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  • Tibet - Chinese army fires on crowd, 140 reported killed

    08/21/2008 3:29:42 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 9 replies · 215+ views
    AFP via translation | August 21, 2008
    via translation- The Chinese army fired on the crowd Monday in Tibet, perhaps 140 killed PARIS - The Dalai Lama accused the Chinese army to have "fired on the crowd" on August 18 in the region of Kham in eastern Tibet, and put the figure, which "needs to be confirmed," 140 Tibetans killed, in an interview with the french daily Le Monde dated Friday. As a journalist who asked if the "repression in Tibet had continued despite the Olympic Truce", the Dalai Lama replied that "the Chinese army has yet fired on the crowd, Monday, August 18, in the region...