Here are today’s Tibet-related headlines:
The Guardian reports that three cases of self-immolation that occurred at Tiananmen Square today “may be linked to protests at start of Tibetan new year.”
New Zealand’s News 3 reports that “fifty Tibetan monks began a three-day long hunger strike in Dharmsala on Wednesday, part of an unofficial boycott of New Year festivities to mourn victims of a harsh crackdown on anti-government protests last year.”
National Public Radio reports on sweeping police action in Tibet to ferret out banned, “reactionary” in shops and markets, and make arrests.
The Associated Press brings us the news that the U.S. State Department has issued a new report accusing China of “stepping up ‘severe cultural and religious repression’ of minorities in Tibet and elswehere as well as increasing its detention and harassment of dissidents.”
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