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In an incident that shocked the world, a teenage Tibetan nun, Kelsang Namtso, was killed when Chinese border police opened fire on a group of pilgrims as they fled Tibet over the infamous Nangpa Pass. The shooting was witnessed by many international mountain climbers, some of whom videotaped or photographed the events and also helped rescue survivors and sent the story out to the world.

Using the original climber footage, reenactments and interviews with witnesses and survivors, Tibet: Murder in the Snow tells of young Tibetans who risk their lives each year to illegally cross the rugged Himalaya Mountains in an attempt to see their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, or attend school in India.

It is a dangerous journey. In September 2006, more than 70 young people travelled for three nights in the back of a truck as it drove south towards the Himalayas. Then the refugees walked for 10 more nights, with inadequate clothing and limited food and water, to the base of the infamous 6000-metre Nangpa Pass, an ancient trade route to Nepal.

Among those who paid their hard-earned savings to illegal mountain-guides, were teenage farm girls Dolma Palki, 16, and her best friend Kelsang Namtso, a 17 year-old nun. Both wanted to meet to meet the Dalai Lama and to study without political interference. Also attempting to cross the mountains were 14-year-old boy Jamyang Samten and Lobsang Choeden, 29, a farmer.

As the pilgrims picked their way up the snow-covered pass, international mountain climbers watched them from a nearby camp. British real estate agent Lee Farmer, Romanian TV cameraman Sergiu Matei and British policeman Steve Lawes had also paid handsomely to help attain their dream—to summit Mount Cho Oyu. Luis Benitez, a highly experienced professional mountain guide, who had worked in the Himalaya for years, was leading a New Zealand expedition at the same time.

But as the climbers watched in horror, the Chinese border police opened fire on the refugees. Kelsang Namtso was shot dead on the Pass and two other Tibetans were injured. These events were videotaped by cool-headed Sergiu Matei who picked up his camera, when the shooting began.

The story broke around the world when American mountain guide, Luis Benitez emailed his account of the shooting to a popular climbing website, revealing for the first time the sanctioned murder of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border police.

Witnessing a murder had a profound effect on all of their lives.

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@ nayanmalig

When you live in a country like China where the media is controlled many people probably don't realise what they are missing apart

from youtube, which some urban Chinese would have been able to use before youtube was banned in China.

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Schools in China fall down because media in China supports corrupt CCP officials rather than exposing them.

[nayanmalig]

@HumanRightsVideosT chinese DO NOT talk "human rights" & murder (like animals) non white foreign heads of state who disagree with them & at the same time reward absolute murderous dictators who agree with them. Chinese also don't go around saying WOW to pictures of leaders (Qaddafi) murdered like pigs in cold blood. (like hillary). understand the difference. HR is used like a prostitute by the west & their MSM. westerners who talk about HR in other countries don't even know the meaning of it.

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@ nayanmalig

The US is in love with cheap oil, which is an environmental disaster and also makes foreign policy disasters. The Vietnam and Iraq wars are the biggest military blunders I'm aware of.

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But you have to acknowledge that the CCP is also a human rights disaster and environmental disaster.

1,300,000,000 people have very little freedom.

Tibet is the largest PRISON in the World

[nayanmalig]

@HumanRightsVideosT US has an atrocious record of killing browns all over the world. millions died in iraq & afghanistan on a spree which went as HR & WMD'S. millions in Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea not to mention 2 atom bombs in japan. They also openly built up, armed & supported terrorist groups all over the world including in Afghanistan & Pakistan which they now whine as gone rabid on them. they are a menace to the entire world with their greed & violence.

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@nayanmalig

Is 1.2 million dead Tibetans

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60 to 80 million dead in the PRC an evening walk ? (actually the CCP is to top killer of all time)

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The US and the CCP love oil. In Europe the price of gas is apparently 4 times what it is in the US. NZ oil get bought on the open market, where it should be bought !!!

[nayanmalig]

@HumanRightsVideosT Two wrongs don't make a right. whites live in glass houses. when you consider the millions of non white people massacred by the HR preaching white westerners over the last few decades in poor countries, Tibet is like an evening walk. Remember that the west are the champions of HR & peace & whatnot. they are paranoid about HR in poor countries. but when they see oil god help the natives. Chinese & Russian HR record in foreign countries is actually vastly superior to the west.

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@shirgurung

Its State Terrorism to try and keep people scared of rising up in the PRC

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When Tibetan nuns get tortured badly and commit suicide as a result it is a deterrent.

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@ nayanmalig

Tibet has been occupied for 60+ years

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The US and UK are getting out of Iraq not building a train to loot Iraq (like in Tibet)