The video is
disturbing
. It shows a young man in a black T-shirt being dragged by his hair in a public park. He is unarmed and pleads for his life as he's surrounded by a group of paramilitaries, who are armed and in uniform. One of them shoots him in the thigh at point-blank range. The young man is then shown writhing on the ground, bleeding heavily and begging for help. The paramilitaries stand next to him and watch but do nothing to help. He
subsequently
died. The paramilitaries have since said that the young man had been caught trying to rob someone. His family denies this.
China has rejected accusations from the United Nations that it has arranged the forced disappearance of 300 Tibetan monks. Reporting from Beijing, here's Michael Bristow.
This issue
centres on
the fate of 300 Tibetan monks based at a monastery in Sichuan province. The UN says there are reports they've been taken away in 10 military trucks to unknown destinations. It wants to know where they are and calls on China to end the practice of making people disappear. China says there's no question of forced disappearances, but a foreign ministry spokesman admitted that something has happened to the monks. He said the authorities are giving them what he called (a) "legal education".
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