Free Tibet
China sends work teams to Tibetan monasteries to “protect” them from protests
[caption id="attachment_2780" align="alignleft" width="300"] 10 March in London (Free Tibet)[/caption]
Chinese authorities have tightened security in areas of Golog and Rebkong ahead of March 10th, the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959 and the intense protests in 2008.
Images show a heavy presence of troops, as the Great Monlam Festival (Tibetan Prayer festival) as 10th March approaches.
China sees the period from Tibetan New Year to March as a “sensitive time” and tourism and travel are restricted in the whole of Tibet.
In 1959 and 2008, a mass Tibetan resistance to China’s occupation of Tibet took place.