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Message #113266 posted by forged registration (Info) March 13, 2008 17:43:15 ET
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Troops, police encircle Tibetan monasteries after monks protest Chinese rule
Published: Thursday, March 13, 2008 | 3:12 PM ET
Canadian Press: Tini Tran, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING - Thousands of soldiers and police have reportedly been deployed around two Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan capital where monks launched protests against Chinese rule earlier this week.
A man who answered the phone at the Sera monastery in Lhasa says the monks have been confined inside the walls of the monastery.
He says they have been shut off from outside contact and are relying on dwindling food supplies.
Another Lhasa resident, who also refused to be identified, says the Drepung monastery has encircled by "three layers" of army personnel while the Sera monastery had been surrounded by more than 2,000 police.
The resident said more than 10 trucks filled with soldiers, nearly a dozen police cars and also ambulances were seen heading to the area.
A Foreign Ministry official in Beijing refused immediate comment Thursday.
It is extremely difficult to get independent verification of events in Tibet since China maintains rigid control over the area.
Foreigners need special travel permits, and journalists are rarely granted access except under highly controlled circumstances.
Large-scale demonstrations by the Buddhist monks began Monday as they staged a bold, public challenge to Chinese rule using the anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule in 1959.
Demonstrations also spilled over into traditionally Tibetan areas in the neighbouring province of Qinghai. Monks at two other monasteries - the Lutsang monastery and Ditsa monastery - also held small protests but were not detained by police, according to U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia.
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