The End OF The World

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.