"The relationship between the Chinese soldiers and the Tibetan people in Dram (Zhangmu), 700 km southwest of Lhasa, is very hostile," said a Tibetan in Kathmandu with knowledge of the area. "It is said that the Chinese soldiers there often do not pay when they eat in the tibetan restaurants, and that they harass Tibetan women and beat up poeple who try to interfere," he added.

On June 20, a Tibetan called Tsering Gya was chased for 300 metres and then stabbed 8 times by three men described as soldiers, (probably are members of the People's Armed Police, after a change of personnel of the town's paramilitary garrison in early June, rather than of the Army), after he tried to dissuade them from attacking a Tibetan youth called Kun-jam, who was beaten, stabbed and thrown from a roof or balcony by the group, under the pretext of searching for a suspect. When traders, mainly from Amdo like the two victims, went to protest at the local government offices, one policeman or paramilitary drew his gun as if to fire on the protestors but was disarmed by Tibetans. (EuroTibet News N·1)