Casualties worry Dalai Lama
20/03/2008 14:27  - (SA)  

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Dharamshala - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday said he was worried that "a lot of casualties" had occurred in the Chinese military crackdown on protests in Tibet.

"I am really worried about a lot of casualties," he told reporters.

"We don't know exact numbers. Some say six, some say 100, but places have been cut off. There are movements of Chinese troops. I am really worried a lot of casualties have happened," he added.

The Dalai Lama's northern India-based government-in-exile has already said it has confirmed 99 deaths in a Chinese crackdown, but that it has also been struggling to get more information from the remote region.

China has rejected the higher death tolls, saying on Monday that Tibetan rioters killed 13 "innocent civilians" during violent protests in Lhasa, and that it did not use lethal force to quell the rioting.

 

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