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May 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Tibetan exiles have suggested that mass arrests are now taking place in the
capital.
“The security forces arrived immediately and put out the fire and all the
tourists in the area were cordoned off from the site,” a witness told
Radio Free Asia, a station funded by the United States to promote information
and ideas across China and South East Asia. “Within 15 minutes, the
area was cleaned and not a trace of the incident was left.”
Xinhua news agency identified the Tibetan who died as Tobgye Tseten from Xiahe county
in Gansu province and the other man as Dargye, a Tibetan from Aba county in
Sichuan province. The latter was from Aba, in Sichuan province, one of the
epicentres of recent unrest. Both men were thought to have lived in Lhasa.
A source in Lhasa confirmed that there had been self-immolations in the city
and that a heavy security operation was underway in the city.
One Chinese student sent a message on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter,
describing extra security checks for vehicles in the city.
The culmination of the Sagadawa festival falls each year on the 15th day of
the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar. This year, by unhappy coincidence,
the day falls on June 4, also the anniversary of the quashing of the
Tiananmen Square protests.
For at least two decades, ever since small protests over Sagadawa at the
beginning of the 1990s, the Communist party has issued strict orders to its
members not to celebrate the festival. Students, cadres or officials caught
taking part would find themselves in “serious violation of political
discipline and stability work,” said the Tibet Daily. Extra security
has also been laid on for the month-long event.
“This is all based on the this extraordinary logic that an incident that
has happened once 20 years ago on a certain day might happen again,” said Mr
Barnett. “In 1991 or 1992 some nuns protested on Sagadawa. Ever since
then the Chinese have made a huge effort to intensify control during this
month.”
All of the 34 previous self-immolations occurred not in Tibet itself, but in
Tibetan-occupied areas of Western China.
Additional reporting by Valentina Luo
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