China: Tibetan Areas Closed to Foreigners

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | February 18th, 2009 | Trackback

Authorities have closed wide areas of Tibetan regions in western China to foreigners as the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising approaches. March 10 marks the date the Dalai Lama fled into exile after the failed revolt in 1959. Chinese officials cracked down on potential dissent in January by detaining 81 people in Tibet, and have now prohibited foreigners from the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province until late March, from many areas in Sichuan province until April, and from numerous areas of Qinghai province. Last March anti-government riots broke out in Tibet and quickly spread via sympathy protests in the neighboring provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan before being quelled by the Chinese military. Chinese officials said 22 people were killed in that crackdown while Tibetan advocates claimed the toll was in the hundreds.

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