Posted on 03/28/2008 5:33:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
28 March 2008 [For Immediate Release]
Over hundred of monks arrested after a raid in Ngaba Kirti Monastery
After days of unrest and protests in Ngaba County since 15 March, which saw the death of at least 23 Tibetans, arrest and injury of over hundreds, the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) forces arrested over a hundred monks from Ngaba Kirti Monastery during a raid of the monastery this afternoon, according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
Earlier this morning, hundreds of PAP and PSB came to Ngaba Kirti Monastery, dispersed people, mostly devotees, visitors gathered around the monastery compound and ordered surrounding shops to shut down.
At around 12 noon (Beijing Standard time), PAP and PSB forces stormed into Ngaba Kirti Monastery, in Ngaba County (Ch: Aba Xian), Ngaba "TAP" Sichuan Province. At first the PAP and PSB forces barred the monks of Ngaba Kirti Monastery from venturing out of their rooms, followed by a sudden raid carried out in each and every monk's room, ransacking any portraits of the Dalai Lama and looking for any incriminating documents. At around 5:00 PM (Beijing Standard Time) at least a hundred monks were known to have been forcibly taken away by the armed forces to Ngaba County PSB Detention Centre after the raid. The current atmosphere inside the Kirti Monastery is known to be very tense and volatile.
According to the latest information from Tibet, sandbag barricades were erected by People's Armed Police (PAP) around the Kirti Monastery and surroundings area to curb the fresh outbreak of protest by the local residents of Ngaba County.
TCHRD condemns in strongest terms the Chinese security forces highhandedness in dealing with monks by arbitrarily arresting monks without formal charges and ransacking the monastic institution.
Ping!
China will receive much more unwanted attention as the Olympics approach. The world will see self-immolation on a grand scale.
May God help them.....because the West will surely look the other way.
God help us for doing so.
Where is Richard Gere when we need him?!
Plus, it'll probably make WalMart really mad, which in turn will make the Clintons mad: Bonus!
When someone from the left stands up for what is right and just, he should be acknowledged and supported.
I agree. The problem is that Hollywood idiots like Gere get upset when totalitarianism affects their pet causes (Gere’s eastern religion) but think that the West should do nothing about Soviet or Islamic aggression. What would Gere’s solution be anyway? Talks?
“People’s Armed Police (PAP) around the Kirti Monastery ...
the Chinese security forces highhandedness in dealing with monks by arbitrarily arresting monks without formal charges and ransacking the monastic institution.”
Ah Hah, another PAP smear!
Well, we’re talking Hollywood here - perhaps we should be thankful they’re on the right side for once.
Yeah, take what we can get I guess.
Ask the gerbil.
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