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本帖最后由 vivicat 于 2009-7-26 00:13 编辑
The Tibet you don’t hear about
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[size=1em]Cameron Stewart in Lhasa writes: Thisweek I spent four days in Tibet’s capital Lhasa at the invitation ofthe Chinese government which said it wanted to send two Australianjournalists into the troubled region to “tell Australians what youhave heard and seen about the truth in Tibet”.We were the firstAustralian journalists to enter Tibet since the March riots which leftup to 200 people dead.
[size=1em]Myself and a colleague, News Limited’s Steve Lewis, as well as afederal Liberal MP Michael Johnson were given an official program forour visit. This included meetings with a range of senior Chinesegovernment officials in Tibet, ranging from vice-governors, to seniorcommunist party leaders, to members and leaders of the Tibet People’sCongress.
[size=1em]This allowed us to put direct questions to senior officials aboutthe situation in Tibet and better understand how the Chinese view thesituation there.
But the official program was unbalanced in that it did not includecrucial parts of the Tibet story, such as senior Buddhist monks orrepresentatives of the local people who might offer alternative viewsto those of Chinese government officials. In shortm the officialprogram was only going to give us one side of the Tibet story.
SoSteve and I slipped out of our hotel room at night and roamed the backalleys of Lhasa trying to find people who spoke English. We could nottake our government-supplied translator because we feared he wouldreport anyone who spoke out against Chinese rule, thereby endangeringthem. But language was not our only barrier - people we approached wereextremely nervous to be seen talking with foreigners. Some who didspeak a little English fled when they realised we were journalists. Buta few brave monks did speak with us and told us that local Tibetanswere deeply unhappy with the situation in Lhasa.
During our nightime walks we encountered literally hundreds ofsoldiers patrolling the city in groups of six carrying riot shields aswell as guns. Armed with this information, we questioned thevice-governor of the Tibet Autonomous Region Bai Ma Cai Wang about thesecurity situation. He admitted, reluctantly, that security in Lhasahad recently been beefed up because of a belief that the Dalai Lama andhis followers had “speeded up” their “separatist activities” in Lhasa.Suddenly we had a major story which was not on the official program.
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