Monks marching in the streets, buildings being burned, students staging sit-in protests, midnight raids by the military, towns and cities sealed off…this is Tibet. The most violent protests in nearly 20 years continue after last Monday’s pro-independence rallies commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet. The Chinese government reports 16 people dead while the Tibetan Government in Exile, reports at least 80 deaths.

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"The scale of the unrest was probably the biggest the city had seen since the Tibetan uprising of 1959 which prompted the Dalai Lama to flee into exile.

The troop presence in Lhasa is similarly extensive. Some are members of the People’s Armed Police, an anti-riot force. Some could be regular soldiers. China wants to give the impression that the unrest is being handled by the police. But the licence plates of some military-looking vehicles are covered or missing (army and police licence plates are readily distinguishable).

They are patrolling along streets, stopping cars and pedestrians to check papers and sealing off some areas to all but residents. There must be hundreds if not thousands deployed...Access to monasteries on the edge of Lhasa, where the unrest first began on Monday March 10th, remains blocked by police."
- James Miles, the Economist, 17 March 2008, the only foreign journalist accredited to be in the Tibetan capital

Here are a few additional links:

We're checking these organizations websites regularly to get updates and read the latest:

Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy in Dharamsala, India, Students for a Free Tibet, and their regularly updated blog and the International Campaign for Tibet, which has a very comprehensive list of Tibet-related links and resources. Additionally, we're always looking at the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement's website, a new coordinated Tibetan resistance effort led by five Tibetan organizations in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. You can watch their campaign video here.

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