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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Hundreds of Tibetans have been arbitrarily arrested in ongoing house-to-house raids by Chinese security forces in Lhasa beginning March 15. All former political prisoners have been rounded up and imprisoned by the security forces, according to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
Although martial law has not been officially declared in Lhasa or the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), the TCHRD says the situation "has all the elements of the Martial Law imposed in 1989 by the then 'TAR' Party Secretary Hu Jintao, currently the President of People's Republic of China." (TCHRD, March 16)
Protests continue to spread beyond the TAR. Some 500 Tibetan students of the Tibetan Studies Department at the North Western Nationality University, Lanzhou City, Gansu province, staged a peaceful march on the campus March 16. (TCHRD, March 16) Also March 16, 300 monks from Rong Gonchen monastery in Qinghai province's "Tibet Autonomous Prefecture" marched on local government offices, but were blocked by security forces. The monastery is now surrounded by a heavy presence of paramilitary troops. (TCHRD, March 16)
Eight are reported dead at Ngaba Kirti monastery in Ngaba county, Sichuan province, following repression of marches. The bodies were brought back to the monastery March 16 after the People's Armed Police (PAP) attacked marching Tibetan monks. (TCHRD, TCHRD, March 16)
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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Tibetan resistance spreads; death toll rises
Hundreds of Tibetans have been arbitrarily arrested in ongoing house-to-house raids by Chinese security forces in Lhasa beginning March 15. All former political prisoners have been rounded up and imprisoned by the security forces, according to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
Although martial law has not been officially declared in Lhasa or the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), the TCHRD says the situation "has all the elements of the Martial Law imposed in 1989 by the then 'TAR' Party Secretary Hu Jintao, currently the President of People's Republic of China." (TCHRD, March 16)
Protests continue to spread beyond the TAR. Some 500 Tibetan students of the Tibetan Studies Department at the North Western Nationality University, Lanzhou City, Gansu province, staged a peaceful march on the campus March 16. (TCHRD, March 16) Also March 16, 300 monks from Rong Gonchen monastery in Qinghai province's "Tibet Autonomous Prefecture" marched on local government offices, but were blocked by security forces. The monastery is now surrounded by a heavy presence of paramilitary troops. (TCHRD, March 16)
Eight are reported dead at Ngaba Kirti monastery in Ngaba county, Sichuan province, following repression of marches. The bodies were brought back to the monastery March 16 after the People's Armed Police (PAP) attacked marching Tibetan monks. (TCHRD, TCHRD, March 16)
All sources online at Phayul.com.