China arrests Tibetan monks after attack on police

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Nearly 100 Tibetan monks were arrested or turned themselves in Sunday after hundreds of protesters attacked a police station in northwestern China, state media reported.

The protest appeared to be in retaliation for the disappearance of a Tibetan who escaped from police custody in Qinghai province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

It was one of the largest reported protests in a tense month of tightened Chinese security in the region because of a number of sensitive anniversaries. One account by a Tibetan exile said the protest involved as many as 2,000 people and was sparked by the apparent suicide of a monk being investigated for unfurling a Tibetan flag, which is banned in China.

Xinhua said several hundred people — including nearly 100 monks from the Ragya Monastery — attacked the police station of Ragya, a township in the Tibetan prefecture of Golog, assaulting policemen and government staff on Saturday.



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Turned themselves in?!?!?

[iamthebandfanman]

1. i fear violence will be the only solution

and id imagine they turned themselves in outa guilt ?


can you imagine how bad things must be to drive a peaceful monk into assaulting someone?

[provis99]

2. where did you get the idea that Buddist monks were pacifists?

I'm aware Catholic monks are pacifistic, but Buddist monks have a long history of violence, whether inflicted on themselves or upon others. Look at all the stuff they did during the Vietnam War.

[EFerrari]

3. What will it take.