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Melinda Liu
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Mar 27, 2008 04:08 PM
Just a quickie before I run off for an interview. The
government-organized media tour of Lhasa was disrupted today by some 30
monks who shouted Tibetan independence slogans and maintained the
exiled Dalai Lama had nothing to do with the protests. One lama wept.
After about 15 minutes they were hustled away by police, and the
journalists were shoo-ed off to the next stop on their packed
itinerary. My question is: what will happen to those monks? Everyone's
worries, expressed in yesterday's blog, about the need to protect
sources' right to free expression are really top priority now. Here's Reuters report:
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