The World - News from July 31, 1988

The human rights organization Asia Watch said that recent anti-Chinese demonstrations in Tibet were more violent--and the Chinese suppression of those disturbances was more ruthless--than previously reported. The New York-based group also accused the U.S. State Department of complicity in concealing rights violations by the Chinese government. The State Department had no comment. After riots in October, 1987, and last March, “a minimum of several hundred detainees are being held,” the report said. Details are difficult to pin down, the group said, because Chinese authorities severely limit foreigners from entering Tibet, which was taken over by the Chinese in 1959.