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Tibetan regions tense ahead of anniversaries
Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:13pm EST
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TAGONG, China (Reuters) - Chinese police have discovered explosives under a bridge in Tibet, sources said on Tuesday, as ethnic Tibetan villages high in the grasslands of western China faced a tense traditional New Year.
Almost a year after deadly riots erupted in the Tibetan capital Lhasa and triggered unrest in Tibetan areas of neighboring provinces, Chinese security forces remained on high alert a day before the holiday begins.
The heightened security comes ahead of another sensitive date -- the 50th anniversary of the exile of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled to India after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
The Dalai Lama said in New Delhi on Tuesday China was poised to crack down on any protests against Chinese rule around the New Year or anniversary.
"Just as we had suspected, the 'strike hard' campaign has been re-launched in Tibet and there is a heavy presence of armed security and military forces in most of the cities all over Tibet," the Buddhist leader said in a statement.
"In all the places those who dare to come out even with a slight hint of their aspirations have to face torture and detention," he added.
"The intention and aim behind them are to subject the Tibetan people to such a level of cruelty and harassment that they will not be able to tolerate and thus be forced to remonstrate," he said.
"When this happens the authorities can then indulge in unprecedented and unimaginable forceful clampdown."
After last year's unrest, thousands of Tibetans were rounded up. Exiled Tibetan groups say many were beaten and some killed.
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Police recently found several kilograms of explosives under a bridge in Tibet's eastern Changdu, or Qamdo, prefecture, bordering Sichuan Province, two sources said.
"Police are investigating," one source told Reuters. "No arrests have been made." The source declined to be named for fear of reprisals. No other details were available.
Calls to Qamdo government and police could not be connected. The Tibetan propaganda office was also unavailable for comment.
The prefecture's Communist Party chief told officials to be vigilant "against splittism," according to a notice on the local government's website (www.changdu.gov.cn) on Tuesday.
In Kangding, a heavily Tibetan town in Sichuan Province, a Reuters reporter saw hundreds of anti-riot police taking part in drills in barracks. They wore protective padding and wielded batons and sticks. Some carried guns. Continued...
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