Due to Beijing Olympic which will held about August 2008, a huge demonstration which end up with riot in Lhasa, Tibet. Lhasa is a province capital to a Tibet. A thousand of demonstrators was stopped by PLA(People Liberation Army), Chinese Armed Forces. The demonstration is in memorial of 49 years Tibet occupied by China. Thousands of troops sent to Lhasa, Tibet along with their fully weaponry equipment. According to eye witnesses who leave Tibet for tourism and perhaps business leaving out from there immediately after the the demonstrators starting anarchism. They heard that few gun shot was heard many times and later on black smoke came out to the sky. They also say heard that a mortar shot from tanks.
There is about 200 armoured of pierce vehicle patched to Lhasa. Which each vehicle contain about 40 to 60 fully weaponry troops inside. During the riot, reaching more than 100 people were killed. Chinese media said there is only 10 people was killed the day riot starting. But Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, North India said there about 72 people were killed. Meanwhile Tibet temporary government at the same place confirm about 80 people were killed in the protest.
Just about 2 days after riot broke in Lhasa, Tibet, about 200 protester went to police office at Aba, Sichuan Province. They burnt an threw Molotov bomb to the police station. A thousand of monks from Amdo Ngaba Kirti Buddhist temple in Sichuan patch the Tibet flag and yelled freedom Tibet after Sunday morning chapel.
To prevent unexpected situation, Chinese policemen surrounded government state building and the temple. The policemen launched the tear gas and stop the monk from street demonstration. At the time according to local newspaper said that, Government will declare a ‘people war’ to stop Tibetan protester. Chinese give a dateline for Tibetan protester to surrender to Chinese government until Monday midnight.
Dalai Lama accused Chinese do culture genocide since occupied Tibet by assimilated han ethnic from all over the Chinese to Tibet. Tibet ethnic ‘swept out’ slowly by Chinese government during the large economic growth.
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