From Mandarin service reporter Shen Hua:
There were Tibetan protests in Heka Township in Xinghai County of Qinghai Province on March 25. Around 15 or 16 participants have been detained, including some who surrendered themselves to police.
Gesang Jianzan, a member of the Tibetan Government in Exile told RFA that “As far as I know, around a thousand Tibetans took part in the protests, including monks and laymen. They carried banners such as ‘There is no freedom in Tibet!’ ‘Let Dalai Lama home!’” “Several dozens have been arrested, including several people of whom I know their names.”
Mr. Zhang in Heka Township told RFA that “I heard several dozens of Tibetan demonstrated on March 25. They were carrying white flags at the demonstration.” He said “Now the local situation is stable.” The white flags are in fact banners with slogans.
A Hui woman in Heka Township told RFA that “Maximally five or six people took part in the demonstration.”
A Tibetan businessman in Heka told RFA that “About five or six protesters turn themselves in to police. There are seveal more arrests.”
RFA Tibetan Service said there were several hundreds of protesters on March 25. Tibetan sources in India said that police didn’t talke any actions that day. The following day, March 26, police arrested three Tibetans. That sparked a Tibetan sit-in protest before the Township government, requesting release of the arrtested.
The Public Security Bureau of Xinghai County orders all who participated in the “unlawful rally and demonstration on March 25” to surrender. Mr. Luo of the Xinghai Public Security Bureau confirmed to RFA that “Totally there are about 15 or 16 people detained, including those who surrendered. ”
From Hong Kong-based reporter Qiao Long:
It is now a month since the Lhasa riots. A spokesman for the Tibetan Government in Exile told RFA that “The latest development is that there seems to be tensions in the Drepung Temple in Lhasa but we are still collecting information on it. Telephone calls into the temple cannot get through. Another development is that a district government in Mangkang County seems to have some trouble, but we don’t know the details.”
A woman living besides the Drepung Temple told RFA that “Armed police are guarding the Drepung Temple. There are police on every corner of the roads. Police also guard all companies and offiices which deal with foreign-related business.”
Chinese authorities in Tibet want to brainwash monks in Weisai Temple in Mangkang County, but the monks refused the so-called “Reeducation” and all fled from the temple as a way of protest. Gesang, an officer with the Tibetan Government in Exile told RFA that “We received the information from Mangkang County. The gate of local government caught fire and it seemed to be arson. There are always police in the Weisai Temple. Monks say there have been always about two thousands of police surrounding the temple. Around three or four days ago, the authorities organized ‘patriotic education’ campaign in the temple. Most monks resisted the plan and fled from the temple.”
Gesang told RFA that “It seems that many protesting posters apprear in Tagong Township of Kangding County in Ganze, Sichuan. Meanwhle, there are Tibetans shouting slogans there.”
Photo: Tibetans protest in Tsolho, in Tibet. Courtesy of Students for a Free Tibet on Flickr.
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