Radio Free Asia reports that 80 Tibetans have been killed  and Lhasa has been put under marshal law, though the number of dead is unclear. Tanks or armored personnel carriers have been deployed and China continues to respond with violence to Tibetan protests.

“We saw two dead at Ramoche temple, two in the garden, two at the Ganden printing house, and those Tibetans who went to take food to prisoners in Drapchi prison saw 26 Tibetans shot after they were brought in on a black vehicle,” one Tibetan witness said. “There could be about 80 dead, or more, but there is too much commotion here to give an exact number.”

RFA has also reported that four Tibetan monks from Ganden Monastery have self-immolated. Outside of Lhasa, in Gansu Province, at least 1,000 monks held a protest at Labrang Monastery.

“The Chinese authorities deployed all military in the Lhasa area and sent tanks. There could be several hundred tanks and they were shooting into the crowds,” one witness told RFA’s Tibetan service. “They also fired several rounds of tear-gas.”

The spread of protests outside of Lhasa, China’s use of the military to put down the protests, and the institution of marshal law are all signs of the scale and significance of these protests. China appears to be showing no restraint in their response, despite loud cries from the rest of the world.