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Associated PressBEIJING (AP) — Nearly 100 Tibetan monks were arrested or turned themselves in Sunday after hundreds of protesters attacked a police station in northwestern China, state media reported.
The protest appeared to be in retaliation for the disappearance of a Tibetan who escaped from police custody in Qinghai province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
It was one of the largest reported protests in a tense month of tightened Chinese security in the region because of a number of sensitive anniversaries. One account by a Tibetan exile said the protest involved as many as 2,000 people and was sparked by the apparent suicide of a monk being investigated for unfurling a Tibetan flag, which is banned in China.
Xinhua said several hundred people — including nearly 100 monks from the Ragya Monastery — attacked the police station of Ragya, a township in the Tibetan prefecture of Golog, assaulting policemen and government staff on Saturday.
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Turned themselves in?!?!?