Tibetan riots spread

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

Rioting erupted in a province neighboring Tibet on Sunday, two days after ugly street protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa that the contested region's government-in-exile said had killed 80 people.

A police officer -- speaking even as the main government building in Aba county, Sichuan province, came under siege -- told Reuters that about 200 Tibetan protesters had hurled petrol bombs and burnt down a police station.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in an e-mail that thousands of monks of the nearby Amdo Ngaba Kirti monastery in Sichuan had raised the banned Tibetan flag and shouted pro-independence slogans after prayers on Sunday morning.

Chinese security forces stormed the monastery, fired tear gas and prevented the monks from taking to the streets, it said.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLAU64099220080316

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It's time for China to get the fuck out of Tibet.

[cornermouse]

1. China has already show in Tiananmen Square

that they have no aversion to killing people who refuse to fall into line. I am afraid for Tibet.

[SpiralHawk]

2. The street protests were not "ugly"

The totalitarian crack down of the invaders was ugly.

Same pattern in Iraq where the people do not like being invaded and occupied by heavily armd, oil-profit CRUSADING republicon mercenary corporations...

Get a clue, reuters...

[Kolesar]

4. That whole first paragraph was strained

Trying to express too much in one sentence with some strained references. It even says the protests were not in Tibet.

IIRC, China is backing down from absolute oppression of Tibet. It just was not working.

[ohio2007]

5. India joins calls for Tibet dialogue, more protests( the province next to Tibet ? )

India joins calls for Tibet dialogue, more protests

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India joined a chorus of calls for dialogue on Sunday after pro-independence protests in Tibet spilled over into street violence, while Japan urged Beijing to consider the implications on the Olympic Games.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said that the international community had the "moral responsibility" to remind China to be a good host for the Olympic Games, but added that China deserved to host the Games in August.

China has declared a "people's war" of security and propaganda against support for the Dalai Lama underlining that it will not heed calls from around the globe for a lenient response to the riots.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL1611428620080316

With talk of boycotts what side will the canidates take on this issue;
Wal-Mart China or the worlds largets democracy India ?

Of course, Tibet isn't a factor until the lid blows off after the games closing events that is.

[ohio2007]

3. Chinna must pay the price for 40 yrs of occupation.

Although most Chinese feel Tibet is as Chinese a province as New Mexico is a U.S. state. At least thats how it is wtaught in the Chinese communist education system
;)