KATHMANDU, March 21: Tibetan government in exile has recently released a disturbing new footage of police brutality in Tibet during the March 2008 uprising that swept across the Tibetan plateau, according to a statement issued by the US-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) on Friday. [break]
The footage includes police brutality meted out to Tibetan monks and ordinary citizens by the Chinese government. It also includes medical procedure on a Tibetan who later died of his wounds. The footage can be viewed at http:www.tibetonline.tv/torture/.
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In a statement the Tibetan government in exile stated, "Though there is much footage of the protests taking place throughout Tibet last year that were splashed across the world, the following is rare footage of police beating of protestors, the suffering and death of a captive, and paramilitary presence in Lhasa, which managed to make its way to the outside world."
The first piece of footage depicts monks and lay Tibetans lying on the ground after detention and being beaten with sticks, with one Tibetan being dragged along the ground into view. Their hands and wrists are tightly trussed with rope, with at least one with the wrist trussed over the shoulder in an uncomfortable and often agonizing position commonly used in Chinese prisons, and the police can be heard shouting in heavily accented Sichuan Chinese, with at least one shouting in the Tibetan language.
The ICT quoting the Central Tibetan Administration said as of 31 January 2009, partly as a result of such beatings, about 220 Tibetans died and over 1,294 were seriously injured. Over 5,600 were arrested, 290 sentenced and more than 1,000 have simply disappeared.
