Activists say two killed in Tibetan monastery crackdown
Two elderly Tibetans were killed after Chinese police raided a Buddhist monastery located in the Ngaba area of the country’s southwestern province of Sichuan, activists said Saturday.
The US-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said paramilitary police raided the Kirti monastery on Thursday and took away more than 300 monks. A group of people, who have been gathered around the entrance gate since April 12, were beaten “mercilessly” by police after they tried to prevent the trucks with the detainees from leaving.
A 60-year-old male and 65-year-old female were killed.
“People had their arms and legs broken, one old woman had her leg broken in three places, and cloth was stuffed in their mouths to stifle their screams,” an exiled Kirti monk said, according to the organization.