Tibetan monks disrupt a Chinese media tour

Tibetan Monks interrupt a media tour in Western China whilst shouting about their lack of human rights. They also threw prayer shawls over the shoulders of journalists.

It was an organized tour for Chinese and foreign media in Xiahe.
Suddenly Fifteen Tibetan Buddhist monks interrupted the tour demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and yelling that they had no human rights.
The monks, carrying a banned Tibetan flag, came from the Labrang monastery.
They rushed across a plaza to the group of 20 media.

[Monk, Unidentified]: Male
"The Dalai Lama has to come back to Tibet. We are not asking for Tibetan independence, we are just asking for human rights. We have no human rights now."

The monks say eight of them are still being held by authorities, and that plainclothes agents of China's paramilitary armed police force were stationed throughout Xiahe.
Some of the monks threw prayer shawls over the shoulders of photographers.

Xiahe is one of the biggest centres of the Dalai Lama's Gelukpa branch of Buddhism.
Late last month, Chinese authorities were embarrassed by a similar incident at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.

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[azaadi829]

哇，真大胆。不过阿弥陀佛，他们都自由了。 heard in the news these guys have all succesfully escaped to dharamsala early this year...great they can now continue their buddhist training in peace..:))

[hisphoninesss]

Down with this serf owner hypocrite monk of Old TIBET and his elitist millionare family and the damn aristocrats who are still ruling these poor uneducated ignoratn brainwashed tibetans in india. Down with theocratic autocratic rule of Dalie Lama and his elitist family.

[gamehazard101]

Man, these Tibetans are gluttons for punishment. Really, they should just give up. Maybe then, they wouldn't get the shit beaten out of them.

[Elbottoo]

Yes and I really feel sorry for you now.

Are you some sort of robot? Every thread about Tibet or Xinjiang, you drones post the same stuff over and over again.

[dorje168]

These outbursts of violence by the Uighers and the Tibetans are the result of tensions caused by these people feeling :

1) Their culture is being eroded by the influx of Han settlers,

2) Resentment that they are being economically and culturally marginalized in their own ancestral land,

3) Treated as second-class citizens and discriminated against by the majority Han Chinese

[colguy11]

shoot those modern crusade, liar, free china!!!

[TravelBetter]

I have been to china myself and when I tried to open an email address I could not... Everything is controled in China, while trying to discuss tibet or Taiwan with Chinese people they had no clue what so ever what I was talking about. All they were saying is that these places were nice provinces of china... the worst is that they were students...

[soledestate]

free tibet.

[Globalvisual]

Peace, Love, Unity, Respect, Humanity, Forgiveness and Understanding to all beings in this world.

[MrLeviDayan]

brave monks