Chinese Government Shoots Tibetan Refugees in Cold Blood
Everyone wants to make friends with the People’s Republic of China. The acquisition of cheap gadgets, trinkets and computer bits is blindsignting us to the PRCs atrocities. The latest - a young
25-year old nun, was shot dead by Chinese security forces, a group of children apparently traveling with her was marched in single file through advance base camp at Mount Cho Oyu, according to witnesses.
Tibetan sources say that a young Tibetan boy may also have been killed when the group came under fire.
The British climber, police officer Steve Lawes, was among a group of climbers and Sherpas at Cho Oyu’s base camp who witnessed both the shooting on September 30 and the subsequent capture of the Tibetan children who were among a larger group of more than 70 Tibetans crossing the glaciated Nangpa-la pass en route to Nepal and exile. Mr Lawes said that approximately half an hour after he and others had witnessed the group come under fire, a group of about 10 to 12 children, who seemed to be aged between six and ten years old, were marched into advance base camp by three soldiers with assault rifles.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees apparently provided support for an employee of the Tibetan Refugee Reception Center to travel on October 9 to accompany the refugees to the Tibetan Refugees Reception Center. Tibetans traveling through Nepalese border areas to Kathmandu have been at increasing risk of refoulement (the return of persons to a country where they fear persecution) over the past two years due to China’s strong trade and diplomatic ties with Nepal.
Tibetan children in Chinese custody after shooting at Nangpa Pass
International Campaign for Tibet
October 9th, 2006
Xeni.net/trek has links to other blogs, photographs and video’s of the incident.
That Made in China stamp is gonna guide my purchases, cuz no national leader has the hutzpah to stand up to China!
