Free Tibet
Toward a Free Tibet
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Created: Mar 18, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Topic: What's going on in your neck of the woods?
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Flag comment for removal kaukatsang about 1 year ago
Please share with us stories about how the current unrest in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China is being covered by your media. What are people saying? How do you feel about what's going on? Do you have any accounts from friends and others who are in Tibet and China?
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A friend called me last evening. He had just gotten off the phone with his uncle in Lhasa. The situation there sounds grim. There are unconfirmed reports that the Chinese authorities have arrested as many as 30,000 people in the city. Many are being detained in large warehouses on the outskirts of Lhasa. There numbers are expected to increase as authorities are doing house to house search and sweeping through the Tibetan sections of the city. Soldiers are deployed everywhere, and more troops are being brought into the city. There is a total news blackout as authorities have expelled all media people and are preventing tourists from traveling to Tibetan areas.
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Is there any wisdom/call for writing to local and state politicians for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics? I haven't seen or heard any discussion of that on a superficial look. It seems that the strongest statement so far in that regard is French President Sarkozy, so many other governments seem wary of humiliating China because of its economic strongarm.
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