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"The outbreak of violence died down", official Xinhua news agency said after monks protesting the Communist rule in China held one of the largest demonstrations in two decades, and went on the rampage, setting ablaze shops and vehicles.
There were reportedly many casualties, it said.
The Tibet Autonomous Regional Government Chairman Qiangba Puncog said no gunshots were fired during the protests on Friday.
"We fired no gunshots", he said on the sidelines of the ongoing session of the National Peoples Congress, Chinas parliament.
Describing the unrest a ‘sabotage activity’ organized and premeditated by the Dalai clique, he said, "We will deal sternly with those who engage themselves in activities of splitting the nation in accordance with the law".
Puncog also said Lhasa was not under the martial law.
No casualties have been reported among the foreigners, local government said.
Giving more details of yesterdays violence, Xinhua said a number of shops, banks and hotels were burnt, causing blackouts and interruption of communications in some areas. A mosque was also set on fire, it said.
"People were also seen burnt by the attackers", Xinhua said quoting its reporters in Lhasa but added the death toll was not yet available.
Now 100 Tibetans were killed in the ongoing uprising. The Chinese invaded Tibet in July of 1949.and from that time some 17% of Tibetans were killed and some 6000 monasteries destroyed by the Chinese. There have been over 1 millon people killed. There were 6 million Tibetans at the time of Chinese occupation of which a million Tibetans were killed by Chinese in one of the modern time genocide. Tibetans upraised against China in 1959 but was suppressed. Tibet was never part of China. During the first few years when China was in control of Tibet, the Chinese declared that Tibet should be part of China, because an Emperor of Tibet once married a Chinese princess. Years later, the Chinese said that Tibet was part of China because of the warrior Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan and the Mongolians were in control of Tibet, but they never made Tibet belong to China. Secondly, the Tibetan people and the Chinese are totally different, culturally and socially speaking. Today Tibet is nothing but a prison. The Chinese continually spy on the Tibetans and arbitrary arrest are common. Tibet requires our moral support for its independence. The brutal Chinese is gunning down freedom fighters.
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