From The 'Shot While Trying To Escape' Department:

Or, Stalin Lives!

AsiaMedia: Troops 'tortured captured Tibetans'
Dharmsala, India --- Nearly three dozen Tibetans captured by Chinese troops as they tried to sneak out of their homeland were tortured with cattle prods and forced to do hard labour, a teenager who identified himself as one of the former detainees said, in the first reported account of the fate of the group.


Roto-Reuters: China calls escaping Tibetans law-breakers
China said on Thursday that Tibetans who were reportedly tortured for trying to escape to Nepal belonged to an illegal migration scheme and faced punishment.