Resistance to Chinese rule is nothing new in Tibet. Two decades ago, Dan Southerland, RFA’s Executive Editor, flew to Lhasa for The Washington Post to cover protests led by Buddhist monks. Then, it was easier to get through the Chinese surveillance system. Then, just as now, monks spoke up for Tibetans, and paid the price of repression. Dan Southerland puts it all in perspective in this series of personal diaries.
Guided tours to Tibet are nothing new. But in 1988, Dan Southerland recalls, a foreign correspondent could still break away from his handlers and do real reporting. It might not be so easy today.
Two decades ago, reporters could still play cops and robbers with the Chinese police in Lhasa—a far cry from today’s highly controlled environment.
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