Monday 16 October 2006

Video: Chinese Soldiers Shooting Tibetan Pilgrims

Video footage of the Chinese army shooting Tibetans on a pilgrimage to India. Chinese news agencies claim that Chinese troops opened fire on the Tibetans in self-defense but climbers who witnessed the incident say otherwise.

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This video is not suitable for anyone who might be upset/shocked by scenes of innocent people being killed.

Before the Chinese came in and took over Tibet (July 1949), Tibet had 5 million people and nothing to do with China. One million Tibetans have since been killed, and 6,000 monasteries have been ruined. Today the Tibetan people are a minority in their own country. All the better jobs go to the Chinese people living in Tibet. The voice of Tibetan culture is now merely a rasp in the wind, its colorful history a shadow of the past.
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