The US State Department’s annual human rights report released yesterday said the Chinese government engaged in severe human rights abuses in Tibet. The report, entitled “Annual Country Reports on Human Rights”, said “the government engaged in the severe repression of Tibet’s unique religious, cultural, and linguistic heritage by, among other means, strictly curtailing the civil rights of Tibetans.” It also reported serious human rights abuses such as extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial detentions, and house arrests.