It's been a couple of days now since we might have expected trouble in Tibet; March tenth marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Lhasa to Dharmsala. There are no reports of widespread violence, though it's hard to tell what's happening since the Chinese government has curtailed travel to Tibet. The International Campaign for Tibet has no news on its front page since the anniversary itself.
Xinhua proclaims, "Lhasa peaceful and quiet on major Tibet anniversary." In fact, Xinhua is just about the only news organization with a Lhasa dateline on anniversary-related stories and they mean to keep it that way - journalists are being barred from Chengdu, the 10,000,000-population capital of neighboring Sichuan Province, and a kind of gateway to Tibet, receiving as it does flights from Lhasa. Two women were arrested in Ganzi town in Sichuan province while handing out leaflets calling for religious freedom.
China Daily published its refutation of all things Dalai on the anniversary date, headlined Holes in Dalai's story.
(Photo of Prayer flags at Lalung Leh pass, 5050 meters (16570 feet) in the Himalayas, Tibet, from the China Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.)
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