Tibetan monks held for ‘bomb plot’
Chinese news agency says the monks, from Tongxia monastery, were arrested in March.
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Six were planting the bomb and three were shielding the suspects and covering up their crimes, he said.
The man refused to give his name because he said he was not authorised to talk to the media.
“Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem,” Xinhua quoted Hu as saying, referring to supporters of the Dalai Lama.
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“It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland.”
Earlier this month, Beijing accused Tibetan independence forces of organising suicide squads of launching violent attacks against China.
On Friday, China labelled a group linked to the Tibetan government-in-exile a “terrorist organisation”.
In recent weeks, massive demonstrations by pro-Tibet activists and other groups critical of China have accompanied the Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco this month, stirring anger in China.