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"China and Tibet: Not much of a celebration"
The new year arrives in Tibet with the region under armed guard
IN TIBET, March is the cruellest month, the traditional season for doomed protests against Chinese rule. This year the authorities are unusually edgy. They have mounted a pre-emptive clampdown of a severity rarely seen in recent years. Monastery towns across a wide area of the Tibetan plateau are being sealed off from visitors. In those still accessible, troops are on heightened alert to prevent any repeat of last year’s explosion of discontent.
Security measures vary across the vast Tibetan-inhabited area of China, which includes parts of four provinces as well as the Tibet Autonomous Region itself (see map below). Helmeted troops bearing rifles patrol Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Snipers lurk on rooftops near the Jokhang temple, Tibet’s holiest shrine and often a focus for protests. A Western tourist says she was conspicuously followed by plain-clothes police during a recent trip. Foreign journalists are largely barred from Tibet. Chinese travel agencies say foreign tourists are also denied entry until late March. ...
The Economist print edition
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