Tibetan middle school students in Machu County , last week staged yet another peaceful protest against government controls.The students led by its senior students staged a peaceful protest around 3pm local time on April 3.The students were protesting against the firing of the school’s headmaster and two of his Tibetan assistants from their jobs by Chinese authorities last month.The school’s headmaster Kyabchen Dedrol, and his two assistants—Do Re and Choekyong Tseten—were fired by Chinese authorities following a pro-independence protest by students of the school towards the second week of March.
Tseten was later secretly taken away by officials from the Public Security Bureau. His whereabouts are unknown.
As a result, the school students approached relevant Chinese officials in the county government and submitted petitions demanding the authorities to reinstate the three sacked school heads.

In the petition, the students maintained there would be further protests if their demands in the petitions were not not met by the government.

The peaceful protest last week was staged after Chinese authorities turned a deaf ear to their petition.

The latest peaceful protest is the second one by the students of the middle school and one of the series of protests by Tibetan school students in Gansu Province in as many weeks.

At the moment the school is completely surrounded by armed police and the students are forced to remain confined to school compound. They are also barred from meeting or making any contact with the outsiders.

Authorities also deployed extra security forces in the already tense Machu town and set up checkpoints, tightening restriction on the movement of people, particularly the monks in the area.

The increase security presence is said to be causing tension and fear in the area.

Meanwhile, the students of the middle school have vowed to carry on with more protests until the reinstatement of the school's headmaster and his two assistants.