12 April 2013
Dharamshala: More of 21 Tibetans of the Kham region, Kyegudo, have been arrested after hundreds of them protested against local Chinese authorities last 9 April.
Tibetans were protesting against the dispossession of their land and the forced eviction of Tibetan families from their ancestral homes in the Kyegudo region.-
Six Tibetans have been seriously injured during
clashes with Chinese security forces.
Local Chinese authorities have announced new plans to destroy 200 housing and using land to create industries.
Self-immolations against land dispossession
After the devastating earthquake 2010, Thousands of Tibetans in the Kyegudo region have been left homeless due to the rampant land dispossession by the Chinese authorities in the area.
Two Tibetan women set themselves on fire protesting against
these forced evictions and the lack of concrete help to the affected families from the central government in Beijing.
Bureau du Tibet
84 Boulevard Adolphe Pinard
75014 PARIS
