Beijing Wide Open

China’s puppet governor of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Jampa Phuntsok, wants the world to believe that Chinese forces “did not carry or use any lethal weapons.” And the authorities continue to threaten harsh punishment for any Tibetan protesters that do not “surrender” before midnight tonight.

The surrender order is copied below.

Tibet Autonomous Region High People’s Court, Tibet Autonomous Regions High People’s Procuratorate, Tibet Autonomous Region Public Security Department

Notice
No. 1
March 15, 2008, 07:23

Since March 10 2008, a small number of illegal monks in the Lhasa area have continued to cause trouble, doing their utmost to cause social chaos. This has been a meticulously planned attempt by the Dalai clique to separate Tibet from the Motherland, and a plot to destroy the peace and security, harmony and normal productive lives of all nationalities in Tibet.

On March 14 in particular, some criminals used violent tactics such as beating, smashing, looting, burning and killing, setting light to schools, hospitals, children’s activity centers, stores and people’s dwellings, and violently attacking Party and government offices and enterprise work units, setting light to cars, looting property, killing innocent masses, and surrounding and viciously beating law-enforcement personnel. Their behavior constitutes criminal activities under the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China. For the purpose of urging these criminals to stop the criminal activities of organizing, planning and participating in beating, smashing, looting, burning and killing, and to submit themselves, and to encourage the broad masses to actively report on and expose criminal elements, a special notice follows:

1. Those who on their own volition submit themselves to police or judicial offices prior to midnight on March 17 shall be punished lightly or dealt mitigated punishment; those who surrender themselves and report on other criminal elements will be performing meritorious acts and may escape punishment. Criminal elements who do not submit themselves in time shall be punished severely according to law.

2. Those who harbor or hide criminal elements shall be punished severely according to law upon completion of investigations.

3. Those citizens who actively report and expose the criminal behavior of criminal elements shall receive personal protection, and granted commendations and awards.

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