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Despite the Dalai Lama's teachings of non-violence, bloody clashes with Chinese authorities have occurred in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, over the past two years...
...people were killed in March, and Lhasa has been under martial law since then. Demonstrations were reported as recently as last month...
Bonfires and brawls once again choked the streets of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. Ever since China invaded the mountainous region in 1950, the Tibetans have periodically erupted in violent protest against Communist rule. Last week, after three days of rioting, Chinese authorities imposed martial law and troops armed with automatic weapons ringed the city to quell the unrest. At least 30 people were believed killed and more than 100 were wounded in the ensuing melee...
...that seemed to move, a lakeside vision and the appearance of auspicious cloud formations, identified him as the new incarnation of Tibet's patron god. Two years later, after passing an elaborate battery of tests, the little boy was taken amid a caravan of hundreds into the capital of Lhasa, "Home of the Gods." There he had to live alone with his immediate elder brother in the cavernous, 1,000-chamber Potala Palace and undertake an 18-year course in metaphysics. By the age of seven, he was receiving envoys from President Franklin Roosevelt and leading prayers before...
...golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by which he eagerly devoured Tarzan movies, Henry V and, best of all, home movies of his own capital. Often, he recalls, he would take a telescope onto the palace roof and wistfully gaze at the boys and girls of Lhasa carelessly going about their lives...