Press 17 March 2008 [Press Release] Fresh Pictures of Tibetan protesters' dead bodies and crackdown by the Chinese security forces. On 16 March 2008, around 11.30 AM (Beijing Time), thousands of Tibetan monks of Amdo Ngaba Kirti Monastery, in Ngaba County (Ch: Aba), Ngaba "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture" ("TAP") Sichuan Province, erupted into spontaneous protest by raising slogans calling for "Tib