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China Troops Seal Tibet Monasteries, Shops Set Ablaze
More news from Tibet as China cracks down on protests there.
Chinese troops sealed off three of
Lhasa's largest monasteries after Tibet's biggest protests in
almost 20 years deteriorated into violence, with shops and police
cars set ablaze.The protests began March 10 when hundreds of monks marched on
Lhasa's Ramoche monastery, calling for religious freedoms and the
release of imprisoned colleagues. The International Campaign for
Tibet said a police vehicle was set on fire in Lhasa today, while
shops on two streets also burned, China's state-owned Xinhua news
agency said, citing witnesses.``We're afraid the situation in Lhasa has dramatically
escalated in the last few hours,'' the International Campaign for
Tibet's Communications Director Kate Saunders said today in a
telephone interview from London.
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March 14, 2008 at 09:07 am by Dave Keating, 471 views, 3 comments
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at 12:11 on March 14th, 2008
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
at 21:28 on March 14th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:54 on March 15th, 2008
This deserves everyone's attention. Remember this stuff when you see all the happy faces as they light the Olympic flame in Beijing. These people torture and kill Buddhist monks. This is the country that will be celebrating the happy coming together of all the world's cultures.