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January 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to sources cited by Free Tibet, the demonstration in Draggo began in response to the arrest of Tibetans over pamphlets that were distributed in the area calling for freedom in the region.
The pamphlets also reportedly warned more Tibetans were ready to self-immolate.
Stephanie Brigden, head of Free Tibet, called on the international community to condemn the shooting.
“This is the largest reported shooting of Tibetans since 2008 and demonstrates the deepening crisis in Tibet,” she said, adding the situation in Draggo could deteriorate.
Lhasa, capital of the Tibet region, was hit by riots against Chinese rule in March 2008 that spread to neighbouring Tibetan-inhabited areas.
Free Tibet said the sequence of events in Draggo was still unclear, but that several thousand Tibetans had gathered in the county and then marched to the local government offices, where security forces opened fire.
It said that one of the injured was described as having a bullet wound in his stomach.
According to the rights group and government-in-exile, the man killed was called Yonten and his body was reportedly taken to a nearby monastery.
“The Tibetan parliament is deeply aggrieved by the incidents and condemns the Chinese authorities for resorting to such drastic acts of force and repression,” the government-in-exile said in a statement.
Many Tibetans in China complain of religious repression and say their culture is being eroded by an influx of majority Han Chinese people in the areas they live in.
But Beijing denies it uses repressive methods against Tibetans, insisting they enjoy freedom of religious belief and that huge ongoing investment into Tibetan-inhabited areas has greatly raised their standard of living.
It blames the Dalai Lama – who fled Tibet following a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 and is vilified as a “separatist” by Communist authorities – for much of the unrest in Tibetan-inhabited regions.
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