At least four people were killed when police officers opened fire on a crowd outside the Palyul county government offices in Sichuan’s Kardze.As many as 30 Tibetan protesters were wounded in the Aug. 17 shooting, with some believed to be critically injured and receiving medical care in the provincial capital of Chengdu.Drakpa Yeshe, a Tibetan based in Nepal, said Aug. 25 that he had spoken recently with relatives in the area.“Lately I heard that about four people died in the shooting in the Palyul incident,” Drakpa Yeshe said.

Chinese government arrested the four Tibetans in Barkham County on March 17 on charges of instigating students against the government through their magazine Namchak .Sonam Rinchen; 19, Sonam Dhondup; 18, Yargay and Drakden contributed to the magazine as its editors. Sonam Rinchen and Sonam Dhondup are natives of Zoege County while Yargay and Drakden are from Ngaba County .The four studied at the Barkham Nationalities’ Higher Intermediate School where they initiated a gathering of Tibetan students on March 17 this year to commemorate the 2008 uprisings.

Three Tibetans have been killed and 30 others severely wounded after Chinese security forces opened fire on unarmed Tibetan petitioners outside a government building in Palyul County on August 18.The incident occurred in Palyul County’s Sharchu Gyashoed village whose leader Tashi Sangpo had written to the local Chinese authorities to stop expansion of gold mining activities in the area. Village leader Tashi Sangpo had expressed his concerns about the fragile environment of his locality and objected to China’s gold mining activities in the area.

The blast went off after a man drove a three-wheeled vehicle laden with explosives into a crowd of people in a suburb in Aksu city.Germany-based Uighur activist Dilxat Raxit said security forces were the apparent target, with reports saying victims included one policeman and 14 members of a uniformed auxiliary force charged with monitoring the Uighur population.According to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, which interviewed residents in Aksu, martial law has been declared in the city and a large number of armed police deployed.

A top leader of the Communist Party of China calling for reforms in Buddhist monasteries by appointing monks and nuns who are "politically reliable".Du Qinglin, head of the United Front Work Department of the Party's Central Committee, also demanded that "greater, concerted and solid efforts" must be made to implement democratic management in the monasteries."Concerted and solid efforts must be made to implement democratic management in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries," Du was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency, in what appeared to be a fresh effort to strengthen government's ho

Two Tibetan monks have been arrested by Chinese authorities in Barkham County in Ngaba Prefecture last week.Sothar, 38, and Dhargay, 26, were monks of Tsoduen monastery in Barkham County.The two were arrested separately and the reason for their arrests is not known as yet. Both the monks held positions in monastic administration of their monastery.It is not known where the two are currently held.

The following is a report by Ms. Xinna, wife of the ethnic Mongolian political prisoner Ms. Hada, regarding her recent visit to the Inner Mongolia Jail No.4 in Chifeng City where her husband is serving the 15th year of a 15 year jail term:This spring I visited Hada in prison.His health condition is still very poor. He looked very thin and pale.However, mentally, he is in a much better state because he knows his jail term is ending soon. I asked about his recent prison conditions. He is confident and hopeful that he can survive and get through this extreme hardship.

On Aug 3 and 5, the official Chinese media reported that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was for the first time used to transport combat readiness air force materials and to complete an important logistic task for the PLA Air force.The reports did not say what those materials or logistic task were. Now, according to a blog posting on the Sri Lanka Guardian online Aug 10, the strategic logistic equipment transported was the ballistic missiles that were for the first time transported by the rail net work into Tibet for the use of the Air Force & missile units stationed inside Tibet.

Overdevelopment and environmental mismanagement are at least partly to blame for a mudslide that left more than 700 people dead over the weekend.Wang Shijin, an associate professor at Jiangxi University’s Research Center for Environment and Resources Law Institute, said rock and soil around the seat of Zhouqu county, located in Gansu’s Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, was unusually loose before the rains.
Wang said he could not exclude land mismanagement as the cause of the slide, adding that many of China’s landslides in recent years have been the result of human error.

Two Tibetans, Geluk and Wangchuk from Dege Jodha county, eastern Tibet, have been sentenced on charges of refusing to sow crops, in protest against the Chinese government's policies towards Tibet and Tibetans.The latest information tells us that Gelug was sentenced to one-and-a-half years and Wangchuk to one year.In 2009 many Tibetans have been arrested by the Chinese armed police in Gojong County, Dege area, Eastern Tibet.After the crackdowns that took place in 2008, Tibetans from many areas in Dege Jodha district have continued to refuse to farm, to show solidarity for Tibetans from all over

The burgeoning Chinese migrants in Tibet, including many with criminal records, has left native Tibetan people with no livelihood prospects, their cultural values and social stability in jeopardy, a report received by the Central Tibetan Administration says.The rapid increase in Chinese immigration picked up pace with the onset of railway connectivity in Tibet in 2006 and due to numerous 'development project' initiated by the Chinese government throughout Tibet.Moreover, since the peaceful protests of 2008, many permanent and part time Tibetan employees continue to face great difficulty in fin

Authorities appear to be delaying the prosecution of a Tibetan writer who wrote a book supporting a campaign of peaceful protest and civil disobedience in Tibet."The police told us that his case is quite special because it has to do with different ethnicities," Yeshi Tsomo, daughter of the Tibetan writer Tagyal, said in an interview."They must have given a nod to the state prosecutor because the case is still with the police."Tagyal, 47, who publishes under the pen name Shogdung, was first detained April 23, and was later formally arrested for "instigating to split the motherland."

Hundreds of households from the village of Xinzhai, four kilometers outside Gyegu, are camped outside township government offices in protest at plans to take over their land, residents said.A Gyegu township resident identified as Sonam said 200-300 residents of Xinzhai village had gathered outside the government offices in recent days to lodge a petition against plans to redevelop their village, which is largely home to nomadic and herding families.The villagers said that land which had commanded a price of 900,000 yuan (U.S.

Chinese authorities in Tibet have ordered Internet cafes across the region to finish installing state-of-the-art surveillance systems by the end of the month, industry sources and local media said."All the Internet cafes must now install it," said Chen Jianying, head of the customer service department of the industry group Internet Cafes Online. "This is a nationwide policy which is part of the implementation of the real-name registration system," Chen said.