China blocks YouTube over Tibet protests

"The Chinese Government has blocked residents' access to YouTube after video reports of the protests in Tibet were posted on the website."

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LAST WEEKEND IN TIBET:

Eyewitness: Monk 'kicked to floor'
Friday, 14 March 2008

“The monks were not attacking the soldiers, there was no melee. They were heading out in a stream, it was a very clear path, and the police were attacking them at the sides. It was gratuitous violence.”

“They were grabbing monks, kicking and beating them. One monk was kicked in the stomach right in front of us and then beaten on the ground.”

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Tibet poses dilemma for Beijing
Friday, 14 March 2008

“With the Beijing Olympics just months away, China's top leaders do not want the monks' protests to become the country's defining image.”

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Tense times at Tibetan monastery
Saturday, 15 March 2008

“Witnesses said Chinese security forces fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of at least 1,500 monks as they marched through the streets chanting "Free Tibet".”

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Lhasa eyewitness: 'City in cinders'
Sunday, 16 March 2008

“Right now, I'm looking at buildings that are burnt out. The city is absolutely burnt to cinders. It's trashed.”

“Some tourists who were in the east were forcibly removed from their hotels and hostels. Police turned up today and tried to forcibly remove all of us to a hotel further out west. The sense is that we are not going to be allowed to walk the streets and observe the carnage. During the violence police were confiscating SIM cards from people's cameras.”

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Dalai Lama 'helpless' amid protests
Sunday, 16 March 2008

As Tibetans make their most forceful demands for independence in years, their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in exile in Dharamsala, India, outlines his concerns

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China denies Tibet death reports
Monday, 17 March 2008

“Exiled Tibetan leaders say at least 80 people were killed in Lhasa in monk-led anti-China protests that began on 10 March - the anniversary of a Tibetan uprising - and gradually intensified. On Friday, demonstrators in Lhasa set fire to Chinese-owned shops and hurled rocks at local police, triggering a crackdown.”

“Witnesses said police fired on about 1,000 monks protesting in Aba, Sichuan on Sunday.”

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IN PICTURES:

Lhasa streets tense
Sunday, 16 March 2008
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FIND OUT MORE:

Squeezed freedoms in Buddhist Tibet
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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Surviving a Tibetan gulag
Thursday, 27 April 2006

Ngawang Sangdrol was only 13 when she was first arrested

“The penalties at Drapchi were severe. Ms Sangdrol was forced to suffer beatings with iron rods and rubber pipes, electric cattle prods on the tongue, knitting and spinning until her fingers blistered, and six months in complete darkness while in solitary confinement.”

“"We had to denounce his Holiness the Dalai Lama and were not allowed to engage in religious practice."”

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