Video: Tibet Students Protest on Campuses in Lanzhou and Beijing (Updated)
From Reuters:
Dozens of students held a sit-down protest at a university for ethnic minorities in Beijing on Monday, bringing pro-Tibetan demonstrations to the sensitive capital for the first time. …
The protest in the Olympic Games host city came hours before a deadline for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in after street violence in the capital of the Buddhist Himalayan region in which dozens are believed to have died.
About 40 students were staging the sit-down at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing after many were taken away, onlookers said.
See also a Washington Post report on the Lanzhou protest, which also discusses a resurgence of Tibetan identity and unity in the wake of the disparate protests.
Photo source: duowei.com: Police block a foreign journalist trying to enter the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing.
And here’s what looks to be an image of the vigil itself from Beijing Wide Open:
The following video, from ITN Headline News (via tibetanuprising.org), includes footage of the candlelight vigil:
These photos are from Beijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger woeser’s blog, translated by CDT:
The following three photos are from candlelight vigils by students of the Central University of Nationalities.
The last three photos are vigils by 500 Tibetan students in the Tibetan language department of Northwest University of Nationalities in Lanzhou, Gansu province on March 16, 2008. The white cloth slogan is “Freedom” “Democracy” “In solidarity with all Tibetans”.
Origin: Ian Ransom, Reuters
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Hey, I studied at CUN and met my wife there a long time ago, sure would like to be there to see what’s going on now!
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