And waterboarding 3 people by USA is bad.Unbelievable folks

Paramilitaries open fire on hundreds of monks and nuns at Tibet rally

Paramilitary police opened fire on hundreds of monks, nuns and Tibetans who

tried to march on a local government office in western China yesterday to

demand the return of the Dalai Lama.

Residents of Luhuo said that a monk and a farmer appeared to have been

killed and about a dozen people wounded in the latest violence in Tibetan

areas of China. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said that one

officer was killed when police confronted a "lawless mob" in Luhuo.

The demonstration began at 4pm when about 200 nuns from Woge nunnery and a

similar number of monks from Jueri monastery marched towards the Luhuo Third

District government office. They were joined by several hundred farmers and

nomads, witnesses said.

Shouting "Long Live the Dalai Lama" and "Tibet belongs to Tibetans", they

approached the office. The paramilitary People's Armed Police appeared and

ordered the crowd to turn back. Witnesses said that shots were fired and two

people appeared to have died. They identified one as Congun Dengzhu, a

farmer, and the second as an unknown monk.

Security was already tight in Luhuo county, as in other Tibetan communities

in China. The turmoil began with a riot in Lhasa on March 15, in which

Chinese officials say 19 people were killed when Tibetans rampaged through

the Tibetan capital, stabbing ethnic Han Chinese and setting fire to Chinese

shops and offices.

The latest demonstration, in a remote corner of a province that abuts Tibet

and has a mainly Tibetan population, came after the authorities in Lhasa

issued their Number Eight list of those most wanted in connection with the

violence.

The new list, issued by the Tibetan Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau

rather than by Lhasa city authorities, of eight people brought the number of

those now being sought to 53. State-run television has been showing grainy

photographs of those who are wanted, which have been taken from video

footage and photographs that were taken during the riot on March 15.

The man whose picture appeared as number 52 on the list features in one of

the most well-known images from that day of violence, in which a group of

Tibetans can be seen setting light to a Chinese flag while a young man in

Tibetan dress and carrying a machete-type knife stands in the background.

China says it has acted with restraint in response to the unrest. It said

that its paramilitary had opened fire on protesters in Aba, a nearby

district of Sichuan province, last week, wounding four people. Tibetans have

said that several people were killed.

A police spokeswoman said that five people had been detained in Lhasa in

relation to arson during the riot. She said that three Tibetan women in

their twenties faced arson charges and had confessed. An investigation was

still under way in the two other cases. Officials said last week that 24

people had been arrested and more than 150 had given themselves up.

At least 245 Tibetans were detained in Nepal yesterday after police used

bamboo batons to break up a crowd of 500 demonstrators at a pro-Tibet rally

near a United Nations office in Kathmandu, police said. Nepal recognises

officially the One China policy that says Tibet and Taiwan are indivisible

parts of the country.

The government-in-exile of the Dalai Lama in India said yesterday that the

death toll in the clashes had risen to 130 but it gave no breakdown or

details of the casualties.

Foreign journalists have been barred from approaching any Tibetan areas

where unrest has been reported and the numbers are extremely difficult to

verify.

Security is tight across Tibetan areas of China. Civil servants in many

districts have been ordered to report to their offices every day and to take

part in "patriotic education".

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From 'Dreams of my Father', "In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a

Muslim school"... "I studied the Koran.."

Hussein Obama

You're right Harry, it is. We're not

some Soviet Gulag nation. Our vision and values are based

on Anglo-Saxon traditions of decency and humanity.

Well Done!!

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Wolfie