A Tibetan in Beijing has been compiling SMS messages being sent from within Tibet, distressing accounts of what Tibetans are going through as the Chinese forces crack down. This is amongst the few authentic sources of information in light of a curfew on information from the regime. Here goes

On March 6 about a hundred Tibetan monks and lay people attacked and
destroyed cars and Chinese owned shops on the street of Dabpa country in
Kham (Ch. Daocheng County), while shouting ” Han Chinese out of Tibet, Tibet
Independence.” At that time many policemen rushed to the scene, and stopped
them in their action with batons and mini-submachine guns. As a result, three
men were killed, and a public security policeman’s arm was cut off as well. The
entire incident lasted for the whole morning. Two or three days after the
incident, there was still no signals for cellphones in the area, meanwhile, there
came over 400 soldiers from other regions. Last week there appeared a great
number of slogans and protesters in Bame (Ch. Bamei) in Tawu County.
consequently, there came a great number of armed policemen, and the protest
was stopped on the same day. Today, [March] 15 on the street of Tawu County
(Ch: Daofu) a few hundred monks and lay people held the protest by shouting
slogans and distributing leaflets. The working units in Dartsedo (Ch. Kangding
County) were ordered to make sure that there are people on duty all night.
March 10th
500 monks from Drepong Monastery joined the peaceful demonstration. They
were beaten and targeted with tear gas by the authorities. The monastery has
been surrounded since then. There has been no water supply. Diners nearby
are closed. The living condition for the monks inside the monastery is getting
difficult.
14 monks from Sera, holding Tibetan flags, protested in front of Thsulhakang.
They were beaten and arrested by police. Many Tibetans witnessed what was
going on, begging the police to stop beating. As a result, 3 lay Tibetans were
also arrested.
Amdo (Haidong Tibetan autonomous district, Qinghai province) Monks from
Decha Monastery (Sorry that I don’t have time to check its Tibetan spelling) in
Hualong Xain held peaceful demonstration. Army force and police dispersed
them.
Amdo (Hainan Tibetan autonomous district, Qinghai province) Monks from
Lucang Monastery in Gueinan Xain held peaceful demonstration. Army force
and police dispersed them.
March 10
Monks in Detsa monastery (or Ditsa, Ch. Decha) in Bayankhar (Ba-yan-mkhar;
Ch. Hualong County), Amdo (Tsoshar (Ch. Haidong) Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture, Qinghai Province) held peaceful protest, but were dispersed by
armed polices.
Monks in Lutsang monastery (there is a Lu monastery in Mang-ra, but not sure
whether it is the same known as Lucang monastery in Chinese) in Mangra
County (Mang-ra; Ch. Guinan County, Amdo (Tsolho [ch. Hainan] Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province) held peaceful protest, but were
dispersed by armed polices.
Match 11th
600 monks from Sera had their peaceful protest. They were beaten and
targeted with tear gas by the authorities. The monastery has been surrounded
since then. There has been no water supply. Diners nearby are closed. The
living condition for the monks inside the monastery is getting difficult.
March 12th
Two monks from Drepong cut their own wrist. Monks in Sera went on hunger
strike.
March 13th
Hundreds of monks from Ganden Monastery and 150 nuns from Qusang
nunnery intended to go inside the Lhasa city for peaceful demonstration. They
have been surrounded by army force and police since then. All of the three
major monasteries in Lhasa were closed by the authorties.
March 14th
Morning. Nearly 100 monks gathered close to Renmoche to protest against the
recent suppression in Drepong, Sera, ect. They were stopped and beaten by
police, This triggered lay Tibetans’ anger, disbursing into a large protest joined
by tens of thousands of people. Conflicting incidents took place….(I skipped
the causality counts that are already in other media) According to reliable
sources, from the public security bureau in Lhasa (Lhasa gong an jiu), the
order for police restraining from shooting was lifted. From 14th onward, armies
and police were allowed to open fire toward the crowd.
March 15th
Lhasa was controlled by move-in armies. In a full scope, they began to search
and arrest people. According to reliable resource, there were at least 600
people arrested. The city is under curfew…. Give-in deadline in the midnight on
March 17 was posted online.
Marches and protests took place outside Lhasa in Detse, Qushei, Linzhou,
Mozhugongka (check the Tibetan spelling)
Monks and lay people (women, children and elders included) marched on the
streets in Labrang….. More than 40 army trucks were called in from Lanzhou…
The protests (having no weapon in hand) were targeted. Many Tibetans are
killed or wounded. Nearly 20 of them were arrested.
The same evening a march (joined in primarily by monks from Hezou
Monastery) took place in Amdo, Hezou (the headquarters of Gannan Tibetan
autonomous district). They were surrounded by forces, Lay people’s protesting
march in the other part of the city were also dispersed. Tibetan students of the
normal college in the city held their peaceful demonstration, having some
conflicts with the party committee on campus.
March 16, a military cordon was put around Wuhou Temple in Chengdu, and
Tibetan areas were under tight observation.
March 16
In the afternoon, over 300 monks and lay people in Rongwu monastery in
Rebgong county (Tongren County, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture )
staged a protest within the monastery, but they were surrounded by several
thousand armed policemen. There were over ten military trucks and armored
cars patrolling the streets.
The Rabgya (Rab-rgya; Ch. Lajia) monastery in Machen (Rma-chen; Ch.
Maqing) County of the Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
held a peaceful protest.

Meanwhile, there were also protests in many monasteries, including Cone (Ch.
Zhuoni), and Gyagar ( Gya-gar; Ch. Qiagai in Ling-than County, Ch. Lingtan
County) monasteries. So far there have not been any clashes.
Tibetan students in Tso (Gtsos; Ch. Hezhuo) Teacher’s College in Karlho (Ch.
Gannan), Qinghai Teacher’s College and some other Tibetan schools in
Kardze (Ch. Ganzi) and Ngawa (Ch. Aba) also held protests.
On March 16, on important roads in Lhasa and the number two ring road
arrested Tibetans were paraded through the streets in military vehicles. There
were two vehicles driving through the streets and in the two vehicles were 40
young Tibetan men and women with their hands tied behind their backs and
their heads forcibly bowed down, and each person was held from behind by a
soldier carry a rifle.
March 17
Monks in Tarshu (Ch. Taxiu) monastery in Mangra (Mang-ra; Ch. Guinan)
County, Amdo (Tsolho [Hainan] Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai
Province) held the peaceful protest, but they were stopped by policemen on
their way to the county seat, and were driven back to the monastery.
At 6:00pm in the afternoon, about 1,000 people participated in the peaceful
protest in Talung (Stag-lung; Ch. Dalong) monastery in Cikgril (Gcig-sgril
County, Ch. Jiuzhi) County, Amdo (Golok Tibetan autonomous Prefecture,
Qinghai Province). They replaced the Chinese flag in the region with the
Tibetan flag.
Over 200 monks in Lungge monastery (Ch. Longgai) in Cikgril County, Amdo
(Golok Tibetan autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province) held peaceful
protests. Earlier, monks of the monastery participated in the peaceful protest
held in Barkhor street in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and there were arrested.
At 7:00pm, nearly 300 people in Mantang Township (Ch: Mentang), Cikgril
county, Amdo (Golok Tibetan Atutonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province) held
peaceful protest, and they raised the Tibetan flag.
Tibetan students in Mewa ( Rma ba; Ch. Hongyuan) Tibetan Middle School in
Amdo (Ngawa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province) were
stopped by the policemen and teachers when they attempted to go out of their
campus to protest. A few student leaders were arrested, but they were released
after sit-in held by the students.
Tibetans in Seta (Ch. Seda) County, Kham (Kardze Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture) held peaceful protest.
March 18, Chenghua hospital in Chengdu (which is said to be a hospital used
only for Tibetans, but if Tibetans have a condition they cannot treat at the
Chenghua hospital, the Tibetans are then able to be sent to a bigger hospital),
the number of Tibetans is unknown) attacks on local police, with 8 officers
injured, one person seriously injured, Tibetan[?s] fleeing to Chenghua hospital,
arrested, according to eye-witness accounts, the Tibetan[s?] was beaten to a
bloody pulp by the police. It’s said that a No 78 bus going from Chengdu to
Lhasa Hotel was bombed.
March 18, at around 4:00 in the afternoon, more than 300 Tibetans
demonstrated in Lithang in Kardze TAP in Kham, and people were arrested.
On March 18 in the afternoon, in Hezuo, Kanhlo Prefecture in Gansu Province,
155 large military trucks entered the town.
On March 18, In an area of Golog in Golog Prefecture in Qinghai Province,
including Zhaquka [?], there was a large scale riot of people at demonstration,
with lots of townships lowering the Chinese flag and raising Buddhist flags
before being suppressed by the military. There have been serious clashes
between both sides and many Tibetans have been shot dead, an unknown
number of injuries, the majority being ordinary people.
On March 18, mass arrests were still happening in Lhasa, with soldiers
standing guard at main intersections checking the ID of passers by, and they’re
stopping and searching Tibetans in traditional clothes in particular. Many
soldiers have been storming into people’s homes to make arrests, viciously
beating them with batons and firing tear gas at people standing round
watching. Just in Xuexin Village [?] at about 4:30 three people were arrested in
the space of about half an hour, one of whom was about 50 years old dressed
very formally and looking like a cadre. He was tied up and beaten, but he kept
his head up proud and defiant; the other two people taken away were youths
and looked like they were from Lhasa.
According to reliable information, at least 600 people were arrested in Lhasa
on the 15th; at least 300 on the 16th but with all the arrests on the 17th and
18th the numbers are still not known.
Again according to reliable information heard from the Lhasa Public Security
Bureau, from the 14th onwards, the authorities canceled the prohibition on
firing weapons. Troops and police could fire at will.
March 18
In the morning, monks in Darthang (Dar-thang; Ch. Datang) monastery in
Amdo ( Cikgril County, the Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai
Province) began to hold peaceful protest, later, several thousand students and
other common people joined the protest. They were determined to adhere to
the non-violent peaceful protest.
Approximately 10,000 people in Kardze County in Kham (Kardze Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province) held protest, and several thousand
farmers and herdsmen from Drakgo (Brag-’go; Ch. Luhuo) county also rushed
to join the protesters. Three protesters were killed by armed policemen who
fired at the protesters. Meanwhile, a great number of leaflets were distributed in
Drakgo region.
At that night, several thousand monks and lay people in Seta County, Kham
(Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture), protested against the authorities, but
they were dispersed by the armed policemen.
March 18, at around 4:00 in the afternoon, more than 300 Tibetans
demonstrated in Lithang in Kardze TAP in Kham, and people were arrested.
On March 18 in the afternoon, in Hezuo, Kanhlo Prefecture in Gansu Province,
155 large military trucks entered the town.
On March 18, In an area of Golog in Golog Prefecture in Qinghai Province,
including Zhaquka [?], there was a large scale riot of people at demonstration,
with lots of townships lowering the Chinese flag and raising Buddhist flags
before being suppressed by the military. There have been serious clashes
between both sides and many Tibetans have been shot dead, an unknown
number of injuries, the majority being ordinary people.
On March 18, mass arrests were still happening in Lhasa, with soldiers
standing guard at main intersections checking the ID of passers by, and they’re
stopping and searching Tibetans in traditional clothes in particular. Many
soldiers have been storming into people’s homes to make arrests, viciously
beating them with batons and firing tear gas at people standing round
watching. Just in Xuexin Village [?] at about 4:30 three people were arrested in
the space of about half an hour, one of whom was about 50 years old dressed
very formally and looking like a cadre. He was tied up and beaten, but he kept
his head up proud and defiant; the other two people taken away were youths
and looked like they were from Lhasa.
According to reliable information, at least 600 people were arrested in Lhasa
on the 15th; at least 300 on the 16th but with all the arrests on the 17th and
18th the numbers are still not known.
Again according to reliable information heard from the Lhasa Public Security
Bureau, from the 14th onwards, the authorities canceled the prohibition on
firing weapons. Troops and police could fire at will.
March 18
In the morning, monks in Darthang (Dar-thang; Ch. Datang) monastery in
Amdo ( Cikgril County, the Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai
Province) began to hold peaceful protest, later, several thousand students and
other common people joined the protest. They were determined to adhere to
the non-violent peaceful protest.
Approximately 10,000 people in Kardze County in Kham (Kardze Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province) held protest, and several thousand
farmers and herdsmen from Drakgo (Brag-’go; Ch. Luhuo) county also rushed
to join the protesters. Three protesters were killed by armed policemen who
fired at the protesters. Meanwhile, a great number of leaflets were distributed in
Drakgo region.
At that night, several thousand monks and lay people in Seta County, Kham
(Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture), protested against the authorities, but
they were dispersed by the armed policemen.