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中國稱拉薩逾千人因暴動被捕 本月開始審訊
中央社╱中央社 2008-04-03 21:52
（中央社北京三日美聯電）西藏首府拉薩市委副書記王向明說，目前已有一千多人因參加當地上月的血腥暴動而被捕或自首投案。
官方「西藏商報」引述王向明的話說，相關審訊將在五月一日之前舉行，這明白顯示，當局決心要儘早在八月八日北京奧運開幕之前，將西藏暴亂劃上句點。
王向明的談話為當局的鎮壓行動提供了迄今最完整的線索，此次中國西部藏區反政府抗議行動的規模和持續時間為將近二十年來之最。
中國當局派出了大批公安和武警前往藏區，以維護不穩定的和平、追捕抗議領導人並封鎖相關寺廟。這些寺廟的喇嘛領導發起了抗議行動，而這些行動在三月十日展開時原本和平，但在四天後轉趨暴力。
官員堅稱，藏區現已恢復和平狀態，但仍繼續禁止外國遊客和記者進入地廣人稀的該地區。
警方本週曾將企圖進入四川省阿壩縣的外國記者逮捕，並將他們送往省會成都。阿壩居民以藏人為主。
四川丹巴鎮外事辦王姓主任說：「阿壩縣在奧運之後，應該能開放，但我也不能保證。」丹巴距離阿壩兩個小時車程。
他並說，「這不是個穩定的地方」，但又說，他不知道當地是否發生過任何事件。
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Tibet orders post-riot propaganda drive
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 57 minutes ago
BEIJING - More than 1,000 people have been arrested or surrendered after deadly rioting last month in the Tibetan capital, and trials will be held before May, the city's deputy Communist Party secretary said.
The statement is an apparent sign of the government's determination to close the book on the violence well ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games in August.
Wang Xiangming's remarks in the official Tibet Commerce newspaper also offer the most complete picture yet of the scope of the crackdown on the largest anti-government protests in Tibetan areas across western China in almost two decades.
Beijing has sent thousands of police and army troops to the area to maintain an edgy peace, hunt down protest leaders, and cordon-off Buddhist monasteries whose monks led protests that began peacefully on March 10 before turning violent four days later.
Wang said 800 had been arrested in the Lhasa violence, while another 280 had surrendered to take advantage of a police offer of leniency.
Chinese officials have put the death toll at 22 but Tibetan exiles say nearly 140 people were killed.
Police this week rounded up foreign reporters trying to enter Aba prefecture, a primarily Tibetan area in Sichuan province, and escorted them back to the provincial capital, Chengdu.
"This area should be open after the Olympics, but I can't guarantee that," said Wang Qing, head of the foreign affairs office in Danba town, a two-hour drive from Aba. "This is not a stable place," However, he said he knew of no problems.
Efforts to keep information about the clampdown from leaking out are easily felt, especially at monasteries. In Kangding, the head lama of the Nanwu monastery said he couldn't speak to the media without a government official present. Monks shied away from an AP photographer.
Aba's deputy chief Xiao Youcai confirmed shots were fired, but said he knew of no deaths or specific injuries — despite earlier state media reports that police shot and wounded four rioters "in self defense."
Xiao said investigations and arrests were continuing, but refused to give figures.
He repeated earlier claims that authorities found a stash of guns, knives and explosives in a local monastery, but refused to say whether they had been used in the March 16 attack.
Xiao insisted the Aba violence had also been orchestrated by the Dalai Lama's supporters and proceeded along the same lines as the Lhasa attack.
Alongside the ramped-up security, the region's top officials have ordered boosted ideological education and ramped-up propaganda in Tibet to build anti-separatist sentiment and to vilify the Dalai Lama after the protests, another official newspaper said Thursday.
Such campaigns have exacerbated tensions in Tibet and the resentments they created are believed by experts and Tibetans to have fed into the unrest.
The region's hardline Communist Party leader also ordered harsh punishment for local party officials found lacking in their commitment to Beijing's official line, following the sometimes violent anti-government protests and the harsh crackdown that followed.
Also indicating Beijing's haste to return Tibet to normal, the regional tourism authority announced Thursday that the region would reopen to foreign tourist groups on May 1, in time for a national three-day vacation.
Tour operators, hotels and restaurant owners have complained of major losses due to the closure of the region's borders as part of a massive security clampdown.
China has accused the 72-year-old Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader who is based in India, of orchestrating the violence to sabotage the Beijing Summer Olympic Games and create an independent state.
The Dalai Lama has denied the charges, calling on Beijing to open a dialogue and examine the economic, ethnic and religious issues he blames for fueling anger among Tibetans.
The Tibet Daily newspaper quoted regional party chief Zhang Qingli as ordering officials to maintain their guard against future plots by the "Dalai clique."
Zhang ordered officials to boost ideological education among young people, focusing on negative portrayals of Tibet prior to the communist invasion in 1950 and continued vilification of the Dalai Lama's political agenda.
While China has repeatedly claimed overwhelming support for its policies in Tibet, it has had to bolster those with repeated ideological campaigns and heightened restrictions over religious observance and monastic life.
Already, officials including the national police chief have ordered boosted "patriotic campaigns" in monasteries whose monks led protests that began peacefully on March 10 before turning deadly four days later.
In an even more revealing statement, Zhang appeared to indicate at least some local officials had shown themselves as insufficiently loyal during the recent unrest.
"We absolutely will not condone violations of political and organizational discipline and will definitely find those responsible and meet out harsh punishment," said Zhang, a protege of president and party chief Hu Jintao, who was the communist boss of Tibet during the last major protests there in 1989.
Formerly a top official in another ethnically troubled region, Xinjiang, Zhang has reportedly already overseen the firing of dozens of ethnically Tibetan officials seen as politically unreliable.
Many Tibetans insist they were an independent nation before communist troops invaded in 1950, while radical Islamic groups in Xinjiang have battled Chinese rule through a low-intensity campaign of bombings and assassination.
Critics say Zhang's twin policies of massive government investment and intense political repression in both regions may have helped breed resentment among their native populations, many among whom feel left behind by economic growth and marginalized by the arrival of migrants from China's majority Han ethnic group.
In Katmandu, Nepal, Tibetan exiles decided to temporarily halt protests in the capital because of crucial local elections, activists said Thursday.
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