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Headlines : Human Rights

Summary:

The demonstrations demanding Tibetan independence and showing support for the exiled Dalai Lama are the largest in the restive region since authorities imposed martial law after riots by anti-Chinese protesters rocked Lhasa in March 1989.

The Globe & Mail also reports that:

In another remarkable incident, a small group of monks brought the banned Tibetan flag to Lhasa’s historic centre. It was reportedly the first time that the flag had been displayed by protesters in Lhasa since a 1988 incident in which the flag-bearers were shot dead on the spot.

This is a significant burst of activism and shows considerable courage, but where will it lead? Taking their lead from the stand taken by their Burmese cousins, Tibet’s monastic communities are taking to the streets. With China desperate to avoid controversy before the Beijing Olympics, the timing could skillfully draw concessions from the Forbidden City. Or it could lead to bloodshed.

[Posted By Szamko]

By Jane Macartney
Republished from The Times

Beginning of an uprising in Tibet?

Thousands of Chinese paramilitary police and troops have been deployed across the Tibetan capital after hundreds of monks tried to stage a second protest in two days.

Witnesses described helmeted soldiers firing teargas yesterday to try to disperse more than 600 monks as they attempted to march out of the Sera monastery on the edge of Lhasa. The monks were forced to halt virtually at the gates of the monastery, after police at a station just outside the main entrance called in the military.

The monks, shouting “Release our people”, demanded the return of 11 monks detained on Monday after staging an anti-Chinese protest in front of the Jokhang Temple — the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism — in the heart of the city. That protest coincided with demonstrations by about 500 monks from the sprawling Drepung monastery just outside Lhasa.

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Posted by Szamko
Just tries to tell the truth.

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Riot erupts in Lhasa as Tibetan protests escalate Violence erupted Friday in the centre of Lhasa, the capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, as the government deployed paramilitary riot police to control protests initiated by Buddhist monks, witnesses said.

The protestors beat up at least three firefighters and several police officers and tore down a Chinese national flag in the square outside Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, the holiest site in the city for Tibetan Buddhists, one witness told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa…The witness said she saw three fire trucks in flames and protestors overturn and set fire to a police car.

Six or seven truckloads of paramilitary police were sent to the square with some police in protective riot gear, she said…Groups of monks, students and other lay Tibetans ran toward the police and attacked them with sticks and stones, forcing the officers to retreat from the square, she said.

Szamko @ 03/14/08 10:44:13

Bush calls China leader, expresses Tibet concerns

More importantly Bush:

Also acknowledges mistake on missile fuse shipment to Taiwan

Sometimes no Peace

GWHunta @ 03/26/08 16:35:18

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