This article from this week's Economist is an excellent day-by-day re-cap of what happened in Lhasa last week. It also discusses some of the issues that make the situation, in my opinion, so intractable. On one side, the Tibetans feel that the upcoming Olympics give them an opportunity to be heard. By the same token, the Chinese are very sensitive to anything that could affect the Olympics. The Tibetans feel that the influx of Chinese into Tibet is undermining their culture. The Chinese feel they are bringing economic development to a backward province. Tough situation...
My wife and I were there last year in June - it is a beautiful city and part of the world - and it's surreal and sad to now see pictures of places we went to marred by the damage caused by the riots.
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