Posted on 10/09/2006 4:39:55 PM PDT by MadIvan
TWO British mountaineers described in graphic detail yesterday how they saw Chinese border guards shoot dead one of a group of Tibetans trying to cross the border into Nepal last month.
Steve Marsh and a British police officer who asked not to be identified were having breakfast at Advance Base Camp beneath Mount Chu Oyu, near Everest. “As we watched, first I heard a shot, then I saw one [guard] stop and there was a second shot and a third,” Mr Marsh told The Times.
“The rearmost of the group fell to the ground. Someone helped them up and they continued for another 30 metres. Then there was another shot and someone fell and they left that person behind in the snow. Through the telescope we could clearly see it was a body.”
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said that the victim was a nun in her mid-twenties from central Tibet who was among 73 refugees trying to flee via Nepal to India where the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, has been based since 1959.
Mr Marsh, 44, could not confirm the victim’s identity because he and his colleague were watching with about 100 other foreign mountaineers from 300 metres away. But, he said, they clearly saw the guards shooting at a group of about 25 Tibetans heading towards the 18,300ft Nangpa La pass — a common route for traders, yak herders and refugees.
The incident is an embarrassment for China, which says it has brought peace and prosperity to Tibet since its troops entered the region in 1950. Chinese guards often detain some of the 3,000 Tibetans who try to cross into Nepal every year, but this was the first time guards had shot dead anyone in front of such a large number of foreigners.
“We were shocked,” said the police officer, who wants to return to Tibet. “You expect to encounter death on the mountain. But you don’t expect to see someone shot in the back when they’re posing no threat to anybody.”
The guards ran past the body as they pursued the group then returned to inspect it but did not remove it until 30 hours later, he said.
Within an hour of the shooting about 30 Chinese guards entered the Advance Base Camp and shortly afterwards led 15 Tibetan children through it, he said. “The kids looked scared, but other than that healthy,” he said. There was no immediate comment from the Chinese Government. A third climber said that the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu had contacted his group for information.
The ICT said that 43 of the refugees had made it over the border, but the whereabouts of the other 30 was not clear. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it had sent a representative to escort the 43 to Kathmandu. Under an informal agreement with Nepal, Tibetan refugees are granted safe passage through the country to India. However, Nepalese police have handed some refugees back to China.
I just checked the tags in my underwear. "Made in Taiwan."
Between radical Islam and China (and its sattlelites), it's a dangerous world.
It's not as though China's running out of people.
Nuke Beijing Bump
No sense just crabbing at WalMart. I was in JCPenney's yesterday and every piece of dishware I saw was made in China.
Mobil 1 is made in the US. It is sold at Wal Mart.
Remington Ammo is made in the US. It is sold at Wal Mart.
As a side note, my standard Remington .308 150 gr. out performed a 7mm WSMR new style, high priced, bullet on mule deer last week. Of course both deer were dead but the Rem was a perfect mushroom and the 7mm WMSR fragmeted.
DUH! It's called china for a reason! :)
I've taken to checking the "made in" label on everything I buy. It draws some strange looks whem I'm buying $0.99 light bulb.
LOL, touche!
Rich in irony.
Who would have thought that the production of the best china would go back to China? Using modern methods invented and perfected in the west.
But how well did the Mobil 1 kill its deer?
Bashing Wal-Mart will change China like burning your house down will paint your living room.
Bashing Wal-Mart will change China like burning your house down will paint your living room.
I tried to boycott China. Then one day I went to buy a pair of sneakers. Every pair in my price range (and I suspect, the more expensive ones) was made in China. Oh wait, there was one pair that wasn't made in China. It was made in FREAKIN' VIETNAM!!!
I do still try to buy American or free nation products whenever they're available, but the problem is that there just aren't as many as there used to be, and trade with China is not the problem anyway.
Please back up your characterization that the United States is allowing slave labor in one of her sovereign territories.
Mobil 1 was in the engine of my Silvarado 2500HD which took me to the hunting camp.
I think I'm getting substantially off the topic here.
Last time I checked in my underware there were no tags!
This guy must be a head stuck in sand Democrat........
... and another from the "left": http://www.alternet.org/story/29827/
Ms. Magazine, normally a pro-abortion publication, has something on forced abortions in the Marianas: http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2006/paradise.asp
And, here's one from last May: http://storiesinamerica.blogspot.com/2006/05/today-on-fresh-air-abramoff-delay-in.html
I've having trouble with my server right now, but there is also a 1998 Dept. of Labor investigation of the matter.
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