HeraldNet: Roots of Tibetan conflict run deep
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Roots of Tibetan conflict run deep
By Barbara Demick
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2008
From the page: "...The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader who fled into exile in 1959, repeatedly has accused the Chinese of "cultural genocide," suppressing language, faith and customs, while simultaneously flooding traditional Tibetan territory with ethnic Chinese.
Less than half of what Tibetans consider their historic homeland lies within the bounds of what is now called Tibet in western China. The rest of their lands are within China's Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces, where Tibetans are a minority and treated as second-class citizens.
"It is not a genocide like World War II, but there is just no attempt to preserve our culture," said a 29-year-old student living in Beijing, who asked that her name not be used for fear she could lose her residency permit."
