Posted on 03/22/2008 5:13:24 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The monks of Kirti monastery in Aba, Sichuan, western China, are said to have found a 16-year-old schoolgirl among up to 23 Tibetan protesters killed when Chinese police opened fire last Sunday.
Lhundup Tso, the youngest reported victim of the Chinese crackdown, still had her school satchel strapped to her back. Her body was taken to the monastery with the other dead to document what Tibetan officials claim was a massacre.
They fear it may be one of several carried out by Chinese armed police in an attempt to put down the largest Tibetan uprising in almost 20 years.
Tso is said to have been among 2,500 Tibetans, led by monks, who marched towards the local government headquarters chanting, “Long live the Dalai Lama,” and other independence slogans. They set off at 11.30am and were confronted by about 200 members of the People’s Armed Police, in combat kit and carrying machineguns.
According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, which said last week that it had confirmed 23 deaths, the police opened fire to disperse the crowd.
The centre’s director, Urgen Tenzin, said the shooting had caused panic and a stampede. Tso was found lying face up on the ground, but monks who took her body to the monastery said she had been shot in the back of the head.
Lying nearby was her fellow pupil at Aba Tibetan middle school, a 17-year-old named Norbu, who had been taken to the monastery and photographed along with five other victims. His thin torso was smeared with blood and there was a bullet hole in his chest.
The only available picture of Tso shows her very much alive. She is posing for the camera, with her black shoulder-length hair tucked behind her ears and a smile joining the ruddy cheeks that identify the Tibetans of this exposed farming region high on the Tibetan plateau.
Her father Jigshe and mother Sherab are believed to be semi-nomadic farmers who move to higher pastures in the summer months. They were said to be especially proud of their daughter, who was described as one of the brightest students in her year and top of the class in maths and Tibetan language.
Chinese government reports claim there were no deaths in Aba on Sunday, but Xinhua, its official news agency, reported that police had opened fire at protesters “in self-defence”.
Demonstrators, many of them Tso’s fellow pupils, had attacked schools, hospitals and the government headquarters with petrol bombs and rocks, the agency reported. They had set fire to cars and Chinese-owned shops and attacked local Chinese with knives. The rioters had even burnt down a police station and tried to seize weapons from its officers, Xinhua claimed.
Tibetan campaigners dismiss the claims as “propaganda”.
And the World looks the other way...
Ping
Why doesn’t the Dalai Lama go give himself up, like Jesus did? Be a REAL hero...
We should probably recreate the old ChiCom Troll Hunter’s ping list. What say?
Waiting for the resident ChiCom trolls to show up on the thread and claim that the “Tibetian terrorists” (read that as civilians incl. babies) deserve “to be quashed.”
That's the ticket. Tibetans will really get mad and the Chinese would have full scale revolt on their hands.
I'm not even going to touch the last part of your post............
Maybe the politicians look the other way, but there are protests outside various Chinese embassies. The Olympics should be interesting.
It ain’t gonna look good if there are Buddhist monks self-immolating at various Olympic venues. The whole world will be watching.
“...Chinese would have full scale revolt on their hands.”
That wouldn’t faze the Chinese — they have the weapons and the Tibetans have the rocks. Whether they’d have to kill 5, 50 or 500 is of no concern to the Chicoms. Boycotting the Olympics would get their attention.
And they’re awarded the Olympics.
What people dont seem to realize is that THIS IS the best face China is putting out to the world because of the Olympics and the dollars that go along with it. You can bet that as soon as the Olympics are over, it's going to be a lot worse for a lot of people/countries when China does not have to give a flying f**k about what the world thinks of them.
You saw it here first.
Good post....insightful
I agree with you. By ChiCom standards, this is “restrained†(defined as not going completely medieval on Tibet). When the Olympics are over, thing will go from bad to really and truly awful. The current brutality and thuggery by the ChiComs shall pale in comparison to what is likely coming down the road.
The other day I saw a thread where someone was calling anyone against the Chinese on this a bunch of liberals.
Chicom trolls? We have them here? Who would they be?
Heh. They'd do that in a day with one bad Heparin shipment for a Hundred Bucks, and sleep fine afterward.
I'll never forget a guy I met from a Communist country who told me, "You Americans just don't realize there are places where your life is not worth caca."
And oil leases, control of the Canal, the old Soviet listening post in Lourdes, Cuba, Nuclear warhead technology, al Gore.....
Tibetans crossing Nangpa Pass fired upon by border police, one year on from death of Tibetan nun
Coming from a bunch of Communists, that’s rich, isn’t it?
We’ve have fewer trolls now than we had in the past but the ones that remain/rejoin are known for persistent dishonesty and blatant use of PLA propaganda as “news from China/Taiwan/etc.”
It’s usually quite easy to spot them (and fun busting their lies too).
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