{"id":18833,"date":"2008-03-29T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/new-tibet-protests-reported-as-diplomats-wrap-up-chinese-government-trip\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T04:32:11","slug":"new-tibet-protests-reported-as-diplomats-wrap-up-chinese-government-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/new-tibet-protests-reported-as-diplomats-wrap-up-chinese-government-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tibet Protests Reported as Diplomats Wrap up Chinese Government Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
Joe McDonald of Associated Press reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n A new protest was reported Saturday in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as diplomats wrapped up a trip organized by Beijing in an effort to blunt criticism of its crackdown on unrest in the region.<\/p>\n The protest began at Lhasa’s Ramoche monastery and grew to involve “a lot of people,” said Kate Saunders of the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet. Citing witnesses in the city, she said there were “some reports of fighting,” but she had no other information. Ramoche was where earlier protests started on March 14 that led to the crackdown.<\/p>\n People also protested at the Jokhang Temple, a major Buddhist site in Lhasa, the government-in-exile of the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on its Web site<\/a>. It gave no other details.<\/p>\n The reports came as a 15-member group of diplomats from the United States, Japan and European governments returned to Beijing after a tightly controlled two-day visit to Lhasa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more about the diplomats’ visit <\/a>from the Press Trust of India. Reuters is also reporting that sections of Lhasa have been sealed off today <\/a>by security forces.<\/p>\n