Photo Essay: Chinese Regime Suppresses Tibet Protests

Police surround demonstrators in Amdo Labrang, Sangchu County, Gansu Province, Northeastern Tibet. (Phayul.com)

Photographs taken by Tibetans show the recent demonstrations and their repression by the Chinese regime.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy has posted one page of photos of individuals killed by Chinese forces in Ngaba County, Sichuan Province on March 16. Warning: these are very graphic photos. You can see these photos here.

The demonstrations, which began on the anniversary of China’s invasion of Tibet in 1959, have drawn increasingly violent responses from the Chinese military, and have engendered sympathetic protests around the world.

Government officials from many Western nations, including the United States, Germany, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada, as well as the Interim Chinese government have called upon the communist Chinese regime to use moderation in dealing with the demonstrations, many of which have been led by Buddhist monks.

Tibetans inside China have also began demonstrating for an end to the violence aimed at the demonstrators in Tibet.

Chinese soldiers move through the streets of Lhasa, trying to maintain control. (Phayul.com)	Police line up facing demonstrators in Amdo Labrang, Sangchu County, Gansu Province, Northeastern Tibet. (Phayul.com)
A man lies injured in the street March 14, 2008 during protests in Lhasa, Tibet. (phayul.com)	Tibetan students of the North-Western National Minority University (Xibei Minzu Daxue) in Lanzhou, Gansu province protesting on March 16. (phayul.com)
Lhundrup Tso, aged 16 died from a single bullet through the back of her skull on March 16, 2008. (TCHRD)	Tibetans carry the bodies of demonstrators shot by police to Kirti Monastery. (Phayul.com)
Police close in on demonstrators in Amdo Labrang, Sangchu County, Gansu Province, Northeastern Tibet. (Phayul.com)	Police advance towards demonstrators in Amdo Labrang, Sangchu County, Gansu Province, Northeastern Tibet. (Phayul.com)