Saw the CNN footage of PLA soldiers gunning down Tibetan refugees a few hours ago. Sunday's China Post also covered it.
They also carried a report a few days earlier:
A [Communist Chinese] official told Xinhua news agency that a small squad of soldiers found nearly 70 people attempting to illegally cross the border from Tibet into Nepal on Sept. 30 and "persuaded them to go back to their home."
"But the stowaways refused and attacked the soldiers," the state news agency said, without stating whether they were ethnic Tibetans.
"Under the circumstances, the frontier soldiers were forced to defend themselves and injured two stowaways," the unnamed official was quoted as saying.
Busted. The refugees were trudging through the snow single-file, not being transported as "stowaways" on a truck. Furthermore, we don't see any hostile action coming from the Tibetans; instead, we see PLA soldiers firing on them from a ridge.
But then, one doesn't really need to see the footage to know that the Chinese story was bogus from the get-go.
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UPDATE: More here, including links to the video. (Hat tip to AsiaPundit.)
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