Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
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Security forces in Lhasa March 11 used tear gas to disperse a crowd of several hundred monks who marched to protest the detention of some 60 monks from Drepung and Sera monasteries the previous day. These constitute the largest protests in Lhasa since 1989.
The monks who marched ten kilometers from Drepung to central Lhasa March 10 were, in turn, demanding the release of monks detained last October after they held rituals in their monasteries to celebrate the award of the US Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. A roadblock of several military vehicles of the People's Armed Police barred their way into the city. The whereabouts of the detained monks remains unknown. A further nine monks from Sera were detained when they shouted pro-independence slogans at Lhasa's Tsuklakhang temple.
The monks who marched on the 11th chanted "We want freedom!" "Free our people!" "We want an independent Tibet!" and "Free our people or we won't go back!"
The monasteries are now surrounded by military vehicles and troops. China's official news agency, Xinhua, quoted Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government: "More than 300 lamas entered the city proper of Lhasa in groups on March 10, but were later persuaded to leave in peace. No disturbance to social stability was caused." Xinhua appears not to have reported the following day's disturbances. (Phayul, Free Tibet Campaign, International Campaign for Tibet, March 11)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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More protests and repression in Tibet
Security forces in Lhasa March 11 used tear gas to disperse a crowd of several hundred monks who marched to protest the detention of some 60 monks from Drepung and Sera monasteries the previous day. These constitute the largest protests in Lhasa since 1989.
The monks who marched ten kilometers from Drepung to central Lhasa March 10 were, in turn, demanding the release of monks detained last October after they held rituals in their monasteries to celebrate the award of the US Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. A roadblock of several military vehicles of the People's Armed Police barred their way into the city. The whereabouts of the detained monks remains unknown. A further nine monks from Sera were detained when they shouted pro-independence slogans at Lhasa's Tsuklakhang temple.
The monks who marched on the 11th chanted "We want freedom!" "Free our people!" "We want an independent Tibet!" and "Free our people or we won't go back!"
The monasteries are now surrounded by military vehicles and troops. China's official news agency, Xinhua, quoted Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government: "More than 300 lamas entered the city proper of Lhasa in groups on March 10, but were later persuaded to leave in peace. No disturbance to social stability was caused." Xinhua appears not to have reported the following day's disturbances. (Phayul, Free Tibet Campaign, International Campaign for Tibet, March 11)