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    Reports say Tibetans protest in southwest China

    BEIJING (AP) — Angry Tibetans protested in a tense area of southwestern China on the country's National Day after a Tibetan flag and a photo of the Dalai Lama were torn down, a news report said Sunday.

    The protest took place Saturday in Seda, a county seat in eastern Sichuan province, after the flag and photo were taken down and thrown into the street, U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia reported.

    Saturday was the 62nd anniversary of when the Communist Party took control of China.

    A notice on a website of the Tibetan government in exile, which is based in Dharmsala, India, said more than 200 Tibetans, including monks, protested. It said it had no further details.

    Seda was the scene of widespread protests after deadly riots rocked the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March 2008.

    Ethnic Tibetan areas of Sichuan have been tense recently. Late last month, two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire at the Kirti monastery to protest China's tight rein over Buddhist practices in another area of the province. They were rescued by police with slight burns.

    Phone calls to government, police and party offices in Seda all rang unanswered Sunday, which was a holiday as part of National Day celebrations.

    Several residents reached by telephone in the area said that they had not heard of any protest, and that the streets were calm Sunday.

    Radio Free Asia said the protesters also called for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet.

    The 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate has lived in Dharmsala since fleeing Tibet. China says Tibet has always been part of its territory, but many Tibetans say the region was virtually independent for centuries.

     

    35 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      Stupid Commies are full of LIES! FREE TIBET!!!!!!

      Down with RED COMMIES!!!! Dity COMMIES RATS!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      Stupid Commies are full of LIES! FREE TIBET!!!!!!

      Down with RED COMMIES!!!! Dirty COMMIES RATS!!!
    • j m  •  7 mths ago
      How about just some Free Coffee? Don't like the burned toasts.
    • Joseph  •  7 mths ago
      According to Dalai Lama, those Tibet people are living in "living hell", but why don't they all go to India, to live with him in "Living Paradise" ?
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        COMMIES Go home and make your stinking Peking Ducks! FREE TIBET!!!!

        Stinking COMMIES LIES!!
      • Joseph 7 mths ago
        COMMIES are at home now. Either taking up your weapons to fight with them or just hiding in a rat hole cowardly and die there.
    • green glory  •  7 mths ago
      watchout china, jew's propaganda-machine is working over time in china.
      • bullet 7 mths ago
        Nice post, Adolph.
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Stinking COMMIES LIES!!
    • Toledo  •  7 mths ago
      Today, the people in Tibet enjoy more freedom, more choice, a far higher standard of living, double their life expectancy since the 50's -- why in the world would they want to go backwards to a life of servitude again?
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Stinking COMMIES LIES!!
    • Truth Hurts  •  7 mths ago
      I can't wait for Tibet to be independent! So I can join the revolt, loot banks, stores, shoot innocent people indiscriminately, rape girls, and talk trash on tv, like those good folks in Libya!
      And I'll also take over the Chinese nuclear weapons storage in Tibet and Sicheuan, and then sell them to the highest bidder!
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Taiwan will turn the RED COMMIES into Kung Pao Chicken. STINKING CHINESE RATS!!!
      • Truth Hurts 7 mths ago
        right .... see what i mean with trash talk? why vent your angry gibberish on yahoo forum, when you can do that on national tv? become a revolutionary today, and the whole world will believe your nonsense
    • green glory  •  7 mths ago
      watchout china, jew's propaganda-machine is working over time in china.
    • Shiqing  •  7 mths ago
      Free Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska
      • bullet 7 mths ago
        They're already free. They're not under the thumb of a barbarically brutal communist dictatorship. Puerto Rico, unlike the sovereign nation of Taiwan, is able to vote on their own status without the threat of invasion.
      • Truth Hurts 7 mths ago
        dream on. we'll exterminate the local population like we did to native Americans and rednecks before they can vote to succeed.
    • Agni  •  7 mths ago
      In respond to worldwide demand, China produced 200,000 cotton t-shirts with "Free Tibet" print on them
    • Toledo  •  7 mths ago
      Who tore the picture and flag down?

      The monks who set themselves on fire a week ago, the police put it out with the monks receiving minor burns --- I suspect more for show and tell then an honest effort to kill themselves. (Note: Monks, it takes more than a tablespoon of gas to set yourself on fire, next time use a gallon and strike a match, the police won't be able to put it out.)

      Who is funding the uprising?
    • way  •  7 mths ago
      Ask monks to do the same in Taiwan or Singapore
    • Carl Shieffer  •  7 mths ago
      An exaggerated lie. There is less than 3 people protesting. BTW, look how many are arrested for protesting in NYC?
    • Viewer  •  7 mths ago
      What's Human Rights? Waging Wars around the world ....Massacred by millions innocent civilians in the name of Freedom of Democracy, the USA coward does it so well.
    • RayH  •  7 mths ago
      Dalai Lies, People Die.
    • louis  •  7 mths ago
      please give me a break..I am an american living in china..stop the china bashing
    • thinkdeeper  •  7 mths ago
      send them to Gitmo and kill them with drone. at least spread them with pepper. chinese are too soft. treat them how US treat muslim to solve the tibetan problem. china need to learn from the US and hunt them down globally. kill the propagandist Dalai with . the number 2, 3 as well as all the field operation heads.
    • Viewer  •  7 mths ago
      FREE AMERICA, all white trash go back to Europe.
    • fair minded  •  7 mths ago
      Those Tibetans who raised the tibetan flags and displayed photos of Dalai Lama are not grateful to the government for developing much of Tibet so better for them to leave Tibet and let the rest live in peace .Tibet is part of China for hundreds of years ago,even if they cannot accept it is not going to change the status of Tibet..The West is very much behind these Tibetans idea of separation instead of intergration with the rest of China ....because a strong and united China is not good for the western powers esp under socialist rule..
    • Jason  •  7 mths ago
      I don't support Freetobed. It is way too liberal!
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