Police open fire on Tibet protests - China/Human Rights/Dalai Lama
Rowan Callick; 17/3/08
Police yesterday opened fire on Tibetan protesters as anti-Chinese rallies spread outside Lhasa, and paramilitary police backed by armoured personnel carriers enforced a precarious peace in the Tibetan capital. As Beijing issued a deadline of midnight tonight for the rioters in Lhasa to give themselves up, the fresh outbreak of unrest in neighbouring Sichuan province reportedly left seven people dead. A resident of the heavily Tibetan-populated Sichuan town of Ngawa said the seven were killed when police opened fire as protesters tried to attack the main government building and police headquarters in the town. “They set fire to police cars, and then the police started shooting,” the witness told Agence France-Presse. The unrest has spread as far as the city of Xiahe in the Gansu region of central China, where police fired teargas to disperse several hundred Buddhist monks from the Labrang monastery, who demonstrated on Saturday in solidarity with the Lhasa protests.
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