A/HRC/10/8/Add.1 page 10 24. Sixteen people, including 15 visiting students monks in Sera Monastery, identified as Lobsang, aged 15, Lobsang Thukjey, aged 19, Tsultrim Palden, aged 20, Lobsher, aged 20, Phurdan, aged 22, Thubdron, aged 24, Lodroe, aged 30, and Lobsang Ngodrub, aged 29, from Onpo Monastery, Sichuan Province; Zoepa, aged 30, from Mangye Monastery; Trulku Tenpa Rigsang, aged 26, Gelek Pel, aged 32, and Samten, aged 17 from Lungkar Monastery, Qinghai Province; Pema Karwang, aged 30 and Thubwang, aged 30, from Darthang Monastery; and Tsegyam, aged 22, from Kashi Monastery led a march on Barkhor Street in Lhasa, distributing pamphlets and raising Tibetan flags. It is reported that they were arrested by the People’s Armed Police. Additional contingents of armed forces were then stationed in the area, and the police blocked roads and encircled Drepung and Sera monasteries around Lhasa to prevent further protests from taking place. 25. On the same day, about 350 people, including 137 monks from Lhutsang Monastery in the Tibetan area of Amdo in Mangra County, organised a protest in front of the Mangra County Assembly Hall where a government-sponsored show was taking place. The protest was stopped by the People’s Armed Police. A number of arrests took place during the disruption of the protest, but no information on the whereabouts of the arrested monks has been received. 26. Reports indicate that on 11 March 2008, 500 to 600 monks from the Sera Monastery called for the release of the monks arrested the day before and began a march towards Lhasa, but were met on the way by approximately 2,000 armed police. The crowd was reportedly dispersed with tear-gas. A number of monks were detained and then released. On 11 March 2008, the police surrounded and sealed off Ditsa Monastery in Hualong County in Qinghai Province after the monks held a protest. 27. On 14 March 2008, violent incidents were reported in Lhasa as tension escalated between hundreds of demonstrators and police forces. Gunfire was heard in the streets, and shops and cars were set on fire. Allegations that a significant number of Tibetans and Han and Hui Chinese have been killed during the demonstrations have been received. Monks from Ganden and Reting monasteries joined the demonstrations and the two monasteries were later sealed off by police. A number of monks from Sera Monastery started a hunger strike to protest against the sealing off of monasteries and the detention of monks. 28. Reports indicate that, in particular since 14 March 2008, the wave of demonstrations by monks and lay people has spread in the whole Tibet Autonomous Region and in neighbouring provinces. These demonstrations have reportedly sometimes been violently repressed, in many cases leading to arrests of demonstrators. Allegations were received that subsequent to 14 March 2008, the People’s Liberation Army had been patrolling the streets of Lhasa. 29. On 15 March 2008, shooting was reported inside the compound of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, and at least 40 lay people demonstrating around the monastery were arrested. The next day, monks trying to escape the Kirti Monastery in Amdo in the Sichuan Province, which had been sealed off by the military, have allegedly been shot at; tear-gas was reportedly used on the demonstrators supporting the monks outside the monastery, and many demonstrators were severely beaten by the police. The police is then alleged to have shot into the crowd, killing and injuring a considerable but unconfirmed number of people.