Seems, according to al-Reuters, that the Chinese are searching monasteries in Tibet for prohibited photos of the Dalai Lama: "The London-based Campaign said it had received unconfirmed reports from various sources in Tibet that three main monasteries in Lhasa -- Ganden, Sera and Drepung -- have been cut off since March 11, with no access to food, water, and electricity... Baema Chilain, a Tibetan official, said the monks at the monasteries and the Jokhang were being "temporarily confined to the premises as the authorities were investigating allegations that some of them led or participated in the violence". "China says 19 people were killed in the unrest by Tibetan mobs, but the Tibet government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, estimated there had been 140 deaths in the violence."
Rico says the real story will come out eventually, and the Chinese are going to look bad when it does...
28 March 2008
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