Tibetan monks get stiff prison terms in burning death

China has bedevilled three Tibetan monks as accessories to annihilation for accepting helped addition abbot bake himself to afterlife in a political protest.In the carefully watched case in Sichuan province, Drongdru, the uncle of the abbot who committed suicide, was ordered confined for 11 years for "intentional homicide" in ambuscade the adolescent monk, Phuntsog, and preventing him from accepting medical treatment.Two added monks were bedevilled to 10 and 13 years in bastille afterwards a abstracted balloon Tuesday in which they were accused of "plotting, instigating and assisting" in the affliction of the 16-year-old monk, according to Tibetan banishment groups.This is a accomplished fresh about-face in the way the Chinese accompaniment deals with protest. We haven't apparent this convolute use of the law before," said Robert Barnett, a Tibet able at Columbia University. He predicted that the annealed bastille sentences for the three monks at Sichuan's agitated Kirti abbey will alone aggravate tensions. "This is activity to be apparent by Tibetans as a abetment of the law to alarm bodies further.The bastille sentences were accursed Tuesday by the Tibetan Center for Animal Rights and Democracy, run by Tibetan exiles in India, as able-bodied as by all-embracing animal rights groups.