Backpacker hub Lhasa, the southern city in Tibet by which most travelers enter the country, is in serious turmoil, and foreign tourists have been forbidden to enter Lhasa since March 14. Backpackers still in the city have been reporting on current police presence and massing of Chinese troops; journalist and Zen Budhhism student Barbara O'Brien has an excellent wrap up of the latest news from Tibet:
If you're on the way to Tibet, you can find news you can use on the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forums, where travelers currently within Tibet and Lhasa have been posting. Of course, the US government is recommending that you stay far, far away and that "...assistance to American citizens may be limited." Update: As of late evening on March 16, China has suspended foreign travel permits to all of Tibet, according to Reuters, and the UK Guardian is reporting that Chinese officials advise that tourists leave the country in "coming days."
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Make sure for yourself what the life of common Tibetans was like before 1949 and why the Liberation Army of China had to take that much pain to fight the bloody battles there—do you think only to occupy such a cold plateau that could produce almost no material wealth for the army at all? And when all the Chinese people are focused on bettering their life, why did they have to invest so much in building the ever most difficult railway in the world? To make the culture of the destination “determinated” in the world?
Ask COMMON Tibetans, ask them who made them live a more enjoyable life, ask them how do they think their culture is “killed” under the Chinese government. The Tibetan habitants enjoy so much favorable policies from the central development that we Hans are all so envious of them/
Dont believe in lies, and don’t spread lies.
Let truth say for itself. and let time judge everything.
An indignant Chinese
Never, ever believe in lies, and never, ever spread them.
An indignant Chinese