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yes. I witnessed that decided that it was important for an outside witness to see something of what was going on. So I took it upon myself to spend eight hours a day wandering around in the Tibetan quarter. I didnrt stay any place very long, I just kept moving and I kept watching and I took notes on the spot so that I would MARSHALL Yes,
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Six westerners - Steven Marshall, Susan Picarelli, and Chris and Margaret Helm of the USA, Maria Bisander of Sweden and Zuni Suzanne Maier of \Mest Germany all visiting Tibet as individual tourists, were present in Lhasa when Chinese soldiers and Tibetan demonstrators clashed in early March. Several Tibetans were killed. Returning fromTibet within a fortnight after the incident, the six met the press at the FCC on March 13. Excerpts:
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I did not personaþ see the police enter any Tibetan homes and kill the occupants. But I did go into one Tibetan home and saw a large pool of blood on the floor of an interior room, in front of the stove. This was the place where they explained to me an 18-yearold girl had been shot through the eye while making tea. She had been shot from the outside of the house. MANHAIL:
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Besides being disorganised, the police seemed to be f:ightened, at least on the QIIFSIIQN: Did yow witness that yourself? first day. This was perplexing considering there were quite a lot of them and they were heavily armed and they
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stones. They didnrt seem to have any particular plan and when they
did enter the city, they were just
putting out a storm of fire which at least appeared to all of us to be very indiscriminate. They were just firing, firing at no particular target. We heard some exfemely reliable reports, plus some of us saw evidence, that the police had shot innocentbystanders, and had even entered homes and shot people in their own homes. Because of this, we donrt feel that they were pre pared or trained to put down the riot. They may have gone in with the intention of killing people, but they didnrt necessarily go in with the intention of stopping the vio-
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lence. In fact, it almost seemed like they didnrt want the violence to stop. It seemed more like they wanted it to get worse. QLTSII0N: Did you say that they may haue gone in with the inten-
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