p2pnet - rss feed: 20 Tibetans killed in new outrage
p2pnet news | Freedom:- According to China, the Dalai Lama is a, “wolf wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and animal’s heart,” says Times Online.
“State media … reported more than 100 people had surrendered to police in and around Tibet’s regional capital of Lhasa, where peaceful protests turned violent Friday,” says the Associated Press.
“The protests, which Beijing has accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating, sparked a crackdown by Chinese forces and focused international attention on the country’s human rights record ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing.”
Yesterday, “After days of ignoring and then playing down protests, the media suddenly switched course yesterday. TV channels aired hours of Friday’s anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa and the aftermath,” said the Guardian, going on, “Employees at the state television service CCTV’s English service were instructed to keep broadcasting footage of burned-out shops and Chinese wounded in attacks.”
But they’re not carrying pictures such as the one on the right which shows a young man killed during peaceful protests two days ago.
It’s one of a brutal and bloody series published online by the Tibet Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
Says the site - WARNING: EXTREMELY DISTURBING PICTURES.
They’re all of that.
The mainstream media are running non-stop reports of events, but raw examples of the outrages being routinely perpetrated in Tibet by the Chinese authorities are being broken online, where the blogs themselves are as much a part of the story as the images and reports they carry.
Says Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), “20 TIBETANS KILLED BY CHINESE FORCES IN NGABA PROTESTS - 20,000 Tibetans in the region are reported to have joined the uprising.”
It continues >>>
Dharamsala/New York – New information and photos of the protests in Ngaba “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” (”TAP”), in Amdo province of Tibet (present-day Sichuan Province) on March 16th have been made available today by local sources. According to earlier reports from the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, a protest erupted on March 16th at around 11:30am in Ngaba.
The protests were sparked when Chinese authorities ordered the over 20 monasteries in the Ngaba “TAP” to raise the Chinese flag. Following a prayer ceremony at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, thousands of monks started chanting “Independence for Tibet” and “Long Live the Dalai Lama.” Chinese troops stationed in the area responded with violence, but the protest spread outside of the monastery grounds and into the nearby market square. Students from Tibetan Middle School and 400 nuns from the largest nunnery in the region are reported to have also joined the protest.
The same day, protests spread to the five largest neighboring towns: Tsaruma (including at the Mamy Nunnery), Meruma, Charo, Achok, and Tsenyi. Monks held protests at the following monasteries: Se Monastery, Gomang Monastery, Andu Monastery, Khashi Monastery, Hotsik Monastery, and Tsenyid Monastery. At Taktsang Lhamo Monastery over 400 monks protested and in total over 20,000 people within the Ngaba “TAP” are reported to have joined the protests. Reports received just one hour before the sending of this release indicate that nomadic groups in Ngaba “TAP” have also started protesting.
Armed security troops opened fire on the protesters in Ngaba, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens more. The total number of deaths remains unknown. Sources reported that the local hospital initially refused to admit injured Tibetans, and only after some Tibetans threatened to burn it down were the injured admitted. Other injured Tibetans refused to go to the hospital out of fear that they would be handed over to the Chinese authorities and thus far have not received medical treatment.
“My brother-in-law’s younger brother Norbu was shot by Chinese police in the crackdown in Ngaba - and he died on the spot,” said Lobsang Choephel, a Ngaba native now living in New York. “I am devastated by this news and cannot imagine what my sister’s family is going through right now. Norbu was only 15 years old.”
20 Tibetans were reported dead following the crackdown by Chinese forces on March 16th, and 9 have been confirmed and identified as:
1. Tashi (27-year old male from Lhade Gongma Tsedrugtsang Village)
2. Tsezin Totsang (32-year old male from Thechung)
3. Lhundup Tsomo Jigjetsang, (17-year old student at Tibetan Middle School, from Ngoshu Village)
4. Atisha Gangwatsang (male from Denshu Village)
5. Norbu Phurwagoen (15-year old male, student at Tibetan Middle School, from Shanglung Village)
6. Butrang Dhargyetsang (female)
7. A Monk from Zamthang (monk in the photo)
8. Sangay (18-year old male from Raro Village)
9. Gyamtso Beize
The Tibet Centre for Human Rights and Democracy is carrying photo evidence of the bloody crackdown of a peaceful protest on March 16.
“Eye witnesses say 15 dead bodies have been brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery for prayer offerings after the bloody crackdown on 16 March 2008,” says the site.
“The actual number of dead can be higher.”
For links to recently updated blogs, go to Tibetblogs.com.
Stay tuned.
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Also See:
Times Online - China brands Dalai Lama a monster and forces students to denounce him, March 18, 2008
Associated Press - China: Tibet a ‘Life-And-Death’ Battle, March 19, 2008
Guardian - State TV switches to non-stop footage of Chinese under attack, March 18, 2008
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March 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am
It’s too late for an Olympics boycott but the Three Monkeys Policy won’t do either. It’s time to do the unthinkable and table a resolution against China in the Security Council of the UN.