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...electricity supplies - returned to the Tibetan capital Lhasa following four days of unrest. China's state-run news agency said protestors had killed ten people, while Tibetan activists based in India said that at least 30, and as many as 100 had died in the protests and subsequent crackdown by security forces. The authorities on Saturday issued an ultimatum demanding that the "lawbreakers" surrender themselves by Monday, but for many Tibetans, the current uprising is a sign that the prospects for a compromise with Beijing are dimming...
...than its authoritarian neighbor. Over the last decade, though, and especially since Delhi formally recognized the Tibetan autonomous region as part of China in 2003, India has taken a sterner line on Tibetan protests, discouraging them before they can start and breaking them up when they do. The latest crackdown is further proof of shifting loyalties, says B. Tsering, head of the Tibetan Women's Association. "Marches have been stopped before but they [the police] have not been so harsh as yesterday," she says. "They say it is a matter of public security but these kinds of things we consider...
...should be "cooperative partners instead of competitive opponents"-India must also be mindful of the fact that its democratic credentials are one of its major points of difference with China, a difference Indian diplomats are often keen to play up. For Tibetan activists and human rights campaigners, the Indian crackdown seems uncharacteristically heavy-handed. "The Indian police should immediately release the marchers detained, lift the restraining order and allow the march to continue peacefully," says Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "Any reaction by the Indian government must be proportionate to the threat posed...
...Ministry of External Affairs says India has granted exile to Tibetans on the condition that they not indulge in political activities on Indian soil, so the government is well within its rights to halt the march. But the Tibetan community says the crackdown is about politics, not maintaining social order. "We assume that there is pressure from Beijing," says Tsering. "It's very disappointing and upsetting to us." Tsering and another Tibetan activist said that an Indian journalist had e-mailed them claiming that New Delhi has asked Indian media not to cover the protests or at least to downplay...
...State Department expert boarded a British Airways flight on her way to Pakistan for urgent strategy talks with U.S. diplomats at the embassy there. The stakes were high: President Bush had just called for Musharraf to hold new elections. In Pakistan, the military had begun a violent crackdown against demonstrators...