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As Tibetans Burn Themselves to Protest Chinese Rule , Communists in Beijing Stress 'Happiness' in Tibet.

Tibetan capital Lhasa, we were instructed, has been voted the happiest city in China four times in a five-year period. “Happiness is dynamic, happiness need to be experienced,” enthused Che Dalha, the Communist Party secretary for Lhasa. “Today’s Lhasa is just like what they sing in the song: The sky in Lhasa is the most blue; the clouds in Lhasa are the most white; the water in Lhasa is the clearest; the air in Lhasa is the freshest; the sunshine in Lhasa is the brightest; and the people in Lhasa are the happiest.”

The word “happy” was a mantra during the meeting, perhaps only rivaled in usage by Hu’s concept of scientific development. (Conveniently, scientific development is what helps make Tibetans feel particularly happy.) Nowhere was it mentioned that many Tibetans feel as though they have not profited equally from the region’s economic expansion, as an influx of Han migrants flood the region and snap up some of the best jobs. No cadre at the Great Hall of the People admitted that many of the new roads are designed to truck out Tibet’s bountiful and largely untapped natural resources.

(Source: TIME)

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Tibetan Protests Erupt in Western China
Reports from China’s western Qinghai Province say hundreds or even thousands of Tibetans marched on government offices Friday. The protests come amid attempts by China’s government to maintain social stability during a political transition. Tibetans marched on government offices in Rebkong, a region of eastern Tibet, after a series of self-immolations that drew international attention. Estimates ranged from hundreds to thousands of protesters who began gathering on the streets at 5:00 a.m. Many said they were speaking out against China’s education system.“Our sources have confirmed that many of the students have been calling for freedom of language and for the return of his Holiness,” said Stephanie Brigden, executive director of rights group Free Tibet.

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Tibetan Protests Erupt in Western China

Reports from China’s western Qinghai Province say hundreds or even thousands of Tibetans marched on government offices Friday. The protests come amid attempts by China’s government to maintain social stability during a political transition.

Tibetans marched on government offices in Rebkong, a region of eastern Tibet, after a series of self-immolations that drew international attention. Estimates ranged from hundreds to thousands of protesters who began gathering on the streets at 5:00 a.m. Many said they were speaking out against China’s education system.

“Our sources have confirmed that many of the students have been calling for freedom of language and for the return of his Holiness,” said Stephanie Brigden, executive director of rights group Free Tibet.

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Sixth Tibetan sets self on fire in China
A Tibetan man set himself on fire in China as the country’s leaders gathered to begin a pivotal leadership transition, the sixth person to do so in 48 hours, the Tibetan exile government said.
“It is confirmed that this is the sixth, that he has immolated, but we don’t have details about his age or name,” spokesman Lobsang Choedak told AFP from the Indian town of Dharamshala, the home of the exile government.
Individual self-immolations to protest Chinese rule in Tibet have occurred regularly since March 2011, but this is the first time such a large number of burnings have happened on the same day.
Three teenaged monks set themselves ablaze in a Tibetan-inhabited area of Aba County in Sichuan province, the focus of previous protests. One of them died on the spot, the press department for the exile government said.
“The self-immolations in Tibet are an appeal to the international community, to the Chinese government and to the Chinese people as human beings to hear their cry for help,” Dicki Chhoyang, information secretary for the government, said.
In addition to the three burnings in Sichuan, a fourth occurred in Huangnan prefecture in Qinghai province where a 23-year-old woman self-immolated and a fifth happened in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the exile government said.
Two protesters are confirmed dead and the whereabouts of the others are unknown.
“These protests are aimed at sending the next generation of China’s unelected regime a clear signal that Tibetans will continue to fight for their freedom despite China’s efforts to suppress and intimidate them,” Stephanie Brigden, director of the Free Tibet campaign group said in a statement.
A total of 68 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the protest, of which 54 have died, according to figures from the government in exile, which has been based in India since Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959.
China blames what it calls the “Dalai clique” for fomenting unrest in Tibet and orchestrating the self-immolations.
Last week, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged China to address Tibetans’ grievances saying: “I recognise Tibetans’ intense sense of frustration and despair which has led them to resort to such extreme means”.
Pillay said she was disturbed by “continuing allegations of violence against Tibetans seeking to exercise their fundamental human rights of freedom of expression, association and religion”.
China rebuffed the criticism and expressed “strong dissatisfaction”.
The Tibetan government in exile, which is not recognised by any foreign state, is looking for cause for optimism from the new Chinese leadership under Xi, the 59-year-old son of a Communist revolutionary.
Xi’s father, Xi Zhongxun, met and came to know the Dalai Lama in Beijing in the early 1950s, before the Tibetan spiritual leader fled after a failed uprising.
Xi senior, a party official at the time, later became a liberal vice premier known to be sympathetic towards minorities, and Tibetan exiles and analysts raise the possibility that such thinking may have passed down a generation.
Xi junior’s true political leanings are largely unknown, though he has expressed the government’s routine disdain for the Dalai Lama and also vowed to “smash” any attempt to destroy stability in Tibet.
“We hope that the new leadership will demonstrate greater wisdom by understanding that addressing the issue of Tibet is in China’s long-term interest,” said Chhoyang.
“We are ready at any time, any location to resume dialogue,” she added.

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Sixth Tibetan sets self on fire in China

A Tibetan man set himself on fire in China as the country’s leaders gathered to begin a pivotal leadership transition, the sixth person to do so in 48 hours, the Tibetan exile government said.

“It is confirmed that this is the sixth, that he has immolated, but we don’t have details about his age or name,” spokesman Lobsang Choedak told AFP from the Indian town of Dharamshala, the home of the exile government.

Individual self-immolations to protest Chinese rule in Tibet have occurred regularly since March 2011, but this is the first time such a large number of burnings have happened on the same day.

Three teenaged monks set themselves ablaze in a Tibetan-inhabited area of Aba County in Sichuan province, the focus of previous protests. One of them died on the spot, the press department for the exile government said.

“The self-immolations in Tibet are an appeal to the international community, to the Chinese government and to the Chinese people as human beings to hear their cry for help,” Dicki Chhoyang, information secretary for the government, said.

In addition to the three burnings in Sichuan, a fourth occurred in Huangnan prefecture in Qinghai province where a 23-year-old woman self-immolated and a fifth happened in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the exile government said.

Two protesters are confirmed dead and the whereabouts of the others are unknown.

“These protests are aimed at sending the next generation of China’s unelected regime a clear signal that Tibetans will continue to fight for their freedom despite China’s efforts to suppress and intimidate them,” Stephanie Brigden, director of the Free Tibet campaign group said in a statement.

A total of 68 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the protest, of which 54 have died, according to figures from the government in exile, which has been based in India since Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959.

China blames what it calls the “Dalai clique” for fomenting unrest in Tibet and orchestrating the self-immolations.

Last week, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged China to address Tibetans’ grievances saying: “I recognise Tibetans’ intense sense of frustration and despair which has led them to resort to such extreme means”.

Pillay said she was disturbed by “continuing allegations of violence against Tibetans seeking to exercise their fundamental human rights of freedom of expression, association and religion”.

China rebuffed the criticism and expressed “strong dissatisfaction”.

The Tibetan government in exile, which is not recognised by any foreign state, is looking for cause for optimism from the new Chinese leadership under Xi, the 59-year-old son of a Communist revolutionary.

Xi’s father, Xi Zhongxun, met and came to know the Dalai Lama in Beijing in the early 1950s, before the Tibetan spiritual leader fled after a failed uprising.

Xi senior, a party official at the time, later became a liberal vice premier known to be sympathetic towards minorities, and Tibetan exiles and analysts raise the possibility that such thinking may have passed down a generation.

Xi junior’s true political leanings are largely unknown, though he has expressed the government’s routine disdain for the Dalai Lama and also vowed to “smash” any attempt to destroy stability in Tibet.

“We hope that the new leadership will demonstrate greater wisdom by understanding that addressing the issue of Tibet is in China’s long-term interest,” said Chhoyang.

“We are ready at any time, any location to resume dialogue,” she added.

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Huffington Post: Tibet Self-Immolation Wave Among History's Biggest

Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political self-immolations in recent history.

But the stunning protests are going largely unnoticed in the wider world – due in part to a smothering Chinese security crackdown in the region that prevents journalists from covering them.

While a single fruit seller in Tunisia who lit himself on fire in December 2010 is credited with igniting the Arab Spring democracy movement, the Tibetan self-immolations have so far failed to prompt the changes the protesters demand: an end to government interference in their religion and a return of the exiled Dalai Lama.

Still, experts describe self-immolations as, historically, a powerful form of protest, and the ones in Tibet might yet lead to some broader uprising or stir greater international pressure on Beijing.

The Tibetan protesters have burned themselves in market places, main streets, military camps and other symbols of government authority in western China, mostly in a single remote county. Most of the protesters have been members of the Buddhist clergy. The latest were two monks, aged 21 and 22, on Friday.

“In scale, this is one of the biggest waves of self-immolation in the last six decades,” said Oxford University sociologist Michael Biggs, who studies politically driven suicides. “Particularly that it’s in one small area of China and in one small ethnic group, definitely, in terms of the intensity compared to the population, it seems to be much greater.”

The pace of 32 self-immolations in little more than a year is more rapid than the suicide-by-fire protests that punctuated the Vietnam War and the pro-democracy movement in South Korea, experts say. It is surpassed only by the more than 100 students in India who burned themselves to protest a caste-based affirmative action proposal in 1990, Biggs said.

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#Chinese #Trojans used to attack pro-Tibet organisations

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By John E Dunn, 14 March 2012

A malware campaign targeting activists at pro-Tibet organisations could be the work of the same Chinese group behind a major attack on the chemical industry last year, researchers from AlienVault have suggested.

The new attack uses a malicious Word attachment sent by email to organisations including the Central Tibet Administration and International Campaign for Tibet using English-language subject lines promoting a Tibetan religious festival.

This attachment attempts to exploit a relatively old Microsoft vulnerability (CVE-2010-3333), to launch GhostNet’s Gh0st RAT Trojan, normally designed to steal data or even record sound files via a PC’s microphone. It is also capable of performing realtime surveillance on an infected machine.

AlienVault notes a number of similarities to the Nitro campaign between July and September 2011, a large-scale attack on the chemical and defence industry against up to 48 different companies.

The malware used in the Nitro attacks was Poison Ivy, a Chinese-developed Trojan related to Gh0st RAT, using a VeriSign digital certificate issued to a Chinese company before being revoked on 12 December; embedded within the code calling the Trojan is the string ‘ByShe’, identical to that used by Nitro.

The modus operandi of attacking political organisations is also consistent with Nitro, believed to have started life with a concerted campaign against human rights groups in early 2011.

“It is no surprise that Tibetan organisations are being targeted – they have been for years – and we continue to see Chinese actors breaking into numerous organisations with impunity,” said Alien Vault’s Jaime Blasco.

“Unfortunately, in this particular case, these attacks may have a direct impact on the abuse of human rights in these regions.”

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freetibetorg:

Alan Rickman reads the torture testimony of a Tibetan monk. Happy birthday Alan.

Whenever a big name celebrity comes out in support of a cause that I believe in, it makes me happy. I think that it can often put the cause into the spotlight, for however brief of a time.

It also does tremendous damage. The celebrity usually stops talking about it and not much more is done. Or, if on the other hand, they continue their support, they are eventually lambasted and ridiculed by society. (I’d like to call it the Richard Gere Syndrome.)

I think it’s incredibly distasteful to post something as this in “honor” of Alan Rickman’s birthday. It makes a mockery of the actual testimony by putting it on a level with a personal holiday that comes once a year. I understand that the point was to thank a celebrity for his support of the Tibetan cause but the juxtaposition here is cruel. “Thank you for your support and happy birthday” would have been better, but it is a small note to the more encompassing issue of celebrities (and ordinary people) co-opting other voices for their own.

This video and audio file isn’t something akin to a living, modern-day poet reading the work of a now-dead poet they were inspired by. As far as we are aware, the monk who was tortured is still alive. While certain things should be taken into consideration, such as translation issues and privacy of the individual*, more often than not, we see Westerners co-opting voices of the oppressed in order to “raise awareness” of their plight. We, quite literally, speak over them.

I refuse to thank Mr. Rickman for merely reading from a script—that’s his job.

*The translation issue could easily be fixed by allowing individuals to speak in whatever language they feel most comfortable in and then adding subtitles. I’d prefer this to hearing a dubbed version. Additionally, it is possible that the person did not want to be identified in any way, and thus, celebrities were brought in to read translated versions of their experiences. We do not know whether or not these individuals were aware of how their words were used—it can be assumed they agreed to speak their harrowing tales, but who knows if they knew anything beyond that.

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Xi Jinping, China’s current Vice President and the person most likely to take over as President after Hu Jintao, arrived in Washington DC today amidst protests from Tibetan freedom and rights groups that included a large banner hanging from the Arlington Memorial Bridge reading ‘Xi Jinping, Tibet Will Be Free’.

On his first brief visit to the United States, Xi has a date with President Obama and other high diplomats on Tuesday, Valentine’s Day. The visit comes in the middle of heightened crackdown and tension within occupied Tibet where so far, more than twenty Tibetans have set fire to themselves in protest against China’s repressive policies on the region. The Chinese government has, not surprisingly, responded with tight clampdown of much of the restive area and accused overseas rights groups and the Dalai Lama for inciting the unrest in Tibet.

Following China’s vetoing of the UN draft resolution regarding Syria that more or less encouraged Bashir al-Assad to carry on killing its citizens, and the urgent events taking place within Tibet, the question is whether the officials will bring up these issues with China’s next president tomorrow.

On the roof of the world, Chinese paramilitaries are trying to snuff out Tibetan resistance to Beijing’s rule with spiked batons, semi-automatic weapons and fire extinguishers.

Every 20 metres along the main road of Aba, the remote town on the Tibetan plateau in that is at the heart of the current wave of protests, police officers and communist officials wearing red armbands look out for potential protesters. Dozens more paramilitaries sit in ranks outside shops and restaurants in an intimidating show of force.

At the nearby Kirti monastery, Chinese officers in fire trucks keep a close eye on pilgrims prostrating themselves, in case their devotion turns to immolation.

Outsiders are not supposed to see this. The Chinese authorities have gone to great lengths to block access to Aba, in north-western Sichuan, which is home to more than half the 23 monks, nuns and lay Buddhists who have set fire to themselves in acts of defiance aimed at the Chinese Communist party in the past two years.

The authorities have blocked internet and mobile phone signals. Checkpoints have been set up on surrounding roads to keep outside observers, particularly foreign journalists, away.

But after a 10-hour drive through mountain valleys and snow-covered plains, the Guardian was able to get into Aba and witness how the authorities are trying to quell dissent with security, propaganda and “re-education” campaigns. These tactics have had little success. Despite flooding Aba with security personnel, the protests continue.

The latest occurred on Saturday. Tenzin Choedron, an 18-year-old nun, shouted anti-Chinese protests as she ignited her petrol-soaked body in Aba, exile groups said. Her whereabouts and condition are now unknown.

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An area the size of England cordoned off.

9 February 2012

Authorities in China have launched a big security operation to try to end a wave of unrest caused by Tibetan campaigners.

In the past year, twenty-one people have publicly set themselves on fire, five in the past week alone, in a campaign calling for more freedom for Tibetans.

China has exercised sovereignty over Tibet for more than six decades.

Damian Grammaticas has been to Sichuan province bordering Tibet where most of the trouble has happened.

Warning - this video contains images which some may find distressing.

PLEASE REBLOG.

(Source: BBC)

Map depicting the restive areas inside Tibet where the self-immolations and shootings of Tibetans have occurred.

Map depicting the restive areas inside Tibet where the self-immolations and shootings of Tibetans have occurred.

Today, Wednesday 8, 2012, Tibetans around the world are/will be holding peaceful candlelight vigils to demonstrate our solidarity with the Tibetans living inside Tibet under the repressive conditions of the Chinese communist regime, and to honour the many lives sacrificed in our struggle for freedom.
In recent months, the Chinese government has met our demands for more empathy and self-determination with violent crackdowns that have left several Tibetans dead and many more injured. The more restive parts of occupied Tibet have been shut out from the rest of the world, with access to the Internet and telephone lines withheld to restrict information getting out. Even so, we have been receiving ongoing news about more Tibetans burning themselves in protest and the Chinese police retaliating with relentless brutality.
Only four days ago, China, along with Russia, vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations to condemn the Syrian regime’s violent crackdown on its own people that’s killed and is still killing hundreds of protesters guilty only of wanting a freer, democratic Syria. This thoughtless decision itself should be a testimony to the fact that China sees no wrong in killing if it means to protect its power and eliminate dissent. With a history of blood in its hands, we have already witnessed the heartless massacre of their own people during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. How then, can we expect any sympathy from them for the Tibetans inside occupied Tibet?
The worldwide protests and candlelight vigils will commemorate those we’ve lost to the numerous self-immolations carried out in ultimate desperation, and will call for the international media and political heads of states to speak up against the CCP’s mindless repression of the Tibetan people.
Picture: Demonstration held in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France on Wed. 8, 2012. Photo courtesy - Tennam Yzz.

Today, Wednesday 8, 2012, Tibetans around the world are/will be holding peaceful candlelight vigils to demonstrate our solidarity with the Tibetans living inside Tibet under the repressive conditions of the Chinese communist regime, and to honour the many lives sacrificed in our struggle for freedom.

In recent months, the Chinese government has met our demands for more empathy and self-determination with violent crackdowns that have left several Tibetans dead and many more injured. The more restive parts of occupied Tibet have been shut out from the rest of the world, with access to the Internet and telephone lines withheld to restrict information getting out. Even so, we have been receiving ongoing news about more Tibetans burning themselves in protest and the Chinese police retaliating with relentless brutality.

Only four days ago, China, along with Russia, vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations to condemn the Syrian regime’s violent crackdown on its own people that’s killed and is still killing hundreds of protesters guilty only of wanting a freer, democratic Syria. This thoughtless decision itself should be a testimony to the fact that China sees no wrong in killing if it means to protect its power and eliminate dissent. With a history of blood in its hands, we have already witnessed the heartless massacre of their own people during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. How then, can we expect any sympathy from them for the Tibetans inside occupied Tibet?

The worldwide protests and candlelight vigils will commemorate those we’ve lost to the numerous self-immolations carried out in ultimate desperation, and will call for the international media and political heads of states to speak up against the CCP’s mindless repression of the Tibetan people.

Picture: Demonstration held in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France on Wed. 8, 2012. Photo courtesy - Tennam Yzz.

BREAKING NEWS: Another Tibetan self-immolates; becoming the 21st to do so.

DHARAMSHALA, February 8: Reports coming out of Tibet confirm that another Tibetan set himself on fire today.

The self-immolation took place at the No. 2 primary school in the besieged Ngaba town of eastern Tibet at around 6.30 pm local time.

In information received by Phayul from sources in exile, the Tibetan was heard raising slogans against the Chinese government while engulfed in fire.

“A Tibetan set himself on fire while shouting slogans in protest against the Chinese government,” the exile base of Kirti monastery in Dharamshala said in a release citing links in the region.

According to eyewitnesses, the Tibetan is believed to be a monk but his name and place couldn’t be ascertained at the time of reporting.

“He was taken away immediately by soldiers and police, and his present condition and whereabouts are not known,” the release said.

In Tibet, 21 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire demanding the return of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet.

Many parts of Tibet remain cut off from outside world with a prevailing situation of undeclared martial law following mass protests in recent weeks in which at least a dozen Tibetans are feared dead in police firings.

The release also said that two unidentified monks were arrested from the vicinity today. Their identities and whereabouts are also not yet known.

Today’s self immolation in Ngaba coincides with the call by the exile Tibetan leadership for a worldwide vigil against China’s ever growing repression and military build-up in Tibet.

(Source: phayul.com)

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China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest
Internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut for 30 miles around scene of clashes in Sichuan, state media reports.
Chinese officials cut off mobile phone and internet connections to areas where Tibetans were shot dead amid unrest last month, state media has reported.
Officials say security forces fired in self-defence after mobs of rioters attacked police and official buildings in the south-western province of Sichuan, resulting in two deaths.
Tibetan exiles and campaign groups say police fired at peaceful protesters and killed at least three people.
It has been impossible to verify accounts of the unrest. Foreign reporters attempting to visit the region have been turned back, with officials blaming bad weather and the state of the roads.
Pictured: Chinese soldiers in Chengdu, Sichuan province. It has been impossible to verify accounts of the unrest in Luhuo. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest

Internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut for 30 miles around scene of clashes in Sichuan, state media reports.

Chinese officials cut off mobile phone and internet connections to areas where Tibetans were shot dead amid unrest last month, state media has reported.

Officials say security forces fired in self-defence after mobs of rioters attacked police and official buildings in the south-western province of Sichuan, resulting in two deaths.

Tibetan exiles and campaign groups say police fired at peaceful protesters and killed at least three people.

It has been impossible to verify accounts of the unrest. Foreign reporters attempting to visit the region have been turned back, with officials blaming bad weather and the state of the roads.

Pictured: Chinese soldiers in Chengdu, Sichuan province. It has been impossible to verify accounts of the unrest in Luhuo. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

A BIG FUCKING ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO OUR DEAR FRIENDS CHINA AND RUSSIA FOR VETOING THE DRAFT UN RESOLUTION TO CONDEMN THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT’S BLOODY CRACKDOWN ON ITS OWN PEOPLE. TRUST ONE DESPOTIC REGIME TO PAT ON ANOTHER FUCKED UP MEGALOMANIAC’S BACK AND SAY, “YOU JUST GO ON WIPING OUT THOSE DISSIDENTS, MY FRIEND. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE WORLD. THE UN’S INEFFECTIVE AS IT ALREADY IS BUT IF IT MAKES TROUBLE, WE’RE HERE TO TAKE CARE OF THE DOLTS. AND DON’T WORRY ABOUT A LITTLE BLOOD HERE AND THERE, THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN’T GET USED TO, TRUST ME, YOU’RE TALKING TO PROS. SO KEEP UP THE GOOD FUCKING JOB!”

(Source: BBC)

Three more Tibetans self-immolate in eastern Tibet.

DHARAMSHALA, February 4: In reports coming out of Tibet, three Tibetans have self-immolated on February 3 in the undersieged town of Serthar in eastern Tibet.

A Tibetan in exile with contacts in the region told Phayul that two Tibetans survived the self-immolation but one is feared dead.

“The three Tibetans called for the unity of the Tibetan people and protested against the Chinese government,” the Tibetan who didn’t want to be named said.

The two who have reportedly survived have been identified as Tsering, around 60 years of age and Kyari, around 30. The third Tibetan who is feared dead cannot be identified at the time of reporting.

Serthar has been under an undeclared martial law with a heavy military lockdown since the January 24 mass protests. At least six Tibetans were reportedly shot dead in indiscriminate police firings on unarmed Tibetans.

Preceding the mass demonstrations, Tibetans in rural villages in Serthar had carried out protests on January 18 and 22 while a larger demonstration was also reported on January 23 in Serthar town where a banner reading: “We protest against failed Chinese policies in Tibet” was unfurled.

The same source told Phayul that in the January 18 protests, a large number of ‘wind horse’ prayer scrolls with the Tibetan national flag and slogans calling for the Dalai Lama’s long life and ‘Victory to Tibet’ printed on the backside were spread in the region.

Following the protests, the entire region has been cut off from the outside world with no phone or internet connections. The roads leading into the region remain blocked as earlier shown by a CNN report in which its reporters were detained and sent back while trying to enter the region.

In photos received by Phayul of the January 24 Serthar protests yesterday, Chinese military personnel could be seen severely beating and dragging Tibetans on the road.

Since Tapey’s self-immolation in 2009, 19 Tibetans have set themselves on fire demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and protesting China’s occupation of Tibet.

Amnesty International in a release last week called on China to avoid using excessive force in response to Tibetan protests and expressed fear of “further violence and bloodshed” in Tibet.

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