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New video of torture exposes Chinese brutality in Tibet - Telegraph

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New video of torture exposes Chinese brutality in Tibet - Telegraph
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By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai Correspondent

Last Updated: 7:31PM GMT 20 Mar 2009

Video footage from Tibet is extremely rare. The film, which shows violent scenes from the March 2008 riots, is the clearest evidence yet that Tibetans were subject to police brutality as China struggled for control in Lhasa.

In the seven-minute film, exerpts of which are shown above, Chinese police kick and beat apparently defenceless Tibetan protesters and monks after they have been handcuffed and are lying on the ground.

The Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in Dharamsala in India, said the treatment of the captives violated international norms and amounted to torture.

Until now, the only video evidence of the riots in March was shot from long-distance and showed clashes in the streets of Lhasa but not evidence of torture.

"This is the first footage which visibly proves the use of brutal and excessive force against Tibetan protesters. It clearly challenges official Chinese statements that disproportionate force was not used on unarmed protesters," said Stephanie Brigden, the director of the international campaign group Free Tibet.

The second half of the video, which is too graphic to show here, documents a serious set of injuries allegedly sustained by a Tibetan worker after he intervened in the beating of a monk.

According to the Tibetan government-in-exile, Chinese police shot at the man, who was named as Tendar, and then stubbed cigarettes out on his body, forced a nail through his right foot and beat him with an electric baton.

He was initially taken to a military hospital but, according to the video, his wounds were merely wrapped in cling film, which allowed them to rot. He subsequently died of his injuries in June 2008.

The video was shot as the riots spread from Lhasa to the rest of Tibet ...

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    • William Todd William Todd
      8 months ago


      China holds 1 trillion in US T-Bills. Somehow I think the protests will be meek even from President Obama.
      Tibet

    • Nova Spivack Nova Spivack
      8 months ago


      I agree, I don't think the US is in an economic position to influence Chinese policy right now. It's unfortunate.
      Tibet

    • Sylvia Seplowitz
      8 months ago


      I have not purchased anything made in China in over 20 years. I suggest everyone who reads this do the same. We cannot control what the Chinese police or their leader do, no more than we can control what our government is doing...but we can cause an enormous impact by not buying goods made in China or any other communist country. I realize that it is difficult to shop if you do not buy goods made in China or other communist countries, but it is worth the effort.
      If someone came into your neighbors house and threw them out and forced their children to go to communist schools, and did not let them have freedom of speech or religion, and tortured them and put them in prison if they peacefully protested.....Would you buy anything from them? Imagine if they took over the whole neighborhood....Would you buy sneakers from them? Imagine if they took all your neighbors and you have not seen them or heard from them, and you don't know where they are.....Would you buy jewelry from them? Every time you buy something made in China you are supporting an country that will turn on us with the same hostility they have and continue to demonstrate in Tibet. Do not be fooled. The reason they can produce an sell items to us so cheaply is because they have numerous human rights abuses, they have no environmental controls, innocent political prisoners making the very same silk flowers you see selling in every Walmart and Family Dollar store. How is it that so few of us see the connection between buying Made in China because it is so cheap and the lack of jobs and manufacturing here in the USA. At this rate, we won't have to be forcibly taken over by China as in Tibet, hell they already own us! Stand up and stop supporting what China is doing in Tibet, to our economy, and with our government debt....do not buy goods made in China, or any other communist country. Most people today can not even tell you the remaining handful of communist countries in the world today. Can you? Our government may not be in an economic position to influence Chinese policy right now, but we are. We can change things by not buying anything that is made in China! Watch how fast the our economy revives itself.
      Tibet
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