About 200 truckloads of soldiers arrived at Achok township and surrounded Achok monastery. About 15 monks were arrested. In total about 30 monks from Achok monastery are in prison [Note: the source provides no further details about the other 15 monks currently in detention].
(reported agamsgecko.blogspot.com, 06 April 2008)

Protests, no details available
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

Date unclear in ICT report of 3 April: According to a Tibetan source, “Chinese security forces are increasing pressure on local people to hand over those who participated in the 18 March protest. Announcements about surrender abound in the area these days but nomads are afraid to give themselves up since they believe that they would be asked to sign denunciation letters against the Dalai Lama”.
(reported by ICT, 03 April 2008)

On the night of Wednesday 19 March, 60 police trucks arrived in Bora area in addition to seven to ten already in the area; next morning they had gone. Monks confined to monasteries; nobody allowed in.

Tibetans from different remote areas came to the county centre on horses; many young Tibetans arrived on motorcycles. Parked motorcycles were run over by Chinese police trucks completely crushing more than 30. No reports of arrests or shootings.
(NOTE: date unclear)
(reported by sources to RFA, 20 March 2008)

11am, hundreds of monks and lay people observed a prayer ritual (incense burning) ceremony followed by peaceful freedom demonstration to county government headquarters; removed Chinese flags at the primary and middle schools, raised Tibetan national flags. Three truckloads of PAP arrived and fired tear gas; crowd dispersed. No reports of arrests.
(reported by TCHRD, 18 March 2008)

Hundreds of students from a Tibetan middle school boycotted classes in protest at the recent crackdown on Tibetan protesters in the region. A law enforcement official from the Chone county government was quoted as saying, “The majority of the protesters are good people” but declined to comment further.
(reported by RFA, 02 April 2008)

Following the deployment to the area of armed police from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, to “keep the peace”, armed police are “trying to arrest Tibetans who remain at large. There are still some sporadic riots”, a Chinese resident told RFA.
(reported by RFA, 02 April 2008)

A Tibetan woman told RFA that monks were killed by Chinese troops on 14 March in Chone county.
(reported by RFA, 31 March 2008)

At least two monks were reported killed by troops during a crackdown on Tibetan protests in the area.
(reported by RFA, 02 April 2008)

A witness told RFA that an armed forces division from Wuhan, in Hubei province, has been deployed to Chone county; armed police are trying to arrest Tibetans who remain at large. Sporadic riots continue.
(reported by RFA, 31 March 2008)

A Chinese woman living in the county in the southern part of Gansu province, told RFA: “…) [Those who were detained] were being hauled to our side of the county one car load after another”.
(reported by sources to RFA, 27 March 2008)

Protest at the monastery; no clashes reported.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

11am, around 500 monks of Choephel Shing monastery protested following an outdoor prayer ritual (burning juniper incense); the monks carried Tibetan national flag[s] and shouted freedom and pro-Dalai Lama slogans; protest grew in size; large contingent of PAP and PSB brought into locality; subsequent events not known.
(reported by TCHRD, 18 March 2008)

Public notices in Tibetan and Chinese languages were posted around the county [unspecified] and broadcast through loud speakers. The ultimatum was jointly issued by the law enforcement authorities of Kanlho (Chin. Gannan) TAP Intermediate People’s Court, Procuratorate, and the PSB and referred to recent protests in the counties of Sangchu (Chin. Xiahe), Luchu (Chin. Luqu), Machu (Chin. Maqu), Chone (Chin. Zhouni), Tewo (Chin. Diebu) and the town of Tsoe (Khanlo Dzong; Chin. Gannan/Hezuo/Hezuoshen).

The public notice posted warns protesters to surrender by midnight of 25 March and they will be treated “leniently”, which is highly unlikely, while those who do not surrender and those who shelter them will be treated “harshly”. Despite the 25 March deadline, late night raids, arbitrary arrests and disappearances have already been reported from Sangchu and other counties.

The Chinese government sent thousands of troops on foot, trucks and in helicopters into Tibetan areas of Gansu province, where scores of Tibetans were killed, in an attempt to curb demonstrations and arrest protesters.
(reported by TCHRD, 21 March 2008)

Circa 17 March, a British journalist reported: “We could not find hotels … in Xiahe. We were expelled from Xiahe after we finished our coverage. We tried to enter Xiahe again, but we weren’t allowed. Our IDs were carefully examined by roadside checkpoints. The only road leading to Xiahe was blocked. All vehicles had to stop for inspection. Passengers’ IDs and vehicles plate numbers were checked and registered. Journalists couldn’t sneak in. All vehicles leaving Gansu were also carefully examined just as they entered the province. There was a backup of vehicles leaving Gansu”.
(reported by RFA, 17 March 2008)

Protest at the monastery; no clashes reported.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

At around midday, monks from Kakhamey monastery in Kakha township and hundreds of laypeople began a protest march to the local government office in Kakha township, Tsoe city; shouting independence and pro-Dalai Lama slogans in Tsoe city’s main square. The peaceful demonstration culminated in replacing the Chinese flag with prayer flags.
(reported by TCHRD, 19 March 2008)

At least 11 Tibetans were arrested over the night following the protests.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

Demonstration following annual religious congregation; strong presence of soldiers and armed police in town prior to demonstrations; estimated 3,000 monks and lay people marched to local government headquarters; some demonstrators threw stones at a government-run restaurant and office of state telecommunications service, then proceeded to armed police headquarters and Tibetan middle school where students were freed; security forces fired tear gas, three laymen and one monk arrested, later mass beatings, possibly more mass arrests; movements restricted.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 16 March 2008)

Demonstrations erupted at 10am; communication lines in the area were cut during the morning.
(reported by TCHRD, 15 March 2008)

Morning: several hundred Tibetan youths from Bora, Achok, Tsu, Gaja, Sang-kha, and other areas demonstrated in Labrang; many more protestors than Friday 14 March; estimated over 3,000 at Labrang monastery. Several thousand police and PAP personnel deployed in the area; several tear-gas shells were fired into the crowd. Tibetans are gathering from different directions and increasing the strength of the demonstrations. No open leadership, different groups raised different slogans, most shouted “Long live the Dalai Lama”; other slogans included: “Start the Sino-Tibetan peace dialogue”, “Independence for Tibet”.
(reported by sources to RFA, 15 March 2008)

An estimated 3,000 protestors gathered near Labrang monastery; marched towards local government offices; damaged several windows; shouted slogans: “Long live the Dalai Lama”, “Release the Panchen Lama” and “Start the Sino-Tibetan peace dialogue”.
(reported by RFA, 15 March 2008)

Monks led a protest of at least 1,000 people carrying Tibetan flags and shouting independence and pro-Dalai Lama slogans; military and police forces stopped the crowd from reaching the prefecture government building.
(reported by RFA, 14 March 2008)

Monks and lay people, including women, children and the elderly, held a protest march. More than 40 army trucks called in from Lanzhou; the unarmed protestors were targeted; many Tibetans were killed or wounded and nearly 20 arrested.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Labrang monastery monks and lay people carrying Tibetan national flags held demonstrations in the streets. Police fired warning shots and beat demonstrators when the procession reached the Sangchu county PSB headquarters. Number of protestors increased to “thousands” gathered in the main market. Police fired “among the protestors” who then scattered.
(reported by Phayul, 14 March 2008)

Around 50 monks from the Labrang Tashikyil monastery demonstrated, carrying Tibetan national flag, called for independence at around 2pm; an additional 500 monks from the monastery joined the demonstration along with laypeople; total number of protestors said to be thousands. Police fired warning shots and beat demonstrators close to county PSB headquarters.
(reported by TCHRD, 14 March 2008)

Around fifteen Tibetan monks defiantly briefed a group of foreign media personnel on a government-managed tour to Gansu Province. The monks stated that eight monks were still being held by authorities. Seven monks from Labrang monastery are known to have been arrested on 1 April.
(reported by TCHRD, 09 April 2008)

About 15 monks defied authorities and staged a protest in front of foreign reporters at Labrang monastery during a government-controlled media tour. The monks carried banners and voiced support for the Dalai Lama; in Chinese they said: “We want more freedom, more human rights and we want to see the Dalai Lama”. After about ten minutes, the protest ended when government officials conducting the tour urged the foreign journalists to leave.
(reported by AFP, 09 April 2008)

A delegation of domestic and overseas media visited “riot-hit areas” in northwestern Gansu Province; “They are scheduled to visit the worst hit areas in the riots and interview local residents, living buddhas, and government officials”. Jiamuyang, head of Labrang monastery, told the media group that “the riots in Lhasa and Gannan were manufactured by separatists […] This can be seen as a great madness and big exposure of the separatists”. During the journalists’ visit to Labrang monastery, “the tour was interrupted by a group of monks, but soon resumed”. The visit was interrupted when “over a dozen young monks carrying Tibetan independence flags, walked out of the monastery and shouted slogans for Tibetan independence to the journalists”.
(reported by CCTV.com, 10 April 2008)

Fifteen monks burst into the courtyard at Labrang monastery where about 20 Chinese and foreign journalists on a state-organised media tour were assembled. Chinese security photographed the entire protest; some of the monks carried Tibetan flags made out of paper; several of them wept as they spoke to the journalists for several minutes, first in Tibetan and then in Chinese; they spoke quickly, often at the same time. One monk then said: “We want human rights. We want freedom. Now, we can’t stay under Chinese control. They put pressure on Tibet from everywhere. [Under the Chinese], we can’t [develop on our Buddhist path]”. Another monk said: “A lot of people [in Labrang] have been arrested, and a lot of army are in the streets. No human rights. No freedom. We have to denounce the Dalai Lama. We want the Dalai Lama to come back soon. A few days before we protested and then they put the poison [tear gas] on us. A lot of people arrested. A lot of soldiers here. No human rights. No freedom.”

One of the monks said that they were not against the Chinese hosting the Olympic Games; he said that “they” (the Chinese authorities) had reported that the monks had knives and guns, but added “We don’t have anything like that”.

The whereabouts now of the monks is unknown; several sources report that they were taken into custody after the journalists had left Labrang and were escorted to Machu (Chin. Maqu)
(reported by ICT, 16 April 2008)

Seven monks from Labrang monastery are known to have been arrested on 1 April.

1. Gendun Gyatso, 30
2. Gyurmey, 40
3. Gelek Gyurmey, 30
4. Sangay, 30
5. Samten, 32
6. Yonten, 34
7. Thabkhey, 30

Thabkhey was apparently released after several days’ detention; he is currently mentally unstable and his body was badly bruised as a result of severe beatings. The whereabouts of the other six monks remain unknown.
(reported by TCHRD, 09 April 2008)

Protests broke out with monks and laypeople calling for independence while marching with the Tibetan flag.
(reported by ICT, 16 March 2008)

A “huge” demonstration in Labrang started at 11:45am; many thousands marched towards local government offices, damaged several windows; shouted slogans including “Long live the Dalai Lama”, “Tibet is independent”.
(reported by sources to RFA, 15 March 2008)

Tibetan protest march from the monastery to local government offices. More than 30 troop carriers of the paramilitary PAP arrived in Labrang late on Friday 14.
(reported by ICT, 16 March 2008)

Police removed pro-independence pamphlets from Labrang monastery.
(reported by TCHRD, 14 March 2008)

Protests, no details available
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

Protest at Chone (Chin. Zhuoni) monastery; no clashes reported.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Protest at Gyagar (Gyegu) monastery; no clashes reported.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Continuing small protests; about 1,000 armed police stationed in the county.
(reported by RFA, 17 March 2008)

Small protests; details unknown.
(reported by RFA, 17 March 2008)

Over 300 monks from Shetsang Garsar monastery (8 km from county town) organised a ‘peace march’, carrying Tibetan flags and portraits of Dalai Lama and Gendun Choekyi Nyima (Panchen Lama); townspeople and nomads join protest; march reached town about 3pm; went to the Minority (Tibetan) Middle School for students to join in, but students barred from leaving; protesters tore off Chinese sign at school gate but leave Tibetan sign intact; proceeded to government headquarters and removed Chinese flag, broke flag pole; about 3,000 participants; slogans: “Let the Dalai Lama return! Long Live the Dalai Lama! Release Panchen Gedun Chokyi Nyima! Tibet belongs to Tibetans! Tibetans should be granted freedom and independence through peaceful dialogue! May the exiles and Tibetans inside Tibet be reunited!”; atmosphere described as “fervent and fraternal”, emotional; signs and symbols of Chinese government along main street removed; children prevented from throwing stones; prayers for the Dalai Lama and for religion and the welfare of Tibet recited; crowd dispersed and monks headed back to monastery; in the night, students from the Minority (Tibetan) Middle School took to the streets, school authorities closed the school.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

Around 2pm, monks proceeded to second march but were halted by local Tibetan cadres and senior Lamas who pleaded with them to stop because of predictable reprisals; town people and nomads from the surrounding tribes (Pagur, Gyagur, Ma-ngi and Hongkor) continued to protest for about an hour carrying “Independence for Tibet”-banner and portraits of the Dalai Lama.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

At a monastery located 55km away from Machu town, a local ‘living Buddha’ reported that none of his 225 monks participated in the protests of 16 March. However, some of the monks reported that three of them were detained for participating in the protests; two were subsequently released.
(reported by Die Welt, 11 April 2008)

Not a single monk from the eleven monasteries around the town was seen on the streets; shopkeepers confirm that the streets used to be full of monks; passers-by did not answer when visiting journalists asked the whereabouts of the monks. Journalists discovered that the monks are under ‘house arrest’ in their monasteries, where they are to be submitted to political education until October.

A journalist asked a shopkeeper how police had repressed the demonstration on 16 March, but the shopkeeper left without answering. People are unwilling to explain how the demonstration and violence erupted; one man said, “I can tell you what happened here”, but then said “sorry” in English and disappeared as a passer-by approached. This incident was typical of the experiences of all journalists on the [government controlled] trip.
(reported by Die Welt, 11 April 2008)

Over 60 military trucks arrived; military personnel surrounded the county seat and the various townships of the county. Over 30 Tibetans were arrested.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 20 March 2008)

Over 60 military trucks arrived; military personnel surrounded the county seat and the various townships of the county. Over 30 Tibetans were arrested.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 20 March 2008)

Continuing small protests; about 1,000 armed police stationed in the county.
(reported by RFA, 17 March 2008)

More than one hundred Chinese and Chinese Muslim [Hui] shops were burned or destroyed. Doors and windows of a Chinese (Muslim?) mobile phones shop were destroyed, but the shop was not looted. A three-storey Chinese Muslim [Hui] electrical appliances shop selling Changhong products was burnt down. According to a shopkeeper speaking on 10 April, the authorities watched “for hours without doing anything and let the mob destroy so much before they finally acted in the evening”. [see also entry for Machu, 10 April 2008, reported by Die Welt.]
(reported by Die Welt, 11 April 2008)

6pm, around 1,500 local Tibetans from Machu county staged peaceful demonstration in the county’s main city [presumably Dzoge Nyima, the county capital]; raised independence and pro-Dalai Lama slogans; some protestors set fire to a police vehicle; large numbers of PAP and PSB personnel arrived. Around 250 Tibetans of Nyulra township destroyed the doors of county government offices during the protest; replaced Chinese flag with Tibetan national flag. No further details available.
(reported by TCHRD, 16 March 2008)

Small protests; details unknown.
(reported by RFA, 17 March 2008)

Circa Thursday 10 April: After visiting Labrang, a group of 20 Chinese and foreign journalists on a state-organised media tour were escorted to Machu; one of them reported seeing only one uniformed policeman in the town – a traffic policeman. There was a “very obvious plain clothes presence”, and there was “clearly an atmosphere of fear and tension among all ethnicities in the area”.
(reported by ICT, 16 April 2008)

Date not clear in ICT report of 3 April: Police are carrying out door-to-door searches and arresting Tibetans, their whereabouts unknown. A source stated: “In some areas, all the men have fled to the mountains to avoid arrest. There is terrible fear everywhere”.
(reported by ICT, 03 April 2008)

Rinchen, from Machu county; died on 18 March.
(reported by CTA, 24 March 2008)

Emergency meeting of local cadres; local Party secretary gave orders to confront “Dalai Clique”, warned cadres not to “lose their own bowls”.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

1,000 soldiers assisted by armed police and PSB officers have put Machu town under strict military control; at least 70 known arrests.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

Demonstration on main street at about 4pm, around 2,000 thousand participants; most demonstrators initially nomads, joined by large numbers of monks, townspeople and local students; pro-independence and pro-Dalai Lama slogans; carrying Tibetan flag, portraits of Dalai Lama and late 10th Panchen Lama; some demonstrators threw stones at government offices and Chinese businesses; seven government limousines and one motorbike set on fire; protestors threw stones at local police station, burned five police cars and a motorbike, overwhelmed police and set station and China Mobile headquarters alight; security reinforcements from Dingxi city (near Lanzhou), reportedly arrived with eleven trucks, re-established order; no casualties reported.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

Protests, no detailed information available
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

Protests, no detailed information available
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

Demonstrations in front of government offices; around 200 monks and lay people shouted pro-Dalai Lama and independence slogans; Tibetan flag raised outside government offices, Chinese flag burned; speech made: “From today we are free and we no longer need to suffer under the Chinese rule!” Other source added Tibetan protesters had set fire to local police station and government headquarters.
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

At 7pm, more than two hundreds Tibetan nomads and farmers from Ponkor Village staged a peaceful demonstration at the Ma Ngoe township primary school compound; independence, pro-Dalai Lama and “release Panchen Lama” slogans; replaced Chinese flag with Tibetan national flag; Chinese security forces arrived but Tibetans defied their order to remove Tibetan flag; more than five truckloads of security forces brought in to quell demonstration; situation very tense and volatile; no more details at time of report.
(reported by TCHRD, 19 March 2008)

Protests, no details available
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 21 March 2008)

155 large military trucks entered the town during the afternoon.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Tibetan students in Qinghai Teacher’s College held protests.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

An evening demonstration was held, primarily by monks from from Tsoe (Chin. Hezuo) monastery; security forces surrounded the protesters.
A demonstration by laypeople in another part of the town was also dispersed.
Tibetan students from the local college held a peaceful demonstration; conflict with the campus Party committee.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

The source confirmed that three nomads had been arrested along with a shopkeeper “from Ganja town in Xiahe town”.
(reported by ICT, 21 March 2008)

At 9am, Tibetan students from the Tibetan Medical College, Teacher Training Higher Institute and other colleges in Tsoe city (Chin. Gannan/Hezuo), capital of Kanlho TAP, spontaneously demonstrated in their respective college campuses. At least one of the demonstrations was blocked by PAP personnel.
(reported by TCHRD, 17 March 2008)

Protests, no detailed information available
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

Tibetan students at Beijing University were obligated to complete a questionnaire stating the following:

1. The location of the Dalai Lama in the student’s heart;
2. The precise address or work unit of the student’s parents;
3. The student’s identification card number;
4. A pledge or undertaking not to participate in any demonstration, sit-in or political activity.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser and her Chinese husband Wang Lixiong are under house arrest “since the beginning” of the recent protests in Tibetan regions. “Whatever movements we plan to make, we must first ask for approval. Only when it’s approved by higher-ups can we make a move under surveillance”, Wang said.
(reported by RFA, 21 March 2008)

Circa 17 March, around 40 students (of the 2,000 students in the Tibetan studies department) staged a silent protest to mourn the people killed or injured in Tibet. The police arrived and held the students in their classrooms. No further details.
(reported by RFA, 17 March 2008)

Dozens of ethnic Tibetan students at Central University for Nationalities staged a candle-lit vigil; police kept reporters away from the protest; vigil broken up by authorities, hours before Lhasa deadline.
(reported by Reuters, 18 March 2008)

A military cordon was put around Wuhou temple; Tibetan areas were under close surveillance.
(reported by T. Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Police stepped up patrols around the four blocks of Wuhouci, the Tibetan area of the city.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

During the week commencing Monday 17 March, all major thoroughfares leading to the TAR office in Chengdu are manned by riot police; armed police waiting in cars; at least 60 public security vehicles in the neighbourhood. All cars travelling towards the TAR office subject to inspection; car boots are searched; drivers required to present ID.
(NOTE: date unclear)
(reported by sources to RFA, 20 March 2008)

Tibetan students organised solidarity march
(reported by TibetInfoNet, 17 March 2008)

500 Tibetan students staged a peaceful afternoon demonstration inside the university campus; carried banner stating “democracy and human lives are precious”, raised slogans calling for end to crackdown on Tibetan people in Lhasa, circulated leaflets about the Lhasa demonstrations; PAP and PSB personnel stormed the university and cordon off the entire campus area; 300 students held in campus.
(reported by TCHRD, 16 March 2008)

Student protest at 6pm; undertook 24-hour hunger strike in protest against Chinese government’s violent crackdown on peaceful Tibetan demonstrators throughout Tibet.
(reported by TCHRD, 17 March 2008)

Exact date unclear in RFA report which implied demonstrations some time during the week commencing Monday 17 March; Tibetan student quoted, “It is inconvenient for me to talk. My cell phone is under surveillance. I cannot tell you if there have been protests on campus”.
(reported by sources to RFA, 20 March 2008)

Circa 17 and 18 March (date of events and date of reporting unclear on RFA website), during two consecutive days, students shouted protest slogans from third floor to the seventh (top) floor of the university residence building; students threw thermos flasks and other objects from the top of the building to the street. 1,000 Tibetans students at the school. School authorities called a meeting; those involved in the protests told to submit a written confession; those who are party cadres warned that they will lose their party membership; incident will be reported to the provincial government. No reported police presence at the school.
(reported by sources to RFA, 18 March 2008)

Circa 30 March, armed police were reported in large numbers in Chigdril county.
(reported by RFA, 02 April 2008)

More troops, reportedly PAP, arrived in recent days and deployed in both urban and rural areas. About 30 to 40 people were detained; many of them are local nomads; some turned themselves in, others were arrested. Several soldiers on patrol were attacked by nomads on one occasion in recent days. A Tibetan told RFA: “I have been asked to write down my opinions about the riots and to write a condemnation of the Dalai Lama. Many other businessmen have been told to do the same. Of course you cannot write down whatever you want”.
(reported by RFA, 30 March 2008)

Around 11am, 300 soldiers with automatic weapons completely surrounded Tarthang monastery; closed off the town, imposed curfew preventing anyone from entering or leaving their homes and the town itself, even to get food. The military gave 24 hours for all protest organisers to be turned in; if this didn’t happen by 12pm on Friday 21st, “violence would be used”. Six Tibetans, one of whom is named Daze, were taken away by the military; their whereabouts remains unknown. Local telephones are no longer working; a message states “unable to contact the subscriber at this time”.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 20 March 2008)

300 monks of Tarthang (Chin. Baiyu) monastery joined by local Tibetans on march to local county government centre; at government office compound demonstrators replaced Chinese flag with Tibetan national flag. Around 40 local police did not interfere; watched from a distance and took photographs; no PAP present. Proceeded to local school and hospital; replaced Chinese flag with Tibetan flag; stormed local detention centre, demanded the release of all prisoners, prisoners were released. Protest remained peaceful, with no violence and no damage to property.

Later, four trucks full of armed security forces arrived, arresting at least five or six Tibetans. Monastery surrounded by security forces. All monks that demonstrated are hiding in the mountains. Monastery’s head monks pressured to hand over those responsible. Authorities stated those who surrender will be “spared”; the rest will face “serious consequences”.
(reported by RFA, 22 March 2008)

Morning: monks from Darthang/Tarthang (Chin. Datang/Baiyu) monastery held a peaceful demonstration; later joined by several thousand students and other laypeople. “They were determined to adhere to the principles of non-violent protest”.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

200 Tibetans, lay and clergy, gathered for afternoon religious sermon by locally revered teacher, Trulku Tenzin Pai Wangchuk; teaching disrupted and terminated by security personnel; protests followed; security personnel surrounded and blocked the Tibetan protestors.
(reported by TCHRD, 17 March 2008)

Evening demonstration by monks of Minthang monastery and lay people; proceeded to local police station two kilometres from Minthang monastery; shouted pro-independence slogans.
(NOTE: this entry may be a duplicate of the incident reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes for the same date; awaiting clarification and confirmation.)
(reported by TCHRD, 17 March 2008)

Monks of Lungkar monastery and lay people held candlelit vigil, expressing solidarity with all Tibetan protestors; Chinese security personnel kept a close watch over the “hundreds” of participants.
(reported by TCHRD, 17 March 2008)

The 500 Tibetans from Ponkor Toema and Tibetans from Ponkor Mema townships in hiding on a nearby mountain since 26 March and surrounded by Chinese security forces, were encouraged to surrender and promised leniency. Ironically on 27 March, two Tibetans voluntarily surrendered but were severely beaten and tortured.

During the following weeks, hundreds of Tibetan protesters were arrested by the Chinese security forces. [unclear whether or not TCHRD is referring to the Tibetans from Ponkor Toema and Tibetans from Ponkor Mema townships who sought hide-outs on a nearby mountain]. Many of them were later released from detention but were charged a hefty fine of 20,000 RMB (US$2,500).

(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

Due to persistent intimidation and threats of arrest by Chinese security forces, around 400 Tibetans from Ponkor Toema township and 100 Tibetans from Ponkor Mema township fled and sought hide-outs on nearby “mountain tops” [plural]. Around 860 Chinese security forces “surrounded the mountain [singular] from various sides” [sic].
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

On 25 March, " 10 Tibetans and 40 other Tibetans [sic] were again arrested".
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

Around 50 Tibetans from Ponkor Toema and Mema townships were arrested by the Chinese security forces for taking part in a peaceful protest.
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

Monks from Ponko monastery and a local religious lama named Gurlu intervened and pacified the escalating tension on both sides. Around 30 Chinese military vehicles arrived in Darlag County “to quell the peaceful protesters”.
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

The Chinese authorities responded to the protest of the previous day, 21 March, by dispatching five “big and small” military vehicles to Darlag county; however, they were met by “a group of 350 horsemen who charged and blocked the Chinese military vehicles from entering” and “protested against the Chinese authorities”.
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

Tibetans from Ponkor Toema and Mema townships in Darlag county staged a peaceful protest in Ponkor township [?]; they removed the Chinese national flag and replaced it with a Tibetan national flag; protest became aimed at the Chinese authorities who arrived at the scene.
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

Xinhua reported: “a handful of people alleged to be insurgents seeking ‘Tibetan independence’ incited herders in Hongke town, Dari county, to riot on 21 March […] after a month-long investigation, the police moved on Monday to arrest the suspected leader. The suspect resisted arrest and gunfire broke out”.
Lama Cedain, a Tibetan police officer in charge of criminal investigations in the Dari county PSB was shot dead during the pursuit of the alleged “riot leader”. The policeman was wounded six times and died at 6:30 a.m. on Monday. Other officers “returned fire, killing the suspect”.

(reported by Xinhua, 30 April 2008)

Xinhua reported: “a handful of people alleged to be insurgents seeking ‘Tibetan independence’ incited herders in Hongke town, Dari county, to riot on 21 March”.
(reported by Xinhua, 30 April 2008)

Over 200 monks held peaceful protests.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

At 7pm, nearly 300 people held a peaceful protest; raised the Tibetan flag.
(NOTE: this entry may be a duplicate of the incident reported by TCHRD for the same date; awaiting clarification and confirmation.)
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Chinese armed security forces surrounded a nomadic hamlet in Ponkor Toema township; at dawn, the armed security forces fired live ammunition at the nomads, killing a 22-year-old nomad named ChoetoThe security forces removed the corpse; as of 29 April it had not been returned to the deceased’s family for funeral rites. The situation in Ponkor Toema township remains tense, with an increasing presence of Chinese security personnel.
(reported by TCHRD, 29 April 2008)

Peaceful protest.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Local people performed a puja (prayer ceremony) for those killed at nearby Kirti monastery. Police surrounded Ragya (Rabgya) monastery the monastery and while threatening the use of force, asked the senior monks to stop the religious ceremony; the lamas then requested the monks to stop.
(reported by ICT, 03 April 2008)

6pm: about 1,000 people participated in a peaceful protest; replaced the Chinese flag with the Tibetan flag.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

Demonstration; Chinese flag replaced by Buddhist prayer flags; large-scale riot; suppressed by the military; serious clashes; many Tibetans reportedly shot dead; an unknown number of injuries.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 18 March 2008)

On either 13 or 14 March, a Tibetan man shot a policeman; the Tibetan was then also shot dead.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 04 April 2008)

On either 13 or 14 March, a Tibetan man shot a policeman; the Tibetan was then also shot dead.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 04 April 2008)

A protest occurred in the county, followed by a police crackdown.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 04 April 2008)

Protests, “scores” reportedly killed.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 24 March 2008)

A large number of students held a protest; reactions of the authorities unknown.
(reported by Woeser blog/chinadigitaltimes, 20 March 2008)

Tibetan students protested; of 800 students, roughly 400 participated; lowered Chinese flags and set them alight. Security forces surrounded the student protesters. Local security forces issued a warning that they have orders to shoot anyone creating problems in the area. Students prohibited from contacting other Tibetans in the area for fear of protests.
(reported by sources to RFA, 20 March 2008)

Pro-independence pamphlets pasted on walls.
(reported by TCHRD, 14 March 2008)

A “full-scale” protest occurred in the town, followed by a police crackdown.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 04 April 2008)

Students at the teacher training college in the town removed the Chinese flag in the campus and raised the Tibetan flag; students joined by locals during a protest within the campus. Later, the police came in large numbers; surrounded the campus and dispersed the crowd.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 04 April 2008)

On 9 March, hundreds of banned portraits of the Dalai Lama were confiscated from a number of homes in Jyekundo during a midnight raid by local PSB personnel; two families fined 500 yuan each for possessing the portraits.
(reported by TCHRD, 14 March 2008)

A protest took place in the county, followed by a police crackdown.
(reported by sources to TibetInfoNet, 04 April 2008)

At least three Tibetans involved in demonstrations on the previous day were arrested by the Chinese security forces; Sherab, 40; Tabo, 40; and Kunbo, 20. Six other Tibetans arrested on two separate raids have not been identified.
(reported by TCHRD, 23 March 2008)

Around 800 Tibetans from Lha village, Nyarong monastery, Lowa village and Meru village began peaceful demonstration march; Chinese security forces stopped them at Lokog. A large mobilisation of paramilitary troops from Siling (Chin. Xining) to Chentsa county got underway.
(reported by TCHRD, 23 March 2008)

Many monks from Makur Namgyaling monastery began peaceful protest but were stopped by the Chinese security forces.
(reported by TCHRD, 23 March 2008)

Hundreds of Tibetans carried out a peaceful protest in Markhul-thang township, which consists of four villages. Tibetans in the township carried out a religious ceremony for a prosperous harvest this year; several hundred Tibetans then began a peaceful protest; proceeded to county headquarters carrying Tibetan national flag, portraits of Dalai Lama and Gedun Choekyi Nyima, the missing 11th Panchen Lama. Chanted slogans: “Long Live the Dalai Lama”, “The Dalai Lama to return to Tibet”, “Release the 11th Panchen Lama Erdeni Gedun Choekyi Nyima” and “Freedom for Tibetan people”. Approaching the county headquarters where hundreds of Chinese security personnel were waiting in full combat attire, prominent local religious leaders requested the peaceful protestors to halt their demonstration to avoid bloodshed and loss of life; the crowd later dispersed.
(reported by TCHRD, 23 March 2008)

Following the arrest over one hundred Tibetans on 17 April during the crackdown by Chinese security forces against demonstrations and the subsequent raid on Rong Gonchen monastery, armed Chinese security forces continue to keep a close watch over the monks; their movements are severely restricted; they are “isolated from each other without any form of interaction”. They have been issued a terse warning about leaking information to the outside world. The exact number of monks arrested remains unknown.
(reported by TCHRD, 18 April 2008)

Following the arrest over one hundred Tibetans on 17 April during the crackdown by Chinese security forces against demonstrations, the situation remains “tense and volatile”; the Chinese authorities are not allowing visitors to meet those detained. [See entries for Rong Gonchen monastery, Rebkong county, 17-18 April.]
(reported by TCHRD, 18 April 2008)

Following the arrest over one hundred Tibetans including monks in Rebkong county market town on 17 April, “scores of Chinese armed security forces raided monks’ houses” in Rong Gonchen monastery at around 6 pm; “a dozen of the Chinese security forces in full combat gear were armed with guns”; the monks were “forcibly flushed out” to the monastery’s courtyard and were made to kneel down with hands behind their heads. The monks were threatened at gunpoint and photos of the Dalai Lama found in the monks’ rooms were seized.

Alak Khasutsang, the 80-year-old former chief of Rong Gonchen monastery who tried to diffuse the tension between the Tibetan demonstrators and the Chinese security forces on 17 April, has reportedly sustained a severe head injury during the police crackdown. He is believed to be in a critical condition; one source reported that he had been taken to a hospital in Siling (Chin. Xining) city for treatment although this has not been confirmed. He was also known to be suffering from high blood pressure [unclear if this is an ongoing medical condition or if as a result of the events on 17-18 April].

Geshe Tenzin Choephel, a 50-year-old monk from Siling (Chin. Xining) city and a teacher of Qinghai University for Nationalities, was at Rong Gonchen monastery at the time of raid; he is known to have been arrested although for “unknown reason[s]”. His whereabouts remains unknown.
(reported by TCHRD, 18 April 2008)

At around 11 am, 22 monks from Rong Gonchen monastery staged a peaceful demonstration in Rebkong county market calling for the release of three monks (Lobsang Dhondup, 20 years old; Drakpa, 28 years old; and Lobsang Dhondup, 30 years old) who had been arrested on 13 April 2008 for participating in a peace march on 16 March 2008. The monks demonstrated for “a few minutes” but were then arrested by Chinese armed security forcesl; when this news reach