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The Dalai Lama in Japan                 
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44250000/jpg/_44250647_dalai_afp203.jpg
Dalai Lama's Tibet bloodshed fear
The Dalai Lama says he fears more deaths in Tibet unless Beijing changes its 
policies, in an exclusive BBC interview.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7299132.stm
The demonstrations - like those last September in Burma - were initially led 
by Buddhist monks and then attracted crowds
of ordinary people. Chinese officials said the riots had been "organised, 
premeditated and masterminded" by Tibet's
exiled political leader, the Dalai Lama. He denied the allegations, and urged 
China to "address the long-simmering
resentment of the Tibetan people through dialogue". The Tibetan spiritual leader told 
the BBC he had "grave concerns"
over Friday's deadly protests in Lhasa city. But he emphasised that he still 
supported Beijing's staging of the Olympic
Games this summer.

In pictures: Tibet aftermath
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7298022.stm

Watch: Rioting in Tibet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7290000/newsid_7297900?redirect=7297968.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&asb=1

Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/13/china-sends-in-troop.html

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/tibet.unrest/index.html

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7296041.stm

A very complete update on the situation in Tiber on Boing-Boing:
  http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/14/tibet-more-deaths-in.html

Report: 100 dead in Tibet violence
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/15/tibet.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText
     * Story Highlights
     * State media reports ten people killed in riots
     * Tibetans in exile cite unconfirmed reports putting death toll as at 
least 100
     * Witness describes gunfire, tear gas, vehicles and shops on fire
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Violent protests in the Tibetan capital Lhasa 
against Chinese rule have left at least 100
people dead, according to unconfirmed reports from exiles in India, while 
official media put the death toll at 10.
art.lhasa.riot.afp.gi.jpg
Tibetans throw stones at army vehicles as a car burns on a street in the 
capital Lhasa.
The protests, sparked by the anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising that 
sent Tibet's Dalai Lama into exile, are the
latest embarrassment to hit 2008 Olympic-host China, which has attracted 
international criticism over its human rights
record. Quoting the Tibetan government, China's state-run Xinhua news agency 
said 10 were killed in Lhasa Friday after
police blocked a march by monks, sparking the violence.
"The victims are all innocent civilians, and they have been burnt to death," 
an official with the regional government
told Xinhua.
Tibetan exiles in India meanhwile cited unconfirmed reports that at least 100 
people were killed and many more injured.


China sets Tibet protest deadline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7297911.stm
Tank in Lhasa (Reuters grab)
Witnesses said tanks were patrolling the streets of Lhasa
Rioting in Lhasa
The authorities in Tibet have given anti-Chinese demonstrators until Monday 
to surrender, following violence that
officials say left 10 people dead.


Tense times at Tibetan monastery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7298617.stm
By Michael Bristow
BBC News, Labrang Monastery, Gansu Province
Labrang Monastery
Labrang Monastery has been the scene of two days of protests
Protests in Tibet against Chinese rule have coincided with demonstrations at 
one of Tibetan Buddhism's most important
monasteries, in the nearby province of Gansu.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7298617.stm


Tibet: more deaths, injuries in Lhasa as crackdown grows
Posted by Xeni Jardin, March 14, 2008 3:32 PM | permalink
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/14/tibet-more-deaths-in.html
Update on a series of previous posts here on BB about 
pro-Tibetan-independence protests in Lhasa: violence grew
dramatically today. Snip from report issued today by the US-government-funded 
news agency RFA, which has correspondents
on the ground in Tibet:

     “We saw two dead at Ramoche temple, two in the garden, two at the Ganden 
printing house, and those Tibetans who
went to take food to prisoners in Drapchi prison saw 26 Tibetans shot after 
they were brought in on a black vehicle,”
one Tibetan witness said. “There could be about 80 dead, or more, but there 
is too much commotion here to give an exact
number.”

     “Several buildings owned by Chinese immigrants and Chinese Muslim 
immigrants were set on fire,” the witness said.
“All those shops owned by Chinese were ransacked and burned. Tibetan shop 
owners were told to mark their shops with
scarves.”

     Another source said Ramoche monastery, which has about 110 resident 
monks, was badly damaged after Tibetans were
found running in the area carrying photos of the Dalai Lama and shouting 
“Independence for Tibet.’”

Link.
http://www.rfa.org/english/tibetan/2008/03/14/tibet_protest/

Snip from a related report on AP, which references the RFA item:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5Z6bJwtN_roGSIUQiQnfbf2NkhgD8VDEFLOB

     At a demonstration outside the United Nations in New York, Psurbu 
Tsering of the Tibetan Association of New York
and New Jersey said its members received phone calls from Tibet claiming 70 
people had been killed and 1,000 arrested.
The reports could not be verified.

And snip from a related NYT story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/world/asia/15tibet.html?_r=1&ex=1363233600&en=4211b393f37e7ed0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

     In the past, China has not hesitated to crush major protests in Tibet or 
to jail disobedient monks. President Hu
Jintao, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party, served as 
party boss in Tibet during a violent
crackdown against protests in 1989. His support for the bloody suppression of 
unrest that year earned him the good will
of Deng Xiaoping, then the paramount leader, and led directly to his 
elevation to the Politburo Standing Committee and
eventually to China’s top leadership posts.

Image: A man lies injured in the street during street protests today in the "Old 
Tibetan" neighborhood of Lhasa. (AP
Photo) 
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5Z6bJwtN_roGSIUQiQnfbf2NkhgD8VDEFLOB

Update: regular BB discussion participant Takuan
(http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/14/tibet-more-deaths-in.html#comment-143424)
 points us to this page on the website of
Tibet's government in exile (based in Northern India), which lists ways that 
concerned people might help the people of
Tibet. http://www.tibet.com/Action/index.html

Update 2: Tibetans in other parts of the world, and their supporters, are 
also demonstrating in support of cultural,
spiritual, and political sovereignty this week.

There are reports from Nepal that 12 monks were injured during protests in 
Kathmandu.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_re_as/nepal_tibet

Some Tibetans in Northern India are attempting to march over the Himalayas, 
into Tibet. Yingsel Rangzen from Students
for a Free Tibet (http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/) sends these photos
(http://tibetanuprising.org/2008/03/13/photos-of-arrest/), and says, "This 
movement is happening on many, many fronts."

The group Los Angeles Friends for Tibet (http://www.latibet.org/) has an 
audio report (and text transcripts) with
first-person accounts of the protest/pilgrimage, which led to 100 arrests. 
MP3 Link
(http://www.latibet.org/audio/lexpelgerfinal.mp3), Word doc
(http://www.latibet.org/worddocuments/Lex_Pelger_transcript.doc),
PDF (http://www.latibet.org/worddocuments/Lex_Pelger_transcript.pdf). 
(thanks, Christal, http://thetibetconnection.org/)

Update 3: Christal Smith, who produces a radio show called The Tibet 
Connection (http://thetibetconnection.org/), passes
along this (unconfirmed) statement from a fellow pro-Tibet activist named 
Ngawang Norbu:

     There was a phone call to my tenant from Lhasa today at 9:00pm saying 
more then three hundred people were already
killed by Chinese troop and they were mostly monks from Sera and Drepung 
Monastery. Sound of gunshots were heard non
stop. Right now Lhasa is like a war zone.

Previously on BB:
# Tibetan protests in Lhasa turn violent as Chinese forces crack down
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/14/tibetan-protests-in.html
# China sends in troops to quell monks' peaceful protests
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/13/china-sends-in-troop.html
# Police attack peacefully protesting monks in Tibet
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/12/police-attack-peacef.html
# Protest inside Tibet captured on tourists' cameras
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/11/protest-inside-tibet.html
# Hacking the Himalayas: Xeni's stories and trek-blog from Tibet and India
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/08/hacking-the-himalaya.html
# Boing Boing tv: Miss Tibet/Eames Elephants
http://tv.boingboing.net/2007/10/16/miss-tibeteames-elep.html
# Google, China, and genocide: web censorship and Tibet
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/23/google-china-and-gen.html