hongyuan Xian), Ngaba “TAP,” Sichuan Province, over one hundred Tibetans staged a peaceful protest in the afternoon. Tibetan monks from Achok Tsenyi Monastery in Achok Township initiated the protest and were later joined by lay people from Achok Township. Protesters at the government headquarters took down the Chinese flag and raised the Tibetan national flag in its place. Slogans calling for the return of the Dalai Lama and freedom in Tibet were also shouted. It is reported that truckloads of armed police were brought in to quell the protesters.

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