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Uprising in Tibet HUMAN RIGHTS update is a monthly newsletter of the Reg. no: HP/DMA/105/2008-2010 Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. www.tchrd.org MARCH 2008 TIBETAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY VOLUME I ISSUE 7 CONTENT UPRISING IN TIBET -Drepung Monastery- 10 March 2008 (pg 1) CHRONOLOGY OF PEACEFUL PROTESTS IN TIBET -Sera Monastery - 10 & 11 March (pg 1) SINCE 10 MARCH 2008 -Lutsang Monastery, Mangra County, Tsolho “TAP”- 10 March (pg 1) -Jyekundo, “TAP” Qinghai - 9 & 10 March (pg 2) Since 10 March 2008, spate after spate of by the PSB officials. Moreover, the shops and -Ditsa Monastery, - 10 March (pg 2) peaceful protests broke out in Chinese vendors around Barkhor Street were ordered -Labrang Tashikyil Monastery, Sangchu County, “TAP” - 10 March (pg 2) occupied Tibet. The Chinese security forces to close and pack up. The detained monks -Kandze - 10 March (pg 2) have rolled in tanks and deployed troops in were confirmed to be visiting student monks -Raid in former political prisoners’ homes - 10 March (pg 2) large numbers in various parts of Tibet in of Sera Monastery, mainly from the Kham -Recall of government employees, Arrest and order to forcibly quell the peaceful and Amdo regions of Tibet. Additional restriction in Tibet University (pg 2) -Chutsang Nunnery- 12 & 13 March (pg 2) demonstrations. The protests mark decades contingents of armed forces were deployed -Gaden Monastery- 12 March (pg 2) of deep resentment by the Tibetan people to the area to issue an explicit warning to -Ramoche Temple - 14 March (pg 2) against the Chinese rule in Tibet. people against undertaking further protests -Amdo Labrang - 14 March (pg 2) -Amdo Labrang – 15 March (pg 2) Following is a list of protests in as well as to control and monitor the activities -Chinese Authorities issue “surrender” order – chronological order. The Tibetan Centre for of the people. 15 March (pg 3) -Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery – 15 March Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) On 11 March, about 2000 strong Chinese (pg 3) acknowledges that despite being fully alert troop fired tear gas in order to disperse -Bumying and Onpo Monastery sealed - 16 March (pg 3) some of the peaceful protest might not have hundreds of monks from Sera Monastery who -Amdo Ngaba Kirti Monastery – 16 March (pg been reported to the Centre. were calling for the release of their fellow 3) monks and shouting pro-Tibet slogans. The -At least seven shot dead in demonstration in Ngaba County - 16 March (pg 3) Drepung Monastery- 10 March 2008 People’s Armed Police forces sealed off the -Eight dead bodies have been brought into On the evening of 10 March 2008, about monasteries thereby completely curbing the Ngaba Kirti Monastery: 16 March (pg 3) -Fresh protest broke out in Rong Gonchen three hundred monks from Drepung people’s movement in and out of the area, Monastery, Rebkong County- 16 March (pg 3) Monastery, located on the outskirts of the including protesting laypeople from visiting -Students staged a protest in eastern Tibet: 16 March 2008 (pg 4) capital, attempted to start a planned peaceful these monasteries. -Nyulru Protest: 16 March (pg 4) protest march towards Barkhor Street, Lhasa. -Mass abductions in midnight raids by Chinese However, they were obstructed from Lutsang Monastery, Mangra County, security forces in Lhasa: 15 & 16 March (pg 4) -Around 40 middle school students arrested in proceeding with their peaceful march by a Tsolho “TAP”- 10 March Marthang (pg 4) large number of Chinese armed police In yet another incident, a protest has also -Sporadic protests reported from Meldrogungkar and Phenpo Lhundup : 17 March 2008 (pg 5) before reaching Lhasa. Monks suspected of been reported from the traditional Tibetan -Fresh Pictures: University students join the being the ringleaders of the planned protest area of Amdo in Mangra County, Tsolho (Ch: protest demonstration in Lanzhuo, Gansu were arrested by the Public Security Bureau Hainan) ‘Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’ Province, eastern Tibet: 17 March 2008 (pg 5) -Tibetan students demonstrate in Tsoe City: (PSB) officials. Drepung Monastery has been (“TAP”) Qinghai Province on 10 March. 17 March 2008 (pg 5) sealed since then. About 150 monks from Lutsang Monastery -Fresh Pictures of Tibetan protesters’ dead bodies and crackdown by the Chinese security in Mangra County, Tsolho “TAP” and around forces: 17 March 2008 (pg 6) Sera Monastery - 10 & 11 March 200 laypersons from the area were barred by -Hundreds of Tibetan devotees protest in Amdo Golog: 17 March 2008 (pg 6) On 10 March 2008, a group of fifteen the Mangra County People’s Armed Police -Thirty Tibetan protestors arrested in Toelung monks, later joined by two laypersons led a (PAP) forces when they converged outside Dechen County: 18 March 2008 peaceful pro-Tibet march from Tsuklakhang the County Assembly Hall where a -500 Hundred monks protest in Kanlho, Gansu Province: 18 March 2008 (pg 6) Temple, proclaiming pro-independence government sponsored show was going on. -New cases of arrests and detentions reported slogans, distributing pamphlets and raising Sensing a protest by the Tibetans, the show from Lithang: 18 March 2008 (pg 6) -Thousands of Tibetans Protested in Sertha the banned Tibetan national flags at Barkhor was forced to discontinue. Later monks and County, Kardze: 18 March 2008 (pg 7) Street in Lhasa. They were arrested laypeople started shouting slogans “Long live - Hundreds protest in Amdo Bora : 18 March 2008 (pg 7) immediately by the stationed Public Security Dalai Lama” and “The Dalai Lama should Bureau (PSB) officials following a brief return to Tibet”. protest march. The arrested Tibetans were reportedly beaten severely and manhandled TIBETAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY Jyekundo, “TAP” Qinghai - 9 & 10 electronic goods particularly computers, and shops also surfaced from Tibet but March phones and Internet connections. incident of death, injury and arrest could On 9 March, hundreds of banned not be ascertained. portraits of the Dalai Lama were confiscated Recall of government employees, Arrest and Following protests by Tibetans in Lhasa, from a number of homes in Jyekundo, (Ch: restriction in Tibet University a meeting was convened among the Yushu/Jiegu) “TAP”, Qinghai Province On 11 March, the authorities of Lhasa City concerned Department heads of during a midnight raid conducted by local have recalled all the employees of various surrounding districts adjoining Lhasa City, Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials. Two government departments who were on leave to restrict and control people’s entry into families were reportedly fined 500 Yuan to return to work immediately and issued a the city. It is highly possible that security each for possessing the banned portraits. restraint order banning taking leave. Around and movement of people may be tightened The next day, pamphlets calling for Tibet’s five students of Tibet University were also in an attempt to block the flow of independence were known to have been confirmed to be arrested by the PSB officials information about protests to the outside pasted on the walls around the area. on 13 March. Restrictions were also imposed world, and to prevent others from joining on the movement of students, including Tibet similar protests in the capital. Ditsa Monastery, - 10 March University students in Lhasa, with authorities In one incident, around 20 local Chinese increasing the vigilance personnel and keeping Amdo Labrang - 14 March officials convened a meeting of monks at a record of student movements at the main Thousands of Tibetan monks and Ditsa Monastery, Bayan County, Tsoshar entrance gate of the University. laypeople converged and staged “TAP” (Ch: Haidong), Qinghai Province. demonstration in the streets of Sangchu However, around 70 monks walked out of Chutsang Nunnery- 12 & 13 March County (Ch: Xiahe xian), Kanlho “Tibetan the meeting carrying the portrait of the On the morning of 12 March, coinciding Autonomous Prefecture” (“TAP”), Gansu Dalai Lama and shouted pro-independence with the Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day, Province. The demonstration which took slogans. Later the monks proceeded towards around a hundred Tibetan nuns from place around 2pm (Beijing Time) today is a small hill behind the monastery to offer Chutsang Nunnery in the west side of Lhasa currently ongoing. Mobile phone pictures Sangsol Prayer, and were later joined by marched towards Barkhor Street for a peaceful depicting the intensity of the demonstration onlookers. Open calls for solidarity with “the demonstration. However, they were blocked are obtained by the TCHRD. peace marcher from Dharamsala to Lhasa,” by Chinese People’s Armed Police from moving Around 50 monks from the Labrang initiated by leading exiled Tibetan NGOs, forward and sent back to their monastery. Tashikyil Monastery staged a demonstration were even reportedly raised by the monks. There are no reports of arrest or detention after carrying the banned Tibetan national flag A total of around four hundred people the march. However, on the morning of 13 and called for “Tibetan Independence” gathered for the prayer that day. March, the same group of nuns carried out around 2 p.m. (Beijing Time) on 14 March. their protest march towards Lhasa and have Around 500 monks from the same Labrang Tashikyil Monastery, Sangchu not yet returned to their monastery. On monastery later joined the demonstration. County, “TAP” - 10 March contacting the monastery, only a few senior The demonstration eventually grew into Incidents of police removing pamphlets nuns remain there. thousands when laypeople also joined in. calling for Tibet’s independence were The police started to fire live ammunitions reported from Labrang Tashikyil Monastery Gaden Monastery- 12 March in the air and started to beat when the in Sangchu County (Ch: Xiahe xian), Similarly, Gaden Monastery (about 50 Kms demonstrators neared the Sangchu County Kanlho “TAP” Gansu Province. east of Lhasa City) in Takse County, remains Public Security Bureau headquarters.
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