Tibetan Troubles Continue

The Chinese continue their brutalization of the Tibetan people, and eight people were killed by police in what the authorities are calling riots:

Police fired on hundreds of protesters in a Tibetan area of western China, killing eight people, overseas activist groups said. State media reported one government official was seriously injured in what it called a riot.

Another Tibetan activist group said Saturday that two monks committed suicide late last month because of government oppression.

The reports indicate that unrest is continuing in China's Tibetan areas despite a massive security presence in place since anti-government demonstrations in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, and neighboring provinces broke out in mid-March.

The protests are the longest and most sustained challenge to China's 57-year rule in the Himalayan region. China's subsequent crackdown has drawn international scrutiny and criticism in the run-up to this summer's Olympic Games.

Police fired on Buddhist monks and ordinary citizens who had marched on local government offices in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province near Tibet on Thursday, according to the London-based Free Tibet Campaign and the International Campaign for Tibet.

The Chinese are using deadly force to try and stamp out the demonstrations by Tibetans against ongoing Chinese occupation of their country. Where is the UN statement to rush to condemn China for these ongoing acts of violence? You know that the usual suspects in the UN always do so when Israel defends itself against Palestinian terrorists, and yet here we have unprovoked violence by China against a nation it has occupied for decades and not so much a hint of a resolution or a weakly worded statement from UN officials, let alone a General Assembly statement. The last time that Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said anything about Tibet, it was March 17, and he was "increasingly concerned" about the situation and urged restraint. I guess killing eight protesters is showing restraint.