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Issue 22 News Updates

  • The Chinese government and Tibetan rights advocates reported vastly different death tolls from the protests in Tibet. The Chinese government said on March 26 that 19 people had died in what it described as riots and that 660 rioters had turned themselves in. Tibetan rights groups put the death toll at about 140 people. Read more here.

  • The Chinese government took a group of foreign reporters to Lhasa on March 26. Associated Press reporter Charles Hutzler described passing three police checkpoints and seeing police officers on almost every street corner of the road between the airport and the city’s center. He wrote about seeing heavily damaged shops and a burned-out medical clinic, and also about seeing Tibetan-owned shops among them that were untouched. Two Tibetans told another reporter they were often stopped by police and asked for IDs. Click here and here to read more of Hutzler’s story, and click here to watch video of monks who broke in on the tour. Financial Times reporter Geoff Dyer also talked about what he saw in Tibet on NPR. Click here to listen.

  • In Nepal, about 20 Tibetan teenagers who had been protesting with a group outside the United Nations offices in Kathmandu climbed over a wall to get inside the UN compound on March 28. UN spokesman John Brittain told The New York Times that the high school students were polite and that the UN staff gave them lunch and helped them right down their concerns about Tibet. According to The Associated Press, about 60 demonstrators outside the UN compound were arrested. Click here to read more.

  • Interviews with the three Tibetans quoted in Current Events magazine are now posted at cenewsblog.com. Your students are encouraged to share their thoughts about the situation in Tibet by clicking on “comments” below the article.


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