Archive for February 5th, 2010
“Pilgrims and progress”
Opinion
Opinion

It is still repression, not development, that keeps Tibet stable
“On the corner of Ramoche Temple Road, a bustling alley where the ethnic violence that engulfed Lhasa nearly two years ago first broke out, finishing touches are being put to a fried-chicken fast-food restaurant. Opposite, a newly opened second-floor café offers coffee, sandwiches and well-cushioned seating. On the street below, five helmeted riot police—one of them with a rifle—stand rigid and vigilant. Hard as it tries to look normal, Lhasa cannot quite pull it off”






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