Edit: The video has been removed from Youtube but here is another link here: http://footage.tibetanbridges.com/Torture-in-Tibet.mov
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great story,
thanks
ultra biased maybe if you guys understood what the police was saying you would know why they were being beaten.
Well should police be giving out beatings regardless of what they were or weren’t doing? How about the man who was beaten to the point of death? Is that something understandable?
Bob, I think the main point for the moment is that they are helpless on the ground with their hands tied tightly behind their backs. This beating of people when they are down and incapable of defense or resistance is the most atrocious type of abuse. And, if I may add, the most cowardly. It doesn’t matter what they are saying while they are doing it. Really not.
Some people say that the footage of the monks being beaten on the ground is fake because it does not appear to have been filmed covertly, but Chinese police would never let somebody stand there and film that. Have you heard anything about that? I haven’t been able to find any intelligent discussion on this point — only denunciations from the Chinese side and no rejoinder from the pro-Tibetan side.
Here’s just a few of the arguments I’ve heard claiming the video as fake or inaccurate.
1) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/5048583/China-says-Tibet-torture-video-is-a-fake-as-it-blocks-YouTube.html
The Dharamsala- based Tibetan government-in-exile, which released the rare video footage, said the treatment of the Tibetans violated international norms and amounted to torture.
But Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, issued a rebuttal to the video, saying that the footage had been pieced together from different sources. The agency added that the person shown in the video was not in fact Tendar and that the wounds shown were fake.
An unnamed official said: “Tendar died from a disease at home awaiting court trial. The image of an injured person in the video is not that of Tendar and the wounds were fake.”
2) http://www.radio86.co.uk/china-insight/news-today/10171/police-brutality-video-a-fake-authorities
The police official said that Tendar had used a knife to slash a civil policeman on the day of the riot. After repeated warnings, the policeman defeated Tendar in self-defense.
“Tendar died from a disease at home awaiting court trial,” the police official told Xinhua. “The image of an injured person in the video is not that of Tendar and the wounds were fake,” he added.
3) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7962717.stm
In its first response to the video’s release, an unnamed government official from China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region said it was a lie.
He was speaking to the official Xinhua News Agency in a report that was released late on Tuesday.
“Technology experts found that video and audio was edited to piece together different places, times and people,” Xinhua said, quoting the official.
China also rejected the claims about Tendar.
“Tendar died from a disease at home awaiting court trial,” the official said, adding that he had used a knife to “slash” a policeman.
The official added that the injured person in the video was not Tendar and the wounds were fake.
“The Dalai Lama group is used to fabricating lies to deceive the international community, and the aim of this video is to hide the truth of the 14 March riot,” Xinhua quoted the official as saying.
The Tibetan government-in-exile says that about 220 Tibetans were killed and nearly 1,300 seriously injured following the unrest last year.
The Chinese government says at least 18 civilians and one policeman were killed, mostly in riots in Lhasa on 14 March.
Golden Shield Project is a joke,well I am Chinese,China always does foolish things.