Tibetan stringer Gedun Rinchen reported from Kathmandu that on July 29th during the Shoton Festival in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, four or five Tibetan nuns staged a brief demonstration calling for Tibet’s independence in the Tromsigkhang area of the Barkor. The onlookers also joined the demonstration before the Chinese security came and took away the nuns in a van. More security people called in and they dispersed the gathering. Nuns have since disappeared and no one knows the whereabouts of the nuns.
Article updated on 8th Nov. 2003
