Mar 21

Reports from Tibet on March 20th

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Amidst international media reports that China blanketed all ethnically Tibetan areas with a huge build-up of troops, there continued to be protests reported in some areas.

On March 20, people in Kego Township of Serta County in Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan province, were brutally suppressed by over 5,000 military police between 4:00pm and 5:00pm. The clash started when military police tried to take down a Tibetan flag that had been put up in the town. The people demonstrated against this, and were fired upon. The military police had received orders from the Central government to execute anyone who demonstrates. Over 20 people were killed or executed.

Tibetan students at Qinghai Institute for Nationalities started a silent sit-in in the western section of the campus at 8:00pm. The students included some Tibetan students in the Art Department and the Foreign Languages Department.

Students in Yushul County in Kham, Yushul (Ch: Yushu) TAP, Qinghai Province also held a protest.

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