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China Busts 100 Monks After Attack on Police

Protest sparked by alleged suicide of police escapee

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(Newser) – China arrested almost 100 monks after hundreds of Tibetans attacked a Chinese police station, the AP reports. Police nabbed six while 89 others, almost all monks, turned themselves in, said the state news agency. The uproar appeared to be over a Tibetan who disappeared after he escaped from police, the Xinhua agency said; a Tibetan exile said some 2,000 were involved in the protest.

Some officials were “slightly injured” in the attack, Xinhua said, which the Tibetan said was sparked by the apparent suicide of a monk who was probed for unfurling the Tibetan flag. The monk escaped jail Saturday, Chinese officials said, and is still missing, but a Tibetan website said he’d thrown himself into a river, the BBC reports. Police said people had been “deceived by rumors” in the case.

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks sit for evening prayers at the Tsechokling monastery in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 14, 2009.
Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks sit for evening prayers at the Tsechokling monastery in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 14, 2009.   (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
In this photo provided from an anonymous Tibetan exile, Tibetan Buddhist monk Tashi Sangpo poses in China. Protesters believed Tashi had killed himself, said the Tibetan exile.
In this photo provided from an anonymous Tibetan exile, Tibetan Buddhist monk Tashi Sangpo poses in China. Protesters believed Tashi had killed himself, said the Tibetan exile.   (AP Photo/Anonymous Tibetan exile)
Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks sit for evening prayers at the Tsechokling monastery in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 14, 2009.
Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks sit for evening prayers at the Tsechokling monastery in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 14, 2009.   (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
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The Tibetans will prevail in the end. Might and opression cannot stand up to truth & justice forever. A shadow disappears in the light of day. Reply
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