TIBET: 19 PROTESTERS KILLED IN OTHER PROVINCES
March 19, 2008
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy
Dharamsala (India), Mar. 18, 2008 - Another 19 Tibetan protesters would
have been killed today by Chinese security forces in another province of
the China, Gansu: the Tibetan government in exile said this from its
headquarter in Dharamsala, in the north of India. According to the
government in exile, the total number of "certain" dead in one week of
chaos would amount to at least 99. The Chinese government claims that no
more than ten people were killed. Premier Wen Jiabao admitted for the
first time that from Tibet the protests have spread to other parts of
the country. In Gansu, the western endpoint of the Great Wall of China
with numerous Buddhist temples, lives a big Tibetan community.