Rare Footage Shows Tibetan Protest (RFA)
30 January | RFA has obtained video of a recent protest in Tibetan areas of China’s Sichuan Province.
http://www.rfa.org/english/video?param=value&storyId=TibetUnrest2China steps up security in Tibet following protests (BBC)
31 January | A senior Chinese official has ordered tighter security in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and on main roads following deadly protests in Sichuan province.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16805695Related Pieces
Agence France Presse - http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iGm1k79Q64Tbk6FoJK8bUNl24xdQ?docId=CNG.fd5c18cb2a04abc3c06433ef5b54a4f6.331
Telegraph (UK) - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/9051092/China-raises-security-to-contain-Tibet-protests.htmlTibetan Exiles to Beijing: Violence 'Unsustainable" (Voice of America)
30 January | Chinese state-run media are accusing Tibetan exiles and unnamed Western governments of pursuing an "anti-Chinese agenda" when describing recent violence in Tibetan areas under Beijing's control.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Tibetan-Exiles-to-Beijing-Violence-Unsustainable-138327239.html See China Daily editorial under Statements, below.
Chinese media blames the West over Tibetan unrest (Telegraph)
30 January | China claims western governments are in league with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile to “distort the truth” about the ongoing unrest in the restless Tibetan regions of western China.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9048490/Chinese-media-blames-the-West-over-Tibetan-unrest.html See China Daily editorial under Statements, below.Chinese Crackdown on Tibetan Regions Nears Breaking Point (USA Today)
Updated 31 January | Looking down on Drango town from his hillside monastery on China's eastern Tibetan plateau, monk Gelek Rabten appeared hopeful last fall. Unlike in neighboring counties, no Drango monks had set themselves on fire and died in protests for religious freedom.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-26/tibetan-monks-protest/52890654/1Statements:
Justified response (Xinhua, China Daily Editorial)
31 January | "We have two questions for those pointing accusatory fingers at the Chinese government for what happened recently in a Tibetan-inhabited area of Sichuan province. First, how should police officers respond when a police station is attacked by a violent mob armed with rocks and knives? Second, how would police officers in their own country react to such a scenario?"
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-01/31/content_14508139.htmSecurity forces take away hundreds of Tibetans from Lhasa to unknown location (TGiE)
31 January | Hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims who were earlier arrested by the Chinese police on their way to Tibet from Nepal have been forcibly taken away in train to a undisclosed location, reports coming from Tibet say.
http://tibet.net/2012/01/31/security-forces-take-away-hundreds-of-tibetans-to-unknown-location/Analysis:Timeline of Tibetan Protests in China (CNN)
31 January | The escalation of tensions in ethnically Tibetan regions of China is the latest in a series that have resulted in deaths, frayed ties between the United States and China, and greater pressure from Beijing against the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for India in 1959 after a failed uprising.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/world/asia/tibet-protests-timeline/index.html