Chinese soldiers shot Tibetan Refugees

KATHMANDU—Members of a group of 43 Tibetans have described their terrifying flight to Nepal under deadly fire from Chinese border guards who took several dozen other Tibetans into custody.

Witnesses said at least one person was killed and at least one wounded by gunfire Sept. 30 near the Himalayan pass at Nangpa La in the Mount Everest region. Others set the death toll higher. Another 36 or 37 Tibetans were detained, witnesses told RFA's Tibetan service.

The group, which originally numbered around 80 Tibetans, began their journey out of Chinese-controlled Tibet on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, according to members of the group—41 asylum-seekers and two Tibetan escorts—who arrived in Kathmandu on Oct. 10.

"When the Chinese fired at us, I was so tense and frightened. It is still difficult for me to explain what happened," one man said in an interview after arriving at the Tibetan Reception Center in Kathmandu.

"It was so tense and confusing that I just thought of staying alive and escaping. I couldn't think of anything else or help the others."

"I think the Chinese fired for about 15 minutes. I felt bullets whizzing past my ears. In fact I felt about five bullets pass by me and luckily they missed me. I was so frightened that I crawled in the snow using my hands and feet. The snow was about knee-deep," he said.

The man, who asked not to be named, said the group initially thought the gunshots were fireworks, because there were many Western visitors who had come to climb the mountains in the area.

"I thought they were playing with fireworks. But then we realized it was gunshots and about 30 to 40 rounds were fired. In the confusion, we split into two groups. Those of us who were in the front managed to escape and the later group of about 30 or more Tibetans could not escape," he said.

Another Tibetan, who hid in the mountains for two nights before crossing into Nepal, said: "I saw a small child...There was another young boy who was shot in the foot and an old man. They were detained in the area until late afternoon and then the Chinese police took them away."

"Those who escaped later saw the body of the nun who was killed. She was Kalsang Namtso, 17 years old from Ngachu Dri-ru (in Chinese, Biru Xian) county. They gave a local yak herder 100 yuan and asked him to take body away but we heard that he didn't do it. So we don't know what happened later," the second man said.

A Western climber who witnessed the incident told RFA's Tibetan service that two others in his group had been contacted by the Chinese Embassy in Nepal and asked to attend a meeting there.

"They have since left Nepal and gone home" without visiting the Chinese Embassy, the climber said

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China admits to Tibet shootings

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Chinese state media has confirmed reports that Chinese troops had fired on about 70 people near the country's mountain frontier with Nepal, killing one of them.

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Three climbers from UK and Australia told Reuters on Sept 30 they watched Chinese border guards aim their guns at a group of up to 30 people as they prepared to cross an icy pass from Chinese territory into Nepal.

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@peterwan89

Please watch the video

"Nangpala survivors and witnesses recall their experiences"

watch?v=rez1xDZuZwU

and learn about the State TERRORIST communist party

[hs0zcw]

See also on YouTube "How to Eliminate Buddhism"

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@adswillso I assume the book you read about the shooting was the excellent

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"Murder in the High Himalaya"

by Jonathan Green, published last year.

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Tibet: Murder in the Snow

is the 59 minutes documentary about the shooting (and its on youtube). But the book is probably more interesting in my opinion because it has so much information about Tibet in it.

[walle1999]

@HumanRightsVideosT US government debt pays shit all interest, which is why the national debt is America is so great if the cost of lending for the US was higher the government wouldn't dare running annual trillion dollar deficits.

[adswillso]

I have recently read a book on this shooting and was quite moved by it. From my understanding the Tibetans have been forced to adopt a whole new way of life, with the Chinese claiming to making changes in Tibet to modernize and assimilate them with the western world. What a crock of shit, the Chinese have single handedly destroyed a culture and way of life of these people. And then have the hide to claim that they acted in defence of armed soldiers, by shooting an unarmed, defenceless nun tryin

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@AnAlakazam

I think people who fire rockets over borders onto civilians should ask themselves this question.

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How many rockets do you expect to get back in return 10, 20 or 50 ?

quest

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@ lcsfow

The CCP and the US are great buddies now. The CCP likes to make $ off loans it gives to the US.

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Proportional Voting and proper democracies for Tibet and China and the US

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@AnAlakazam

My current thoughts are these. Suicide bombings are the ultimate show of hatred, because you show you hate your enemy more than you love yourself.

But when you know that suicide is a bad thing to do, maybe self immolation (which I don't think is a good thing) is the ultimate sacrifice you can make for your country. Apparently there have been about 7 in recent months in Tibet.

[AnAlakazam]

@HumanRightsVideosT Thank you :)