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radar treaty to include chapter on link with NATO ... junior ruling Green Party (SZ) along with several human rights associations, was attended by Greens chairman and deputy PM Martin Bursik and Greens deputies' head Katerina Jacques, as well as former interior minister Jan Ruml. Participants carried Tibetan flags and banners with the slogans "Stop Violence in Tibet" and "Don't Make Tibet Red." The spokesman for the Tibetan exile government announced today that about 80 people died in Friday's unrest in Lhasa and another 72 people were allegedly injured. The official Chinese sources speak about 10 victims. The situation in Tibet has calmed down during the weekend, but less intense protests continue in other Chinese provinces and they allegedly also claimed lives. The Czech Foreign Ministry has officially condemned the violence in Tibet. "We condemn the violence committed on peaceful and unarmed demonstrators who only want to express their opinion freely," the ministry says on its website. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has also demanded that information on the events in Tibet be freely released and representatives of independent media be allowed to enter the area. The Greens today wrote in a letter sent to the Chinese ambassador to Prague that "the Tibetans' protests express their natural will to freedom." A concert in support of Tibet, in which Czech bands and a Tibetan musician perform, takes place in a rock club in Prague centre tonight, within the March Festival for Tibet 2008, organised in Prague and in other Czech towns by civic associations. China occupied Tibet in 1951. Some 80,000 Tibetens died during the uprising in Lhasa in 1959. Tibetan activists accuse Beijing of suppressing their traditional culture and they strive for Tibet's independence or at least a strong autonomy within China.
(Ceske Noviny)
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