13 December 2011

The Tibetan government-in-exile has obtained a raw video footage showing Chinese police, SWAT teams and paramilitary troops conducting raids on Tibetan homes in Dogde township near Lhasa in March 2008. The video, smuggled out of Tibet, was released last week. It shows the scale of police operations to hunt down suspected demonstrators and is a graphic evidence of the terror tactics employed to suppress any expression of protest in Tibet. Villagers are seen taken from their homes at gunpoint, some literally dragged out of bed, terrified and panic-stricken.