London, January 28, 1995. According to Tibet Information Network, "Over 200 Chinese troops carried out military-style raids on a remote Tibetan hermitage north-east of Lhasa earlier this month, according to unofficial sources in Tibet. The troops arrested four monks suspected of writing pro-independence leaflets. The raids come as authorities in Tibet step up their campaign against Tibetan dissidents, moving extra troops into Lhasa, carrying out arrests of pamphleteers and activists, and accusing the West of encouraging the pro-independence movement and threatening China's unity".