Tibet.net  Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 5:59 p.m. Tight restrictions continue in Lhasa

Tsuglagkhang temple and Barkhor (area surrounding the Tsuglagkhang) continue to remain sealed by the military.

Shops (except a few Chinese owned) remain closed in the Lhasa area.
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By Benjamin Kang Lim and Lindsay Beck

BEIJING (Reuters) - China sought on Wednesday to contain ongoing protests in its ethnic Tibetan regions, as it stepped up detentions in Tibet’s capital Lhasa and vowed tighter control over monasteries.
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By JAKE HOOKER Published: March 26, 2008 New York Times

CHENGDU, China — In the back room of a Tibetan teahouse, three robed monks spoke in whispers.

One monk said his home in Luhuo County had been littered with fliers calling on Tibetans to protest. A second monk said soldiers had surrounded his monastery in Aba County. The third dialed home. After folding shut his cellphone, he said the police had killed one Tibetan protester and injured nine others in Serta County.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he has not ruled out boycotting the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in China over the situation in Tibet. His aides said France was still opposed to a full boycott but that it might pull out of the opening ceremony in Beijing on 8 August.
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News Source: Tibet.net Tuesday, March 25, 2008 16:46
Since the start of the Demonstrations in Tibet on March 10, there has been an increasingly strong military and police presence in and around the premises of all the monasteries (that have had some involvement in the recent demonstrations in Tibet).
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 5:10 p.m. Dharamshala: The United States’ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that the US would encourage the process of dialogue, which is the most sustainable policy to resolve the issue of Tibet.
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By Email Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:27 Italy, March 23

An initiative to show solidarity with Tibet started in Naples with the fasting by Luciano Stella, Tony Quattrone, and Gaetano dello Jacono.

An appeal formulated over the past few days requested the Chinese government to stop all types of violence and repression in Tibet and that it immediately re-establishes all communication systems that have been interrupted.
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News Source: Phayul Tuesday, March 25, 2008 17:30

Following is the copy of the appeal signed by a group of 30 Chinese dissidents on Saturday, March 22, 2008, in which they urged Beijing to open direct dialogue with Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, in the wake of unrests across Tibet. Among other suggestions, they called on Chinese Government to refrain from making defamatory statements against the Dalai Lama and urged the government to invite UN investigators to Tibet to change the international community’s distrust of China. The appeal letter also suggest the government to give open and fair trial to those arrested during protests in Tibet.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany has rejected calls for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics because of China’s crackdown in Tibet and pledged to send a team to the games.

DOSB chief Thomas Bach is an IOC vice-president and tipped to eventually succeed IOC chief Jacques Rogge.

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On 22 March, the Germany Tibetan Association (Verein der Tibeter in Deutschland) launched its first ever protest march on German soil, in support of the Tibetan peoples inside Tibet who bravely rose up against the authoritarian government of the PRC.
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