Chinese governor of Tibet said that it needs more law enforcement

BEIJING, (AFP) – Tibet needs more security forces, said Friday the governor of the region, Qiangba Puncog, considering that disturbances can occur on the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Beijing. “Our forces are not sufficient, many districts do not have to police, Tibet is vast, an appropriate increase,” the governor said at a press conference in Beijing.

“We demand more (players) for the armed police, police and security,” the governor said, warning that “further incidents could erupt promoted by the Dalai Lama clique”, the spiritual leader of Tibetans.

Although said to fear that exiled Tibetans attempting to incite unrest in the region, Qiangba expressed his confidence that the riots are not repeated last year, which began on March 14 in Lhasa and then spread to other areas on the eve of the Olympics Beijing.

Tibetan exile says that 200 people died in the violent repression of those demonstrations, but Beijing claims that there were only 21 victims who died at the hands of “agitators” Tibetans.

In the months before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Province of Xinjiang, a Muslim majority region of China, was the scene of protests by the ethnic Uighur and a strong repression.

The chairman of the regional government of that province, called the East Turkestan independence movement, also spoke on Friday of security.

“The situation is more severe, the task harder and fight more fiercely in the region this year,” said Nur BEKRI, quoted by the New China News Agency.

“Independence of Taiwan, East Turkestan, Tibet and other separatist forces represent a greater security threat to the unity of our nation,” he said last January, the Chinese spokesman for the ministry of Defense, Hu Changming.