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被cnn移花接木的原文:
Editor's note: CNN was denied permission to join the group of reporters to Tibet by China's foreign ministry.
LHASA, Tibet (AP) -- A Tibetan activist group has voiced concern over any government backlash against a group of Buddhist monks who disrupted a stage-managed tour for foreign journalists of Tibet's holiest temple by shouting there was no freedom in the riot-torn region.
The International Campaign for Tibet said in a statement Friday "there are serious fears for the welfare and whereabouts" of the monks.
The 30 monks had pushed into a briefing being given by officials at the Jokhang Temple in the only spontaneous moment Thursday in an otherwise tightly controlled government trip to the Tibetan capital for reporters following this month's deadly riots.
"What the government is saying is not true," a monk shouted as a wellspring of grievances poured out, first in Tibetan and then in Chinese after the confused reporters asked them to switch. Finally, government officials abruptly ended the session and told the journalists it was "time to go."
The emotional, 15-minute outburst by the red-robed monks decrying their lack of religious freedom was the only spontaneous moment Thursday in an otherwise tightly controlled government trip to the Tibetan capital for foreign reporters following this month's deadly riots.
On the second day of the tour, officials hewed to the government line -- that the most violent anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades was plotted by the exiled Dalai Lama and his supporters. Officials escorted two dozen reporters to shops, clinics, a school and a jail to interview victims and rioters, many of them already widely interviewed by state media.
Those who tried to break away from the pack were followed by car and on foot, making all but the most fleeting of contact with ordinary Tibetans risky.
Only the monks at the Jokhang Temple, Tibet's holiest site, managed to upend the official stage-managed event.
As reporters were ushered toward the temple's inner shrine by a senior monk and administrator, the 30 young monks began shouting to them. The monks said the believers then in the shrine were fake -- members of China's ruling Communist Party. Watch monks disrupt a tour of media in Lhasa »
They complained that troops had ringed the monastery and kept it shut with all 117 monks inside since March 10 -- the day the protests began -- and that the guards were only removed Wednesday, when foreign journalists arrived. |
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