From the Guardian, via buzzle.com: More than 30 Tibetans were tortured and incarcerated in a labour camp after their bid to escape across the Himalayas from their homeland failed when Chinese border guards fired on the unarmed group, according to a survivor. In the first reported account of what happened to those taken from the […]
Foreign Policy Magazine article uses the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards as an example of the so-called “YouTube effect”: A video shows a single line of people slowly trudging up a snow-covered footpath. A shot is heard; the first person in line falls. A voice-over says, “They are shooting them like dogs.” […]
The story of the Sept 30th shootings on Mt. Everest is now a song: High on the slopes of Mt. Everest September 30th Trekking Tibetan pilgrims walked single file up a high mountain pass trail On their way to see the Dalai Lama “His Holiness” to them
Human Rights Watch has posted the transcripts of interviews with two survivors of the shooting at Nangpa La Pass, when Chinese troops fired on Tibetans fleeing to Nepal, killing at least one nun. Read the interviews here. Read more about the incident, via CDT, here.
The Independent provides another update on the shooting of Tibetan refugees fleeing to Nepal earlier this month: A few minutes of jerky video footage shot by a Romanian cameraman on a mountaineering trip brought the plight of Tibetans under Chinese rule into Western living rooms this month. For once, the world was able to watch […]
From Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in Lhasa have detained two Tibetans and one Nepalese ethnic Sherpa for allegedly escorting Tibetan asylum-seekers from China into India. The detentions on Oct. 9 and 10 follow an incident on Sept. 30 in which Chinese guards opened fire on a group of Tibetans fleeing across the rugged border […]
From the Christian Science Monitor, an update on the Tibetan refugees who were fired on by Chinese guards while escaping to Nepal: Kelsang Namtso had become a Buddhist nun just last year, at the tender age of 16. Her friend, Dolma Palkyi, 16, wanted to go to India, and meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled […]
From The New York Times, via The International Herald Tribune: A Romanian videotape that appears to show Chinese security forces shooting two Tibetan refugees in the Himalayas contradicts Beijing’s claim that the refugees were shot when soldiers acted in self-defense. China on Thursday acknowledged that soldiers had killed one refugee and wounded another in an […]
From International Campaign for Tibet: Video footage of Tibetans who were crossing into Nepal being shot by Chinese border police on September 30 refutes official claims that the troops fired “in self-defence”. The video footage, taken by a Romanian cameraman who was at advance base camp on Mount Cho Oyo at the time, depicts a […]
A mountain climber who witnessed the shooting by Chinese troops of Tibetan refugees trying to cross the border into Nepal has posted photos of the incident online. See also “British climber describes fatal attack on Tibetans” from Reuters, and more recent news on the topic. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has given a statement on the […]
From the Independent: Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week. This ominous development comes as fears grow for the safety of a group of Tibetan children, […]
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