Tourist Blocked from Tibetan Town

I did not think the communist China government would keep it’s honor with regard to the Olympic agreement, and their treatment of Tibetan People or the international community!

Tourist Blocked from Tibetan Town

Armed police were stationed throughout the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet and blocked roads to the eastern part of the region, Hong Kong tourists said Friday, in the latest sign of tensions ahead of next week’s anniversary of anti-government riots.

Paramilitary officers were spotted all over Lhasa and the atmosphere was “tense,” a 33-year-old Hong Kong traveler told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Tensions have been high in Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China in the run-up to several anniversaries this month, including the 50th anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising during which Tibet’s traditional Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fled into exile in India.

This month also marks the one-year anniversary of massive anti-government protests that spread across Tibetan areas in China following a deadly riot in Lhasa on March 14. China has said 22 people died in the violence, while Tibetan supporters say many times that number were killed in demonstrations and the subsequent military crackdown. [read on]

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