Update (12:30 PST): The U.S. has responded to China’s claim that the Dalai Lama was behind rioting in Tibet. Reuters reports (via the Guardian): “We don’t have any evidence one way or the other on that score...
Read MoreUpdate, March 17, 2008: The deadline for Tibetan protesters to surrender to Chinese police has passed, reports the BBC. The Times (London) is reporting that the Chinese army paraded dozens of handcuffed prisoners, their heads...
Read MoreShanghaiist analyzes a Lhasa resident’s observation and Xinhua’s reports of Lhasa riots: We told you about the chaos happening simultaneously in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, and it looks like we’re only...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai-based blogger Chow, translated by CDT: The riot scenes on the evening news attracted my attention. But the news only had those one-sided words from the government. I came back home in the night, got online and...
Read MoreUPDATE(March 15th): Australian News quotes Xinhua which confirmed 10 deaths in Tibet riots: Xinhua, an outlet for Chinese government information, sought to lay the blame for the deaths on the Tibetan protesters, citing Tibetan...
Read MoreFrom AP: Rioters in Chinese-ruled Tibet destroyed shops and government offices following a dispute between Buddhist monks and a local shopkeeper, the government’s news agency reported Wednesday. Seven people were arrested over the Nov. 20 clashes, the Xinhua News Agency said. Among those arrested, it said, were two monks accused of robbing a motorcycle maintenance […]
Read MoreRadio Free Asia reported Tuesday that police in Sichuan province’s Aba county beat a Tibetan to death while trying to clear the site of two more self-immolations that took place Monday: Lungtok, a monk from the restive...
Read MoreOn her blog, Woeser writes about a documentary produced by CCTV about the self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Beijing’s policies in Tibet. While the documentary, which presents the official government line on the...
Read MoreFollowing patriotic re-education classes, some monks have changed their stance on the March 2008 Lhasa riots. From the New York Times: It was the much the same as on March 28, 2008, when the monk, Norgye, and dozens of fellow...
Read MoreThe Chinese government has confirmed the previously-reported execution of two Tibetans for their role in the 2008 Lhasa riots. From The Guardian: A foreign ministry spokesman, Ma Zhaoxu, said two men had been put to death, and...
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