In Lhasa, people are sleeping in their clothes “in case of a knock on the door in the middle of the night”, according to one source. Someone has disappeared from almost every Tibetan household in the weeks since March 14, according to one reliable Tibetan source, while another described the situation as a “second Cultural Revolution”. At neighborhood committee meetings, Lhasa citizens are warned to tell people that everything is fine if they receive calls from outside Tibet.

Some Tibetans rounded up in raids are being removed from Lhasa to detention facilities elsewhere. A source reported seeing a large group of Tibetans being herded onto a train by armed police at Lhasa station bound for Qinghai. According to the eyewitness, there were several hundred Tibetans in the group, including many monks, and many of them were not wearing shoes. In an apparent further incidence of detained Tibetans being removed from Lhasa, around 300 prisoners arrived at the train station in Xining, Qinghai, last week, according to Tibetan sources, who told ICT: “Every prisoner seemed to be hurt badly and some had blood on their faces. There was an old lady in the group with heavy shackles on her feet, and no shoes. She was being beaten by the police.”

I think that its wrong how the Police are taking people out of there homes and rounding them up stuffing them in to trains and shipping them off to detention centers, the fact that they come fro them in the middle of the night is a little on the HARSH side and then theres forcing them to go in what there in no shoes and then shackling them to each other is on the extreme side…all for education.

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