US protests killing of Tibetan by Chinese soldiers

Posted on October 15, 2006 11:41 PM | | Comments (0)

AFP via yahoo.com (censorend in Communist China)
by Verna Yu
October 15, 2006


The United States has lodged a protest with China over an incident where Chinese border soldiers killed one person trying to flee Tibet into Nepal, a US embassy spokeswoman said.

"The US ambassador on Thursday had gone to the foreign ministry to officially protest the September 30 shooting incident," the spokeswoman told AFP.

Tibetan rights groups last week said Chinese border troops had opened fire on a group of about 70 Tibetan refugees, including children, women and monks, who were trying to enter Nepal.

China's state news agency admitted Thursday that its soldiers killed one person and injured another near Mount Everest, but said they were acting in self-defense.

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