Romania’s private Pro TV station has posted a video on their web site showing Chinese soldiers firing upon a group of unarmed Tibetan refugees crossing the Himalayan Nangpa La pass into Nepal. The shootings took place on September 30 and were witnessed by European mountain climbers on nearby advance base camps. At least 2 Tibetan refugees were killed, one of whom was a nun. The incident was captured on video by Segiu Matei, a Romanian cameraman who was part of an expedition climbing the Himalayan peak Cho Oyu on the border of China and Nepal.

According to an AP report published by the Internation Herald Tribune on October 14,

the video from Pro TV shows a distant figure that its narrator says is a Chinese border guard firing a rifle and a separate scene of a person in a line of figures walking through the snow falling to the ground. An unidentified man near the camera can be heard saying in English, “They are shooting them like, like dogs.”

Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency released a report stating that the Chinese soldiers had acted out of self-defense:

Soldiers had found nearly 70 people trying to illegally cross the Tibetan border into Nepal. The soldiers tried to persuade the group to go back home, according to Xinhua, which was citing an unnamed Tibetan government official.

“But the stowaways refused and attacked the soldiers,” Xinhua said.

“Under the circumstances, the frontier soldiers were forced to defend themselves and injured two stowaways.”

The Pro TV video:

(Click on the image to watch the video on the ProTV site.)

More info:

Watch the Pro TV interview with cameraman Sergiu Matei who captured the shootings on video:
Exclusive interview with the man who captured Tibetan’s death on tape (on Pro TV web site)

Images of nun shot dead and Chinese border guards with capture Tibetan children taken by Slovenian climber Pavle Kozjek

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