400 Tibetan protesters surrendered today
At least 400 protesters on Tuesday surrendered to the Police in Aba county of the south-western Chinese province. Police in the Tibetan populated county issued a notice urging those who had taken part in the riots March 16 to give themselves up to the authorities within ten days.
An official said, “Among those surrendered, most are common people or monks deceived or coerced”. Riots in the Aba county erupted on the heels of the Lhasa unrest.
Violent mobs, some shouting “Tibet independence” slogans & holding flags of the so-called “Tibetan government in exile”.
Aba county, under the Aba Tibetan-Qiang prefecture has a population of 63,000. The town is about 200 km from Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu.
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