Tibetans in China marking Dalai Lama’s birthday ‘injured in police firing’
Several
Tibetan monks are reported to have been injured in firing by Chinese
paramilitary forces in the western Sichuan region as they gathered to mark the
Dalai Lama’s birthday on Saturday, according to reports from several overseas
Tibetan groups.
They
were both receiving treatment in hospitals, according to overseas groups. At
least half a dozen others who were injured in the reported firing had also been
identified. They included Tsering Dhondup, another monk from Nyitso, and
Jangchub Dorjee, a monk who is the younger brother of Palden Choetso, a nun
from the Sichuan town of Dawu who had set herself on fire in a self-immolation
protest in November 2011.
Exiled
groups and monks in Dharamsala, citing their contacts in the region, said the
monks had gathered near Nyitso monastery, in the town of Dawu, on July 6, to
mark the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s 78th birthday, amid heavy
police presence.
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