BRUSSELS - China’s crackdown on protests in Tibet has left at least 135 people 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,” parliamentary speaker Karma Chophel told 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.”
TibetÂ’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 the Tibetan capital Lhasa.
Tibetans are sacrificing their lives “to voice their dissent against Chinese rule,” Chophel said. “They are doing this at the cost of their lives thinking that the Europeancountries who have political power, economic power... will speak up,” he added.
He urged Europe to make sure its “moral power is not compromised in order to have good trade relations with China”.
| Heh, good luck with that ... |