Mardi 18 mars 2008
Rapports non confirmés du Thibet des douzaines de civils tués dans le resserrement
Les militaires chinois tirent les démonstrateurs tibétains « comme des chiens, » un groupe tibétain d'exil dit lundi, mettant le feu « aléatoirement » à des groupes de personnes d'introduction protestant la règle chinoise.
L'accusation a été nivelée par le centre tibétain pour les droits de l'homme et la démocratie, une course de groupe par les Tibétains exilés dans Dharamsala, Inde, maison à Dalai Lama. Exilez les groupes en Inde reçoivent certains des quelques rapports de l'intérieur du Thibet et ont fourni une partie du seul reportage de là depuis le lundi passé, quand les protestations tibétaines les plus significatives en 20 ans ont commencé.
Les « gens ont été dire eux tirent nos personnes comme des chiens, » Tenzin Norgay, le porte-parole pour le centre tibétain pour des droits de l'homme et la démocratie, dit des nouvelles d'ABC, citant ses sources à l'intérieur du Thibet. Il a parlé juste quelques heures après qu'un ensemble de date-limite par le gouvernement chinois ait expiré pour que les protestateurs arrêtent ou pour font face à un resserrement. Les protestations, il dit, continuées, et ainsi ont fait la revanche.
« Des rapports nous avons pu recueillir, les forces de militaires, ils ne tolèrent rien davantage que quelques minutes et alors immédiatement ils commencent à tirer ou battre. Et si la foule sort de la commande qu'ils tirent aléatoirement, » Norgay dit.
Arrêt total de nouvelles
Il dit son groupe avait confirmé que 55 protestateurs avaient été tirés à la mort en derniers jours. Le gouvernement tibétain dans l'exil, qui est posé dans Dharamsala, maintient qu'il a confirmé au moins les 80 décès dans la capitale seule de Lhasa pendant une semaine de protestations.
Si les militaires chinois en fait tirent dans des foules, l'accusation est impossible à s'avérer. Le gouvernement chinois a donné un coup de pied tous les journalistes hors de la région et sources de groupes d'exil les' sont anonymes et refusent de parler directement aux médias pour la crainte de leur sûreté.
Le gouvernement chinois nie tirer des protestateurs au cours de la semaine dernière, dire que les Tibétains eux-mêmes sont fautifs.
Les « atrocités de l'indépendance tibétaine force manifesté… l'hypocrisie et la duperie de sa propagande de paix et de non-violence, » porte-parole étranger Liu Jianchao de ministère dit, selon Associated Press. « Le gouvernement chinois protégera unwaveringly la souveraineté nationale et l'intégrité territoriale. »
“Unwavering” for China has clearly meant a massive mobilization of soldiers and police to quell the protests. ABC News witnessed hundreds of buses full of soldiers rumbling along the road to Tibet on Monday, hours before the deadline expired.
But the protestors themselves have also been unwavering, and seem to be more aggressive than ever.
They have burned buildings, attacked cars with baseball bats and thrown rocks at Chinese authorities. Those methods have long been used by revolutionaries around the world, but never so often by Tibetans.
And as the actions and rhetoric on both sides rose over the last week, a fault line within the Tibetan independence movement has been exposed.
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the movement, the living God who won a Nobel Peace Prize for advancing non-violent protest in Tibet. But the 72-year-old’s faith in Gandhian resistance has left some of his followers frustrated.
‘Issue Has to Do With Every Tibetian’
“He is the leader, yes, but every single Tibetan has the responsibility” to fight for independence, Tsewang Rigzin, the president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, told reporters in Dharamsala. “The issue of Tibet is not an issue of an individual or an individual organization. The issue of Tibet has to do with every single Tibetan. ”
He sat in front a sign that read “Rise Up, Resist, Return.” Unlike the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Youth Congress stands for aggressive protest. Unlike the Dalai Lama, it stands for Tibetan independence from China and not just autonomy. And Unlike the Dalai it believes that China should be stripped of the Olympics.
“There is a growing frustration within the Tibetan community, especially the younger generation,” Rigzin said. “His holiness’ brand of ‘middle way’ has been in existence for the last 20 years. And as of right now, nothing has come of it whatsoever.”
The Dalai Lama has stuck to his principles. “Particularly in our case,” he said during a press conference on Sunday, “violence is almost like suicide.”
But he pointedly did not condemn the protesters’ actions during the press conference. He said he didn’t have the power to stop the demonstrations, though he admitted that he’d received requests not to intervene.
“Generally, Tibetans following, I think quite sincerely, non-violent peaceful” protest, he told reporters. “Of course, individual human beings, emotions become out of control, and [that leads to] violent actions. So this is possible.”
Asked by ABC News whether he supported the demonstrators and had the power to stop them, he parried, saying, “I have no such power.”
Perhaps he is not standing in the way because he and his advisers realize this is a moment the Tibet movement needs to seize. The Summer Olympics begin in only five months. Never have so many eyes been on China. And it seems that never has he been so impressed by the possibilities of this week’s protests.
When he heard the Chinese impose a deadline to the protestors, he said “I got the same sort of mental state which I experienced in 1959.” That is an extremely significant year for the Tibetan people — the year the Dalai Lama fled to India, and the year Tibetans tried to seize their homeland through force. “One side, Chinese military determined to crush. Other side, Tibetan side also, determined to resist that,” he said.
Emotions have never been higher here. Lobsang Tsering, a 28-year-old monk, left Tibet in 1989 to move to a monestary in Dharamsala. He has been following the protests in Tibet closely.
Situation in Lhasa
“So many people have been killed in Lhasa. Yesterday 15 were killed in Amdho. And yet the protesters continue — with only a photo of the Dali Lama and the Tibetan flags as their weapons. They have no guns. The Chinese have the guns,” he says.
While being interviewed he and another monk received a call from one of their friends in Tibet. The caller described a scene of violence unfold right in front of his eyes.
“The police are beating 70 people,” the called said. “One policeman just hit a monk’s head with a baton. The monk is bleeding right now.” As he continued describing the scene, the violence turned worse. “Oh! Just now two people were killed. I saw it right in front of me.”
Tsering was inconsolable. Speaking a few hours before the Chinese deadline, he feared that the violence would only get worse.
“If the Chinese shoot bullets into the Tibetans into the Tibet, the feeling is felt in the heart of those of us in exile,” he said. He started crying, and hugged a visiting reporter. “When I think about the news from the last couple of days, I feel mad. I don’t know what to do.”
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