03.16.2008 11:13 pm
Will Tibetan protests have an effect on the Olympics?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Clashes between Tibetan protesters and Chinese police on Sunday have threatened the Dalai Lama’s efforts to keep his campaign for Tibetan freedom a pacifist movement, even as they focus the world on his cause.
Stories in Sunday’s and Monday’s Post-Dispatch say that the protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces Sunday as Tibetans defied the Chinese government crackdown. Demonstrations widened to Tibetan communities in Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces, forcing authorities to mobilize security forces across a broad expanse of western China.
In a sign that authorities were preparing for trouble, foreign journalists were ordered out of the Tibetan parts of Gansu and…
