By Phurbu Thinley
Dharamsala, March 16: Chinese police in Nyarong County in Sichuan Province arrested three Tibetans and paraded them in a market place following anti-China protests, according to a report on the official website of the Tibet’s Government in exile.
The protests involved pasting protest letters in front of a local government office and hoisting of Tibetan national flag in a school, the report said citing sources in Tibet as telling.
According to the information received from Tibet on 12 March, the report said, a group of Tibetans had staged protest by shouting slogans and spreading papers of protest in Nyarong County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
The three Tibetans, whose identities are yet to be confirmed, were arrested after the protest, the report said. “Police broke one of the three protestor’s leg,” the report added, citing a source as saying.
“On 12 March, in front of the government office, protest letters were pasted and Tibetan national flag was hoisted secretly in a school,” the report said, adding “On the same day, police paraded the three arrested Tibetans in the market.”
Cash prize has been announced to those who would provide information about the rest of the protesters, the report said.
Tibet is reportedly under intense military siege after authorities last week launched a show of force to prevent protests commemorating a failed Tibetan uprising that began 50 years ago on March 10. This month also completes one year since widespread anti-China unrest broke out in Tibet last spring.
In Dharamsala, the seat of Tibetan Government-in-exile in northern India, Tibetan exiles held a peaceful candle light vigil this evening to highlight the grave situation in Tibet and to express their solidarity to fellow Tibetans in Tibet who continue to struggle for freedom under harsh military crackdown.
The candle light march was organized by the Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet, a pro-independent organization consisting of former political prisoners, which is based here.
