A Tibetan monk in Hezuo in China's Gansu province has told the BBC that the military have taken over the town, and police are searching for Tibetans who took part in recent unrest. According to the monk, the demonstrations were started by school students who heard about the protests in Tibet against Chinese rule there. They smashed cars and shops. Meanwhile, the authorities in Beijing say the death toll among ethnic Chinese in the Tibetan violence has risen from thirteen to eighteen.
Our reporter in Delhi reports on Tibet Youth Congress members protested and broke into Chinese Embassy.
Saturday, 22.March.2008
