20080319/游客拍拉萨骚乱画面，千名藏人骑马甘肃冲城(视频)

澳洲游客所摄第一手西藏暴动视频

澳洲ABC电视台播出拉萨上星期五(14日)骚乱的片段，示威者四处放火破坏公物，以及中国军队进入封锁区恢复秩序。

千名藏人骑马欲攻甘肃政府办公室视频

加拿大CTV电视台播出千多名藏人3月18日骑马冲入甘肃省一城镇，试图攻击政府办公室，遭催泪瓦斯驱逐后在一学校内升起西藏旗帜。

游客拍拉萨骚乱画面，千名藏人骑马冲城破坏

明报记者综合报道／一些外国电视台19日分别播出游客拍到的有关西藏及一些藏民地区发生骚乱的画面。澳洲一间电视台播出拉萨上星期五(14日)骚乱的片段，示威者四处放火，眦坏公物。而加拿大一家电视台则播出本周二有千多名藏人骑马冲入甘肃省一座城镇，攻击当地政府建筑物，并升起代表达赖喇嘛的雪山狮子旗。而中新社则披露，在14日发生的拉萨暴乱中，一家专卖店的5名女服务员被活活烧死，其中包括一名藏族女子。

澳洲电视台的画面是一名游客在拉萨市偶然拍到的，在画面中，有示威群众在拉萨市中心四处放火，有店铺覑火焚烧，多部汽车被烧眦，拉萨市中心到处冒烟。群众又破坏店铺，打烂橱窗玻璃，破坏公共设施。暴乱发生后，有大批装甲车进驻拉萨，军人与武警布防，拉萨部分地区有如战区。

攻击政府军警催泪弹击退

而加拿大电视台播出的甘肃藏人骑马高呼并冲入一座城镇的画面。一些骑马藏人手持大幅雪山狮子旗，在镇上各处冲锋。有一群藏人攻击一座政府建筑物，但被约100名全副武装军警用催泪弹击退。影片并出现显然是催泪弹发射或爆炸的声音。大批藏族男女溃散逃逸，有些还遮住嘴以防吸入催泪气体。

在电视画面上，一些藏人还将镇上一所学校的五星旗扯下，升上雪山狮子旗。有喇嘛领导藏民高呼口号，要求「摆脱汉族统治，并停止汉族多年来的残暴镇压。」

英相促华克制5月晤达赖

对於西藏骚乱事件，英国首相白高敦致电总理温家宝，促请中国政府在处理拉萨骚乱时保持克制，而温家宝阐述中方的立场，重申有条件与西藏流亡精神领袖达赖喇嘛对话。而白高敦在国会透露，达赖5月访英，届时他会安排会面。另外，教宗本笃十六世则呼吁中方与赖喇嘛开展对话及互相包容，他说，对拉萨发生的暴力事件感到悲痛，强调暴力不能解决问题。

另据中新社报道，在14日发生的拉萨暴乱中，一家专卖店的5名女服务员被烧死，其中包括一名藏族女子。

报道称，西藏自治区在给该社记者一份书面答问中披露，这次事件中，拉萨北京中路「以纯专卖店」有5名女服务员被烧死。她们的名字是卓嘎、扬东梅、陈佳、韩星星和刘燕。官方早前透露，在这次事件中，共有13名无辜平民死亡。报道并透露，目前首都机场特别开辟了北京至拉萨的专用通道，安检也异常严格。

BBC记者目睹北京向西藏增派军车

BBC记者雷杰鸣甘肃报道说，中国目前不允许任何外国人进入西藏。

雷杰鸣说，在中午的时候，BBC采访小组人员看到一车军列正延着青藏铁路缓慢地向西藏进发。

他说，”我们数了一下，货运列车平台上共有约20辆绿色军用卡车，几辆越野车和一辆车身上写着’人民武装警察快速反应部队’字样的救护车。”

在甘肃南部靠近西藏的川藏边界，另外一个BBC采访小组也表示见到三个军车车队朝着西藏的方向驶去。

BBC记者雷杰鸣说，中国当局称西藏局势已在当局的控制之下，”但从我们见到的情况来看，中国当局显然觉得有必要继续派遣增援部队”。

甘肃示威

另据一个加拿大电视台记者的报道说，该台记者周二在甘肃省合作市南部20公里处的一座城镇拍摄到了藏人抗议的录像。

这名记者表示，数百名藏族抗议者周二冲击一处政府办公楼，当时约有100名武警在楼内防备，并用催泪弹驱散示威者。

一名头部留血的抗议者对记者说，他的伤是被武警殴打所致。

报道说，抗议人群中有些人骑马，有些人走路，他们后来前往靠近甘藏边界的一处学校，将中国国旗从旗杆上扯下来，而把西藏雪山旗换了上去。

西藏自治区政早些时候府宣布，截至周二（3月18日）晚间11时，共有105名参与骚乱者向警方自首。

不过海外支持西藏独立团体则表示，根据他们从西藏当地的联系人处了解，当地有数以百计的人被捕。

中国政区：甘肃省甘南藏族自治州合作市

概况

合作市位于甘肃省南部。总面积2670平方千米。

市人民政府驻地邮编：747000。代码：623001。区号：0941。拼音：Hezou Shi。
　　
行政区划

合作市辖4个街道、7个乡：当周街道、伊合昂街道、坚木克尔街道、通钦街道、卡加曼乡、卡加道乡、佐盖多玛乡、佐盖曼玛乡、加茂贡乡、勒秀乡、那吾乡。

历史沿革

“合作”一词系藏语音译，意为“首领”。

1996年5月28日，民政部（民行批[1996]35号）批准同意设立合作市（县级），以夏河县的合作镇及那吾、佐盖曼玛、佐盖多玛、卡加曼、卡加道、勒秀、加茂贡等7乡为合作市的行政区域，市人民政府驻合作镇。

2000年，合作市辖4个街道、7个乡。根据第五次人口普查数据：全市总人口76027人，其中各乡镇人口（人）： 当周街道 9236 伊合昂街道 11434 坚木克尔街道 12091 通钦街道 12353 卡加曼乡 3462 卡加道乡 2459 佐盖多玛乡 3620 佐盖曼玛乡 6217 加茂贡乡 3899 勒秀乡 4751 那吾乡 6505　

（行政区划网 www.xzqh.org）

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First Cut: Aussie captures Tibet riots on camera

News Video | Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:54:00 +1100 | Duration 3m 46s

Graphic new pictures have emerged of the riots that sparked the Chinese crackdown on Tibet. Australian tourist Michael Smith caught much of the unrest on his camera, including the first pictures of Chinese troops moving to restore order.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/

Tibetan protesters spill into neighbouring province
Updated Tue. Mar. 18 2008 11:29 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Tibetan rioters spilled into the neighbouring Chinese province of Gansu Tuesday and tried to storm a government office, despite efforts by the military to quell protests against Chinese rule.

Roughly 100 armed troops holed up inside the building repelled the protesters with tear gas, as CTV cameras filmed the confrontation.

One protester, bleeding profusely from the head, said he had been beaten by the soldiers.

The crowd then moved to a school in the remote town, located close to the Tibetan border, where they pulled down the Chinese flag and replaced it was the former national flag of Tibet.

On the same day, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was considering a proposal by the head of the European Parliament and media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, who have suggested boycotting the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Kouchner said the idea should be discussed later this month when EU foreign ministers meet.

However, he insisted that France has no plans to skip the Games and he added that a full boycott would not be “just.”

Meanwhile, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Tuesday that recent violent demonstrations by Tibetans were well-planned.

“There is ample fact — and we also have plenty of evidence – proving that this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique,” Wen said.

“This has all the more revealed that the consistent claims made by the Dalai clique that they pursue not independence but peaceful dialogue are nothing but lies.”

Wen made the comments to reporters at his annual news conference at the end of China’s national legislative session.

“By staging that incident they want to undermine the Beijing Olympics Games, and they also try to serve their hidden agenda by inciting such incidents,” he said.

The Dalai Lama has maintained that he is not behind the violence, said Chao, reporting from the China-Tibet border.

“For the most part the Dalai Lama has urged both sides to show restraint,” said Chao.

“He has always advocated peace rather than violence. So, in this case, he says if it is proven at all that he is involved he will step down.”

On Tuesday, the Dalai Lama warned that he would leave his post as leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile if Tibetan protesters in China continued to act out violently.

Later, a top aide said the Dalai Lama “would have to resign because he is completely committed to non-violence.”

However, the aide said he would resign only as the political leader and head of state — not as the Dalai Lama.

Tibetans began protesting early last week, timed for the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against the Chinese government. China took control of a then-independent Tibet in 1950.

Tibet’s governor has said that 16 people have died in the protests. However, Tibet’s government in exile, based in India, said that the number of people killed is closer to 80, which the governor has denied.

China restricts the access of foreign journalists to Tibet, so independent verification is very difficult.

There are reports that some local governments in western China are also banning foreign reporters.

China has already ordered all tourists out of Tibet’s capital, Lhasa. Canada has warned travellers to stay out of the region, unless it is absolutely necessary.

With files from CTV’s Steve Chao and The Associated Press

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080317/Tibet_official_080318/20080318?hub=TopStories

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Tourist video shows riot, flames in Tibetan capital

(CNN) — Australian tourist Michael Smith says he was eating lunch in a restaurant in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, on Friday when he heard an explosion and saw smoke.

As armored vehicles and trucks carrying Chinese soldiers rushed past, Smith started videotaping.

“We’re standing here in the middle of Lhasa and the place has just [expletive] exploded,” Smith narrated during the rioting.

Smith, who was traveling in Tibet when anti-Chinese rioting broke out Friday, returned home this week with dramatic video of the violence in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, which aired on Australian TV on Wednesday.

Tibetan exile groups maintain at least 80 people were killed by Chinese security forces that day, but Chinese authorities insist they acted with restraint and killed no one. Instead, China says 13 “innocent people” were killed, some brutally burned, by the Tibetan rioters.

No apparent deaths or injuries were seen on the video, which Smith shared with Australia’s ABC News, a CNN affiliate.

The video shows Tibetans smashing windows and setting fire to Chinese shops and cars, while people are heard cheering. It also shows Chinese security forces, but no clashes between them and the rioters.

“It’s absolute mayhem on the streets,” Smith said.

Other video released of the rioting was broadcast by the Chinese government’s CCTV, and it did not include pictures of Chinese security forces.

Smith said as he made his way back to his hotel on Friday, he “met so many Tibetan people on the streets, so many young Tibetan boys just screaming for Tibet’s freedom.”

“We don’t have any freedoms,” one young Tibetan male shouted to Smith’s camera.

“The Tibetan people are going crazy,” Smith said.

Many of the businesses targeted by the rioters were operated by Han Chinese, China’s largest ethnic group. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, has blamed the violent protests on deep resentment fueled by Chinese treatment of Tibetans as “second-class citizens in their own land.”

Tibetan activists said an influx of Han Chinese from other provinces is threatening their ancient culture.

While many of these “Free Tibet” activists demand independence from China, the Dalai Lama said he wants only “genuine autonomy” so that Tibetans can preserve their heritage.

Meanwhile, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday that more than 100 people surrendered themselves to police and admitted involvement in the clashes last week in Lhasa.

Tibet’s regional government said 105 people had turned themselves in to authorities by 11 p.m. Tuesday (1:15 p.m. ET), Xinhua said.

Authorities had urged those who participated in the protests to turn themselves in, offering them leniency if they did.

“Those who surrender and provide information on other lawbreakers will be exempt from punishment,” Xinhua quoted a police notice as saying.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/tibet.video/#cnnSTCText