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Tibetan Monks: Religious Confrontation With China!

These headlines are not about the Vatican or the Pope, nor is this spotlight on the Middle East where there is the never ending conflict between the Jews, the Muslims, and the American Christian soldiers. This spotlight is on the Tibetan Monks confronting the mighty government of China over a small patch of land in Asia.

What effect will this have on the upcoming Olympics in China, and will the Chinese risk the bad publicity of crushing the Monks just before such an international event?


[link] Dalai Lama condemns 'rule of terror' in Tibet as protests spread.

by Karl Malakunas
Sun Mar 16, 1:35 PM ET

BEIJING (AFP) - The Dalai Lama condemned a "rule of terror" in his native Tibet on Sunday as Chinese forces blanketed the region's capital in security and pro-independence protests spread elsewhere in China.

A fresh protest in southwest China's Sichuan province reportedly left at least seven people dead in a dangerous escalation of the uprising by Tibetans against China's rule of the vast Himalayan region.

The violence, previously confined mainly to the Tibetan capital Lhasa, has left at least 80 people dead, according to Tibet's government-in-exile, although the official death toll in China's state-run media remained at 10.

[link] Monks leading cry for a free land.

Mary-Anne Toy, Xiahe, China
March 17, 2008

HERE in the biggest and most important monastery town outside Tibet, hundreds of monks, locals and visitors from the countryside, here for a religious festival, have staged a series of protests in support of the protesting monks in Lhasa, chanting "Free Tibet" and waving Tibetan flags and scarves.

Monks as young as seven and as old as 70 took part.

Witnesses said crowds of about 600 people on Friday and Saturday and an unspecified number early yesterday clashed with hundreds of police and troops trucked in from the nearest city, Lanzhou


[link] China military forces defend crackdown

Lindsay Beck and Jason Subler, Beijing
March 17, 2008

CHINESE forces have defended the crackdown on protests that have racked the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, despite international calls for restraint and concerns for human rights.

A week of demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in the contested region escalated on Friday into broader-based protests that led to looting and burning and prompted police and troops to lock down the Himalayan city.

The unrest, the biggest challenge to China's rule of the vast Himalayan region since protests in 1989 were crushed by the military, left at least 10 people dead, according to the official Chinese account in the state-run press.

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The DARF Team.


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