SocraticGadfly: The Great Wall – of Silence – surrounds Tibet

March 10, 2009

The Great Wall – of Silence – surrounds Tibet

On the one-year anniversary of Tibetan civil liberties protests, and the 50th anniversary of the current Dalai Lama’s flight from the country, Beijing has put the entire region under a cone of silence. Landline phones are largely down. Inside China, even websites that previously had official imprimatur have been shut down.

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