135 dead in Tibet crackdown
26/03/2008 21:21  - (SA)  

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Brussels - China's crackdown on protests in Tibet left at least 135 dead, 1 000 injured and 400 arrested, the head of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile said in Brussels on Wednesday.

"Information from Tibet is very difficult to get, but we have sources who are very reliable, who phone us at the risk of their lives," said parliamentary speaker Karma Chophel to reporters at the European Parliament in Brussels.

"Confirmed killings, we put it as of yesterday (Tuesday) at 135," he added. "We believe the number of people dying, injured, arrested, could be 10 times more than the confirmed reports."

Tibet's government-in-exile has previously said that 140 people were killed in the unrest, while China has reported a total of 20 deaths, 19 of them in Lhasa.

Protests against Beijing's rule of Tibet began in Lhasa on March 10 - the anniversary of a 1959 uprising that saw the Dalai Lama go into exile - prompting a crackdown by the Chinese authorities.

 

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