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李察基爾憤怒 揚言杯葛奧運

國際反應
國際社會對於西藏的暴力衝突，紛表關切。在印度北部達蘭薩拉的西藏流亡政府，昨呼籲聯合國立即派代表，介入調查北京政府在西藏的侵犯人權行動。聲明指根據非證實報告，已有上百人喪生。
關注西藏人權的影星李察基爾(Richard Gere)，前天稱若中國錯誤處理藏人抗議，將面臨奧運遭杯葛的後果。他雖不支持杯葛奧運，但表示此事未妥善處理，「我們就該杯葛，人人都該杯葛。」 
 
歐盟譴責 美澳籲節制
美國白宮國家安全會議發言人約翰德羅(Gordon Johndroe)指，北京須尊重西藏文化，「總統向來都說北京須和達賴喇嘛對話。」美國務院呼籲停止對西藏暴力鎮壓，並警告美國人暫勿前往旅遊。聯合國人權事務高級專員阿伯爾(Louise Arbour)呼籲北京「允許示威者行使自由表達和集會權利，維持秩序時避免動武」。聯合國副發言人岡部萬里江（譯音）稱秘書長潘基文關注此情況，「籲各方謹慎避免衝突和暴力。」此外，歐盟表示譴責、澳洲籲中國節制。
昨天雪梨中國領事館外，數十名支持藏獨人士抗議時發生暴力衝突，警方以警棍和辣椒噴霧驅散。紐約、倫敦也都有聲援藏人的示威活動。國際中心

英國 舉標抗議
支持藏獨人士前天在英國倫敦的中國大使館外激憤抗議，並高舉標語要求中國釋放班禪喇嘛。路透
IBN News

World reacts cautiously to Tibet unrest

CNN-IBN  Published on Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 15:54, Updated at Sat, Mar 15, 2008 in section 

World » Neighbours

New Delhi: Hollywood star Richard Gere has been a long-time supporter of the Tibetan cause and believes that the latest outbreak of violence is different than previous ones and has denied Chinese claims that the protests were orchestrated by the Dalai Lama.

"The best information I'm getting is this was not organised. There will be organised demonstrations around the Olympics. No question about that. But this was an outpouring of emotion, which was spontaneous. The fact is that it wasn't just among the monks and nuns. These are simple non-violent marches and expressions of freedom," Gere said.

"Well, that's clearly foolish and embarrassing for them (the Chinese). Tibetans been brutally repressed for 50 years, 55 years - close to six decades. When you regress the people, they will explode. All people will explode. They're incredibly loving and forgiving people. They've been uniform in keeping the movement non-violent," he said.

The Dalai Lama and governments around the world are calling on China to be restrained in their response to the protests after demonstrations in Tibet turned violent on Friday.

The United States of America, the European Union and Australia have called on China to exercise restraint, but Asian countries remain silent.

India has been disallowing protests in the country while Japan and South Korea have not yet reacted officially to the crackdown.

The Australian foreign ministry says 'peaceful expressions of dissent' must be allowed.

On Friday, US bureaucrats met senior Chinese officials to express concern over the crackdown.

The White House urged Beijing to respect Tibetan culture and have a dialogue with the Dalai Lama. European Union leaders echoed similar views.

FOR A CAUSE: Richard Gere says more protests will be organised demonstrations around the Olympics.

蘋果日報

西藏血腥衝突 網照傳全球
突破中國封鎖 目擊者記錄控暴行

【大陸中心╱綜合外電報導】西藏爆發激烈流血衝突，慣於封鎖負面消息的中國，這次卻因數位科技和網路的發達栽了跟頭。拉薩血腥衝突的畫面經由當地觀光客和目擊者以影像和文字記錄，第一時間被公布上網，繞過中國當局的打壓立刻傳遍全球。 

中國多年來苦心經營西藏，建造青藏鐵路、發展西藏觀光，希望漢化西藏減低藏人獨特的認同意識。但結果反而適得其反，藏人不但沒有放棄自治或獨立，更在發動示威遊行時，拜大量的觀光客和數位科技之賜，將中國的武力鎮壓同步呈現世人面前。
英國廣播公司(BBC)在網站上刊登六張讀者上傳照片，都是赴拉薩的外國觀光客所拍，同時還不斷希望各界貢獻更多照片與影片。監督西藏人權的數個網站也貼出許多關於衝突的影像證據，以及現場人士的文字描述。連各國旅遊部落格中都有相關衝突的影像。  
  
 
官方著重藏人燒砸
總部位於倫敦的「解救西藏組織」即引用拉薩藏人的話表示，至少有九百人參與示威，當局出動超過千人軍隊前往鎮壓。「西藏人權與民主中心」網站表示，甘肅省500餘名拉卜楞寺的喇嘛上街要求獨立，警方對空鳴槍，並毆打示威群眾。
中國官方媒體在流血衝突爆發的第一天(14日)，表現出奇冷淡，官方新華社只以英文發布相關消息，中文通訊隻字未提，中國媒體更是全面噤聲。而新華社的英文通訊，也只輕描淡寫表示這只是「拉薩極少數人打、砸、搶、燒破壞活動」。 
 
否認對示威者開槍
然而昨天全球媒體大幅報導後，中國眼看紙包不住火，極其罕見地在新華社中文通訊中立即承認有10人在暴動中死亡，報導著重在不滿鎮壓的藏人燒警車、燒商店等「暴行」，仍否認對示威藏人開槍，也未提及坦克進駐等敏感細節。中國一般媒體雖被允許跟進，也全部口徑一致採用新華社通稿，並置放在極不起眼的版位。
1989年中國武力鎮壓西藏時，當時傳播工具未如今日發達，也沒有那麼多觀光客搭機、搭火車湧進西藏。官方在沒有多少影像證據下，指只有11人死亡，但藏人卻稱有300多人死亡。
如今交通、通訊科技的發展，顯然幫了示威藏人一個大忙，今非昔比，也迫使中國政府需要更謹慎地處理此次事件。
 
真相曝光
匿名「約翰」的目擊者提供給BBC拉薩的衝突畫面。

示威遊行
一名藏人學生用手機拍的甘肅喇嘛和藏人集結抗議情形。 
 
街頭大火
英文新聞網站Gangkyi.com也刊發民眾提供的拉薩街頭火災情景。

蘋果日報

同胞遭受暴力 在台藏人「心痛」

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拉薩傳百人死 坦克街頭戒嚴
北京通牒要求「暴動份子自首」

【大陸中心╱綜合外電報導】西藏拉薩市前天開始的暴動事件，昨中國官方坦承已有10人死亡，但西藏流亡政府接獲未經證實的消息卻指約有百人在衝突中喪生，與官方數字落差很大。來自拉薩的消息指動亂雖稍事平息，但拉薩街頭坦克與解放軍終日駐守，氣氛仍十分緊張。

部隊監控
大批裝甲車與武裝部隊昨天早上進駐拉薩市中心，強力控制暴動情況。法新社

昨天中國官方媒體開始報導拉薩事件，西藏自治區主席向巴平措指這是「達賴集團策劃的一起有計劃有預謀的分裂活動」，將堅決懲治，絕不讓破壞西藏和諧穩定的陰謀得逞。他並否認軍警在拉薩開槍、戒嚴。官方新華社將事件定位為「拉薩極少數人打、砸、搶、燒」的破壞活動。
法新社轉述昨早才從拉薩飛抵尼泊爾加德滿都機場的德國遊客法蘭斯的說法：「離開拉薩時我看到40車解放軍和36輛坦克開往市中心。」並表示拉薩所有街道都布滿軍警，許多中國商店遭縱火焚燒。目前當地警方正大規模搜捕參與暴動民眾。路透引用一名目擊者指出，看到一名警察橫屍街頭。 
 
四川也驚傳5人死亡
此外，當地更傳出自來水遭人刻意下毒的消息，不過中國官方已予以否認。抗議民眾原計劃抬屍遊行，但在軍警嚴管下未能成行。中國當局並在昨天發出最後通牒，要求暴動份子在周一午夜前投案自首。
而拉薩暴動也快速傳到鄰近地區，包括甘肅、四川、以及青海的藏人皆群起示威呼應。甘肅省夏河鎮更有高達4千多名藏人前天從拉卜楞寺出發，想進行遊行抗議，卻遭大批警方包圍制止，警方對空鳴槍，示威民眾遭毆打。西藏流亡政府表示，四川昨也爆發藏人示威，遭中國軍隊鎮壓，已有4至5人死亡。法新社也報導，甘肅喇嘛和藏人昨也再度發動新一輪示威，並遭警方以催淚瓦斯驅散。
總部設在倫敦的「解救西藏組織」引述拉薩居民表示，前天暴動至少有900名藏人參與示威，當局並調派上千名武裝部隊鎮壓暴亂。

死傷未波及港澳台人
新華社則稱有10名無辜群眾被活活燒死，多名警員嚴重燒傷，但死傷未波及港澳台及外國旅客。但位在印度達蘭薩拉的西藏流亡政府則表示，至少有100名藏人遭鎮壓的軍警射殺，另有許多示威群眾在鎮暴中受傷。
西藏武警總隊政委亢進忠昨也在北京否認開槍，並稱「拉薩出現戒嚴、喇嘛自殺及有人開槍的報導，全屬謠言。」他強調目前拉薩市一切正常。
西藏法院、檢查院與警局則在昨天發布聯合通告，要求參與暴動的群眾投案自首，並鼓勵民眾積極檢舉。

出動特警
為控制前天拉薩的暴動，中國當局出動特警持槍進入市中心鎮暴。法新社 

燒五星旗
拉薩的抗議民眾前天焚燒五星旗表達藏人憤怒。路透

警民對峙
甘肅夏河鎮前天有4千多名喇嘛手持西藏流亡政府的旗幟「雪山獅子旗」走上街頭示威，並與警方發生對峙。法新社

達賴疾呼
達賴喇嘛前天呼籲停止暴力，並希望中國盡快開啟對話解決西藏問題。

否認開槍
西藏自治區主席向巴平措昨在北京受訪時強力否認軍方開槍鎮壓。

中國對西藏重大鎮壓事件
◎1959/03/10 藏人為反抗中國政府強行實施社會主義統治，於拉薩發動武裝抗暴，但遭中國解放軍血腥鎮壓，至少8萬7000名藏人遭屠殺。達賴喇嘛在起義失敗後，3月17日帶領大批藏人流亡印度，並於達蘭薩拉成立西藏流亡政府。此後3月10日被稱為西藏人民起義日（抗暴日）。
◎1989/03/05~07 西藏大批喇嘛於拉薩街頭示威，中國當局第一天未採取行動，但第二天凌晨以衝鋒槍屠殺鎮暴，引發警民流血衝突。時任西藏自治區書記的胡錦濤在3月7日宣布戒嚴，還因此獲國家主席鄧小平賞識成為中共第四代接班人。事後官方稱11人死亡，但其他管道顯示約387死，721傷。
◎2008/03/10至今 為紀念抗暴日49周年，大批喇嘛走上拉薩街頭示威，遭警方以催淚瓦斯鎮暴。3月14日示威情勢升高，部分參與示威的藏人縱火焚燒警車與商店，警方開槍鎮壓。目前官方稱10人死亡，但西藏流亡政府表示有上百群眾喪生。
資料來源：《蘋果》資料室、綜合外電

Tibetans look at the Chinese riot police standing in formation at a Chinese army compound in Xiahe, Gansu Province, China, Sunday, March 16, 2008. On Saturday, police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Buddhist monks and other Tibetans after they marched from the historic Labrang monastery and smashed windows in the county police headquarters in Xiahe, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

By CARA ANNA and TINI TRAN Associated Press Writers
TONGREN, China Mar 16, 2008 (AP)
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Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces Sunday as Tibetans defied a Chinese government crackdown, while the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland.

Demonstrations widened to Tibetan communities in Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces, forcing authorities to mobilize security forces across a broad expanse of western China.

In Qinghai province, riot police sent to prevent protests set off tensions when they took up positions outside a monastery in Tongren. Dozens of monks, defying a directive not to gather in groups, marched to a hill where they set off fireworks and burned incense in what one monk said was a protest, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

In a sign that authorities were preparing for trouble, AP and other foreign journalists were ordered out of the Tibetan parts of Gansu and Qinghai provinces by police who told them it was for their "safety."

Meanwhile, police in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, searched buildings as a Monday deadline loomed for people who took part in a violent anti-Chinese uprising last week to surrender or face severe punishment.

Tibet's governor Champa Phuntsok said Monday that 13 civilians were killed and dozens were wounded in violence that broke out in Lhasa on Friday. China's state media said earlier that 10 civilians were killed.

Speaking from India, the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans, called for an international investigation into China's crackdown on demonstrators in Lhasa, which his exiled government claims left 80 people dead.

"Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place," the Dalai Lama said, referring to an influx of Chinese migration into Tibetan areas and restrictions on Buddhist practices — policies that have generated deep resentment among Tibetans.

Tensions also boiled over outside the county seat of Aba in Sichuan province when armed police tried to stop Tibetan monks from protesting, according to a witness who refused to give his name.

The witness said a policeman had been killed and three or four police vans had been set on fire. Eight bodies were brought to a nearby monastery while others reported that up to 30 protesters had been shot, according to activist groups the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy and the London-based Free Tibet Campaign. The claims could not be confirmed.

Sunday's demonstrations follow nearly a week of protests in Lhasa that escalated into violence Friday, with Tibetans attacking Chinese and torching their shops, in the longest and fiercest challenge to Chinese rule in nearly two decades.

Complicating Beijing's task, the spreading protests fall two weeks before China's celebrations for the Beijing Olympics kick off with the start of the torch relay, which will pass through Tibet.

Though many were small in scale, the widening Tibetan protests are forcing Beijing to pursue suppression while on the run, from town to town and province to province across its vast western region. Sunday's lockdown in Tongren required police imported from other towns, the locals said.

The Chinese government attempted to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday. Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos appeared on the site Saturday showing foreign news reports about the Lhasa demonstrations, montages of photos, and scenes from Tibet-related protests abroad.

Television news reports by CNN and the BBC were periodically cut during the day, and the screens went black during a live speech by the Dalai Lama carried on the networks.

China's communist government had hoped Beijing's hosting of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics would boost its popularity at home as well as its image abroad. Instead the event already has attracted the scrutiny of China's human rights record.

Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama's government, said multiple people inside Tibet had counted at least 80 corpses since the violence broke out Friday. He did not know how many of the bodies were protesters. The figures could not be independently verified because China restricts foreign media access to Tibet.

In Lhasa, hundreds of armed police and soldiers patrolled the streets on Sunday. Hong Kong Cable TV reported some 200 military vehicles, carrying 40 to 60 armed soldiers each, drove into the city center.

Footage showed the streets were mostly empty other than the security forces. Messages on loudspeakers warned residents to "discern between enemies and friends, maintain order" and "have a clear stand to oppose violence, maintain stability."

James Miles, a BBC correspondent in Lhasa, said troops carrying automatic rifles were "letting off the occasional shot." He said people were scared to come out of their homes for fear of being hit by a bullet.

Westerners who were told to leave Lhasa and arrived by plane in the city of Chengdu said they heard gunshots and explosions throughout Saturday and overnight.

"The worst day was yesterday. It was completely chaotic. There was running and screaming in the street," said Gerald Scott Flint, director of the medical aid group Volunteer Medics Worldwide, who had been in Lhasa four days. Flint said he could see fires burning six or more blocks away.

Tashi Wangdi, president of the Office of Tibet that represents the Dalai Lama in New York, called the departure of tourists worrisome.

"I think there will be total blackout of information to the outside world," he said. "Our worry is they will be more brutal and will use more force now."

The unrest in Tibet began March 10 on the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule of the region. Tibet was effectively independent for decades before communist troops entered in 1950.

The Tibetan communities living far outside what China calls modern Tibet are parts of former provinces of past Tibetan kingdoms, and many inhabitants still revere the Dalai Lama.

"We want freedom. We want the Dalai Lama to come back to this land," said a monk from Rongwo in Tongren. The monks display his pictures, though they have been ordered to remove them.

Inspired by the protests in Lhasa, monks and Tibetans in the town of Xiahe in Gansu province staged two days of protests, one peaceful in which they raised Tibetan national flags, the other in which government offices were smashed and police tear-gassed the crowd of more than 1,000.

Authorities clamped a curfew on Xiahe overnight. Patrols of riot police, in black uniforms, helmets and flak jackets, and armed police in green uniforms carrying batons marched through the town Sunday in groups of 10 and 20.

Smaller protests were reported in two other nearby towns, witnesses said, in both cases drawing truckloads of armed police.

In the Gansu provincial capital of Lanzhou, more than 100 Tibetan students staged a sit-down protest on a playing field at Northwest Minorities University, according to the activist group Free Tibet.

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Tini Tran reported from Beijing. Associated Press writers David Wivell in Xiahe and Carley Petesch in New York contributed to this report.

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On the Net:

International Campaign for Tibet: http://www.savetibet.org

Chinese official news agency (in English): http://www.chinaview.cn

Tibet Daily: http://www.tibetdaily.com

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坦克鎮壓西藏暴動 數人喪生

【大陸中心】西藏首府拉薩市昨天爆發嚴重暴亂，中國解放軍出動坦克開進布達拉宮前廣場，鎮壓已持續一個星期的藏人示威，結果引發抗議群眾火燒警車、縱火燒商店的暴亂。據法新社引述拉薩市急救中心官員昨晚的說法，此次抗議活動中，有數人喪生，自由亞洲電台亦轉述目擊者說法，稱在拉薩舊城區內街上目睹兩具屍體。流亡印度的藏人精神領袖達賴喇嘛表示希望中國領導人停止武力，正視藏人長期累積的憤怒情緒，並盡快與藏人展開對話，也呼籲藏族同胞停止暴力。而包括美國總統布希與歐盟皆同聲譴責中國的武力鎮壓，呼籲中國克制。

西藏當局出動大批軍警在拉薩鎮壓示威群眾，不滿的民眾向載著鎮暴軍警的車輛投擲石塊。法新社



西藏拉薩市中心大昭寺前的八廓街上，可見到遭抗議群眾縱火焚燒的車輛及散落的抗議布條。路透

抗議打壓
達賴喇嘛自1959年因中國血腥鎮壓而被迫逃離西藏並組成流亡政府後，多年來一直採用和平方式爭取解決西藏問題的機會，卻仍不斷遭到中國當局的抹黑與打壓。此次西藏所爆發近20年來最嚴重的武裝暴力衝突，顯示藏人欲藉由北京奧運的機會發出聲音，爭取更多的權利與尊嚴。 


中國軍隊已包圍西藏拉薩三大寺廟，情勢緊張。圖為昨天甘肅夏河拉卜楞寺藏人從佛寺典禮中離開。法新社

當局輕忽西藏妥協
印度主流媒體《印度快報》社論稱，近來在西藏首府拉薩市和鄰近地區發生的一連串藏人示威活動，打破了近20年來「西藏與中國」之間的寧靜狀態，即便中國政府有意淡化事件的嚴重狀態，並聲稱這只是「少數份子」的破壞活動，但實際上，西藏地區所有的主要寺廟都參與了這次抗爭活動。
在過去5年中，達賴喇嘛先後表達了多次軟化和妥協的立場，包括明確表明藏人尋求的是自治而非獨立，並承諾西藏未來仍是屬於中國的一部分。但中國當局的輕忽表現，並拒絕回應達賴喇嘛表現的誠意，已讓大部分藏人放棄對西藏問題能有合理解決的希望。在別無選擇之下，藏人惟有利用稍縱即逝的短暫時機，在8月北京奧運之前，發出他們的聲音，爭取國際社會的關注。
大陸中心


CNN   March 17, 2008 -- Updated 2305 GMT (0705 HKT)

American film crew kept from China protests

(CNN) -- Chinese authorities sequestered an American film crew in their hotel rooms so they would not see anti-government protests outside a Buddhist temple last week, a member of the crew said.

Spence Palermo, an American working on a freelance documentary about how China is changing, said his crew was prevented from returning to the centuries-old Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, China, after spending several days filming inside the complex.

Newsweek magazine reported Monday that as many as 4,000 monks and laypersons clashed with police near the monastery Friday and Saturday. The report said they marched to Xiahe "where they pelted government offices and police vehicles with rocks and debris."

The Xiahe protests were part of a wave of anti-Chinese protests centered in nearby Tibet, an autonomous province of China taken over by the Communist government in Beijing almost 60 years ago.

According to the U.S. State Department, Beijing's "repressive social and political controls continued to limit the fundamental freedoms of Tibetans and risked undermining Tibet's unique cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage."

The Labrang Monastery is one of six important to the Yellow Hat Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, according to the China Tibet Information Center.

Palermo, from Eugene, Oregon, said Chinese officials prevented his group from returning to the Labrang Monastery on Friday, sending them instead to another monastery 40 miles away.

When they returned to Xiahe Friday evening, he said, they were confined to their hotel, watched over constantly, and denied Internet access.

But what troubled Palermo the most, he said, was "not knowing what was happening to the wonderful monks who had welcomed us so heartily into their incredible world and with whom we had bonded with over the last couple of days."

The worry was compounded on Saturday morning, he said, when he looked outside his hotel room and saw a column of Chinese military vehicles heading toward the monastery.

"All of the trucks were filled with soldiers in riot gear," Palermo said.

The sight of the military column, which he estimated contained 400 soldiers, gave him a "feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach," he said.

"Suddenly there was a pounding on the [hotel room] door and a very irate and panicky official started grabbing my gear and hustling me down to the lobby, saying that we had to leave immediately," Palermo said.

As they were taken to another temple 40 miles away, the film crew learned through cell phone calls and messages about the anti-government protests in Tibet and nearby areas, like Xiahe, in China's Gansu province.

Later, their Chinese government minders told them they could not return to their Xiahe hotel and that all their belongings would be gathered and brought to them in Lanzhou, about a five-hour drive away.

"Apparently the protests had spread through the whole town and our hotel -- state-run of course -- had been targeted, all of the windows smashed out and fires burning on the street," Palermo said.

As they were being driven away from the Xiahe area, Palermo said, they encountered a convoy of 20 Chinese military trucks headed toward Xiahe.

"Most of them were loaded with Chinese soldiers, but ... about half of the trucks were empty," he said. "All I could think of was that they would soon be filled with the amazing, wonderful, kind and happy [Labrang Monastery] monks who would most likely be taken away to who knows where." 


Monks and protesters face off with police in a street in Xiahe, China, on Friday.


Spence Palermo and a monk at the Labrang Monastery talk last week.

軍警拉薩開槍 藏人怒燒車
坦克開抵布達拉宮廣場 實施宵禁緊張升高

蘋果日報

嚴重侵人權榜 中國除名
美公布報告 無視中國迎奧虐囚 被批「開倒車」 

【國際中心╱綜合報導】美國國務院前天公布2007全球各國人權報告，往年被列入侵害人權最嚴重國家的中國，今年脫離黑名單。報告並未解釋中國脫離黑名單的原因，僅強調中國整體人權紀錄仍然不佳。人權團體抨擊此舉是開倒車，因為中國為迎接奧運，戕害人權的狀況較以往有過之而無不及。

美國
美國務院自1977年起每年發表各國人權報告，詳列美國以外各國人權狀況，但報告評價並不會影響華府與該國的外交關係。中國在2005及2006年均與北韓等國同列10大侵害人權最嚴重國家，今年則改列「變化中的獨裁國家」。報告強調中國正經歷經濟改革，但「並未進行民主政治改革」。2007侵害人權最嚴重10國黑名單中除北韓、緬甸外，新增敘利亞、烏茲別克及蘇丹三國。

台灣助拍長征紀錄片

行動聲援
面對藏人強力爭取人權的呼聲，台灣民間團體以行動直接聲援，已派出由台灣人組成的劇組人員到達印度達蘭薩拉，協助藏人拍攝「返鄉長征」紀錄片。

拉薩鎮壓 捕71藏人 武警動粗 
群眾哭喊 返鄉長征 印度封殺 

【大陸中心╱綜合外電報導】繼上千名藏人前天在尼泊爾示威，與警方發生流血衝突後，中國西藏拉薩市也傳出上百名示威藏人遭武裝警察毆打。消息指當地警方派出20輛大型警車，阻止喇嘛進入拉薩市中心抗議，至少有71人遭逮捕。此外，前天在印度發起「返鄉長征」活動的流亡藏人，雖遭印度官方強力禁止，但該組織表示：「我們已準備好為此獻出生命，沒有任何警力能阻止我們。」

自由亞洲電台報導，為了紀念西藏對抗中國武裝血腥鎮壓49周年，全球各地的流亡藏人從前天開始紛紛發起各種示威活動。但西藏自治區首府拉薩市大批示威藏人卻遭西藏武裝警察暴力鎮壓，一名不願透露姓名的目擊者稱：「10多名藏人揮舞西藏的旗幟，並散發傳單。後來武裝警察來了，他們拘捕和毆打了抗議的人，很多圍觀的人都在哭和喊叫。」
另有300多名欲遊行10公里至拉薩市中心示威的哲蚌寺喇嘛，則遭警方出動的20輛大型警車與大批武裝警察阻攔，至少有71人被逮捕。抗議事件後，拉薩市中心的八廓街市場遭到關閉。西藏自治區主席向巴平措昨日雖承認有抗議事件，但否認有人遭逮捕。他說：「這真的沒有什麼，就帶走幾個人問一問，很快就釋放了」。 

「準備奉獻生命」
此外，預計在北京奧運開幕日前，從印度達蘭薩拉走回西藏的流亡藏人「返鄉長征」活動前天遭印度官方禁止。印度北部坎格拉區警察局長弗吉爾表示，「我們已發布限制令，要求參與長征者不得離開坎格拉區，如違令將採取一切必要措施。」但活動領導者之一丹真宗智昨天指活動仍將和平進行，長征者周三（今天）就會抵達坎格拉區。他說：「我們已準備好面對各種阻礙，許多人已準備奉獻生命。」
中國外交部發言人秦剛昨在記者會上批評達賴，指他繼續歪曲事實，甚至將西藏問題同北京奧運會掛鉤的企圖是不明智的。 

街頭對峙 尼泊爾
在尼泊爾街頭，前天有上千名爭取西藏獨立的示威群眾與警方對峙。 

舉牌抗議 美國
美國舊金山市政府外，支持西藏獨立的抗議群眾進行示威。

藏民全球連線抗議情況
註：另有美國紐約、荷蘭海牙、捷克布拉格等各國藏人至當地中國大使館進行抗議
資料來源：綜合外電 

燭光紀念 印度

印度加爾各答大批民眾手持蠟燭，紀念中國對西藏血腥鎮壓事件49周年。路透

BEIJING: Chinese police used tear gas to disperse several hundred Tibetan Buddhist monks who gathered for a second day of protests near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday.

More than 1,000 armed police and security personnel surrounded an estimated 500 to 600 monks from the Sera monastery Tuesday as they marched near a police station, and police fired tear gas into the crowd, one witness told the RFA's Tibetan service.

"There were probably a couple of thousand armed police, (public security bureau) personnel, wearing different uniforms. Police fired tear gas into the crowd," the unidentified witness said.

The monks, who had been on their way to demand the release of fellow monks detained in protests Monday, shouted "We want freedom," "We want an independent Tibet!" and "Free our people or we won't go back!" according to other unidentified witnesses.

It was difficult to get independent corroboration of the event.

A woman who answered the phone at the public security bureau in Lhasa denied knowledge of the incident. At the local government office, a man who identified himself as Bianba said he was aware that an incident took place Tuesday, but would not give further details.

The latest incident came a day after Buddhist monks staged two major protests in a bold, public challenge to China's rule, using the anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule in 1959.

Several hundred monks from the Drepung monastery began their march Monday afternoon, splitting into three groups heading in different directions, an eyewitness monk told the Free Tibet Campaign, another advocacy group.

One group shouted "Free Tibet" as they walked until they were broken up at a checkpoint and dragged away from each other by police, he said. Some of the monks were arrested while those who were not returned to the monastery around midnight, he said.

RFA also reported gunshots were heard overnight from the direction of the monastery, which remains blocked off by police.

Champa Phuntsok, the head of the Tibetan regional government, confirmed Tuesday authorities briefly detained some monks from Drepung monastery, but said they were released shortly afterward after being questioned and "counseled."

Radio Free Asia and phayul.com Web site, which is run by Tibetan exiles, said as many as 71 people, mostly monks, were detained following the Monday protests.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang also confirmed Tuesday there had been protests. "Some ignorant monks in Lhasa abetted by a small handful of people did some illegal things that can challenge the social stability," he told a news conference.

Monks in two more monasteries in northwestern Qinghai province — the Lutsang monastery and Ditsa monastery — also staged protests on Monday, RFA said, quoting "sources." Police surrounded the Ditsa monastery during the protest but did not intervene or detain anyone.

The protests in Tibet came as several hundred Tibetan exiles defied police orders against a march to Tibet from Dharmsala, India, where their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has presided over a government-in-exile since the abortive 1959 uprising.

The march aimed to protest the Beijing Olympics. Indian police said it violated an agreement between New Delhi and the Tibetan government-in-exile.

The march has not been publicly endorsed by either the exile government or the Dalai Lama, who at a separate event in India accused China of "unimaginable and gross violations of human rights" in the Himalayan region.

【大陸中心╱綜合外電報導】中國武力血腥鎮壓西藏抗暴事件昨天屆滿49周年，除中國外全球各地藏人多舉行示威活動。其中5百名在尼泊爾首都加德滿都示威抗議的西藏人，遊行至中國大使館時與警方發生衝突，混亂中造成至少2名警察與3名示威者受傷。而印度約百名流亡藏人，也從昨天展開「返鄉長征」，企圖闖過喜瑪拉雅山進入西藏，彰顯受難流民均有返鄉自由的精神。 

印度
數百名藏人昨天在印度首都新德里示威，他們全身包裹噴上紅色油漆的紗布，呼籲抵制北京奧運。法新社 

不放棄西藏自治
法新社報導，近3千名西藏人昨天聚集在加德滿都的一處寺院集會，紀念西藏抗暴事件49周年。其中5百名藏人前往中國大使館示威抗議時，遭警方阻止，雙方引爆衝突。示威者以石塊丟擲警察，警方則不甘示弱，以警棍毆打示威者，場面混亂，造成至少5人受傷。
達賴喇嘛昨也在西藏流亡政府所在地、印度北部達蘭薩拉出席抗暴紀念大會時，嚴詞指控中國在西藏進行「令人無法想像與公然的迫害。」達賴向在場的數百名支持者表示，儘管自2002年以來與中國已進行6回合會談，並沒有結果，但他仍不放棄追求西藏自治。
達蘭薩拉的1百名流亡西藏人從昨天開始啟程，展開「返鄉長征」，從達蘭薩拉出發，預計六個月內穿越喜瑪拉雅山脈回西藏，希望在北京奧運期間達成目標。他們強調和平進行，不過卻不願透露會從哪些可能途徑闖越邊境。

 報你知
1959年 8萬藏人遭屠殺
1959年3月10日，中國解放軍武力鎮壓抗暴西藏民眾，屠殺超過8萬7千人，迫使達賴喇嘛流亡印度，在達蘭薩拉（Dharamshala）成立流亡政府尋求國際支持，史稱「西藏抗暴事件」。藏人於是將每年3月10日定為抗暴日，流亡世界各地的藏人紛紛舉行示威遊行、絕食抗議等紀念活動。今年已是第49周年。

Tibetan marchers defy Indian police ban 

March 11, 2008

DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) — A group of Tibetan exiles planning to march to their homeland from northern India were back on the road Tuesday despite a police ban on their trek.

The 100 activists began their walk on Monday as part of pro-independence protests ahead of the Beijing Olympics. They hope the march will highlight what they say are serious human rights violations in their Himalayan homeland.

The group had walked 20 kilometres (13 miles) from Dharamshala before local police served them with a restraining order that they had received from authorities in the Indian capital.

“We will continue on our homeland march despite the order that has been served on us,” said B. Tsering, head of the Tibetan Women’s Association, one of five organisations sponsoring the march.

The activists said the restraining order said their protest could “culminate in endangering public tranquillity and breach of public peace.”

“Tibetan refugees have the right to return to Tibet, the land from where we come,” said Tsewang Rigzin, leader of the Tibetan Youth Congress.

“This is the first major obstacle we are facing but we remain committed to marching. We want to do nothing more than go back to our country and help end the suffering of our brothers and sisters living under brutal Chinese occupation,” he said.

Bystanders cheered the group Tuesday as they walked along the mountain roads. Police were not around.

District police chief Atul Phuljile said, however, that the marchers would be prevented from leaving his area.

Dharamshala, in the northern Indian district of Kangra, is home to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Monday marked the 49th anniversary of the spiritual leader’s escape from Lhasa after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.

蘋果日報

高呼藏獨 碧玉犯眾怒
上海演唱會 台上驚人之舉

 AFP

    

史匹柏不幹了，退出奧運藝術顧問團，說他「良心不安」。他要用這個引人矚目的行動換取中國對蘇丹的壓力。史匹柏的聲明，震撼與激勵角落裡一個微不足道的我，可能是兩年前去過現在鬧得沸沸揚揚的達富爾省的難民營，與難民們面對面接觸過，回來後，任何與達富爾難民有關消息，都教我豎耳聆聽。我說史匹柏、米亞法羅、九位諾貝爾獎得主、南非主教圖圖，這些在世界上有名望的人，上星期四，在英國獨立報>>簽名登廣告，呼籲中國不要賣武器給蘇丹，他們的靈魂是美麗的，包括奧運主席都簽了字。

ps. 我覺得最妙的一件事，就是下面的回應中，還真的不少人覺得史匹柏管閒事，中國偉大之類的。