Re: Tibet
^^
And thankfully.
Interesting article on the “crackdown”.
http://www.universityregister.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=391&Itemid=30
Tibetans were the main initiators of last month’s violence, and by most reliable accounts, their violence claimed far more casualties than the Chinese response to it.
In fact, James Miles of The Economist—who was the sole Western journalist in Lhasa when the unrest broke out—reported seeing numerous acts of brutality carried out by Tibetans against Han Chinese and Muslim Hui. Most of these attacks were carried out against non-Tibetan civilians, and in one instance, Miles also reports that he witnessed the stoning of a young Han Chinese boy who was simply biking past rioters. Other eyewitnesses claim to have seen elderly Han Chinese being beaten and stoned by a crowd of Tibetans. The one criticism that Miles did launch against the PRC was that they had not responded quickly enough to the violence, as most of the Lhasa policemen had melted away when the situation first became intense. When the police did return in force, Miles remembers that they did not do so in an overly violent manner but simply set up positions throughout the city. And Miles would know violent suppression if he saw it; he was at Tiananmen Square in 1989 when the PLA massacred pro-democracy protesters there. Indeed, because of the Olympics, Chinese police have taken extra precautions to ensure the safety of the rioters they confront; this surely would not be a good time for revelations of police brutality.