Tibetan monk killed in clash in western China

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

BEIJING, March 30 (Reuters) - A Tibetan monk was killed and eight people were hurt when Tibetan farmers and soldiers clashed in China's western Sichuan province late last week, local sources told Reuters on Monday.

The clash erupted on Friday after Tibetan farmers in Dandu township refused to sign a pledge committing to plant a certain amount of their land with crops and armed police were called in.

One monk named Panchou Lede was killed, said a senior monk at the Hor Drago monastery, known in Chinese as the Shouling monastery.

The dead monk had been organising farmers to refuse to plant crops, an employee at the People's Hospital in Luhuo county said, confirming the death but attributing it to a motorbike accident.


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[Tim01]

1. Bastards.

It is not a nice world we live in.
If I was going to choose a culture which should be the model for the rest of the world, it would be the culture of Tibet.
Unfortunately, the world has monsters who will not leave everybody else alone.

[ohio2007]

2. China cracks down in Muslim west

BEIJING (AP) — An overseas rights activist said Monday that authorities in China's predominantly Muslim far west are closing unregistered Islamic schools and conducting house-to-house searches in a new security crackdown in the restive region.

The campaign under way for five weeks in the city of Hotan underscores Beijing's persisting concerns about separatist movements in its Central Asian border province of Xinjiang.

While anti-government protests and a security clampdown in Tibetan areas have grabbed attention over the past year, China has also been battling unrest in Xinjiang, with a flare-up in violence last year that killed 33 people. Like the Tibetans, many of Xinjiang's ethnic minority Uighurs have chafed under Beijing's rule and restrictions on the practice of religion.

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The official Xinhua News Agency earlier this month reported that Hotan authorities had launched a campaign against "illegal religious activity" at the end of February and "had already achieved some initial success."

"Officials uncovered some illegal religious activities, seized a large number of illegal books, handwritten materials, computer discs, audio tapes and other propaganda materials as well as bullets, fuses, explosive and flammable materials, and other weaponry," it said.

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