蘋果日報
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
ABC NEWSTibet Protests Spread to Other Provinces
Tibet Protests Spread to Other Provinces, As Dalai Lama Warns of Cultural Genocide
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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