US Envoy Shown a 'Peaceful' Lhasa During Visit to Tibet
A visit to Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa by a senior U.S. diplomat this week was highly staged, with all signs of a typically heavy security presence removed from central areas in the city before his delegation’s arrival, according to a source inside Tibet.
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke arrived in the normally tense and tightly controlled city, the scene of violent 2008 protests against Chinese rule, on Tuesday afternoon for a four-day visit, a local resident told RFA’s Tibetan Service this week.
“The police posts and armored vehicles stationed in Lhasa city and the [central] Barkhor area were gone,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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