Posted on 01/15/2009 11:08:33 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Tibetans in New Kardze Protests
2009-01-09
Tibetan residents of China's Sichuan province protest Chinese rule even as authorities target opposition.
KATHMANDU—Small, sporadic protests against Chinese rule in Tibetan areas of China’s Sichuan province persist despite a widespread crackdown on dissent in the wake of massive anti-China unrest less than a year ago, according to sources in the region.
“On Jan. 5, a Tibetan man protested in front of police headquarters in downtown Kardze [in Chinese, Ganzi] at around 12 p.m.,” said a local Tibetan woman, who asked not to be named.
“He shouted slogans calling for the independence of Tibet and threw several thousand paper fliers into the air. The fliers included prayer flags and protest leaflets.”
The protestor was identified as Ngawang Sonam, age about 32 and a resident of Horpo village, Tsonggo township, in Kardze county in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), the source said.
“After he had protested for about three minutes, police and Public Security Bureau officials fired a tranquilizer gun at him, severely beat him, and took him away in a police vehicle,” she said.
Ngawang Sonam, a father of two school-age children, had been detained once before for his role in a 2000 protest against Chinese rule, the source said.
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Ping!
China’s Sichuan province......Kham!
Khampa’s have always fought the hardest , resisted the strongest , and paid the greatest costs .
I am sorry to say that Tibet will remain under the Chinese
boot until and unless something so drastic happens to greater China that effectively ends their ability to control anything more than what is directly in front of their screwed up little faces .
Tibet WILL survive , they just have to be even more tricky
than their cunning overlords . No one else is ever going to help them , that’s for sure.
one Tibetan
The world comes to the defense of Gaza, a people who are militant and kill innocents.. While the same world is silent about Tibet, a peace loving people enduring a true genocide for the past 50 years.
What a pathetic world we live in.
Kham & Khampas..."[The] Khampas stood a good six feet in height,... wore great heavy boots and flowing khaki robes that flapped like whips as they walked, advancing with their feet slightly apart as if to trample the grass to extinction....Unlike Tibetans of Lhasa, their features were not Mongoloid, but straight, with large fierce eyes set beside beak- like noses, and long hair braided and wound around their heads, giving them a primitive allure."...
Review of "Buddha’s Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet""The loss of Tibet is epic and monumental. Despite prima facie evidence of genocide in Tibet, economic interests between Western nations and China have precluded any strategic criticism or questioning of this totalitarian occupation and monumental violation of human rights."
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