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TIBET AT A TURNING POINT: THE SPRING UPRISING AND CHINA’S NEW CRACKDOWN three Tibetans being brought in. One of the injured was Tenzin Norbu from Kham Pelbar. His sister brought him in, and I recognized him. He had been shot in the head, and the hospital suggested that he should be taken to the TAR People’s Hospital. He was vomiting and may not have survived. That boy was very young — about 21 or 22 — and according to his sister he was a student in a school just below Sera monastery. Another youth had also been shot in the head. He was bleeding heavily, and there was little hope for his survival. Another Tibetan youth had been hit in the hip and had about four bullet wounds. “I thought that this [the uprising] was the right thing to do. I participated in the protests and was among the protesters in the area of Ramoche monastery for about two hours. I knew that the protests were expressions of Tibetan despair over Chinese oppression in our own country. The actual suppression and crackdown by Chinese forces began on the night of March 14. At roughly 8:00 pm, Tibetans in the Lhasa area heard that Chinese forces were coming. Many left and went to their homes, while others continued their protests. That very night I saw many Tibetans being taken away and Chinese armed police firing on Tibetans. I saw them myself. I heard gunshots on March 14, 15, 16. One of those who died in Lupuk was Lhakpa Tsering. He was known to us. He is survived by a young daughter. He was from Toelung Dechen and worked as a driver. He died on Friday and his funeral was planned for the following Monday, but local officials took his body for a post mortem because of the gunshot wound to his head. Later, they handed over some ashes instead of his body. Most of the Tibetan families whose loved ones were killed could not be traced. It was difficult to know whether they were alive or dead or in detention. Most of the dead bodies were taken away and disposed of by the Chinese.” Shooting in Lhasa on March 15 A Tibetan caller to Radio Free Asia on March 15 gave the following account: “I am in the Lhasa area. There was shooting today. Many Tibetans who were dead and barely alive were collected at the TAR Security Office area, and I heard from a reliable source that there were 67 bodies. Some were alive and most were dead when they were brought in. [...] This included male and female, and I don’t have the details. […] But it’s confirmed that there were in total about 67 bodies collected at this place. I cannot tell you the source of my information, but 67 bodies were seen by my source. [...] Right now I can hear shootings. We saw many tanks. Sometimes they fire in the air to threaten the Tibetans. At some places, like the Karma Kunsang area, they are firing 62
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET right now. Every Tibetan is stopped and their I.D.s are checked. Even Tibetan government workers are checked, but the Chinese are free to move around. Many Tibetans who were arrested were taken toward the Toelung area and several other jails in different parts of Lhasa.” 1 See: ‘New images confirm security buildup at Drepung on day Dalai Lama awarded the Congressional Gold Medal,’ ICT, November 14, 2007, www.savetibet.org. 2 ‘The non-violent nature of Tibetan resistance: eyewitness to history’, in ICT report ‘Incomparable Warriors’, www.savetibet.org. 3 ‘Thunder from Tibet,’ Robbie Barnett, New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 9, May 29, 2008, www.nybooks.com. 4 ‘Second day of protests in Lhasa: monks dispersed by tear-gas,’ ICT, March 11, 2008, www.savetibet.org. 5 See endnote 3. 6 ‘Analsis: controlling Tibet — Part 1,’ UPI, July 2, 2008, www.upi.com. 7 ‘Jokhang monks make bold protest: transcript,’ ICT, April 3, 2008, www.savetibet.org. 8 “The Fear in Lhasa, as Felt in Beijing,” Tsering Woeser, July 16, 2008, www.phayul.com. 9 Within Tibetan Buddhism, Manjusri is a tantric meditational deity considered to be a fully enlightened Buddha, and the embodiment of wisdom. 63
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