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Tibet protests spread to Chinese provinces
If this was Israel doing something similar there would be an emergency meeting at the UN and major outcries throughout the world. Funny how relatively quiet the world is on this, hypocrisy at its finest or is this different?
BEIJING - Violence in Tibet spilled over into neighboring provinces Sunday where Tibetan protesters defied a Chinese government crackdown. The Dalai Lama warned Tibet faced ?cultural genocide? and appealed to the world for help.
Protests against Chinese rule of Tibet were reported in neighboring Sichuan and Qinghai provinces and also in western Gansu province. All are home to sizable Tibetan populations.
?They?ve gone crazy,? said a police officer in Sichuan's Aba county, her voice trembling over the phone as the main government building there came under siege.
The officer, who declined to be named, said a crowd of Tibetans hurled gasoline bombs, burning down a police station and a market in the county?s main town, and set fire to two police cars and a fire truck.
The India-based Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy said at least seven people have been shot dead in the county. There was no way of immediately confirming the claim.
One ethnic Tibetan resident in Aba said there were sounds like gunshots and there was widespread talk of 10 or more dead.
?Now it?s very tense. There are police going around everywhere, checking and looking over people for injuries,? said another resident of Aba, adding that many of the rioters were students of a Tibetan-language high school
If this was Israel doing something similar there would be an emergency meeting at the UN and major outcries throughout the world. Funny how relatively quiet the world is on this, hypocrisy at its finest or is this different?