BEIJING - A Chinese shopkeeper in Tibet’s capital came out of hiding yesterday for the first time since mobs ransacked his herb store last week during the biggest uprising against the region’s Chinese rulers in nearly two decades.
Ma Zhonglong, 20, said he had had nothing but a few packets of instant noodles to eat since he ran for cover Friday when he saw hundreds of Tibetans smash and burn storefronts near the Jokhang Temple, the religious and geographical heart of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.
“I went outside and saw people fighting on the street,” Ma said in a telephone interview. “I hurried back and closed the door. Through the glass window I could see the mob rushing toward me. They carried knives, stones, sticks. I ran further back into this courtyard to hide. Outside I could hear them smashing everything.”
Yesterday morning, as Ma emerged and found his store in ruins and expensive herbs looted, the Chinese government had retaken control of Lhasa and ordered rioters to turn themselves in by midnight or face serious consequences. The deadline passed without any apparent surrenders or arrests.
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