Below The Beltway

Apparently, the Chinese aren’t waiting until midnight local time to begin cracking down on Tibetan protesters:
BEIJING, March 17 — Vowing a harsh crackdown, Chinese police conducted house-to-house searches in central Lhasa Monday and rounded up hundreds of Tibetans suspected of participating in a deadly outburst of anti-Chinese violence, exile groups and residents reported.
The large-scale arrests [...]

With a Monday deadline approaching, the Tibetan protests against Chinese rule spread outside of Tibet itself:
TONGREN, China (AP) - Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces Sunday as Tibetans defied a Chinese government crackdown, while the Dalai Lama decried what he called the “cultural genocide” taking place in his homeland.
Demonstrations widened to Tibetan communities [...]

The Dalai Lama is known as a man of peace and proponent of non-violence, but he’s also not a man to back down to tyranny:
MCLEODGANJ, India — The Dalai Lama said Sunday that he would not instruct his followers inside Tibet to surrender before Chinese authorities, and he described feeling “helpless” in preventing what he [...]

Apparently, continued Chinese repression in Tibet is no big deal for the International Olympic Committee:
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday on calls for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing over China’s crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only hurt athletes.
“We believe that the [...]

The violence in Tibet intensified yesterday and spread beyond the capital city:
BEIJING — Thousands of Buddhist monks and other Tibetans clashed with the riot police in a second Chinese city on Saturday, while the authorities said they had regained control of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, a day after a rampaging mob ransacked shops and set [...]

Things turned violent yesterday in the Tibetan capital:
BEIJING, March 15 — Hundreds of protesters swarmed Tibet’s capital Friday, clashing with police and setting fire to shops and cars in a spasm of violence worse than any there in nearly 20 years. Ten people were confirmed dead, and doctors reported dozens of injured streaming into hospitals [...]

It sounds like the protests in Tibet are getting more violent:
BEIJING (AFP) — The Tibetan capital Lhasa erupted in deadly violence Friday as security forces used gunfire to quell the biggest protests against Chinese rule in two decades, officials and rights groups said.
The protests, which spread outside Tibet into other areas of China, came amid [...]

It looks like there are some substantial protests brewing in the capital of Tibet. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that protests by Tibetan Monks had drawn the attention of Chinese security forces:
BEIJING — Chinese security forces were reportedly surrounding three monasteries outside Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on Thursday after hundreds of monks took to [...]