Video footage has emerged of Tibetans being attacked after protesting the intrusion of a Chinese work team into a grassland area of Amdo (Qinghai) to set up a solar panel installation. The footage, received by Radio Free Asia Tibetan service, shows one of the Tibetans being dragged by a truck before being left injured on the ground.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred on October 11 when Chinese work crews arrived in Choeje village in the Tsolho (Chinese: Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture\u2019s Chabcha (Chinese: Gonghe) county, according to a source and reported by Radio Free Asia (October 17, Tibetan Land Protesters Attacked, Beaten in Qinghai<\/a>).<\/p>\n The source cited by Radio Free Asia said: \u201cThe Chinese contractors had to take heavy machinery and other vehicles through Tibetan grassland to reach the site, called Choeten Thang, and the local Tibetans demanded that they pay compensation or sign agreements with them. When the Chinese refused, there was a clash.\u201d<\/p>\n In a video of the incident, which can be viewed at (and embedded below): https:\/\/goo.gl\/LHwuZa<\/a>, a Tibetan protester who appears to be trying to stop work on the project is struck by a Chinese worker\u2019s pickup truck, and the vehicle is then driven away with the Tibetan still clinging to the front. Later, a Chinese worker approaches the man, now lying apparently unconscious on the ground, and kicks him in the head while other workers shove and beat Tibetans coming to the help of the injured man.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n