Photos that everyone should see about the 2008 uprising in Tibet

1: Several hundred armored personnel carriers and tanks were seen shooting live ammunition into the protesting crowd and firing tear gas. The Chinese security and armed forces cordoned off the streets and around 1:30 pm, curfew was imposed on the entire city, Lhasa, 14/03/08.

2: Tibetan students from the Northwestern Nationalities University staged a protest within the campus ground, their banner reads “Tibetan people united in happy and bad times” calling for an end to PRC‘s violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in all parts of Tibet, 16/03/08.

3: On 18th March, Chinese security forces raided Tibetan homes and arrested 170 Tibetans without due #\legal process. Those arrested were later paraded in front of the state media and detained in prison.

4: More than 30 monks at Jokhang temple, burst into a protest in front of visiting foreign reporters and cried out that ‘there is no religious freedom in Tibet’ and ‘that the Dalai Lama is not to blame for the demonstrations’.

5: They also told the reporters that the people visiting the temple are government officials posing as pilgrims and that the whole visit has been staged by the Chinese government, Lhasa, 27 March 2008

6: “Self-surrender” or “Voluntary surrender” Public notice issued for Tibetan demonstrators by authorities of Holhka Township, Tsegor Thang County, Tsolho “TAP” Qinghai Province, 1 April 2008.

7: April 9, 2008 in Labrang (Gansu Province), where a group of about 40 monks displayed a Tibetan flag and a banner with the inscription “His Holiness shall come to Tibet—fight for freedom” to the journalists present.

8: An estimated 227 Tibetans have died under China’s crackdown and the deaths were caused due to indiscriminate firing, severe beatings and torture of detainees during arrest, interrogation and detention.