Six months after the protests for democracy in Burma, we see similar things happen in Tibet. That’s of course not the first time but according to anthropologist Carole McGranahan, China has for the first time acknowledged that there is something like protests in Tibet. And that the protests are widespreead, committed by Tibetans from all backgrounds (monks, laypeople, and students, and by men and women, young and old) and not only by a few extremists.
“Knowing about it privately as they have for decades is one thing, but to acknowledge it publicly signals a turning point", Carole McGranahan writes in her blog post at SavageMinds. For five decades, China has done everything they can to give the impression that resistance in Tibet is a rare and unwise exception to their benevolent rule.
>> read her whole post at Savage Minds
Savage Minds has collected more ressources on the situation in Tibet, see On Tibet. See also the Guardian special on Tibet and the overview by Global Voices
Additionally, Al Jazeera has a story about Xinjiang: China’s ‘other Tibet’
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