Chinese occupation of Tibet

News around the Tibetan uprising in 2008, the riots, the Chinese repression

Thursday, April 3, 2008

China's free cremation service...

The TibetCustom.com website reports:

"The Pubic Security Bureau (PSB) forcefully took the body of Lhakpa Tsering from his family telling them that some investigations needed to be done at the Peoples Procuratorates. His body was later cremated in Toelung (west of Lhasa) and only his ashes were returned to his family in a plastic bag with his name written on it.

On March 24, Kunga (a monk from Chokri monastery) in Drakgo (Ch: Luhuo) County, Karze "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture," Sichuan province, was shot and killed during a demonstration at Chokri Monastery. On March 25, his body was forcefully taken from Chokri monastery and cremated nearby."


TibetCustom.com also publish a list on the same page with the names of 44 Tibetans identified to have been killed in the riots so far of a total of around 140.
It seems the Chinese Government's body count is quite a bit lower then the Tibetans claim - perhaps cremations are not counted as deaths?

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