The World - News from Jan. 1, 1989

More than 500 Tibetan university students defied a ban on demonstations in Lhasa and marched to the regional government headquarters calling for a “peaceful solution to the Tibetan problem.” Tibetan and foreign sources said that the demonstrators from Lhasa University encountered no resistance from the massive Chinese police force in the capital and that there was no violence. The demonstration was in sharp contrast with an anti-Chinese, pro-independence rally Dec. 10 in which police fired on unarmed Tibetan Buddhist monks and onlookers, killing as many as eight people.