Is it only me, or does it sometimes seem like YouTube is partially blocked in China? For instance, when I posted this clip this morning I was able to play it here in Xinjiang, albeit slowly. Now... nada, zilch, nothing... not even a small piece of the red bar will load. Other videos, however, seem to still be available. Hrmmm.

it could be a miracle for you to be able to update your Blog in Xinjiang.

Xinhua reported "Snake head 蛇头" helped Tibetan to cross the border.
http://news.phoenixtv.com/phoenixtv/83934540116000768/20061012/903728.shtml

thanks

Great link... and great photos of the PLA soldiers positioned along the Tibet/Nepal border. Thanks.

I watched the video but it doesn't show much.

yeah someone got shot but that's what happened if you don't listen to warning and keep running away from armed police. It's the same, either in Baghdad or L.A.

I am just surprised only one got shot.

the photos on this site are not the ones of incident which happend on Septembre 30,
but are "files 资料图".
http://news.phoenixtv.com/phoenixtv/83934540116000768/20061012/903728.shtml

More photos :MountEverest.net
http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?news=15182

I'm suprised at you idoits they werent running away from armed police, I don't even think they saw them until they were shot! Either you guys are chinks, or Nazis

it's natural. this will happen in the US, EU and any country in the world. even worse in Iraq when the US soliders raped a girl and then killed her family.

What is a border of a country? It means the sovernity. It is not a free market. You are warned not to go, but you desperately go, then you pay your life.

The chinese army is too amicable to kill just one. In US, the police will kiss ten with one hundred bulltes. Did you read the news that 4 policeman killed a gunman with 87 bullets.
God! this man was worse than a dog.

And so many American people say "NO" to
their own Government.

在ZG情况怎么样？

The chief of border guards was honored. (Oct.15)
边防武警获“全国特级优秀人民警察”2006-10-15　　　
http://www.xz.xinhuanet.com/xizangzhengshi/2006-10/15/content_8258910.htm

Why do people have to bring in US foreign policy? The people were leaving China into Nepal. There is some crap about "Oh it will happen anywere."
I sense the stink of chinese government moles.

I applaud their "transition," they will change, but the gov is too big for it all to change.

Yes, San Ysidro Border guard will shoot Mexicans fleeing back into Mexico. And the Mexican guard shoots migrants going into the US....riiiiight, if I follow some posters' logic.

Those foxes, who declianed themself as liones losing thier fake human maskes rencent years. They are lion to those minorities and they are dogs for those majority. WHat could I say? Being a son of His Holyness The Dalai Lama, I've already seen enough. Chinese Red Army never stop killing those brothers and sisters of mine, and made me homeless. It's ok if Chinese 1.2 billion people would happy, live comfortabliy with drinking Tibetan's blood. BUt you Chinese said that We are "Brothers and sisters ". Then,where are your bortherhoods and sisterhoods? Chinese always say that Japan is Ghost, but actually they are alived real Ghost. Hope This voice from inside Tibet would make world people to think and take actions. Om ma ni pedma Oh

Those mother fucker Chinese:
Is this the humanity you carry on and is this your strategy to treat Tibetans. Sly foxes, if you could be honest to admit what you you did in the Tibetan history and how you checked Tibetans, but you never admit what you did, you put on a nice mask as being nice to Tibetans under the world's attention, but you commit crimes under the bright sunlight.
We follow non-violence, it does not mean we will saty quite and let you kill us secretly whenever!!

There wasn't even warning shots. This was official murder, nothing more, nothing less.

Its a shame that the commie Chinese goverment and some Chinese people are making a bad name for other Chinese in the world. Stop occupying Tibet, East Turkistan and Inner Mongolia and behave reasonably! 5000 years of history and this is what we have to show for?

The PLA soldier has shoot two people, the soldier is in uniform, does he has the right to kill? This is not war, and refugees are not animals. but defenceless. Those politicians and diplomats who said "the soldier acted in self are also lying". They altogether are no better than dogs to treat refugees as such, and I am an oversea Chinese, I am ashamed that my fellow people in China are so disgusting, it's hard to believe that common sense and morality is seldom found among the mainlanders!

Shoot and kill innocent Tibetian refugee is a perfect example of nefarious red Chinese communists. Chaos evil Chinese Communists killed millions of innocent Chinese people during the cultural revolution in mid-1960s and brutally murdered thousands of Chinese [EXPUNGED]-seekers in [EXPUNGED] in 1989. How could evil red Chinese communists help North Korea and Pakistan to build nuke weapons to threaten world humanity because red hateful Chinese Communists loves to destroy the world freedom! Also, how clever of demonic red Chinese communists stole our American jobs by using cheap slave labor cost and trick easily gullible Western business people for a huge lucrative profit! We will eye on your filthy Communist demons and [EXPUNGED] will never die! Freedom of [EXPUNGED] will prevail! (censored by Michael)

Alright, alright. I'm going to have to turn comments off for this entry before all of you get me banned in China! Sorry.

Tibetans tortured by Chinese after failed escape attempt, says survivor: Boy, 15, tells of events following nun's killing: Captured group 'jailed and given electric shocks'
Randeep Ramesh, New Delhi
1 February 2007
The Guardian

More than 30 Tibetans were tortured and sent to a labour camp after their attempt to escape across the Himalayas from their homeland failed when Chinese border guards fired and killed several of the unarmed group, according to a survivor.

In the first reported account of the event, Jamyang Samten, 15, said he was among those who ended up being given electric shocks and forced to dig ditches "as a warning to others".

Samten was in a 75-strong group making their way over the 5,800-metre-high (19,000ft) Nangpa La pass in September when Chinese guards opened fire. At least two people, including a 17-year-old Buddhist nun, were killed.

The incident was filmed by a Romanian television producer on a mountaineering expedition, sparking an international outcry. Beijing had claimed the refugees were shot when border guards were attacked.

Of the survivors, 41 managed to reach India but 32 were caught and detained. The teenager said he was interrogated over a three-day period during which he was repeatedly hit with an electric cattle prod. "It went on until I fainted," Samten told reporters, adding that police repeatedly asked him to identify the dead nun.

After three days the Tibetans were taken to a prison in Shigatse, Tibet's second-largest city, Samten said. They were questioned again while chained to a wall, he said. "A guard wearing a metal glove would hit us in the stomach."

Samten was held in a labour camp there for 48 days and forced to dig ditches, build fences and work on fields, he said. Once released he paid guides to take him via Nepal to India where the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, has been based since 1959. "He wanted to come to see his holiness [the Dalai Lama] and he also wanted an education in the Tibetan language," said Tsering Ngodup, who works with the Tibetan refugee centre in Dharamsala.

The account could not be verified but echoes the stories of others who have made similar treks. Lobsang Gyaltsen, who managed to escape when Samten was captured, said he feared for his family in Tibet. "I do not know if they are safe. We come here to learn about our language and culture. These things are hard in Tibet where we do not have freedom."

Gyaltsen said he had been walking for 17 days when Chinese guards caught up with his group, who had eaten little and spent days struggling over ice and rock.

More than 4,000 Tibetans flee to Nepal each year across the border, which crosses several of the highest mountains on earth, including Everest. Supporters of the Dalai Lama claim China runs a repressive police state in Tibet. Beijing regards him as leading a separatist movement from exile.

With a new railway linking mainland China to Lhasa, Tibet's capital, Beijing has tightened its grip on the region. "China has become emboldened over Tibet," said Phunchok Stobdan, an Indo-Tibetan affairs expert. "Nobody dares to raise the issue with them."