Re: Riots break out in Tibetan capital

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看CNN的報道﹐拉薩現在是一片管制和暴動的混亂中﹐ 當地也有針對漢人的報復性暴力行為計劃西藏遊的最好改期或取消 ※ 引述《npchen (426)》之銘言： : ※ [本文轉錄自 CrossStrait 看板] : 作者: npchen (426) 看板: CrossStrait : 標題: Riots break out in Tibetan capital : 時間: Fri Mar 14 20:02:51 2008 : http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/tibet.unrest/index.html : (CNN) -- Protesters set fire to vehicles and shops in the Tibetan capital : of Lhasa on Friday, as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out, : a witness told CNN. : Roughly 1,000 people hurled rocks and concrete at security forces, demolishing : military trucks and pushing back riot police, the witness said. : Protesters appeared to be targeting shops and vehicles owned by Han Chinese : , the predominant ethnic group in China. : A main market in the capital was set on fire, and some Tibetans were hospitalized : with serious injuries, according to Kate Saunders, a spokeswoman for the : International Campaign for Tibet, which promotes human rights and democratic : freedom in Tibet. : Friday's violence appears to have started when police tried to stop a peaceful : protest by monks at Ramoche Temple, Tashi Choephel of the Tibetan Center : for Human Rights told CNN from Dharamsala, India. : "The monks from the Ramoche Temple on the north side of Lhasa, they started : a peaceful demonstration and they were blocked by the People's Armed Police : ," Choephel said. : A photo e-mailed to CNN from a source in Lhasa showed what appeared to be : Chinese military vehicles containing security forces armed with riot shields : at the Ramoche Temple. : Saunders said violence broke out as bystanders joined the protest. : "Apparently local people -- lay people -- got involved, and a police car : was set on fire. This was followed by Tromsikhang Market being set on fire : ," she said from London. : Saunders said her organization had confirmed reports that some Tibetans had : been hospitalized with serious injuries, though she didn't know the nature : of the injuries or how many people were being treated. : A Han girl who spoke to CNN from Lhasa said she had been beaten by a group : of Tibetans. : "I am now in hospital with a bandage on my head," she said. "The trains are : closed and I am not sure if I can take a plane back, or if I can reach the : airport. All is chaotic now." : China continues to impose reporting restrictions on foreign media in Tibet : and the neighboring province of Xinjiang. CNN sought permission to enter : Tibet on Friday morning Beijing time. So far, this perrmission has not been : granted. : China's state-run Xinhua News Agency confirmed that shops had been set on : fire and that owners of nearby businesses had shut their doors, according : to The Associated Press. : The violence was under way near Barkhor Square, home to the revered Jokhang : Temple. Some ethnic Tibetan shopkeepers hung Tibetan scarves outside their : stores in an attempt to spare them from the protesters' wrath. : The unrest follows days of demonstrations in Tibet and neighboring India : over Chinese rule in Tibet, an autonomous region of China that has long sought : its independence. : The protests come less than five months before China is to stage the Summer : Olympic Games in Beijing. : Don't Miss : * iReport: Send images, photos : On Thursday, two monks from the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa tried to kill : themselves to protest Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, as Chinese : authorities blamed the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for : the unrest. : Saunders told CNN the scale of the protests was unprecedented since the imposition : of Chinese martial law in 1989. : Security forces also fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesting Tibetan : monks near Lhasa on Tuesday, according to Radio Free Asia, a nonprofit corporation : funded by the U.S. government. : Buddhist monks in Lhasa began the protests on Monday, the anniversary of : the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, The Associated Press : reported. : advertisement : Security forces responded later in the week by surrounding three monasteries : in Lhasa, according to the International Campaign to Free Tibet, which promotes : human rights and democratic freedom in Tibet. : In India, authorities broke up a march Thursday by 100 Tibetan exiles who : had planned to trek from the northern city of Dharamshala to Tibet's border : in a "Free Tibet" protest. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 123.112.105.74