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Shocking eyewitness reports from Tibet have confirmed that Chinese forces opened fire on a group of Tibetans, killing one nun in her mid-twenties and a young child on September 30, 2006. Up to five more Tibetans are feared dead after the soldiers, stationed at the Nangpa Pass between Tibet and Nepal, opened fire on a caravan of more than 70 escaping Tibetans, including children as young as 10 years old. Foreign mountaineers at the nearby Cho Oyu advance base camp witnessed the incident and described how the soldiers took careful aim and fired repeatedly on the defenseless Tibetans, even as they attempted to escape uphill.

Forty-three people from the group are reported to have successfully crossed into Nepal and are on route to the United Nations sponsored Tibetan Refugee Reception Center in Kathmandu, but the fate of the other Tibetans remains unknown. There is concern that many of them may have been injured during the shooting and apprehended by the security forces. 

Please take action now and speak out against this atrocity. Send the urgent fax appeal below to the US State Department calling on the government to demarche* China in the strongest way possible and to press for the immediate release of Tibetans detained during the incident.

*an official diplomatic means to protest or object to actions by a foreign government