Urgen Tenzin

‘I saw with my own eyes’ is a report written by Chinese journalists and lawyers that contains more than 200 interviews with people who went through those tragic days and their aftermath. A Tibetan human rights activist talks about it.

Martial law, arrests, violence, crackdown on monasteries: this is the "peace" in Tibet as extolled by Wen Jiabao. International observers and media are needed in the China-Tibet dialogue, in order to verify Beijing's real intentions. China's economic blackmail of all international diplomacy. The smear campaign against the Dalai Lama is stoking the protests.

Urgen Tenzin talks about the sentencing of 17 Tibetans (including two life terms) for taking part in protests in March in Lhasa. For decades Tibetans have been tortured in prison to extort confessions. Many fear state violence may increase. Two people die in more clashes in Tibetan Qinghai.