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gibt ein Report der International Campaign for Tibet mit Sitz in Washington DC, Amsterdam, Berlin und Brüssel vom 6.August 2008 einen Überblick aus tibetischer Sicht über die Aufstände im Frühjahr 2008 und Chinas Niederwerfungsmaßnahmen. Er listet die Namen, der in den Unruhen getöteten Tibeter auf, zeigt Fotos und Kartenmaterial.

Die Gliederung und Zusammenfassung:

• Tibet at a turning point
• Protests in Tibet since March 10, 2008
• Peaceful protests and the riot of 3/14 in Lhasa
• n ‘arduous struggle’: Protests in Kardze sinceMarch 10
• Ngaba protests: ‘I recognise the Party’s great kindness’
• Machu: Major protest leads to crackdown in town and nomad areas beyond
• Labrang:‘Like the setting sun over the peak of amountain’
• ‘Smashing the Splittist Clique’: An analysis of leadership involved in the crackdown
• Detentions and disappearances in Tibet since March 2008: A newlist of political prisoners
• New official attack on Tibetan Buddhism and monks in Kham

The Spring Uprising and China’s New Crackdown
SUMMARY des Textes:

Since March 10, a tidal wave of mainly peaceful protests against the Chinese
government has swept across Tibet. Tibetans have risked their lives to demonstrate
that their exiled leader theDalai Lama represents their interests, and not
theChinese state. This uprising is a result ofmore than half a century ofCommunist
Party misrule and reveals the breakdown of Beijing’s Tibet policy at a time when
China seeks to convey an image of harmony in the buildup to the Olympics.
Hu Jintao’s leadership appears to have found itself with no other means than force
and intimidation to restore control, and has imposed a brutal crackdown that owes
more to the political extremismand paranoia of theMaoist era than to a 21st century
would-be superpower. China has dramatically tightened security in Tibet and
announced new ‘anti-terror’ plans in order to prevent any possible embarrassment
to the ruling Communist Party before aworldwide audience during the Olympics.
In order to hide its repression in Tibet, Beijing has sealed off virtually the entire plateau
despite promising increasing openness in the buildup to theOlympics and imposed
a news blackout. This report includes evidence gathered at great risk of:
• The ‘disappearance’ and detention of hundreds of Tibetans, including monks,
nuns and schoolchildren,who are treatedwith extreme brutality in custody;
•Unarmed peaceful protestorswho have been shot dead, and names of thosewho
have died following torture in prison or as a result of suicide due to despair over
the crackdown or beingmade to denounce the Dalai Lama;
•More than 125 protests across the Tibetan plateau—the overwhelmingmajority
non-violent;
• Sweeping newmeasures to purgemonasteries ofmonks and banworship in the
wake of the protests, revealing a systematic newattack on Tibetan Buddhismled
by Chinese leader Hu Jintao that is reminiscent of the excesses of the Cultural
Revolution;
•An insight into the Chinese leaders presiding over the current crackdown.