The weekend of March 14, 15, 16 has been brutal for Tibetans in China.  It began on March 14 when Tibetan Buddhist monks demonstrated on the anniversary of the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959.  Rioting broke out, Han Chinese stores were ransacked and by Sunday, 80 people are dead, according to some counts.   

The link below leads to an article in which the Dalai Lama states China is enacting a cultural genocide in Tibet.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23655386

The link below leads to an article in the New York Times that discusses ongoing protests of the Buddhist monks and other Tibetans with police in the city of Xiahe in Gansu Province.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/asia/16tibet.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin