Back home now..and some of what I did not say while In China can now be said. The Tibetans are treated so badly by the Chinese. This time while there we observed military on the roofs around the Jokhang Palace and Barkor Square. There were police everywhere and military. When we travelled around Tibet the car had to undergo many many police checkpoints and our pasports were checked time and time again. We were not allowed to photograph any military or police and we were even told the rooms could be bugged.
Its all very sensitive out there and they are waiting for trouble. The Chinese are building roads out to the far West of Tibet, obviously to get the mineral resources out. There is no feeling for the people of the land, just pure greed.
In some of the monasteries we were taken into we were shown the destruction that the Chinese had caused when they entered Tibet. The destruction of statues and figures. The destroyed rooms with the feeling of death still lingering in them brought me to tears.
Still I will get of my high horse now...and settle back to enjoying the sunshine back here in Oz.
Thanks for reading my blog.
Coral
